August 12, 2008
CFO Natwar Gandhi Victim of Bad Joke
David Nakamura caught Slate XX Factor blogger Melinda Henneberger making a lame, nearly inscrutable joke at the expense of D.C. CFO Natwar Gandhi. The context, of all things, is the John Edwards affair scandal. Apparently Rielle Hunter made some comment to a reporter once that she thought Edwards has the potential to be a "transformational leader" on par with Martin Luther King and that other Gandhi. So Henneberger drops in a dreadful joke her husband apparently made playing the name game with Natwar Gandhi. She also misspells "Gandhi" both times. Whatever innuendo Gandhi might deserve for the Office of Tax and Revenue debacle, we'd be pretty hard pressed to find a way to bring him in to the Edwards saga.
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So now we're reporting stupid arcane jokes about DC bureacrats? Okay, how's this?
Q: How do you get a one-armed baby out of a tree?
A: Have Marion Barry wave and then eat the infant in one bite with mambo sauce, salt, pepper, and ketchup.
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Yeah, I saw that. I don't think she could pin this on her husband. She was just saying what she thought he'd say if compared to "Ghandi".
Either she's a huge dork. Or she thinks her husband is a huge dork, which would make her a dork-lover.
I'm not sure what's worse.
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Hold on, time-out.
Catch me up on the "Marion Barry = cannibal" reference. Where does that come from?
Okay, time-in.
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Just Google "Marion Barry" and "unrepentant baby raping cannibal."
If you DARE.e
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DCist Readers Victim of Uninteresting Story
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Monkey, are you sure you're not confusing Marion Barry with Idi Amin? Understandable confusion, to be sure.
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[snore.]
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Interesting... Not the story, but Monkey's google, which comes back to this page (I know, predictablely) but now it's so meta, it's like a snake eating its own tale. AND, inside that snake? A baby eating cannibal... Awesome.
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Like, who cares?