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The Perils of Pandering

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Posted on Jan 27, 2008

By Andy Borowitz

After equating homosexuality with bestiality, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee was attacked at the San Francisco Zoo by a gay tiger.

Huckabee had scheduled a campaign stop at the zoo where he made his controversial remarks about homosexuality and bestiality, not realizing that he was standing within earshot of a Bengal tiger with a homosexual lifestyle.

According to onlooker Tracy Klujian, 27, “the way that tiger started growling during the speech, you could tell that it felt like it was being taunted.”

As Huckabee’s remarks about homosexuality and bestiality reached their peak, the irate tiger leaped over an 18-foot barrier and began mauling the presidential candidate.

Within minutes, police responding to a 911 call were on the scene, where they fired tranquilizer darts at both the tiger and Huckabee, who had continued to make his offensive remarks throughout the mauling.

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According to one aide, the unfortunate tiger attack incident has done nothing to change Huckabee’s position on gay marriage: “Not only that, but now he’s opposed to tigers marrying other tigers.”

In other campaign news, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney used a speech in South Carolina to tout his life experience, including his stint as a generic white male clipart illustration.


Elsewhere, frustrated by persistent questions about steroid use, pitcher Roger Clemens threw a car at a reporter.

Award-winning humorist, television personality and film actor Andy Borowitz is author of “The Republican Playbook.”

© 2008 Creators Syndicate

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By Louise, January 29, 2008 at 11:40 am #

Personally my favorite is Clemens throwing a car at a reporter! A real headliner that never made the news.

All the same, “THE WORD OF GOD ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE” is priceless! smile

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By nrobi, January 29, 2008 at 8:54 am #

Parody and Satire of the Highest order!  You win the prize of the day.

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By odlid, January 28, 2008 at 11:47 pm #
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This incident is reminiscent of the bungled bank robbery in which the confused robber tied up the safe and blew the guard.

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By John Hanks, January 28, 2008 at 7:36 pm #
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I think Americans were more aware of soft-soap (pandering) before television.  Pandering is especially a Republican specialty of course.  The best thing would be to get all campaigns abolished from TV where people are especially susceptible to fetishes and images.

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By purplewolf, January 28, 2008 at 3:26 pm #

Hey Huckabee, Answer me these questions:

Mike, science has proven that to make a genetic identical copy of another of a specimen(say Adam) only 1 cell is needed. Why did God need a whole rib of Adam to make Eve? If this were true, he wouldn’t.

And thus by using this rib, the creation would be an identical copy of the original, thus making Eve in actual fact a Steve. Was, Steve therefore the first transgender person in the history of people on Earth of a man to woman sexual reassignment? If that is the case, it would have been impossible for Eve to give birth “in pain ” as punishment for disobeying Gods rules from that day forward in the garden, for all women, as the new Eve would not have the proper “equipment” to preform such a feat.

If Adam and Eve were the first humans on Earth and only had sons. Who did they marry to procreate with?

In Noah’s day, God spared Noah, his wife, their three sons and their wives. Now according to the Bible, only male children were produced from these 4 sets of couples after the flood. So that means that the males had to marry males. Or if any female-not mentioned in your ? good book were ever born there after, they had to fornicate on a grand scale of incestuous relations to repopulate the Earth. And it would be incest, as brothers and sisters and cousins would have to interbreed with each other to make the new generations on Earth. Talk about a narrowed gene-pool, which would produce severely defective offspring in a few generations of this interbreeding and the chance of survival over the course of thousands of years would be nil if some form of intervention, say evolution did not intercede. But wait, you people don’t believe in evolution now do you?

And where did the different races of people the world come from Mike?

Mike are you aware that there are over 80 other species on the planet that display homosexual behaviour at varying times in their lives? God made them that way also, didn’t he Mike?

And Mike why would a kind and loving God force a woman who was the victim of rape, to marry her rapist? That is cruel beyond any sense of decency.

This is to start with Mr. Huckabee, there are many more questions I would like for you “religious people” to explain logically and factually and not in the fantasy of hear say version you love to ramble on about. Enquiring minds want to know.

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By Maani, January 28, 2008 at 12:52 pm #

“Mitt Romney used a speech in South Carolina to tout his life experience, including his stint as a generic white male clip-art illustration.”

Now THAT’S funny!

Peace.

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By ocjim, January 28, 2008 at 12:17 pm #

Here I thought all of Andy’s lampooning was fabricated until I found this article about Huckabees bestiality comment:

In an interview with Beliefnet.com, a religion Web site, Huck has just clarified his view that the Constitution should be amended to be brought in line with God’s will—and he directly equated homosexuality with bestiality.

Huck, in elaborating on his views that the Constitution should be subjected to Biblical standards, had just wrapped up a discussion of the fact that marriage has meant “a man and a woman in a relationship for life.” With this context firmly established, this exchange followed:

  QUESTIONER: Is it your goal to bring the Constitution into strict conformity with the Bible? Some people would consider that a kind of dangerous undertaking, particularly given the variety of biblical interpretations.

  HUCKABEE: Well, I don’t think that’s a radical view to say we’re going to affirm marriage. I think the radical view is to say that we’re going to change the definition of marriage so that it can mean two men, two women, a man and three women, a man and a child, a man and animal. Again, once we change the definition, the door is open to change it again. I think the radical position is to make a change in what’s been historic.

This seems to be a tactic of Huckabee: make derisive, sometimes outrageous analogies and back off or apoligize.

Comparing Romney to the devil and apoligizing comes to mind.

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