“The joke was a parenthetical noting that Otis Redding’s popular song “Sittin’ on (The Dock of a Bay)” is “not a big hit in Japan right now.””

oh for Gawd sakes,, we are wound up too tight!
it wasnt even a good joke

Atticus Draco said:
In 1993: Janet Reno was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the first female attorney general. (It took longer to confirm her gender than to confirm her law license.)

lol,, i like this one!

OK… he needs to get some Comedy Central writers, those are pretty bad. When will people learn that the internet can be seen by LOTS of people?

Why was he still there after the first joke? I guess his boss is about to run fir the Presidency, hence avoiding the baggage.

You have it wrong again Skyfet

Conservatives take care of business and get rid of people like Dan Turner.

However, if Dan Turner had been a democrat, the wagons would have been circling around him right now trying to protect him.

BatBoy said:
You have it wrong again Skyfet

Conservatives take care of business and get rid of people like Dan Turner.

However, if Dan Turner had been a democrat, the wagons would have been circling around him right now trying to protect him.

So what he said before was fine, but what he said now is more troublesome because it’s live in front of our eyes. I see your logic.

So it took 16 minutes for the first lib to attempt to set the stage for attacks on a potential Barbour run because some staff guy no one knows sends bad jokes to staff via e-mails? Absolutely classic.

I guess you would argue that he show’s bad, I dont know, “Judgement,” in the people he surrounds himself with? Did you ever take into consideration the commies nitwits and full blown retards BO has working for him?

I think this uber heightened vigilance to the slightest of whiff of a less than sensitive remark, is more corrupting, petty, and mean than any off-hand joke or remark.

I’m so sick this sort of witch hunting on both sides. It’s the worst sort of self-righteous puritanical finger pointing.

In it’s willfully blinkered high-horse quest to elevate humanity, it stomps out every vestige it.

Just stop it! YOU get some perspective and for goodness sakes grow up!

BatBoy said:
Conservatives take care of business

HAHAHA YES, AS LONG AS IT BENEFITS THEM.

The Reno joke was great. The other two? Not so much. Regardless, Turner is a moron cause in this political environment everyone should know that they should be walking on eggshells otherwise the media and political opponets will pounce.

It’s sad something this irrelevant should matter, but thats just the nature of the beast so everyone and their staffs need to mind themselves. All that should matter is where politicians and potential candidates stand on the issues. Not some staffer’s bad jokes.

You have to admit though, republicans are pretty nonchalant and non caring (sometimes known as ‘mature’) while democrats are famous for whining like bitches, while facing similar scenarios.

Steve_27 said:
full blown retards ?

YOU LOVELY REPUBS/TEAPUBLICANS SURE LIKE TO THROW THAT RETARD WORD AROUND! WHERE IS FALIN PALINS FAKE OUTRAGE OVER IT!

Congrats Politico, you got somebody fired for…well…he works for Haley Barbour.

How did the left gain so much control that everybody runs around looking for an excuse to fire somebody because they don’t like their position on taxes? Stop being such p#$$!@$ lefties.

Steve_27 said:
republicans are pretty nonchalant and non caring

YES,THEY SURE ARE! WELL SAID!

BlueBunny said:
YOU LOVELY REPUBS/TEAPUBLICANS SURE LIKE TO THROW THAT RETARD WORD AROUND! WHERE IS FALIN PALINS FAKE OUTRAGE OVER IT!

Palin is not president, not running and not even a politician. You know they have meds for your condition.

BlueBunny said:
YES,THEY SURE ARE! WELL SAID!

Of course you had to leave out the next line in order to make this in your favour ;)

lonestar77 said:
Congrats Politico, you got somebody fired for…well…he works for Haley Barbour. How did the left gain so much control that everybody runs around looking for an excuse to fire somebody because they don’t like their position on taxes? Stop being such p#$$!@$ lefties.

When the NPR guy defamed the TeaParty the left told us he was only exercising his First Amendment Rights. Now skyfet, very much on the left, is demanding to know why this guy wasn’t fired after making his first joke. I guess the First Amendment only allows one to express the liberal point of view. In skyfet’s opinion, that is.

Not surprising for a Haley Barbour staffer. Look at their boss.

To use a phrase from the last election, people need to “man-up”.

Okay, if you consider that whole trust thing that makes insurance possible, perhaps you can look around the fact that nobody would’ve heard the Gottfried jokes and he’s not the voice of the duck in Japan — so some random Japanese person would’ve had to run across a bad joke retweet, follow it to the source and then Wiki the author — but that’s insurance.

In this case, Barbour’s press guy resigned because he’s opened his emails with a joke for years. To make matters worse, the Governor apparently didn’t receive the emails, so there was no tacit approval and the fellow may have resigned at the first question.

Now maybe he was looking for a way to get out. Judging from the dates, I assume Turner was with Barbour during his turn as RNC chair and probably some DC lobbying, so maybe he felt it was time to retire or he didn’t feel like heading off in a losing quest for the Presidency that may only half-heartedly make it through Iowa, but he should “man-up” and not use so bad jokes as a poor excuse for his choice.

I’m about as conservative as they come, but if anyone sent me a joke about a person (people) who are currently in serious pain, I would question their value to my life.

For his Japan joke, I salute Haley for making sure the bum is gone.
As BatBoy said, one of the greatest differences between Republicans & Democrats is that Republicans take out their trash. Democrats tend to wrap & store it, so it stinks more every day.

skyfet said:
Why was he still there after the first joke? I guess his boss is about to run fir the Presidency, hence avoiding the baggage.

Hmmm? Everybody is asking everyday, Why is that lying lib skyfet still here?

BatBoy said:
You have it wrong again Skyfet Conservatives take care of business and get rid of people like Dan Turner. However, if Dan Turner had been a democrat, the wagons would have been circling around him right now trying to protect him.

Truer words were never spoken, it’s a fact conservatives are held to a higher standard and is long overdue to be highlighted!

The typical GOPster mind revealed once more. The rule – not the exception.

PC Kryptonite said:
Truer words were never spoken, it’s a fact conservatives are held to a higher standard and is long overdue to be highlighted!

You realize the fellow resigned? Somehow a blogger from Politico got ahold of some emails and he asked the guy about it, so the fellow resigned. He wasn’t held to any standard by anyone other than himself and if he feels that he’s somehow failed, then he’s disavowing what he’s done for thirty years.

Though I still think the guy just wanted to retire and not go off on Barbour’s fool’s quest, but if he’s being held to any kind of standard, it’s the ability to fall on ones own sword.

Steve_27 said:
So it took 16 minutes for the first lib to attempt to set the stage for attacks on a potential Barbour run because some staff guy no one knows sends bad jokes to staff via e-mails? Absolutely classic.

I guess you would argue that he show’s bad, I dont know, “Judgement,” in the people he surrounds himself with? Did you ever take into consideration the commies nitwits and full blown retards BO has working for him?

Looks like it took you almost 2 hours to respond.

Internet slow in the Trailer Park?

Steve_27 said:
Palin is not president, not running and not even a politician. You know they have meds for your condition.

I’m not sure they have any for you. Not a politician? You are missing an adjective.
May I suggest:
Honest
Electable
Believable
Viable
Serious

Others should feel free to suggest further adjectives for Steve_27 to consider.

Sometimes racists have a hard time controlling themselves because it oozes out of their pores.

Haley Barbour is a Politician?
I thought he was the guy who owns “PORKYS”

BatBoy said:
You have it wrong again Skyfet

Conservatives take care of business and get rid of people like Dan Turner.

However, if Dan Turner had been a democrat, the wagons would have been circling around him right now trying to protect him.

Conservatives get rid of people like “Poopy-pants” Vitter, “Screw your staffer’s wife” Ensign, and the rest of the crew from that whorehouse on C Street, right?

nutsofast said:
Looks like it took you almost 2 hours to respond. Internet slow in the Trailer Park?

WOW! Talk about pointless foot in the mouth responses. Maybe I just came on? DUH! Really, why would you assume when I came on or how long it took to post? Serious guy, think before you post.

Joseph Glackin said:
I’m not sure they have any for you. Not a politician? You are missing an adjective.May I suggest:HonestElectableBelievableViableSerious Others should feel free to suggest further adjectives for Steve_27 to consider.

Like I figured, nothing accurate or intelligent to post in response to me. Leave well enough alone or you risk suicide by embarrassment.