Political Humor

This week’s Political Humor Quick Hits is about China, Cheney, and cars…

Yu Yongding, a senior researcher at the government-backed Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and a former central bank adviser wasn’t buying Tim Geithner’s smooth economic wordspeak in Bejing Monday:

“It will be helpful if Geithner can show us some arithmetic,” he said.

Great, now China, our loan shark wants to look at the books. I just hope our Treasury Secretary doesn’t come back home with a broken thumb. It is tough to operate a printing press with a cast.

No Tim, China won’t fall for the old Freddy “Boom Boom” Washington defense like our Congress did.

Cheney Clarifies Gay Marriage and Porn Comments

At a National Press Club Speech Monday:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday he supports gays being able to marry but believes states, not the federal government, should make the decision.

Later Cheney added that he also supports gay marriage with the stipulation that he gets to waterboard them.

Or watersports, I wasn’t really clear on that.

This Headline Will Help GM With Revenue

From the Wall Street Journal:

GM to Announce Tentative Hummer Sale

Speaking of Crappy Cars

Is this what we can look forward to when it comes to future GM offerings?

A car traveling on a motorway in Switzerland lost all four wheels simultaneously, coming to an immediate halt in the middle of the highway, police said on Saturday.

While this does save gas I don’t think it is what Obama has in mind for green automobiles. Or maybe it is.

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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 humor blog Angry Seafood.

This week’s RL Political Humor Quick Hits goes European like our Creampuff-In-Chief on his current leg of the 2009 World Apology Tour but without all the hugs and endless repetitions of  “Kumbaya” by the campfire.

Obama Apologizes for Nuclear Weapons

While North Korea tried to launch a missile with the potential to carry a nuclear payload Sunday, Obama’s response was to tell the world sorry for being the leader of the first country to use nukes as weapons:

“As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act,”

Loxodonta, a commenter on Hot Air had a great reaction to that line:

“So, while on European soil, the current occupant of the White House is blaming FDR for ending WWII.”

It was actually Truman, which is mere semantics because the point of the comment is still valid: Nukes ended the war and saved more lives in the long run.

Not to worry though Lox, Obama is calling for tougher UN sanctions.

That should be a big help because asking them to solve a problem is like asking a crackhead to safeguard your money.

As insurance Hillary was dispatched to the UN to schmooze China, a country that told us recently our dollar is worth nothing, and Russia who wants gold backing for money, all in the hopes the two nations would lean on North Korea.

I think that is what they mean by “Overseas Contingency Plan.”

With plans like these who needs enemies?

UK Funds Anti-Christian Literature

Obama was right. The war is not against Islam but Christianity in the UK:

“A Government-funded charity was at the centre of a row last night after a magazine it publishes for children appeared to depict Christians as Islamophobes who regard Muslims as terrorists.”

Yes that is a Christian cross but Natasha Finlayson, trust chief executive of the charity in question But Who Cares doesn’t see it that way:

“When I saw the cartoon, I didn’t think of that character being a Christian because I saw the cross as ‘bling’, as jewelry. “

Bling? Jewelry? So what’s the hijab, a fashion accessory?

It would not have been so bad if she didn’t preface it with this:

” ‘…the charity had received a complaint but did not agree the cartoon was derogatory towards Christians. I am a Christian myself, so when a woman called us, I went back and looked at the comic strip from her point of view,’ Ms Finlayson said. ‘I am sorry that she is upset but I don’t share her view.’ “

In other words as long as she isn’t the Christian being eaten by the lions everything is fine.

Good Thing Palm Sunday Wasn’t Seven Days Earlier

If it was, this scene of penitents celebrating Spain’s Holy Week might have been completely misinterpreted by the American Drool-By Media with Obama just hundreds of miles away attending the G20.

When our idiotic media mistakenly attributes a thrown shoe as an insult to the guest and not the host of a Middle Eastern country you can only imagine the negative spin on something like this.

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RL Political Humor Quick Hits is written by Chris Cameron every Tuesday exclusively for Radioactive Liberty. You can also read his own odd posts at his humor blog Angry Seafood.