A Helen joke
April 22nd, 2008 at 6:47 am by David FarrarThe Dom Post reports how a joke told by Hillary Clinton about Helen Clark. She is slightly ahead of her time though by calling Helen the Former PM of NZ:
In what the Labour Party would hope is more ignorance than prophecy, Mrs Clinton described Helen Clark as “former prime minister of New Zealand”.
The gaffe came in a chummy interview with American magazine Newsweek, when journalist Karen Breslau asked Mrs Clinton for a joke: “Here’s a good one. Helen Clark, former prime minister of New Zealand: her opponents have observed that in the event of a nuclear war, the two things that will emerge from the rubble are the cockroaches and Helen Clark.
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April 22nd, 2008 at 7:01 am
Both Helen and the cockroaches share the same humility in that neither are too proud to rule over a pile of rubble.
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 7:34 am
Communist cockroaches infest Clark’s cabinet as Billary throws another psychotic tantrum.
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 7:38 am
Well, the cockroaches (and Helen) may survive — but if Clinton doesn’t pull off a big (and increasingly unlikely) win in Pennsylvania today, it looks like her campaign is going to be the irradiated rubble. And the junior senator from New York isn’t going to be crawling out from under it.
Still, you’ve got to love this line: “I say a lot of things – millions of words a day – so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement.” WTF does that mean?
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 8:12 am
Perhaps our “very good friend” Hilary has just finished reading Ian Wishart’s new book.
Her grasp of the PM is insightful to say the least!
PS. A more appropriate headline for this story would be Helen – A Joke
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 8:19 am
Thats a bloody insensitive joke.
I think Clinton should be asked to appologise to the roaches.
Means shes full of shit Craig.
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 8:33 am
One weasel telling a tasteless joke about another.
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 8:46 am
A tasteless comment from yesterday’s hen
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 8:57 am
IMPORTANT KARMA POLL.
Who would you rather have running (ruining) the Country
1) Hilary Clinton
or
2) Helen Clark
Cockroaches are excluded.
ATTN : PLEASE VOTE BY GIVING ME POSITIVE(GREEN) KARMA FOR HILARY CLINTON
Vote:OR NEGATIVE(RED) KARMA FOR HELEN CLARK.
April 22nd, 2008 at 9:00 am
I don’t think it is funny at all for a person aspiring to be President of the United States to have said what she is reported as saying even though she might see some truth in it. No-one would expect Helen Clark with positions reversed to describe (ex!!) President George Bush Jr as a shining example of a special needs student even though she might see some truth in it.
My point is simply that Hillary Clinton is not a fit and proper person to be President of the United States.
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 9:04 am
“heres a good one”??? thats her joke??
im all for people putting shit on the fuhrer, but dam.. thats all shes got?? see ya bug eyes
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 9:14 am
It’s always worth going back to the orignial –
http://www.newsweek.com/id/132888/output/print
She’s reading things that people have e-mailed her that she stores on her BlackBerry. It’s not at clear whether the “former prime minister of New Zealand” comment is hers, the emailer’s or (an attempt at) editorial clarification.
These sorts of things take on a life of their own. A bit like Hillary claiming to be named after Sir Ed. She nerver did, what she claimed was that as a young girl her mother told her that story.
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 9:30 am
106 kiwis are voting on that every day marc.
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 9:33 am
Bye bye to 106 kiwi’s as they pass thru the check out gates. Thanks Liarbour you ####’s !!!!!!
Edit – do the world a big favour and throw both the lying bitch’s in the offal pit.
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 10:08 am
DPF Remember Hillary like all the candidates get briefings from the CIA. Shes just got a little confused ( just like a certain Labour Party President) when they outlined the destablisation plans.
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 10:09 am
Sorry to go off-topic for the briefest moment, but D4J – is your vocabulary that impoverished that terms like ‘lying bitch’ are the best you can muster to slander the Prime Minister? And heaven only knows what hides behind your ‘#’s…
MrHappy
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 10:12 am
‘lying bitch’ are the best you can muster to slander the Prime Minister?
Mr Demt Happy, I can assure you that every page I read in the book “Absolute Power ” I want too muster the courage and say what the hell to a two month ban,it wouldn’t be so bad, as I could happily construct a sentence describing Helen the horrible that would score me 1000 demerit runs and a long cold shower in the sin bin.
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 10:28 am
Where are philu et al, normally swift to claim the left’s mortgage on humour, musical talent etc etc?
That “joke” was….pathetically weak.
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 4:03 pm
I thought it was a good joke and was about to burst into laughter when I remembered ” Many a true word is spoken in jest.” Hat tip..probably Bill Shakespeare.
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 5:29 pm
So Clark is supporting Obama. But I must correct the original report on calling it a gaffe. Things that Americans cannot be expected to know are by definition not gaffes.
Vote:April 22nd, 2008 at 8:32 pm
You have to feel sorry for the cockroaches.
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