Jul 09 2009
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Is McCain dogging on Kissinger? [from Nick Carr's Blog]
In reviewing John McCain’s vigorous tweet stream, Rachman observes that “some of the senator’s tweets make him sound like a peasant.” He quotes one: “Meeting with Dr Kissinger – the smartest man in the world.”
But a commenter on this post points out that this is awfully close to this joke:
In the early '70s, Richard Nixon, Spiro Agnew, Henry Kissinger, an
old priest, and a hippie were on an airplane. Suddenly, the pilot
radioed that the plane was going down, and for all of them to put on
a emergency rig (a.k.a. "parachute" for the whuffos in the audience)
and jump. Alas, there were only four rigs.
The five of them discussed what they should do ...
Richard Nixon said: "I am the President of the United States. The
nation and the world needs me. I must take a parachute and jump."
And out of the plane he jumped, and he floated safely to earth.
Spiro Agnew said: "I am the Vice-President of the United States. If
anything were to happen to President Nixon, I would have to take over
his tremendous job. I must take a parachute and jump." And Agnew
floated safely to earth, too.
Henry Kissinger said in his thick German accent: "I am the smartest
man in the world. The world cannot live without me." And he grabbed
a rig and jumped.
The old priest and the hippie were left. The priest said to the
young man, "Son, God has been good to me all these years, and I am
old. Please, take the last parachute rig and live well."
To which the hippie replied, "Don't worry, Father. The smartest man
in the world just took my backpack."
Is this an ironic coincidence? Carr thinks so:
That’s a good joke, and if McCain was making a coy reference to it in his tweet I will happily eat this post. In fact, I’ll eat the whole damn blog.
Posted by: Nick Carr
at June 30, 2009 06:12 PM
