Senator Kyl reportedly jokes about Obama, Pelosi drowning

[RamboLiberal]

Joking about the president and the Speaker of the House drowning might get laughs if a late night comic says it, but how about a US senator?

At The Hill's The Washington Scene, Christina Wilkie writes, "Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) got a big laugh on Saturday at a National Republican Senatorial Committee retreat, but his joke definitely wouldn't be funny to some people."

Wilkie claims that, "According to a source who attended the meetings, Kyl told the assembled crowd a political version of the classic three-people-in-a-boat joke: 'So Obama, Pelosi and Reid are in a row boat, and it springs a leak and starts to sink. Who gets saved?' Answer: 'The American people.'"

RAW STORY is unaware of any classic joke about three people drowning in a boat, but it's similar to the one about how one hundred lawyers drowning in the ocean would be "a good start."

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0503/kyl-reportedly-jokes-obama-pelosi-drowning/

[Arkana]

1. That's funny

cause I make jokes all the time about walling Senator Kyl up in a tomb in my basement a la "The Cask of Amontillado".

[azmouse]

4. I'd make the same joke you did but

unfortunately we don't have basements here in AZ... :(

[tanyev]

2. Classy.

[The Magistrate]

3. He Stole It, Ma'am, from An Old Joke About Hitler And Goering

Reported as early as 1935 by the journalist Herr Haiden.

[Bitwit1234]

5. Seems to me the trouble with the country right now is because of

Bush and the previous republican administration. The republicans keep trying to convince themselves they had nothing to do with it. But the American People really know who caused the mess, and who is trying to clean it up.

[Cha]

6. Is kyl known for his yuks or/and is he

trying to subliminal message this and claim it's a joke?

[onenote]

7. i remember a version of this joke circulating with bush, cheney, and rove

Of course it wasn't being repeated in public by a US Senator.