Political Humor

This week’s edition of Political Humor Quick Hits is about Midgets and Joe Biden…

Saying “Midget” No Longer a Diminutive Mistake

Apparently there is a movement, a small one mind you by the Little People of America to get the FCC to ban the word “midget” when referring to very, very short people.

You know, on television, also referred to as the small screen:

“The word ‘midget’ objectifies you,” said Clinton Brown, 27, of Hicksville, who co-chaired this year’s conference at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott in Downtown Brooklyn. “Growing up as a little person, because you’re different, you experience the ups and downs of some cruelties and prejudices. How many times have people I don’t know come up to me and wanted to pick me up?”

Well they are pretty cute after all.

Ironically, the best way to find the story is to Google News the term “midget”. The movement is clearly not starting off well.

I won’t keep going as I know this topic always has a short attention span.

Joe Biden Needs to Speak Out More Often for Comedy’s Sake

Obama can’t even let his Vice President out on the Fourth of July weekend, a historically slow time for news coverage. As usual Joe Biden gave an interview for ABC’s “This Week” that was as coherent as the plot twists in Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End:

Vice President Joe Biden signaled that the Obama administration would not stand in the way if Israel chose to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, even as the top U.S. military officer said any attack on Iran would be destabilizing.

What a fresh change from the Bush administration, which kept Israel from attacking Iran. Shhh don’t tell the liberals that though. Their Kool-Aid is too powerful.

Then in the same interview he gave us hope for the economy:

“We misread how bad the economy was, but we are now only about 120 days into the recovery package,” Biden added. More jobs will be created in coming months, he said.

Usually when someone says something like “more jobs” that implies there were actual jobs created in the first place. Then again, maybe Joe is setting the bar much lower after the initial misread.

If two jobs are added to zero jobs that is twice as many jobs! You could even spin it as a 200% job recovery. See what I did there?

My personal take-away from the interview was this Biden-ism on economic recovery:

“The pace of the ball is now going to increase.”

Great, now our Vice President is making up new sports cliches. Like we do not have enough of them already.

At least Biden did not say that the the administration needed to circle the wagons or that they have to get into their offensive rhythm because that would have been awkward.

Besides, nobody circles the wagons like the Buffalo Bills. Not even Obama and Biden.

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Political Humor Quick Hits is a weekly commentary on the news/current events written by Chris Cameron every Tuesday. You can also read his other weekly column here every week as well as his own humor blog Angry Seafood.