Kerry's lame attempt at a joke is just too good to pass up.
[Reporter: "Do you need to go to joke school?"
Kerry: "Sure."
quoted verbatim from the good senator's very own blog]
the seventy-fifth episode of ventriloquy deconstructs both his verbatim and planned punchlines, and asks just where John Kerry stands on education.
in this 4.2 MB download, i also consider the implications of the fiasco on two other groups of stakeholders in education, and introduce a fun game - with a deadly serious message - in the process :-)
also, please do check out Billy Tan's post today on yet more anachronisms and bogeymen.
Show notes:
- Kerry's 31 October entry on his blog (with transcript of his post-'joke' press conference)
- CNN article (for attribution of Kerry's originally-intended 'joke')
- Canadian Online Explorer 1 November article 'Kerry's gaffe shows need for self-editing in an instant video age'
- UNICEF 'ungefanyaje?' ['what would you do?']
