Last night was the White House Correspondents’ dinner, as you may have heard, and amongst a whole slew of jokes, Obama made one that just didn’t sit well with me. He joked that Dick Cheney couldn’t make the dinner because he was working on his memoir tentatively titled, ‘How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People.’
First, the reference to the hunting accident. As a someone new to hunting, and therefore recently completed a hunting safety course, I find joking about a hunting accident to be poor taste. Hunting may be a generally safe sport, but hunting accidents do occur and people have been killed. There’s nothing funny about that.
Second, the interrogation line… What gets me about this is that Obama thinks “enhanced interrogations” are torture, so, for all you pro-Al qaeda liberals ought to shocked that Obama would find that something to make a joke about.
Now, does this really surprise me? Well, to be honest, the part of the joke about interrogation surprised me more than the hunting part because Obama has no class at all. Remember his joke about the Special Olympics? Remember how he mocked the tea parties? But really, if you are someone who really believes that enhanced interrogation is torture, do you really think that it is appropriate to joke about it?
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