Nixon — Great Foil For Jokes
Jonathan Rowe on Aug 9th 2008
Today is August 9 and my Dad tells me it has some special anniversary for the Nixon Presidency. My Dad — an old New Deal/Great Society Democrat — disdained Nixon. We kids, my two brothers and I objected to a “Mother’s Day,” a “Father’s Day,” but no “Kid’s Day,” so we created one. And my Dad choose August 8th or 9th, I can’t remember, because of the Nixon anniversary.
Me — I object to the Nixon Presidency chiefly for how he meddled with free market economics and I think he makes a great foil for jokes and imitations like Howard Stern’s [Fred Norris does a great impression], The Simpson’s and Dan Aykroyd’s.
Since I’ve blogged about The Bohemian Grove conspiracy nonsense before, what follows is a funny clip from the Nixon tapes talking about San Fransisco, the Bohemian Grove, and Nixon’s distaste for the “god damned faggy” environments of such.
Filed in The Basement, The Bistro, The Bureau