"Rape Ape:" At Least McCain Has a Sense of Humor!...wait

Mocking Obama is tough business, so says Maureen Dowd this morning in the NY Times and so say his staunch reporters whose silence in the Daily Show audience once prompted host John Stewart to counsel, "It's okay to laugh at him, you know." Humor is a universal access point -- a great equalizer that should be embraced. Why, just ask Senator John McCain who thought he would warm up the crowd at the National League of Cities and Towns in Washington D.C with this zinger:

"Have you heard the one about woman who is attacked on the street by a gorilla, beaten senseless, raped repeatedly and left to die? [senile chuckle] When she finally regains consciousness and tries to speak, her doctor leans over to hear her sigh contently and to feebly ask, 'Where is that marvelous ape?'"

[crickets]

If you're going to offend an entire crowd of potential supporters with a joke, at least make it funny -- remember the one you told back at GOP fund raiser in 1998?

"Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno!"

The joke was actually a dig at Hillary Clinton for being a lesbian (a popular rumor to spread about any woman in a power position) and the fact he made it 10 years ago is the only thing that makes think the story of this new joke (via HuffPo) is true.

I can't wait until it gets closer to the election and he busts out his A material...