Ralph Nader Ridicule Roundup
Thursday February 28, 2008
As Ralph Nader prepares to embark on another embarrassing, ill-fated bid for the presidency, the ridicule is flying fast and furious:
"Oh, I love Ralph. You know, you can't get rid of him. Every election year he pops up. He's like the herpes of presidential candidates." --Jay Leno
"Ralph Nader announced he's running for president again. Immediately after the announcement, the guy sitting next to Nader on the park bench told him to shut up." --Conan O'Brien
"No, Nader says his reason for running is that he spent over 40 years as a consumer advocate. I think after 40 years of studying consumers' wants and needs, he'd realize consumers don't want or need him now." --Jay Leno
"Nader says he's running for president again because the Democrats did not stop President Bush on the war in Iraq and on the tax cuts. Stop him? If Nader hadn't run, there wouldn't have been a President Bush." --Jay Leno
"Ralph Nader announced he is running for president again. His announcement has filled millions of people with excitement and hope. And these people are called Republicans." --Craig Ferguson
David Letterman: Ralph Nader Looks Like...
After mercilessly mocking Mitt Romney and John McCain with his patented series of "he-looks-like" jokes, David Letterman is now lampooning Ralph Nader with equally unrestrained glee:
"How about that Ralph Nader, ladies and gentlemen. He looks like the night manager of a creepy motel, doesn't he? ... He looks like a guy whose compound would be raided by ATF agents. ... This guy looks like a guy out of UFO documentary. ... He looks like a guy at a gas station who gives you bad directions." --David Letterman
"Have you seen Ralph Nader? He looks like a guy that says we have proof we never went to the moon. Ralph looks like a shady horse track doctor." --David Letterman
"Ralph Nader, doesn't he look like the cranky guy at a hearing on the new traffic light? He looks like the guy who can't find his table after he goes to the salad bar." --David Letterman
"I like Ralph Nader. He looks like a guy who comes into town once a year for supplies. ... He looks like a guy you would see sitting on his front porch watching for out-of-state plates. ... Ralph Nader looks like a postal worker who doesn't know whether to retire or start shooting." --David Letterman
Watch video of Letterman riffing on both Nader and McCain (beginning at the 48-second mark).
See also:
Ralph Nader Political Cartoons
Late-Night Political Jokes
32 Short Thoughts About Ralph Nader (Will Durst)
Dickipedia: Ralph Nader (23/6)
Top Ten Ralph Nader Campaign Promises (Letterman)
Ralph Nader's Thought Process Flowchart (23/6)
Nader Announces Plan to Wreck Election (Borowitz Report)
Comments
Dave always has great political humor!
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Gravel Kucinich Paul Nader;
dare speak truth,
demand peace.
Honesty compassion intelligence guts -
It’s so unfortunate that these comedians are buying into the undemocratic system we have where we–for some reason–take pride in excluding those voices on the far right and left that we do not like. Or who dare speak against the two party system. Where is our protection?
(And Jay Leno doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about if he thinks Ralph Nader is the only reason we have George Bush. Ralph Nader won those votes fairly, whereas the Republicans stole them. Put the blame where it needs to be.)