Political Joke: Palin meets with the Pope

[Aranince]

This is a funny joke I found.

Sarah Palin is invited to meet with the Pope while he is vacationing south of Rome in Venice.

The liberal press reluctantly watches the semi-private audience, hoping they will be able to get minimal coverage, if any.

The Pope asks Governor Palin to join him on a gondola ride through the canals of Venice.

They're admiring the sights and agreeing on moral issues when, all of a sudden, the Pope's hat (zucchetto) blows off his head and out into the water.

The gondolier starts to reach for the Pontiff's cap with his pole, but this move threatens to overturn the floating craft. Sarah waves the tour guide off, saying, 'Wait, wait. I'll take care of this. Don't worry.'

She steps off the gondola onto the surface of the water and walks out to the Pope's hat, bends over and picks it up. She walks back across the water to the gondola and steps aboard.

She hands the hat to the Pope amid stunned silence.

The next morning the topic of conversation on the Daily Kos, CBS News, NBC News, ABC News, CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, among Hollywood celebrities, and in France and Germany is:

"Palin Can't Swim."

[skunk]

At a guess, I'd venture that you don't have the slightest idea where Venice is. Your knowledge of Europe seems to consist entirely of inappropriate caricatures.

[t0mat0]

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Nearest thing to funny I can think for this attempt at a joke is a link to Monty Python:

"Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony..."

[Aranince]

At a guess, I'd venture that you don't have the slightest idea where Venice is. Your knowledge of Europe seems to consist entirely of inappropriate caricatures.

This post reflects the joke.

[aethelbert]

At a guess, I'd venture that you don't have the slightest idea where Venice is. Your knowledge of Europe seems to consist entirely of inappropriate caricatures.
Phew! I was starting to question my geographic knowledge.

[Peace]

You do know that right-wing evangelical churches ( the kind Palin belongs to ) believe the Pope is the Anti-Christ don't you ? ;)

So I'm guessing Palin is "pallin' around with Satan"

[arkitect]

Old joke… many variations through the years.

And Venice… south of Rome?
Jeeeeeezus.
:rolleyes:

[abijnk]

It is a cute joke, however geographically and religiously inaccurate.

[Aranince]

You do know that right-wing evangelical churches ( the kind Palin belongs to ) believe the Pope is the Anti-Christ don't you ? ;)

So I'm guessing Palin is "pallin' around with Satan"

I've never herd of that. I nor anyone I associate with believe he is the Anti-Christ.

[.Andy]

The punchline is the liberal media.

[skunk]

Even the Pope is not a biblical literalist, so he would probably disagree with the Alaskan woman right there.
Scripture requires exegesis, and it requires the context of the community in which it came to birth and in which it is lived. This is where its unity is to be found, and here too its unifying meaning is opened up. … It perceives in the words the Word, the ‘Logos’ itself, which spreads its mystery through this multiplicity. This particular structure of the Bible issues a constantly new challenge to every generation. It excludes by its nature everything that today is known as fundamentalism.
In effect the word of God can never simply be equated with the letter of the text. To attain to it involves a transcending and a process of understanding, led by the inner movement of the whole and hence it also has to become a process of living. Only within the dynamic unity of the whole are the many books one book. God’s word and action in the world are only revealed in the word and history of human beings.
The transcending of the letter and understanding it solely from the perspective of the whole is forcefully expressed by St. Paul with the phrase: ‘the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.‘ But the liberating Spirit is not simply… the exegete’s own vision. The Spirit is Christ … Who shows us the way. With the word of Spirit and of freedom, a further horizon opens up, but at the same time a clear limit is placed upon arbitrariness and subjectivity, which unequivocally binds both the individual and the community and brings about a new, higher obligation than that of the letter: namely, the obligation of insight and love.

[iShater]

It is still funny :P

I am sure you can get the characters changed the other way around and it will have the same effect.

Lighten up y'all.

[ucfgrad93]

I liked it Aranince.

[iShater]

I wonder what would Fox News say :p

[BoyBach]

:D

A little rewrite and fact checking and you'll have a great little joke that can be amended for every occasion.

[arkitect]

:D

A little rewrite and fact checking and you'll have a great little joke that can be amended for every occasion.

This is a variant of an old joke.

I first heard the joke back in the early 1980s
Then it was Gorbachev and Reagan sharing a boat;
Later Thatcher and Archbishop Tutu…
Now the Inquisitor Generalis aka Benedict XVI and Palin…

Plus ça change and all that.

[chrmjenkins]

It's time to get serious.

Palin endorses Obama.

Don't believe me?

Proof:

http://craigblonde.com/Pictures/launchingpig-e35.jpg

[iShater]

It's time to get serious.

Palin endorses Obama.

Don't believe me?

Proof:

http://craigblonde.com/Pictures/launchingpig-e35.jpg

Ha! Took me a second to get it. Nice. :D

[rdowns]

Ha! Took me a second to get it. Nice. :D

I don't get it.

[arkitect]

I don't get it.

Pigs might fly…

[mkrishnan]

I don't get it.

You mean the Pope's hats, right? Cuz, erm, I don't get them either. :o Except that I'm increasingly sure he's a Cylon.

[BoyBach]

This is a variant of an old joke...


I guess I'm smarter than I thought... or maybe not! :D :p :o

[Anuba]

Awww, yeah she gets such unfair treatment, the poor girl.

But you see, it has little to do with bias or sexism. Nobody would've called Hillary incompetent, airhead, bimbo, diva, inarticulate or uneducated because she is none of those things.

Unbiased sources like CNN don't go after Palin because she's a republican, but because she's an idiot and a gaffe machine who first refused to give any interviews, and later gave one disastrous interview after another (can't name newspapers, can't name supreme court cases, doesn't know what the VP does etc etc etc), and she's been part of a god awful, amateurish campaign that does everything wrong. If Obama had picked Courtney Love as his running mate, CNN would be mocking the Obama ticket.

[Peace]

I've never herd of that. I nor anyone I associate with believe he is the Anti-Christ.

http://www.pacinst.com/antichri.htm

http://www.be-ready.org/pope.html

http://www.presenttruthmag.com/archive/XIV/14-6.htm


http://www.independentconservative.com/2008/04/16/antichrist-pope-in-america-1/


That's just a few..

[Thomas Veil]

This story has been around forever. While it doesn't completely ruin the joke, every version has been cribbed, with some embellishment, from Lyndon B. Johnson (http://thinkexist.com/quotes/lyndon_b._johnson/):

“If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim”

[Queso]

Bearing in mind how dirty the water in Venice is most of the year I'd be more surprised if she sank.

BTW, Rome is south-west of Venice, unless of course Venice has floated down the Adriatic coast since my last visit.

[iJohnHenry]

At a guess, I'd venture that you don't have the slightest idea where Venice is. Your knowledge of Europe seems to consist entirely of inappropriate caricatures.

Having been to both, I had the same reaction.

What, they moved it???

[ingenious]

I liked it Aranince.

me, too.