Rosanne Cash to John Boehner: ‘Stop Using My Dad’s Name As A Punchline, You Asshat.’
Without a doubt, Twitter’s best feature is the way it gives public figures a platform to make statements they’d never make otherwise. (Exhibit A: Arnold Schwarzenegger mocking Sarah Palin.) We were reminded of this again early this morning, when Rosanne Cash took to her feed to demand that Rep. John Boehner stop mentioning her late father in his stump speech.
Gawker’s Max Read explains that lately, Boehner’s addresses have included a (fairly lame) reference to the Man in Black:
“Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.”
(Right—because when we think about stars of the ’80s, Bob Hope and Johnny Cash are the two men that immediately spring to mind.)
Apparently, Rosanne has not taken kindly to news of Boehner’s joke. At 12:30 this morning, she slammed the representative on her Twitter page:
John Boehner: Stop using my dad’s name as a punchline, you asshat.
We’d like to give Cash a fist-bump for this—not only because she found a fairly creative way to call someone a jerk, but also because she managed to insult Boehner without mentioning his eerie perma-tan.
[h/t Gawker]
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