Rosanne Cash to John Boehner: Stop Using My Dad's Name as a Punchline, You Asshat.'
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[release]Republican House minority leader John Boehner has been using a dumb--trust me, really dumb--line involving Johnny Cash in some recent speeches. Cash's daughter Roseanne doesn't think much of that. And she let Boehner know, by calling him "asshat."
I bet Boehner's speechwriters all gave each other high fives when they thought of this line:
[quote] Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash.[/quote]
And, well, yes, it is a very stupid line, even by stump-speech standards, but it's pretty successful at ignoring any kind of socio-historico-cultural accuracy (I mean, Johnny Cash, a Reagan-era cultural touchstone?) in favor of connecting three vaguely iconic Americans in some kind of nostalgia wonderland as though they really had anything to do with each other, like the rhetorical equivalent of those airbrushed t-shirts where Kurt Cobain is jamming out with Jimi Hendrix and Miles Davis is there or something.
Anyway, instead of high-fiving each other, they might have wondered what Cash's outspoken daughter, singer and author Roseanne, would say. Turns out, she called him an "asshat":
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"Asshat"! Well, it's not an unfair description of Boehner. Now, see if you can put together a stump speech line constructed the same as Boehner's, but using the minority leader's name, to mean an erection.[/release]
Amusingly, Johnny Cash never voted for Reagan, He was a democrat
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Heh. Boehner.
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Punch a Boehner
If my last name was Boehner I wouldn't be using other people's last names in my ads, especially if they're not happy about it.
made me smile
Now why would anyone be mad at Boehner?
I mean his name alone is worthy of dozens of punchlines.
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Would you guys Boehner?
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Would you guys Boehner?[/QUOTE]
More like Cumnher?
Plus Johnny cash was bad ass till he started to write these sappy bullshit songs... well he was a fraud from day one. He only had one crime in his life, drunk in public which was pardoned like 5 years after he died lol
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Would you guys Boehner?[/QUOTE]
joan jett? Fuck yes.
Boehner has more cash than probably anyone else in Congress. I'd be pissed if I was Roseanne Cash too.
[editline]3rd November 2010[/editline]
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