Conway: No one can take a joke in Washington
Source: Politico
Kellyanne Conway, counselor to the president, said Washington is humorless.
No one can take a joke either, that is definitely true, humorless Washington, Conway said Friday when asked about her comment that microwaves can be used for surveillance.
Conway was attending the National Review Institutes Ideas Summit when she joked that she no longer eats ice cream out of the container because she is worried about it going viral because somebodys watching.
Jim Geraghty, a National Review senior political correspondent, asked is the microwave watching? to which Conway said no one in Washington can take a joke.
Read more: https://secure.politico.com/story/2017/03/kellyanne-conway-no-one-can-take-a-joke-dc-236169
"Tough room, tough room, I tell ya..."
Qutzupalotl
(14,340 posts)ArizonaLib
(1,242 posts)No wonder it is so easy for them to ruin people's lives - to them it's all a joke, all a game, just a television episode in the life of our democracy.
dalton99a
(81,700 posts)So predictable.
We CAN take a joke, we have one as president right now.
samnsara
(17,658 posts)world wide wally
(21,760 posts)mac56
(17,575 posts)and boy, are my arms tired!"
DinahMoeHum
(21,829 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)The mission that slaughtered, wounded scores of woman, children and some of our military. Laughing like a ghoul.
gopiscrap
(23,767 posts)the whole scummy lot of you are in over your heads!
Bradical79
(4,490 posts)...and you get tired of hearing the same stupid gag for months on end.
mac56
(17,575 posts)I saw a Russian ambassador with his hands in his own pockets!"
Scoopster
(423 posts)Also, it's bullshit, because Mulvaney had no problem doing that snide "joke" singling out the NYT for a legitimate error.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,411 posts)Is there any evidence at all that she actually does something in the White House, or does she just wait to get asked to go on TV or give a quote about what she thinks is going on in Trump's goldfish-like mind?
It has to be said, that if this was a "joke", it had the world's worst delivery:
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/13/trump-advisor-kellyanne-conway-mocked-for-spy-microwaves-claims.html
rurallib
(62,478 posts)Someone played tapes of her the other day on their show - can't remember who.
She was awful.
Mendocino
(7,523 posts)for her schtick, but find a barf bag first.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)If she is paid to "look good" she FLUNKED! Looks like 5 miles of bad road.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)that a White House microwave might have recorded. You know..... since Melania won't have anything to do with the executive mansion. I mean.... C'mon! Reckon she OFFERS herself or plays hard to grab?
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)Maybe they take turns, who knows.
NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)being in the business for years means you probably get slammed quite a bit - they get used to it.
Trump, Nixon and a few others are exceptions. Heck, Stephen Colbert told a story about Antonin Scalia that after Colbert had his stunning performance at the WH Correpondent's Dinner that Scalia came up to him and was laughing and told Colbert he was funny. You'd have thought Scalia might have glowered at him or stormed past him, but no.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)that the fabulous RBG considered him a friend.
Mendocino
(7,523 posts)I can't get the Youtube link to transfer...?
But it is painful beyond all belief.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)Even when you're trying:
Mendocino
(7,523 posts)The song is the worst part, proving that she's nothing but a political poll dancer.
ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)progressoid
(50,013 posts)And I only watched about 45 seconds.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)But she seems to amuse herself - if not the audience.
LOL Lib
(1,462 posts)Damn right Washington can't take a joke. You are not in the joke business. Last I checked you were in the serious position of running the country. Nothing about that should be a laughing matter. I hate this woman.
mac56
(17,575 posts)but my microwave only spies on me in off peak hours!"
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)If your entire audience is not laughing, the problem is not with them, it's with you.
maxsolomon
(33,449 posts)His rally crowds think he's doing stand up.
But here is the thing:
1. Conservative humor is usually cruel.
&
2. THE PRESIDENCY IS NOT A JOKE.
3catwoman3
(24,109 posts)...the current pretender to the Oval Office most assuredly IS. A terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad joke.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)ck4829
(35,096 posts)Sociopaths and bullies like to antagonize people and then make an issue of how their target responded to them...
"It was just a joke, lighten up."
"Stop being so emotional about it."
"How dare you stand up to my aggression, you're CLEARLY the psycho nutjob, not me." (What they're really trying to say)
llmart
(15,566 posts)They're "jokes" are cruel and if you call them on it they say, "I was just kidding." Classic responses from sociopaths.
RedWedge
(618 posts)"Before we get started, I gotta tell ya, the funniest thing happened to me today. You know when you have one of those days where not one but two things that never ever happens, happens to you? I'm walkin' down the street and I look up and I see Haley's comet. I get back to the office and I'm accurately quoted in a Ralph Hallow article."
Cosmocat
(14,584 posts)and your team all up his ass over shit that wasn't, you know SIGNIFICANT.
And, he wasn't balling around about "Deep state" and what not.
Mendocino
(7,523 posts)Drumpf
mac56
(17,575 posts)When I put the key in the door, I pushed the hooker off the bed!"
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)and should we remember to tip the waitress?!
(good show, 56!)
mac56
(17,575 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)gopiscrap
(23,767 posts)and the joke on trump is between his ears
Doreen
(11,686 posts)mac56
(17,575 posts)I can hear Vladimir pootin'!"
underpants
(183,007 posts)True Dough
(17,378 posts)No one can take a joke?
Well, that applies 10-fold to Donald Trump who tweets repeatedly during and after episodes of Saturday Night Live, calling it unfunny and saying the "cast is terrible," and it's "really bad television." Oh, never mind that the ratings have been soaring because it is HILARIOUS!!!
Suck it up, Donny!
LakeArenal
(28,867 posts)( won't use the name )
PJMcK
(22,069 posts)When you make an inflammatory statement that you intend to express as either humor or irony, there's usually a tag line to clue the listener that you are not meant to be taken literally. It's called effective communication.
In contrast, when you, personally, make a ridiculous observation, such as the surveillance capabilities of a microwave oven, and then let the story percolate for several days, your explanation that it was a joke is not believable. Instead, it illustrates that you are the joke and we have a seriously sad and dangerous national dilemma.
IronLionZion
(45,628 posts)we're clearly too slow for you.
C Moon
(12,226 posts)discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,483 posts)"Washington DC is a city of Northern charm and Southern efficiency."
iluvtennis
(19,905 posts)spiderpig
(10,419 posts)You're not even ridiculous enough to be entertaining.
byronius
(7,410 posts)I guess Nazi humor doesn't fly anymore. At least not in front of the victims.
Which is fucking everybody.
rurallib
(62,478 posts)something that will come back to be used against us or just crazy talk.
How could we ever pick a joke out of that pile of crap?
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,380 posts)orangecrush
(19,662 posts)You are a joke, and nobody's laughing.
tavernier
(12,415 posts)world wide wally
(21,760 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)What the White House says is taken seriously or do they want us to think that everything they say is just a BIG FAT JOKE??
Trump being the HUUUUUUUUUUUUUUGEST joke
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Ilsa
(61,712 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,392 posts)Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)you can't get a date from a calendar.
You're so ugly, you make onions cry.
You're so ugly your parents made you trick-or-treat by phone.
You're so ugly you give Freddy Kruger nightmares.
If ugliness was bricks Trump could build the whole wall with you.
You're so ugly you went to a haunted house and they gave you a job application.
Hahaha. Haha. Ha.
Oneironaut
(5,541 posts)If you want to joke, go to a comedy club. We're being run by clueless idiots!
The Sand Reckoner
(194 posts)who has a genuine sense of humor, or even knows what one is? Anyone who is capable of laughing at a joke at their expense, instead of huffing indignation?
Hint: NO
alarimer
(16,245 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Sure, she's scum, but the JOKE WAS ON HER. Laugh and move on.
Mendocino
(7,523 posts)Museum of RW Humor.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)It wasn't a joke. She just said it was a joke after the fact. She was totally serious when she said it.
truthisfreedom
(23,168 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,528 posts)CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)They say outlandish shit that's meant to generate outrage and distraction, and when they get enough blowback, they say it wasn't intended the way people took it.
From the top down...this 'administration' will twist reality every which way in order to avoid taking any responsibility whatsoever for lies and mistakes.
And like an extremely dysfunctional relationship, our sorry MSM keeps wanting to give them chance after chance and is made to look foolish every time.
Bucky
(54,094 posts)kind of ruins the joke doesn't it?