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Washington Journalists Forced To Answer Terrible Wonkette Question, For Comedy

Zexy-timez!Did you attend the funny comedy event on Friday at the National Press Club, at which many Washington news media elitists performed “stand-up comedy,” for charity? As part of this embarrassing spectacle, the participating DC journalists were forced to answer a question submitted by your Wonkette. And the answers were fairly entertaining, except for the reply from the middle-aged white fellow who was supposed to be in prison with Judith Miller.

The event was Commedia dell Media, a benefit for Reporters Without Borders. It was, we imagine, a great success! Here’s what we asked:

Q: It has been a very historic year so far, as far as history, and the breaking of barriers. We’d like to know how you personally solved racism.

“I persuaded my family that in the future all of our pets will be pandas. (Black, white and Asian!)” — Mark Hosenball, Newsweek

“I put superglue on a sandwich and gave it to Al Sharpton.” — David Corn, Mother Jones

“I now eat both sides of a black-and-white cookie instead of just the white part.” — Scott Lanman, Bloomberg

“I gently reminded the world — or the walls in my home office — that there are other categories besides color by which to class people, such as whether one is Danish, one’s propensity to live between parallel universes, and the fact that some of us would prefer to inhabit a world that didn’t discriminate against the square root of minus one.” — Delphine Schrank, Washington Post

“I didn’t do shit.” — Shaun Waterman, UPI

“You know those black-bottom cupcakes they used to sell at Starbucks? Well, who do you think got rid of them? I launched the lobbying group for black-and-white-bottom cupcakes or nothing at all.” — Anna Mulrine, US News & World Report

“I gave birth to a multi-racial baby who’s so cute looking at him makes everyone love everyone else in the world.” — Jamila Bey, radio producer

“I decided to go beyond the usual efforts to ban names like the Redskins and Indians. Instead I focused on our fixation on the White majority. So now the Chicago White Sox, are simply the Chicago Sox. The White House is the House. The white pages is now the pages …. Unfortunately that has caused confusion in Congress. Lawmakers have gobbled up all the phone books, because when they aren’t passing legislation, they are busy picking up pages.” — Mike Walter, WUSA

“I reveled in the diversity of writers at Wonkette.” — Matt Cooper, ex-TIME reporter/Karl Rove lackey


1:25 PM on Tue April 7 2009
By Ken Layne
10527 Views

  1. Dientes says at 1:30 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Its’ Carrot Cock!

  2. Texan Bulldoggette says at 1:30 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Uhhhh…why is Shep Smith wearing make-up & a red wig?

  3. masterdebater says at 1:31 pm, April 7th, 2009

    I see they still are not calling on Helen Thomas. It’s their own fault no one could bring the funny!

  4. Tommmcatt says at 1:31 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Steroids are magic.

  5. randomsausage says at 1:32 pm, April 7th, 2009

    that photo is more disturbing than Goatsee

  6. Keram2 says at 1:33 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Mike Walter FTW!

  7. Gorillionaire says at 1:34 pm, April 7th, 2009

    “I did a cameo appearance in Lex The Impaler Volume 105″.
    -Dana Perino

  8. Dientes says at 1:36 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Dientes: Apostrophes be damned! It is only ellipsis from now on…

  9. Zbigniew Chrysler says at 1:36 pm, April 7th, 2009

    How funny would you be if you were married to Mandy Grunwald?

  10. ah pook says at 1:36 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Doesn’t having a ginger associate editor count as diversity? Fuck Matt Cooper.

  11. Sussemilch says at 1:38 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Is that Carrot Top? That can’t be Carrot Top. Please tell me my eyes are lying. Oh God, so scared

  12. OH NOES, IT’S TRUE! WONKETTE’S NOT DIVERSE! *panic*

  13. shanemacgowan says at 1:38 pm, April 7th, 2009
  14. norbizness says at 1:39 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Between this and the fat-car picture, I’m going to have to dump my cache and then pour Clorox all over my fucking computer.

  15. But wait! There’s Malaka…

  16. SayItWithWookies says at 1:41 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Keram2: All that “Are they gonna rename the White House” nonsense that went on after Obama was elected really bugged me. As such I’m going to stick with the original name, just the way the founding fathers intended. The rednecks can have their racist slurs if they want, but to me it’ll always have a name that maintains the dignity of that high office: The Wizzle Hizzle.

  17. norbizness:

    Let’s not exclude this gem from yesterday

    http://wonkette.com/407580/north-korean-media-is-hilarious

  18. jagorev says at 1:43 pm, April 7th, 2009

    TGY: Wait, no, they have this intern called “Malaka Gharib” who’s probably from the same country as Barack Obama, and “Juli Weiner” sounds kind of Jewish. Plus Jim Newell has orange hair, and I think it’s great they gave him a job in spite of that.

  19. DustBowlBlues says at 1:45 pm, April 7th, 2009

    What this proves, above all else, is that it is a crime against free speech and the Constitution of this great country that Ken Layne doesn’t have a White House press pass.

    WTF? Who better to throw the occasional slider at Gibbs? (I would have said curveball, but the not-intelligent intelligence guys screwed up that term.) And in the prez’s prime time press conferences, think of the ratings! Esp. if the pass goes to Sara, rather than Ken. I hear she’s darn cute.

  20. Origami says at 1:46 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Let’s see: a ginger, a lady and a desert-dwelling bearded fellow who wears sunglasses. Sounds diverse enough to me!

    But, hey! The Bush administration was “diverse”! And look at all the great things they did for minorities!

  21. DustBowlBlues says at 1:47 pm, April 7th, 2009

    And what I did, personally, to end racism was get my daughter and her husband to move to OK, which doubled the number of liberals in the Dust Bowl.

  22. magic titty says at 1:47 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Gorillionaire: That was no cameo.

  23. jagorev: That’s true! There should be some kind of ‘diversity tally’ to combat this base canard.

  24. Origami: There’s some debate as to whether Alfredo Gonzales was even human. A diversity mega-win!

  25. DustBowlBlues says at 1:54 pm, April 7th, 2009

    jagorev: And don’t forget that orange hair Jim is only 16 years old, or thereabouts, so “our” wonkette features great age diversity, since Ken must be 65 or 70, judging by his photo.

  26. TestRat1 says at 1:56 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Only testing white mice today.

  27. shortsshortsshorts says at 1:57 pm, April 7th, 2009

    WHATEVER WONKETTE. YOU DIDN’T MAKE THEM ANSWER THE HARD QUESTIONS. THEY WERE PROMPTED, LIKE A TELEPROMPTER. WHY DO LIBERALS LOVE THOSE DAMN THINGS SO MUCH. SCREAM!111!ONE!!!1

  28. sevenrepeat says at 1:59 pm, April 7th, 2009

    this picture hurts my feelings. it appears that he’s naked. pics like this are helping me turn hetero.

  29. Paterlanger says at 1:59 pm, April 7th, 2009

    So I’m assuming that rather than simply answer your funny question, journalist Jeff Gannon handed you this picture of a troll that he is currently “managing”.

  30. doxastic says at 2:01 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Everyone knows that you can’t go solving the world’s problems until you have gotten your own house in order. Me, I’ve been focused on thinking about how awesome it is that I am solving racism. I mean really thinking about it. It’s hard sometimes, congratulating yourself for being high minded every single day. But when I think about giving up and actually DOING something to combat racism, I just shake myself and say “Hey now. Your work is important. If you stop thinking about how awesome you are–being all nonracist 24 hours a day–how will that little black boy or girl ever climb to hitherto unimaginable heights and then thank you, personally and publicly, for making that possible? Besides, it’s definitely better than whatever the fuck everyone else is doing.”

    You’re welcome.

  31. Doglessliberal says at 2:02 pm, April 7th, 2009

    TGY: Jim, as a redhead, counts as a minority.

  32. freakishlystrong says at 2:03 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Alt Text: Comedy isn’t pretty JEBUS Ken! That Picture!11
    Comedy is not funny neither.

  33. Doglessliberal says at 2:04 pm, April 7th, 2009

    DustBowlBlues: and Ken is far, far better informed about actual news than say, Jake Tapper or idiot reporters who ask about teleprompters.

  34. Uncle Glenny says at 2:06 pm, April 7th, 2009

    So, Ken, this picture is of Jim when he gets angry and isn’t able to sublimate it by writing for Wonkette?

  35. jinxykb says at 2:07 pm, April 7th, 2009

    In the words of the Fug Girls, “Think, Pants!”

  36. DemmeFatale says at 2:07 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Doglessliberal: And I suspect that Layne, (in the right light), is a closet ginger.

  37. Gopherit says at 2:09 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Carrot Top naked. The terrorists have won.

  38. Gopherit says at 2:10 pm, April 7th, 2009

    and, god help us all, it looks like he waxes.

  39. That image is very disturbing. I wish you’d have chosen something else. I realize that it’s a shameful part of American history that we should never forget, but it’s too much.

    Sorry; someone had to say it.

  40. sevenrepeat says at 2:16 pm, April 7th, 2009

    his nipples are the same color as his skin. i’ve only seen that on my ken doll.

  41. Tommmcatt says at 2:16 pm, April 7th, 2009

    sevenrepeat:

    THat picture hurts more than my feelings.

  42. OK who photoshopped Carrot Top’s head onto Dave Batista’s body?

  43. tunamelt says at 2:22 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Gingers are people, too. Kind of.

  44. Gopherit says at 2:25 pm, April 7th, 2009

    tunamelt: You don’t really mean that. Especially not about Carrot Top. You would not hit that.

  45. bitchincamaro says at 2:27 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Oh, oh. Looks like Ken’s hard-on is back on.

  46. Tommy Says Soooo, Jugdish! says at 2:30 pm, April 7th, 2009

    This pic reminds me that there is a reason for glory holes.

  47. lawrenceofthedesert says at 2:34 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Prop comics must lift, their Sisyphean curse; but this may be a steroid too far.

  48. you sure that isn’t Raggedy Andy?

  49. JadedDIssonance says at 2:47 pm, April 7th, 2009

    TGY: plus we’ve never really seen a picture of these “interns…”

  50. NoWireHangers says at 2:57 pm, April 7th, 2009

    But Ken, the last time journalists made a funny you turned into the Hulk. What gives? These are much worse.

  51. carameltoe says at 3:00 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Ha, where are all the requests for a blingee contest now?! Cowards.

  52. cranky says at 3:03 pm, April 7th, 2009

    no no no no no no

  53. carameltoe: Don’t worry, Atheist Nun will make one anyway.

  54. Sarah Palin (vp@whitehouse.gov) says at 3:32 pm, April 7th, 2009

    I’ve never seen Carrot-Top with his shirt off… also.

    -SP

  55. Prommie says at 3:34 pm, April 7th, 2009

    That photo is more disturbing than two girls, one cup. Which is no longer a cool reference, because they have been saying it on The Daily Show lately. Over-using, really, which is so lame.

  56. Deepthroat says at 3:37 pm, April 7th, 2009

    I’m going to ignore the carrot top picture and just say that i quite enjoyed Delphine’s answer… but then i tend to go for the absurd and random.

  57. Scandinavian Fetus says at 4:42 pm, April 7th, 2009

    I am less turned-on by this than the earlier Kim-Jong Il photo.

    I know that Carrot Top doesn’t smell like Kim Chee…but that is how I like it.

  58. imissopus says at 6:55 pm, April 7th, 2009

    Why is Wonkette trying to blind all its readers? Is there some sort of special Braille edition launching in the near future?

  59. slinkimalinki says at 10:24 pm, April 7th, 2009

    jinxykb: actually, they’d probably say “think pants!”, because there are no pants in that pic to be urged to think.

  60. Cranky Old Batt says at 11:38 pm, April 7th, 2009

    eyes…bleeding…from….picture…oh lord the horror!!!1!
    I thought normal guys with wide ole office butts and beer guts were a turn-off.
    After seeing this, I may never have sex again. ever.

  61. Scandinavian Fetus says at 7:12 am, April 8th, 2009

    Just when I thought that I had worked through my visor fetish…

  62. what tha? says at 12:15 pm, April 8th, 2009

    He looks a lot like a Tiny Tears doll- only without the veins.

  63. ass master says at 3:34 am, April 9th, 2009

    CARROT TOP IS A BIG OLE BOTTOM RAN INTO HIM IN A GAY BAR IN LA ONE NITE HE LIKES TAKEN IT UP THE ASS AND BOY DOES HE KNOW HOW TO HANDLE A BIG COCK

  64. smellyal8r says at 1:31 pm, April 9th, 2009

    ass master: From this pic though, I wonder if he’s wearing any carrot bottoms? Hmmm…he is kinda foxy, in his own odd way.

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