« More of Me | Main | Emerging Democratic Majority » Sorry I Missed It29 Apr 2008 09:07 am I once again was not invited to the White House Correspondent's Dinner, and this recounting by Mike Scherer doesn't make it sound very interesting except this one part: As is tradition, the President stood to do a short stand-up act, which included the retelling of an old joke about Vice President Dick Cheney watching Bush through a peephole in the Oval Office door while masturbating. Such is the state of Washington humor. Um . . . really? That happened? And it's an old joke? Comments (24)
Excuse me while I bleach my brain. Eww. 
This must have been one of those Principals meetings, I suppose. http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/LawPolitics/story?id=4583256&page=1
Looked like he was peeing. Scherer couldn't even get the joke right?
It's more likely that Shooter was urinating. He has, after all, been pissing in our faces for almost eight years.
Looked like he was peeing. Scherer couldn't even get the joke right? And do you believe the guy got his start at Mother Jones?
Oh that is foul. I remember this now, unfortunately. Can we please make the joke that he was peeing? PEEING, you hear me? Emphatically and unequivocally peeing.
Let's hope a President Obama or McCain has the courage not to attend this thing. I find the press yukking it up with the president to be very disturbing. (Actually, I think it's more on the press to stop this event.)
Can someone explain to me what is funny about this joke? Is it a play on the saying that the vice presidency "isn't worth a bucket of warm piss" ? The worst thing about Beltway humor is that it isn't actually funny. It's vaguely uncomfortable, like listening to your father attempt to quote from a recent teen movie. You can tell he's trying to be funny, but in fact it makes everyone just feel kind of awkward.
Oh man, now Abu Ghraib makes sense.
That's a disgraceful libel on the Vice President. Everybody knows he's a real man and thus only masturbates while looking through peepholes into torture chambers.
White House = Animal House -- except dumber.
Dude, you don't need to be invited, just dress up and walk in. Sure, you won't get to go to the dinner itself, but the bars are open for three hours beforehand.
I assumed the joke was that VPs are so hard-on for power that looking into the Oval Office is enough to make them tumescent.
Isn't this basically a reference to Psycho, when Norman Bates is spying on Marion Crane?
What would have made it more funny and relevant, is instead of Dick Cheney masturbating to George Bush, you have David Gregory masturbating while watching Karl Rove. Or, Chris Matthews masturbating to John McCain.
I so did not need to learn that. Especially considering the amount of foot-tapping we've seen among Republicans, and the rather dubious triangle of Laura, Bush, and Rove. Call me old fashioned, but I yearn for the days when JFK lusted for MM.
"Dick Cheney watching Bush through a peephole .. while masturbating" This description makes it hard to determine who was masturbating. Thanks for clearing it up in the comments. I guess.
The exact line was "Dick, I hope you're not doing what I think you're doing."
THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!
Well, at the dinner three years ago, Laura did make a joke about George masturbating a horse. "I saw my in-laws down at the ranch over Easter. We like it down there. George didn't know much about ranches when we bought the place. Andover and Yale don't have a real strong ranching program. But I'm proud of George. He's learned a lot about ranching since that first year when he tried to milk the horse. What's worse, it was a male horse." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ3HIozYPJs I think she thought the joke was merely that a male horse has no udders.
Reminds me of the story going around after the Kennedy assassination about Lyndon Johnson allegedly screwing the open wound in Kennedy's head on the plane back from Dallas. I believe somebody did say they saw Johnson laughing over Kennedy's body. Not hard to believe it which is the important thing about such jokes.
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Bush was showing a series of pictures of people (Andy Card, Karl Rove, Condi Rice, other West Wing types) looking into a peephole in the door of the Oval Office. The last was Cheney, who seemed to have his hands in front of him. I actually thought it looked more like he was urinating than masturbating, but, heck, what do I know? I'm a girl.
Posted by THS | April 29, 2008 9:30 AM