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Delaware Masturbators March Against O’Donnell

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Posted on Sep 19, 2010

Fake news by Andy Borowitz

WILMINGTON—Galvanized by Republican senatorial nominee Christine O’Donnell’s anti-masturbation stance, masturbators from across the state converged on Wilmington today in what some are calling the largest pro-wanking protest in American history.

Carrying signs reading, “O’Donnell: Hands Off Our Masturbation,” the angry masturbators clogged downtown Wilmington, stopping traffic for blocks. Harley Farger, a leading Delaware masturbator and planner of the Million Masturbators March, said it was difficult to organize masturbators “because they’re used to acting alone.”

Farger, the executive director of the pro-monkey-spanking group MasturNation, said that the “wank and file” of his organization believe that masturbation is an inalienable right guaranteed by the Constitution. “Our country was founded by rugged individualists,” he said. “And you know what individualists like to do.”

Farger said that O’Donnell’s anti-whacking position was “ill-timed,” adding, “In this economy, masturbation is one of the few simple pleasures people still can afford.”

Tracy Klugian, a homemaker and masturbator from Dover, Del., said she is “puzzled” by what she sees as the contradictory nature of candidate O’Donnell’s position: “If you’re against masturbation, why would you want to serve in Congress?”

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A spokesman for the Wilmington Police Department, Crandall Darlington, said that the Million Masturbators March could cost the city tens of thousands of dollars, “especially when you include the cost of cleaning up afterward.”

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

© 2010 Creators Syndicate


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By OneHotNight.com, September 10, 2011 at 6:46 pm Link to this comment

this is really funny smile lol….

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By Inherit The Wind, September 21, 2010 at 8:11 pm Link to this comment

Sodium-Na, September 21 at 5:50 pm Link to this comment

ITW,

The “hands-on”,what?!
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If you gotta ask….......

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By diman, September 21, 2010 at 7:08 pm Link to this comment

Finally some people in the country have taken the matter into their own hands, so to speak.

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By Sodium-Na, September 21, 2010 at 1:50 pm Link to this comment

ITW,

The “hands-on”,what?!

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By Inherit The Wind, September 21, 2010 at 1:36 pm Link to this comment

So I guess she intends to be a real “hands-on” senator.

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By Sodium-Na, September 21, 2010 at 1:31 pm Link to this comment

You fellows are something else!

I have never chuckled and shaked my head so often in my entire life. As my wife saw that,she thought I was going crazy. I helped her get behind the computer to read your VERSES. She started chuckling in turn!

Because of such laughs for a change,I may consider voting for the loud-mouth,“HOCKEY MOM”, from Alaska,in 2012,if she is the nominee of the GOP!!!!

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By purplewolf, September 21, 2010 at 9:58 am Link to this comment

RICO AND RAY: RIGHT AT THE TOP OF THE STORY IT STATES “HUMOR”, BUT I GUESS YOU FAILED TO SEE THAT.

What does it matter to Christine if a person partakes of this activity or not. It is none of her business or that of congress to regulate when and if a person can masturbate. For all of those claiming to be for less intrusive? government, this points out that they are hypocrites. If elected will she have a special “privates police cracking down on those who are self serving their sexual tensions as it does not lead to the possible impregnation of some semen receptacle ready female with a ready to fertilize potential future human?

And what will they do to you? Impose Sharia law unto you as Newt Gingrich is yelling about lately? Cut off your hands or worse yet cut off your other offending anatomical parts? And what if you don’t have health insurance, as these right-wing nut jobs want to deny for many people? Let them bleed to death in their shame of the crime of self pleasuring? Need to repeal that"pursuit of happiness” thing we keep hearing about.

But if the right wing fanatics let more people die, there will be less tax money for them to steal and less people buying over priced things from big mega corps, so they lose even if they win.

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By samosamo, September 21, 2010 at 9:27 am Link to this comment

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I can only think o’donnell was abused in her
church by nuns or women in the higher ranks of
her religion for her to take this ‘stance’.

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By Inherit The Wind, September 21, 2010 at 7:03 am Link to this comment

Whoops! Meant to quote Diamond, not Maani on this one.

I guess I was too “excited”...smile

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By Inherit The Wind, September 21, 2010 at 3:58 am Link to this comment

Maani, September 21 at 12:45 am Link to this comment

“If you’re against masturbation, why would you want to serve in Congress?”

That actually sums it up pretty darn well.  A “do-nothing” Congress must be doing SOMETHING…LOL

But really, how can we trust ANYONE who has never masturbated?
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Reminds me of the old adage:

“In a poll 85% of all teenage boys admitted to masturbating.”
“The other 15% were liars.”

I cannot imagine a man riding a motor-scooter to a hospital, naked, with a fireplace poker…you know.  Nor do I want to…................ And even though laughing at another’s pain is reprehensible, it’s really hard not to!

But 2 things: First, at LEAST he was able to solve his dilemma without dying and second, he wasn’t a politician.  Milligan was/did both!

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By diamond, September 20, 2010 at 10:01 pm Link to this comment

I’ve got a better one than that ITW. And it was another Brit - what is it with them? A man was sitting near the fireplace after his wife had gone upstairs to bed and his eye came to rest on the poker near the fireplace. He noticed it had a round ring on the top that was just the right size for masturbating. So he grabbed it and masturbated with it. Unfortunately afterwards he couldn’t get his swollen penis out of the ring. His wife was asleep upstairs, but was she really? Horrified with fear of discovery, he panicked and ran outside with the poker still firmly wedged on his protuberant manhood he jumped on, yes, as you do, his motorbike and raced to the hospital to get the poker removed. For years I could reduce myself to snorting, sobbing laughter just by imagining the faces of motorists and pedestrians when he stopped his motorbike at the lights. This is a true story. The poker was removed at the hospital by greasing his penis, if memory serves. So all you masturbators just remember not to use a poker: it wouldn’t be fatal in and of itself but a mishap could be so hilarious someone might laugh themselves to death.

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By Maani, September 20, 2010 at 8:45 pm Link to this comment

“If you’re against masturbation, why would you want to serve in Congress?”

That actually sums it up pretty darn well.  A “do-nothing” Congress must be doing SOMETHING…LOL

But really, how can we trust ANYONE who has never masturbated?

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By PatrickHenry, September 20, 2010 at 6:20 pm Link to this comment

There must be something really important going on somewhere in the world for a story of this magnitude to unfold.

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By Inherit The Wind, September 20, 2010 at 5:37 pm Link to this comment

Jaipur, I got news for you: When nations were collecting eccentrics, the UK got in line twice!

Remember THIS British Conservative Politician?

“Forty-five year old Milligan was found dead in Hammersmith, London.[2] The discovery of his corpse in what was presumed to be a state of autoerotic asphyxiation, combined with self-bondage and cross-dressing, led to a greater public awareness of auto-erotic asphyxiation and self-bondage and their risks. A bizarre detail of his death, which was the subject of much comment and speculation at the time, was that he was found to have had an orange segment in his mouth at the time of his death.”

Accidental death by…bondage, pantyhose, auto-erotic asphyxiation and an orange.

What politician in America could EVER top that?  Foot massages in the mens’ room? Tickling aides?  Good but not good enough to top Milligan!

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By Inherit The Wind, September 20, 2010 at 5:21 pm Link to this comment

I CAN’T “HANDLE” THIS!

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By diamond, September 20, 2010 at 4:36 pm Link to this comment

What a bunch of wankers.

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By Tobysgirl, September 20, 2010 at 1:54 pm Link to this comment

jaipurr, I don’t know what you look like, but all the people I’m always being told are “nice” are probably only nice to people who look like they do. “Nice” people don’t vote for their neighbors not to have health care, not to have decent housing, not to have public education (oh, yes, there are many tea partiers out there who want to end public education; I possess a charming essay written by a local man which was quickly removed from the net), not to have benefits when they need them. Scratch the surface on all-too-many Americans and you find greedy, nasty people, which explains why our country loves war and hates the idea of their fellow countrymen having decent lives.

And before some idiot sounds off to me, my state used to pride itself on being reasonable though Republican. Now all we hear is screaming about welfare and state government, a state government which is actually accessible to its citizens. Miserable people are always looking for targets for their misery, unable to understand that it’s internal.

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By Ray Comeau, September 20, 2010 at 1:39 pm Link to this comment
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This has to be a hoax, not a serious news item. Pray tell why is Ms.Christine O’Donnell so against masturbation ?

If this really is a serious conviction of Ms. O’Donnell, she should keep it to herself and not try to proselytize others, nor condemn them for what any sane secular person would confirm is a healthy practice. But then, Christine O’Donnell is a Tea Party supporter, I guess no one should be surprised what she believes. Her feelings about masturbation should be added to such Republican Axioms as ‘wide stance’ in Airport washrooms !
Amen, and pass the Rapture pie!

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By rico, suave, September 20, 2010 at 1:38 pm Link to this comment

“the Million Masturbators March could cost the city tens of thousands of dollars, “especially when you include the cost of cleaning up afterward.””

Now THAT’S gross.

And if the only group of protesters the libs can muster are a bunch of chicken chokers, the election is over.

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By ray keith, September 20, 2010 at 10:45 am Link to this comment
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Christine O’Donnell’s idea should be debated on the house floor.
Christine O’Donnell & the pope should get married & everything will soon be honky dory.
All u masturbators should send Christine O’Donnell a packet of there discharge & she can present them at the house debate to show what all these unemployed are doing instead of trying to find jobs.
Does Christine O’Donnell have any history of mental illness?

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By RonReagoDid, September 20, 2010 at 10:22 am Link to this comment
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Very often those who concern themselves with what the constitution considers a part of “privacy of the person,” actually are participants in those private behaviors that they feel so guilty about. They can’t admit, even to themselves, what they do in private. So, they turn the cognitive and psychological dissonance outward, and attack others who practice the same, or very similar things in their efforts to convince themselves that somehow what they do is not exactly the same as what those they attack do.

Since when does a politician deal with whether people masturbate or not? Is O’Donnell a minister, rabbi or imam? How would she verify whether someone masturbates or not? She sounds a bit like the accusers of the woman they brought to Jesus, asking if she should be stoned to death. They were guilty of sins greater than hers.

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By letidb, September 20, 2010 at 9:46 am Link to this comment
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Me thinks Christine protesteth too much.  Betcha’ she’s got a Mr. Happy in her
night stand!

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By jaipurr, September 20, 2010 at 6:50 am Link to this comment
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As a UK resident, it never ceases to amaze me, why a country like the USA, warm and hospitable and full of decent people, can provide an endless succession of total nut-cases like O’Donnell and, of course, Palin, cretins who actually manage to get themselves taken seriously!!
It’s as if, as a nation, you have an in-built self-destruct button; a button that ensures you are hated and laughed at, throughout the world. You have so much potential for good and you could lead the world to a peaceful, self-sustaining future. Yet you persist in war and destruction and glorify those who perpetuate this. You vote for those who want to ethnically cleanse the poor and the sick. I feel sad that this is so and long for you to change direction.

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By tedmurphy41, September 20, 2010 at 6:25 am Link to this comment

I do wonder whether she is really human; are we really certain that she is not an alien from the planet Hypokrypton masquerading as a prudish matriarch.

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By BR549, September 20, 2010 at 6:00 am Link to this comment

Oh, the humanity; where are the signs reading “Carrot Cuffers Against Christine?”

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By RayLan, September 20, 2010 at 4:32 am Link to this comment

The whole Tea Party view of America is a masturbation fantasy - maybe that’s what their problem is They’re not gettin’ any - and they can’t even masturbate so they take it out in angry protests

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By clipper, September 20, 2010 at 4:28 am Link to this comment

You would think Christine would have then- as now, been more concerned about the needy. homeless, the abused, and such, but she became obcessed with masterbation. She is also upset with government health care and stated,- all should pay out of their own pockets, -[-2002-‘03,  if no health insurance, but she doesn’t have a family, and at that time she had a job. She is against pre-martial sex but doesn’t condemn, Palin or Palin’s daughter. She also equated nudity with pornography, so I guess she showers with her clothes on-????

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By Carl Spackler, September 20, 2010 at 3:21 am Link to this comment

Delaware doesn’t even have 1 million residents.

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