Tuesday, July 19, 2016

This Old Joke, with Hillary "The Hack" Clinton

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Hillary Clinton recently told  this joke: “Trump has written a lot of books about business—but they all seem to end at Chapter 11.” It’s a good joke. Unfortunately, it’s a joke from decades ago. Jeff Penn, who knows quite a bit about comedy, wrote on his Facebook page that he first heard the joke in 1981. 

According to Penn, “This line has been around for at least 30 years and used by several stand-up comedians. The first I remember it, and specifically used regarding Donald Trump, was comedian Dan Trigoboff back around 1981.”

Hillary Clinton is a joke hacker. If she is elected, we will someday hear stock lines like, “I just flew in from Chappaqua. Boy, are my arms tired,” and “Take my husband, please.” Does anybody really want to live in a country where the leader tells jokes like that? I think not.

Also, Hillary plays fast and loose with the facts. In a review of several books by Trump available at Amazon, none had eleven chapters. 
  • Trump, the Art of the Deal, has fourteen chapters.
  • How to Get Rich has six chapters.
  • Time to Get Tough has ten chapters
Using other people’s jokes without attribution is highly unethical and morally indefensible. When I am elected to Congress, I will sponsor legislation to ban the use of pilfered jokes. It has become far too easy for people who have nothing to joke about to obtain assault jokes and to use those assault jokes to attack other Americans.  

When hacked jokes get into the wrong hands, people get hurt. We must stop allowing people to obtain jokes through illicit laughter loopholes.  

In regard to stolen humor, the laughter must stop. Ask not, Who told the joke? Ask, Who wrote the joke? Give me laughter, or give me death. 

Let's #MakeAmericaLaughAgain

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