From the “you just can’t make this stuff up department“, something so outrageously stupid, you wonder how the Navy Admiral being interviewed by congressman Hank Johnson (D) GA kept himself from busting out laughing.
It should be an April fools joke, but isn’t. Watch the video below.
h/t to Bruce F.
Just to show that not only the U.S. has some funny politicians here’s our current minister for …well, something… Mr. Öttinger who *INSISTS* on speaking english himself instead of using translators.
He’s bavarian and he’s a real inspiration to our comedians. Probably saved a lot of jobs this way.
I don’t know how to…..where to start here.
Anyone running against this man in his next election need only but to play this clip of the tipping island ad nauseum in campaign commercials to be able to win in quite a landslide against him.
Stephen Singer (11:34:07) :
……..Congressman Johnson is suffering from a very serious medical issue which is apparently affecting his cognitive abilities……
I didn’t know about this. If it is true he should be home with his family.
And so goes Haiti.
It is one thing to be a fool but to follow a fool is worse. How in heck did the people that voted for Hank Johnson figure out how to tie their shoes and find the polling stations in the morning? It boggles the mind.
LMAO@ur momisugly “Might tip over”
Let’s give the poor old Congressman (opposite of PROGRESSman) the benefit of the doubt.
TOMORROW he’ll have a press conference, and say, “You ‘all thought this poor old black guy from GA was an IDIOT, when I delivered that line about Guam ‘tipping’ yesterday. That, was a JOKE Sohn, AH SAY, A JOKE. April Fools JOKE, and all you dumb bunnies BOUGHT IT! HA!”
I’d give him a standing ovation. (AND, I don’t care if he WAS being serious, he DOES have this “way out”, I think he should take it.)
According to NeoNeoCon, it is a joke, part of a long-running series of jokes.
You all fell off the turnip truck.
See http://neoneocon.com/2010/04/01/in-defense-of-hank-johnson/
Engineer Bob (19:39:50) :
Except the neo-neocon post was a joke. This was a week ago & the neo-noecon post was 10/4/1.
See, I can post dates in American! 🙂
DaveE.
The bit that sucked people into the neo-neocon joke was the reference to Top-Gun which was true, just like Anthony had mostly truth to suck people into his Fools day joke.
DaveE.
Oh.
Maybe I can’t post dates in American. I think that was in Japanese LOL
4/1/10 in American
DaveE.
“My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize.”
This deserves to be the Quote of the Week.
Perhaps he’s on to something. Maybe the recent increase in strong earthquakes is due to man made plate tectonics.
Engineer Bob (19:39:50) :
Read the comments after the article. “In Defense of Hank Johnson” was an April Fool’s joke. Enjoy your turnips (and its the beet truck in these parts).
Well…….
I could very well be that he was serious. I believe that he went to public schools and was taught by Democrats. The same ones that are telling the children to believe the Revealed Truth from the Goreacle.
I wish it were a joke.
Regards,
Steamboat Jack
Benjamin (18:04:24):
It may not be obvious to those “close to the fire”, that candidates for Veep since Pres JFK have been traditionally selected as an insurance policy against assassination of the President.
Maybe I’m just being cynical. Surely the pool of possible Presidents isn’t so swallow before scraping bottom.
For Pete’s sake Jon. Your comment wasn’t much better than Guam tipping over.
Well, it would mean better fishing for the residents of Guam, anyways.
If and when Guam capizes, I hope for 4 things:
1) Johnson is on the Promenade deck!
2) Nancy Pelosi is hand cuffed to his right arm!
3) Barbara Boxer is hand cuffed to his left arm!
4) Al Sharpton tries desperately to save all three of them!
this fellow may be inept, but he does not on the surface appear to be criminal, as is the case with Soros, Geithner, Summers, et. al. who want to prevent third world countries from rapidly developing coal fired electricity plants, instead condemning the poor to struggle with solar power, windmills, and other such 13th century technology… while lining the pockets of the banker carbon futures traders.
@ur momisugly Steve Goddard
Steve, forget him being qualified to be Obama’s science advisor. He is well qualified to be Obama – just needs to polish up his work with a teleprompter.
How can this not be an April Fool’s joke?
So he is ill, or perhaps some medication is working as a truth serum, exposing the stupidity that he has up till now successfully hidden from the public.
“Goodhealth-
This is not about AGW, it is about medication affecting the mind. If you are religious, pray for him – he asked for it.”
That is all well and good, but do we deserve to have this idiot (clinically speaking) making decisions for us?
Before blasting the georgia district this guy represents, remember who he won against – incumbent cynthia *I’m a congresswoman, and I can hit a capitol hill police officer if I want to* mckinney. such a choice . . . take the idiot over the demented anyday.
Really sad. The guy is evidently not that bright, but also must be ill. Hope he recovers, but that’s an embarrassment to the US and a waste of the admiral’s time.
JohnN (11:40:07) :
And I thought all the stupid politicians we in Westminster
In Britain over a lifetime, I have witnessed many parliaments, and each of them have certain individuals who are, or have been described as “Superbrains” or “The incredibly brilliant…..” etc. They get nicknames like “Spok” or “The Vulcan”. Recent individuals like David Willets, and John Redwood come to mind. The Milliband brothers David and Ed are the current holders of the title.
History shows that often, these ‘brilliant’ individuals turn out to be either inept, stupid, or entirely lacking in commonsense. Wonder how the current two will turn out.
For the Department of Anecdotal Information, from a bud from Ye Olden Days:
This little episode gave me a flashback to my Psychology studying days in the last ’70s. Back then, there was a bit of humor in the department about asking people to draw a sketch of an island above and below the waterline. The results tended to be in two large categories, the lily pad or the mountain top.
I tried an experiment this morning and had ten of my co-workers to draw a sketch with those parameters — I got nine islands and one lily pad.
The lily pad was produced by the only guy who is helpless around a computer and who once admitted that he’d voted for Obie.
We like him anyway.