Not really OT:

I’m willing to bet THIS isn’t the type of sense of humor it was suggested that the Republican Party grow.

A gorilla escaped his enclosure Friday, June 12, 2009, at the Riverbanks Zoo and Garden, in Columbia, South Carolina. The ape injured a worker before returning to his holding area on his own about five minutes later.

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Unfortunately, some politicians should not mix current events with politics.

Trey Walker, South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster’s advisor, posted a news update on his Facebook site about the escape. Then, a longtime South Carolina Republican activist and former State Senate candidate Rusty DePass left, at Walker’s Facebook site, this comment about the escaped gorilla: “I’m sure it’s just one of Michelle’s ancestors — probably harmless.”

Oy.

}:)     [But taking into account that we are all related to the gorilla, it passes the Letterman Test.]