This joke is making the rounds on email lists:
The Iranian Ambassador to the UN had just finished giving a speech, and walked out into the lobby where he met President Bush. They shook hands, and as they walked the Iranian said, “You know, I have just one question about what I have seen in America.
President Bush said, “Well, anything I can do to help you, I will."
The Iranian whispered “My son watches this show 'Star Trek' and in it there is Chekhov who is Russian, Scotty who is Scottish, and Sulu who is Chinese, but no Arabs. My son is very upset and does not understand why there are no Iranians on Star Trek."
President Bush laughed, leaned toward the Iranian ambassador, and whispered back, “Because it takes place in the future."
I would council the mad mullahs of Iran that when Americans start making jokes like this, that means they’re thinking about the context the joke was made in.
We’re thinking about Iran and the threat it represents.
One way to eliminate the Iranian threat is to eliminate Iranians. This isn’t very likely, of course. But if we’re making jokes about that, the fact is that less, er, complete measures are becoming thinkable — when just a few months ago, for most Americans, they were not.
Watch your back, President Ammabammapajamahead…
In the old blog, Anonymous said:
ReplyDeleteI just like to think of us as a bunch of racist assholes with terrible senses of humor, come on “President Ammabammapajamahead", you can do better than that. But to each his own.