EPIC FAIL: If You Have to Explain a Joke, It’s Not Funny
Plenty of politicians’ jokes fall flat, but when the joke involves Adolf Hitler and the candidate at the butt of it is Jewish, it probably wasn’t a good idea to begin with.
Former Sen. Carol Moseley Braun (D-Ill.) learned that the hard way on Sunday, when she said that one of her opponents in the Chicago mayoral race, former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, might be best described by a line from Mel Brooks’s “The Producers.”
“I was not comparing him to Adolf Hitler — print that,” Braun said in a Monday interview with Chicago’s Fox affiliate. “I was trying to say … the kind, gentle concern for the public that is being portrayed in these ads does not square with the record.”