Daily Gut: Betsy Perry’s Mexico
by Greg GutfeldSo a marketing consultant who works for Mayor Bloomberg just resigned after getting into hot water over some stale jokes she made about Mexico at the Huffington Post.
Now, to be clear: the jokes that Betsy Perry made in the post were about Mexico. Not Mexicans.
There is a difference, people.
The jokes included a bit about “drinking the water,” a line about as old as Montezuma, and his revenge. She also brought up the drug gang problems, as well as the kidnappings and, of course, the swine flu. Now, the stuff she said about all this was neither particularly insightful or funny – but the last time I checked, that is not a cause for losing your job. If that were the case, Janeane Garafalo would be living under a bridge.
And that’s what bugs me: the lady resigned because the things she said hurt people’s feelings – not because the things she said were racist, or even totally incorrect. I’ve said this before: Mexicans are the hardest working, most decent people I’ve met in my life – but Mexico is not my ideal destination when I get a week off. Usually, I head to Thailand – where they’ve named a chair after me.
The point is – we live in a culture crumbling under the brutal weight of political correctness, in which a joke about the runs means you think Mexicans are bad people.
It actually makes me sick to my stomach.
But that could be the burrito.
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The only thing offensive about that was the fact the jokes weren't very funny, just lame. Get better material, Betsy!
that is the same logic where if you call something stupid, they take it that you called them stupid.
It is playground level stuff that people used to grow out of. But now with grown-ups few and far between, why are you surprised?
Whatever happened to "**** 'em if they can't take a joke !" ??
People are so uptight that they havetaken PC to levels that can shutdown any conversation immediately and create crime where there was none. It's fascism, pure and simple and very subtle.
Just say "you people" and watch the hysterical whim-whams you'll produce. The Soviets had a better sense of humor than our current politically-correct politicians and public.
Man. I understand your defense of Perry's free speech, Gut…
But honestly. Her piece has the cringeworthiness of a nerdy high schooler who enters a talent show and, walking on stage, pees his pants. Then, wide-eyed but unable to sidle off the stage unnoticed, he recites the only routine he remembers: a trifecta of pithy answers to "why did the chicken cross the road," each punchline more unnervingly flat than the last. He pauses a bit too long after each, wishing for a drink of water, and notices his peers holding their breaths at the wantonness of his even trying. And as the red and blue lights from the stage beat down on him and make him sweat, he points – in a moment of panic – at the star quarterback in the front row and makes a left-field crack about his sister… who's in the hospital for meningitis.
At least that's what I thought.
I think it's buried right next to "sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me."
mexicans are as lame, trite, and selfish AS ANY OTHER NATIONALITY!!! Mexican is not a race! The only hard working Mexicans you experience are the illegal kind who have "hope and/or fear" in their eyes and want to please their masters (when they're looking). I am so annoyed that we annoint Mexicans of Mexican sovereignty dilly dallying here as opposed to their own proud nation and think they all work hard. BS! They come here for the EASY MONEY. Stay in your own country, MAKE IT GREAT! Feeding off of others won't liberate or build up your nation from its decades of corruption. MEXICO started about the same time as America. What's the problem!?
It's difficult not to make jokes about a borderline failed third world state that shares not only a border with the US, but that also has abundant resources like the US has. Mexico is a steaming pile of misery because its political system is rotten to the core with corruption and cannot offer its people any opportunities. Getting the sh!ts from the water is just a "bonus."
Can you imagine what Mexico would be like if their government was as good as their food and tequila? I'd probably move there.
===And that’s what bugs me: the lady resigned because the things she said hurt people’s feelings – not because the things she said were racist, or even totally incorrect.===
More so what she said was true. But this is the Age of Stupidity™ so it should not come as a surprise that the PC Gestapo would force a resignation from this woman.
Orwell was a prophet.
Without a doubt.
I wonder if she'll be charged with a hate crime….
I thought trolls DID live under bridges.
Don't leave me hanging. . . why did the chicken cross the road?
I sure hope Betsy doesn't try to book a flight to London anytime soon.
We do Mexicans no favor by conveniently ignoring their endemic corruption, their lawlessness on our southern border, their exploitation of their immigrants, their drug cartel scourge, their decrepit infrastructure and social services, their pitiful schools, their high rate of diseases due to poor sanitation, etc.
It would be like silently sitting by while one of your friends suffers through a terrible addiction and instead of telling them what they need to hear you tell them what they want to hear.
Political correctness is about controlling debate. It's about making people terrified to express opinions that they know aren't approved.
So what say we tell some Mexico jokes?
Did you go to my high school?
I live three miles from Mexico and have been there once for about 5 minutes in 4 years. I had to take $40 in cash to a friend being detained and extorted by one of the various levels of crooked police over there for a "traffic violation". I spent more time there flying into Cancun when I lived in Austin (love Cancun, beautiful place) than I do now.
Si.
Because he wanted CHANGE.
To move into the garage next door with the two families and a pot. The car's gone.
We can still use "sugar and spice and everything nice are what little girls are made of; snips and snails and puppydog tail are what little boys are made of", right? I would hate to lose that one 'cause, well, it's true!
You give me HOPE.
Mexico laments that the United States not only took over half of Mexico, but they seized the half with paved roads.
She'll be okay. That list is only for people who don't like Islamofascists.
Hatemonger!
===I had to take $40 in cash to a friend being detained and extorted by one of the various levels of crooked police over there for a "traffic violation".===
James, that's exactly the amount we paid to the federali to let us go. I had one federali offer to sell me cocaine. Mexico is out of control.
What do you mean, "you people"?
My favorite Mexican jokes came from my best friend's father. My buddy used to kid that at dinner his dad picked up his bread with a tortilla.
New Mexican immigrant Jose comes home from his first American baseball game. His friends ask him how he liked it. He said, "What a wonderful country, full of great people. At the beginning of the game, they all stood up and sang 'Jose, can you see?'"
Pedro tells his friend that he just heard that an old friend of theirs had been killed by a weasel. The friend asks how that could be. A weasel? Pedro explains: "He was walking down the railroad trestle, and he didn't hear the weasel."
He usually told his best jokes after a couple of Lucky Lagers. He explained to me one time that it was called Lucky Lager because you were lucky if two of them in a row tasted the same.
Here's one that worked better back when the Rio Grande wasn't dry:
Why are there no swimming pools in Mexico? Because the ones who can swim are over here.
And without a smile.
"If that were the case, Janeane Garafalo would be living under a bridge."
Now, there's change we can believe in!"
Lets face it, eveyone knows that Mexico is a dump. I think we have 20-30 million votes on that score, all living here right now and some even came here legally.
Wow.
I know more Texan jokes than Mexican jokes actually — growing up in Colorado will do that for you. Here's one that is related to Mexico:
A Frenchman, a Brit, a Mexican and a Texan are sitting in the back of an airplane. Suddenly, the pilot comes back and says, "we lost an engine and we need to lighten the load."
The Brit proudly walks to the door and says, "I will make the ultimate sacrifice. God save the Queen!" and then jumps.
A few minutes later, the pilot comes back again — still too much weight. This time the Frenchman jumps up and says, "I have lived a good life. Viva la France!" and jumps.
A little later the pilot comes back again — still too much weight. This time, the Texan rises, yells "Remember the Alamo!" and throws the Mexican out of the plane.
Bev: You people are misogynists.
I think Betsy's superb grasp of comedy makes her eminently qualified to write for many late night talk shows. That column from the Huffington Post is comedy gold, people.
Ah, you've experienced it.
Heh, touché.
Soviets did laugh a lot though but that was once their tears ran dry. By the time the communists were done mockery, laughter and vodka was all the Russians had.
Actually I was thinking more along the lines of Tropic Thunder. I love how they messed with that.
Which is buried right next to "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
She is now barred from the United Kingdom.
Oh! and you can't go to England either.
You're going to get a lot of "thumbs down" clicks for that. I was able to offset them by one "thumbs up" click (I regret that I can give only 1). Hope that helps.
There's an entire web site devoted to them
http://www.mexicanjokes.net/
I'm pretty sure Garafalo does live under a bridge. Why do you think she smells like eau-du-wet-dog?
http://shermansmarch.blogspot.com
[in my best "Lina Lamont"] – "People"? I ain't "people". I am a – "a shimmering, glowing star in the cinema firmament."
I can't be a hatemonger. I'm in a protected class! You must be hatemonger-monger.
Did she quit because she committed a thought crime, or whas it to avoid getting cannibalized by her fellow left wingers?
Funniest politically-incorrect movie in a very long time. I'm surprised it made it into release.
Amen.
I can only agree with you about illegals. I'm assuming that's what you meant, but you didn't make it clear. In that context, I can basically agree with you. As I've mentioned before, I'm utterly opposed to illegal immigration, and in favor of highly-restricted immigration from any country, not just Mexico. Too much immigration, too little assimilation.
I don't know, but I guess she'll have to join the growing 'out of work and homeless for not being pc' tent city down by the river.
…What do YOU mean "you people"?!
Geez. This was one Gut wrenching article. I think I got Bloomberg revenge. I swallowed the whole Enchalada and I now have NYC pizza pants. Hang in there, Betsy. But try some original material next time.
when i say ANY OTHER NATIONALITY… i mean everyone. Americans, Germans, French… well maybe not the french… but we all 'work hard' and we are all 'lazy'… i dont like the 'Mexicans work hard' annointment as if they deserve some special… uh.. clause or disclaimer. what i do know just looking at the big picture… is that America rocks. Mexico kind of sucks. Just based on population flow and corruption and two beautiful coast lines and tons of oil but still wracked with corrupt socialist dictator mentality…
Having been a nerdy high-schooler who peed his pants in the talent show, I find your remarks insensitive and hurtful. Your employer will be hearing from my lawyer.
I loved that movie. And that was a great scene too.
Ah but if you call it a "failed state" that makes them cranky too.
Whatever happened to a sense of humor? "You People" need to get one?
I have a question for you as a fellow German.
When was the last time you saw a German in a movie or on tv that wasn't either a Neo-Nazi or some psychopath bent on world domination? Germans are always bad guy's. PC Police logic says this is a stereotype? No?
How about Greg Gutfeld's use of the phrase "You are worse than Hitler" (I find it very funny) shouldn't it be off limits also. Hitler is a part of German history (history we don't want) and could be seen as an insult to the German people ( PC Police logic again). When you say Hitler you don't think of Australia do you? When you say Montezuma's Revenge do you think of Norway?
If none of this makes sense that's okay it's just the ramblings of a dumb Kraut/Polack. Political Correctness has never made any sense, so I don't feel so bad..
I heard a great Polish joke today. I did not find it offensive or run away crying "You hurt my feeling". I have a sense of humor and I like to laugh, even at my own expense!
Primer, it's ok to stereotype Germans since they're white and like beer. I hope you realize that makes you worse than a filthy primitive 7th century Mohammedan throat cutter.
Right on the money. It's all about maintaining your sense of humor. One of the funniest comedy routines I had seen a few years back was somebody doing the part of a Lufthansa flight attendant (formerly known as "stewardess." "velcom aboard Lufthansa airlines. Ve vill be flying at 40,000 feet for most of the flight. Ve expect no problems. You vill enjoy your flight–or else. Ve haff your name, und ve know vhere your family liffs.
I'm not sure how funny my distant relatives in Germany would have found that. But what do I care? I'm an American–we should get to make fun of everybody. And by the way. What's with German chocolate? The only thing that makes it German is coconut. How many coconut palms have you ever seen in Germany?
To clarify…..
"I hope you realize that makes you worse than a filthy primitive 7th century Mohammedan throat cutter [according to the liberal eunuchs]."
No, she resigned from some "women's issues" panel because Mayor Bloomberg is running for an illegal third term and he can't afford to be embarrassed.
I never understood the tourist allure of any country whose two most famous characteristics are twelve-year old hookers and diarrhea.
But … wasn't the decision to resign a personal one?
There's a difference between getting fired over PC and resigning because you publicly embarrassed yourself by showing what an ignorant racist you are.
It's a very offensive post. I'm not a thought-policing closet racist (by which I mean I'm not liberal) so I certainly don't think she should get fired on principal … but I could understand even as crappy an e-rag as HuffPo refusing to publish more of her writing based on complaints, and I can understand the "I hang my head in shame" move of quitting.
LawhawkSF I have no idea why I can't get to the replies so I'm posting here. Sorta close.
I remember seeing that but just don't remember where. It was hysterical, as is most humor directed at Germans. We are easy targets. If it's funny though, I don't care, swing away.
Another really funny one is from John Cleese (Monty Python) show Fawlty Towers. There is an episode called "the Germans" that you should see. I won't even try to explain it because i will not do it justice.
The German Chocolate comment requires me by law to plagurise Monty Python's Holy Grail," Are You Suggesting Coconuts Migrate?"
As I said I can't get to the replies, so this one is for The Great Satan. You forgot that I am white and didn't vote for Barry so I have been called way worse! One word. Starts with R ends with T!
"Between the guns, drugs, kidnappings and swine flu, this poor country can't catch a break and, maybe it shouldn't"
— Betsy Perry
Quite a quote right? So 'maybe it shouldn't'? Is that the not-racist thing to say? Do you wholeheartedly share that opinion? That my country is better suited sunken? You are entitled to your opinion as much as she is. Good thing the country is not in the hands of people like you anymore.
Fine, go to Tahiland. You sure their water is clenaer than in Mexico? You prefer people who adore your money by calling a chair your name than people who respect you equal to equal? Isn't that a bit sickening? Why don't you stay there for a living?
"we live in a culture crumbling under the brutal weight of political correctness", so you think if it wasn't about political correctness she should have kept her job? Don't you think she was kind of stupid? References to Beverly Hills Chihuahua and spekaing her ass out without knowing the facts for sure? What a shame to have watched Beverly Hills Chihuahua.
By the way, everybody gets sick when they change diet, I got sick when I arrived into the US. Some people are not used to spicy food and that's it, I assure you my mom was worried enough about the quality of my food as much as yours.
P.S. Is Moctezuma not Montezuma.
P.S.S. Burritos, as you know then were invented in San Francisco US!
I can't be a hatemonger. I'm in a protected class! You must be a hatemonger-monger…
[I posted this earlier today, but it hasn't appeared yet.]
[citation needed]
Yes it makes me cranky, who said it was a failed state?
Hey Greg Gutfield- in the spirit of being politically incorrect, why is it you like Thailand so much? They named a chair after you after all the money you spent on underage hookers right?
If the mexican people are so sensitive then why weren't they sensitive to THIS issue a few years ago?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8410111/
" i dont like the 'Mexicans work hard' annointment as if they deserve some special… uh.. clause or disclaimer" I totally agree with you in that. I don't like that PC BS either. I'm Mexican, and I like my work being recognized for what it is not for me being a Mexican and people trying to "say at least something nice poor mexican guy". I have to recognize that Mexico kinda sucks, however I wouldn't go for a totally polarized thing like: America rocks/Mexico sucks. There are a lot of really cool things back in Mexico, and I go back home happy to do so (whenever I can).
P.S. I'm not illegal
The only thing I'd be ashamed of is the fact that they were all OLD jokes.
I'm sure she was pressured into resigning though, I'd almost bet on it.
I'll tell you whats the problem. USA and Mexico didn't started about the same time, USA started about 50 years earlier than Mexico, that's a good head start, especially when the environment is changing rapidly, as it was, you get many opportunities. USA was built on top of slavery, and killed most natives. Mexico tried to pull it out for everyone. Recently after finally getting rid of Spain, Mexico was targetted by many others trying to take advantage of a weak newly created nation. France (French intervention), and USA (Mexico-USA war) are examples of that. So it wasn't until nearly 100 years after US independence that Mexico kind of started to work on its own, and it was only then that Mexico started to solve its own internal struggles that the US had already cleared by then.
It'll work out fine, you'll see.
"They come here for the EASY MONEY." Of course they're for the money, just like your ancestors, and everyone else. But I don't think it is easy money, the work illegals do is of the hardest kind.
"Stay in your own country, MAKE IT GREAT!" Your ancestors didn't stay in their own country, what's the difference?
"Feeding off of others won't liberate or build up your nation from its decades of corruption" They're not getting free money, they're working for it. It is not like they're cashing unemplyment checks.
Oh! so it was a bout Mexico and not Mexicans!, That's right. So its ok then? Should she gat her position back?
I respect her a*s-speaking freedom of speech. Anyone should be able to speak their minds even if there's only s**t in there. But that freedom doesn't guatrantee her job does it? I mean she is not in jail — as much as I wish she was. Don't you think that for some positions you need to respect the people you represent? Aren't there enough women of Mexican origin in NYC? Is a*s-speaking about Mexico part of her duties?
Don't get too down about it. We're all trying to figure out where our posts and responses are going half the time. You have to be a nukulur scientist to figure it out, and still at times, it doesn't form a proper mushroom.
Couldn't reply for some reason. I posted a response to LawhawkSF a little bit ago and responded to your comment also, but I'll repeat it
"You forgot that I am white and didn't vote for Barry so I have been called way worse! One word. Starts with R ends with T!"
I would actually wear that as a badge of honor though if I pissed off a liberal enough to get that response! The only problem is that a liberal would never say that. It is far too intellectual and witty for a lib mind!
The last time I got brutally sick in Mexico, the Red Cross told me it was a bacteria issue – different bacteria, different way of processing it. The same does happen to Mexicans moving here. Given that I've lived there for years and only gotten sick a couple times, I don't think it's that bad.
And it's Montezuma to us gringos.
You folks gotta understand, for the 'liberal' it's all about feelings. Feelings, whether or not someone is suffering anguish, is what defines the liberal point of view. It's simple, it's concrete, nothing else enters their thought process. President Obama, he's all about making the world feel better about the United States because that mean old George Bush wasn't concerned what the world felt. He was out to protect the US from bomb throwing extremists. Isn't the law predicated on feelings? When one thinks of all the liberal lawyers and judges using the law, isn't it driven by their feelings. President Obama apparently thinks so. Liberals must make the world feel better. A happy world, like a happy person, a person with high self esteem, will be a good world. It's all about feelings.
After five minutes of having to talk to a liberal I'd prefer the sticks and strones.
Actually on this blog we think do think of Austrailia when you mention Hitler. It's where they speak Austrian.
It's a long story………………..
Thanks! I thought it was my Polish side rearing it's ugly head again. You can hear the brain cells scream when that happens!
Good point. Like listening to fingernails on a blackboard. Maybe it's the enhanced interrogation technique Obama intends to use instead of waterboarding.
First guess……
About 12 million undocumented aliens crying for amnesty………
That's right children I voted Republican and know
I have to live in a van by the river!
I am confused.
It's OK for Mexico to have problems with drug cartels,swine flu from poor water treatment falcilities, and violence from armed thugs that control the police department but….
it's racist to admit to it………………… isn't admission of guilt the first step to the road to recovery in the 12 step program.
Let me ask you a serious question. If there is an open border with no stop to illegal immigration to the US from Mexco what incentive will there be for any Mexicans to ever fix the problems there.
Ding Ding Ding! We have a winner! Funny Funny Funny!
As a male I am offended by that statement ; )
No one has mentioned the awesome come back in grade school.
"I'm rubber and your glue what ever you say bounces off me and sticks to you. That was the ultimate come back and to this day I still have stuff stuck to me that I said in grade school.
PC = Pussified Country
Mexico is getting free money from the US. It might not be going directly into the pockets of Mexican citizens but Mexico and Mexicans through trickle down are receiving money from the US.
I do have to give you credit though after traveling in Mexico and in Spain I always found it hilarious that neither side would admit having any connection to the other. Mexicans routinely told me that they were in no way related to Spaniards and Spaniards would do the same thing. I never really understood the disconnect or dislike.
The difference is that our ancestors came here LEGALLY.
You're going just a bit over the top here d.h. Why do you wish she was in jail, what crime did she commit? Care to elaborate?
BTW, is azzspeaking about this woman part of YOUR duties?
Congratulations! Guessing is not valid citation.
That indicates that the US has more jobs and money.
This is a valid reference: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_...
Mexicos just lucky the US doesn't go down there and take it over, Beaches and Tequila for everyone! Whee!
It's not racist to be against a country. I mean, I think you'll find most of us are just as anti-France as we are anti-Mexico. And don't get us started on Canada.
I'm not saying that admitting to it is racist. The "maybe it shouldn't (catch a break)" is what I'm talking about, don't you feel somenthing in her speech shouldn't be there?
Of course We are aware of the problems of violence from armed thugs and corruption, and we are doing something about it.
Being targetted as guilty of the swine flu is another thing though. Swine flu was originated in the US, and had nothing to do with poor water treatment facilities. Why is it then that it is spreading in the US?
I'm not calling for wide-open borders, I'm all for controlled border. A sealed border is another thing though.
Sure, before the ones who got here first made it illegal.
Inbound pass by Hucbald to Golani. Golani moves down court which is defended by D.H. a quick pass to Individualist who shoots with 3 seconds left on the clock and he scores for the win.
Mexico is a failed state and is listed as one of the top two countries (Pakistan being the other) about to crash and burn which is saying a lot considering how many countries are approaching that precipice already.
After traveling to Mexico I was stunned to see the stark contrast between the Puerto Vallarta vacation resort area which looked like any industrialized nation and two streets up from the resort area which looked like a 3rd world community. The vast contrast was stunning and when I asked about where all the local bars were I was instructed to stay out of them for fear of my own life according to the cabby.
I don't know, the language for one thing is something closely rooted in Spain. Religion too, although I am atheist. I am lightly skinned, not totally white, but not dark, so I assume some Spanish blood is around there. However, I never had a personal direct relationship to Spain.
About the free money, I don't know what you're talking about, but if it is not going into the pockets of mexicans, then that's another story. Help to fight drug lords probably.
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