I'm sure we all love jokes. Christ, we've put up with Bush as President for a long God damned time, haven't we? We must have a sense of humor if we can deal with that insanity and incompetence.
But this, my friends, is quite simply WRONG.
It's just WRONG.
The joke goes: "Obama is just creaming Hillary. You know, all these primaries, you know. And Hillary says it's not fair, because they're being held in February, and February is Black History Month. And unfortunately for Hillary, there's no White Bitch Month."
In what acceptable atmosphere is that funny?
This "joke" is offensive in two ways.
It first of all is just ignorantly misogynistic. That's obvious. I don't give a shit if Penn is a libertarian, scoring cheap laughs based on Clinton-Hate regurgitated from the 90's is just plain dirty, not to mention sloppy and pathetic. Believing this is somehow a joke not only belittles everything Clinton has accomplished--and I don't care WHO you support, she is NOT THE DEVIL and has accomplished a great deal we should laud her for--but it belittles women in general.
Secondly, it has racist undertones by mocking Black History Month. It treats it as little more than the set-up to a vague punchline, as something that can be mocked endlessly, dependent only upon how many races / orientations / sexes / whatevers you can come up with. It's a slap in the face of both women and blacks, and should be condemned by EVERYONE.
Please read the entire link I provided. I don't have the patience to separate the links and quotes, mostly because many of them are rife with idiotic Clinton Hate and crazed Dowd-Speak.
As Wolcott rightly postulates, if Michelle Obama gets too assertive, would Mr. Jillette freely make jokes about "Black Bitch Month"?
I would hope not, for his sake.
But frankly, fuck him and his "sake."
His joke should offend us all, and ALL of us should be eager to condemn him and the fact that he feels righteous for repeating such a base joke.