Comedian tells 'special needs' joke at Palin event

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September 3rd, 2011 04:07 PM EDT

And minutes before Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and parent of a child with Down syndrome, made her much-anticipated speech in Iowa, Los Angles-based comedian Eric Golub told a joke that compared liberal political ideology to “special needs children.”

After commending Palin on raising her son Trig while balancing other responsibilities, Golub made the analogy.
“For that reason alone, the left should worship Sarah Palin and adopt her as one of their own,” Golub said. “Because the leftist haters are an entire political ideology of special needs children.”
Golub continued by saying that liberals are needy and feel entitled.
“And unlike Trig, they aren't very lovable,” Golub said. “All you hear from them is give me, give me, I need, I need, I want, I deserve, I’m entitled – no you don’t.”


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/20 ... ?hpt=hp_t2

later edit here is the video of the joke:
http://caucuses.desmoinesregister.com/2 ... alins-son/

Last edited by sinsboldly on 04 Sep 2011, 3:28 am, edited 1 time in total.

I don't have any problem with people telling "special needs" jokes but what he said wasn't a joke, it was comparing leftist haters to special needs children. Not funny.

to me, the problem was not the politics it was the idea that special needs folks are demanding whiners that want more than what is their fair share!





edited to include he evidently thinks his audience agrees with him that special needs children are needy and feel entitled.

Last edited by sinsboldly on 04 Sep 2011, 3:53 am, edited 2 times in total.

Um, yeah, I did not think that "joke" was funny at all.

That wasn't a joke. That was a low life comment made by an ignorant loser.

I guess the next step will be criticizing babies for using the teat. "Those lazy babies should get jobs and buy their own milk! What a sense of entitlement they have!"

I also have a distaste for special needs jokes, because of all the people who needed help at the schools that I went to, all the special needs jokes were directed at me. Now, try to tell me that I'm too sensitive.

I didn't hear many people clapping in the video. Either his audience was small, or most of them didn't find what he said funny.

The only thing that was funny was the way that he kept chopping the air with his arm. I was completely distracted by that.

I didn't find it funny no. I find solution that then create less need problem solving. Insinuating give me give me I need so I must be given does not really help solutions but may create more problems. We are told we are entitled as people with substantial disabilities and whom have autism. That's to ease anxiety to create less worry. It does not make us selfish as if to expect something grandiose.

I do not get it, but mainly because I am from England and the American system of government is confusing at the best of times, even to those drafting up your laws :p

Also because American comedians are really not funny, like most of ours except for Eddie Izzard.

If this is the idea of a comedian, shouldn't that hallowed place by renamed The as*hole Club?

Eddie Izzard is English and funny, so I'm not sure what you mean

I mean most of our so called great comedians are still a throwback from the BBC compere acts of the 1950s when everything was light entertainment so they weren't allowed to say anything riskier than a joke about a duck going into a bar and having the drinks put on his bill.

At least with Eddie he has this completely rambling style and you never quite knowwhere the hell he is going with it, Ronnie Corbett] has not changed his style in 50 years...and even back then it was painfully scripted and boring.

You do not need to be offensive to be funny which is what a lot of the newer comedians seem to think...

Eddie Izzard is a god.

It's true; many new comedians are offensive. The old school way had more to do with self deprecation.

Hey, it's not our fault that we turned out this way!

OMG politicians and people related to that whole mess are so freaking mature.....they are worse then freaking highschoolers.

Here are my two smileys worth about that so-called joke: