Pat Buchanan Moves to Fox, Immediately Makes Birther Joke

[kpete]

Pat Buchanan Moves to Fox, Immediately Makes Birther Joke
No, he doesn't have a show on Fox (yet), but Pat Buchanan made an appearance on Sean Hannity's show and said this (at around 2:38 in the video below):

Sean, you know, a couple of months ago Obama was so low in the polls even the Kenyans were saying he was born in the United States.

HAR HAR HAR HAR HAR!! That's a real kneeslapper, Pat! Hey, give us a teleprompter joke!

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/825129/pat_buchanan_moves_to_fox%2C_immediately_makes_birther_joke/

[Fla Dem]

1. So glad he's on with the rest of the trash and off MSNBC

Although I would have rather he just faded into obscurity.

[mazzarro]

5. Me too

That hovel mistaken for anything but journalism is his natural fit anyway

[zbdent]

2. it actually was funnier in the original German ...

[immoderate]

3. Actually, I think it's a pretty good joke.

I mean structurally, humor is based on breaking a commonly held association. It doesn't have to be factual. It assumes that most people here wouldn't believe it in order to work. Hence, "even the Kenyans," makes the punchline. And "so low" type of jokes usually result in some hyperbole.

My guess is that this represented the high point of whatever Buchanan had to say.

On edit: Consider that a liberal could say this same line to an audience, and it becomes a joke about the birthers.

--imm

[Fuzz]

6. I was going to say that. It is a good joke.

[immoderate]

7. Welcome aboard. It's good to have company "sailing into the wind" here.

--imm