Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO), who is running for U.S. Senate in 2010, spoke at the Values Voter Summit on Friday night. He came on after Carry Prejean, the lady who got fired from being Miss California.
Roy began his speech with a hilarious joke about monkeys.
Or was it a racist slam of President Obama?
When you hear the audio and listen to the crowd's reaction to Roy's monkey joke, you'll see that they think there's something going on, too. The laugh spreads as more of them get the joke. Evidently it seems daring to them. Roy is just so naughty!
And later Roy actually seems to admit that he told the joke to show he won't be intimidated by being called a racist. Just wow, Roy.
I'm glad someone had a microphone there for this macaca moment. Audio over the fold.
Blunt's joke starts as a story about British colonists in India, who build a golf course next to a jungle -- a hilarious jungle that just happens to be filled with pesky monkeys! And here comes the punchline, in Blunt's own words:
Almost from the day the first ball was hit on this golf course something happened they didn't anticipate: monkeys would come running out of the jungle and then grab the golf balls.
(pause for chuckles)
And if it was in the fairway, they might throw it in the rough. And if it was in the rough, they might throw it -- they might throw it back at you!
(pause for mild laughs)
And I can point to great and long detail about how many things they tried to eliminate the monkey problem, but they never got it done.
So finally for this golf course and this golf course only, they passed a rule and the rule was, you have to play the ball where the monkey throws it.
(pause for laughs)
And that is the rule in Washington all the time.
(pause for huge laughs)
Here's the link to the audio, so you can hear it happen:
Roy Blunt's hilarious macaca moment
Here's the quote of Roy concluding his remarks at the Value Voters Summit, where he tells the crowd not to be intimidated by accusations of racism, and then refers back to his monkey joke:
""Don't be intimidated out of this fight. President Carter said if you disagree with this president, it's somehow fundamentally racist in nature... That's not what this is about. And we can't be intimidated into believing that that's what this is about... You do have to play the ball where it's thrown in this case."
Please don't let Roy Blunt get elected to the Senate. The Democrat running against him, Robin Carnahan, seems strong but could use your help.
More facts about Blunt, the former Majority Whip under Tom DeLay:
- He is supposed to be writing the Republican proposal for healthcare reform. So far, he hasn't come up with anything.
- When discussing healthcare reform recently with two Missouri newspapers, Blunt was caught in big, stupid lies. First he claimed that in Canada, people his age (59) can't have hip-replacement surgery. Actually, two-thirds of Canadians who have this operation are over age 65. When reporters at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch researched this and asked Blunt about his mistake, he lied to cover up his lie, claiming he was just repeating something he heard during his committee's hearings on healthcare reform. Actually, transcripts of the hearings showed no testimony saying anything like that, and records show Blunt didn't attend most of the hearings, anyway.
- Blunt regularly criticizes the whole idea of government having anything to do with healthcare. But when he personally needed kidney surgery in 2002 and prostate surgery in 2003, he had the operations at Bethesda U.S. Naval Hospital -- a government-owned, government-run healthcare system. OMG, he's lucky they didn't death-panel him!
- Actually, he gave interviews after his prostate surgery saying he had the very best care at Bethesda.
- Also, he urged everyone to see their doctor early and often, so they could beat cancer like him. Kind of hard to see a doctor like that unless you have health insurance, right?
- After he got to Washington, he divorced his wife and married a tobacco lobbyist. Seriously, he did.
UPDATE: In case you want to judge Roy Blunt by the company he keeps: It was just announced this (Saturday) morning that Blunt will introduce Rep. Joe "You Lie" Wilson at a gathering of ultra-conservative Republicans in Blunt's hometown, Springfield, Missouri. Blunt and Wilson will speak Oct. 3 to the Missouri Republican Assembly, a group that describes itself as the "Republican wing of the Republican Party."
From the news story in this morning's Springfield News-Leader:
U.S. Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Springfield, will introduce Wilson, who has been described as a protégé of Blunt's since being elected in 2000 to represent the 2nd District in south-central South Carolina...
Wilson will be followed by Fox News commentator and conservative author Dick Morris, who will sign copies of his latest book, "Catastrophe," afterwards.
Second update, suggested by commenters: Here's the link to donate to Robin Carnahan on ActBlue:
Donate to Robin Carnahan's campaign against Blunt