New York Post Page Six (December 13, 2008)
PEOPLE in Pennsylvania, at least Republicans, aren't as politically correct as the citizens of New York. Sen. Arlen Specter was the speaker yesterday at the Rainbow Room for the annual meeting of the Commonwealth Club, a group of Keystone State Republicans who come to Manhattan every yuletide. A witness reports Specter began by asking if anyone in the room was Polish. About 10 guests out of hundreds there raised their hands. Specter deemed the number insignificant and forged ahead with some supposedly funny Polish jokes, including the old one about the man who interrupted him once, saying, "Hey, careful. I'm Polish!" Specter said he responded, "That's OK - I'll tell it more slowly." Specter also told two other tasteless jokes in the same Polish vein. "No one walked out, but it was offensive," said our source. "I was offended, and I'm not Polish."
Jeeez this guy can't stay of trouble. He shot himself in the foot again....what...it's a different Spector...Nevermind.
PEOPLE in Pennsylvania, at least Republicans, aren't as politically correct as the citizens of New York. Sen. Arlen Specter was the speaker yesterday at the Rainbow Room for the annual meeting of the Commonwealth Club, a group of Keystone State Republicans who come to Manhattan every yuletide. A witness reports Specter began by asking if anyone in the room was Polish. About 10 guests out of hundreds there raised their hands. Specter deemed the number insignificant and forged ahead with some supposedly funny Polish jokes, including the old one about the man who interrupted him once, saying, "Hey, careful. I'm Polish!" Specter said he responded, "That's OK - I'll tell it more slowly." Specter also told two other tasteless jokes in the same Polish vein. "No one walked out, but it was offensive," said our source. "I was offended, and I'm not Polish."
Jeeez this guy can't stay of trouble. He shot himself in the foot again....what...it's a different Spector...Nevermind.
3 comments:
Wait just a Cleveland Ohio minute. That's not Phil Spector. That's Oscar Gamble.
To turn boringly serious: Arlen Specter was one of those touchy-feely weirdos who was, at least in the early while, all into Ira Einhorn way, way back when, when a startling number of Philly-area movers-and-shakers were. He even, very briefly, intervened on Einhorn's behalf, before coming to his political senses and dropped him like a hot potato (which, really, was much the best thing, and not only that, but the right thing; sometimes the ends ameliorates the means). Anyway, the point is that I've always viewed Arlen with cynicism, the sort of cynicism which attaches to those who helped teach it to you in adolescence and early adulthood, in which I was when I was first following PA/Philly politics.
Holly Maddux: Gone, but not forgotten. Ira Einhorn: In prison, but his years on the lam and why ALSO not forgotten.
Is anyone seriously offended by this stuff any more? Really?
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