What joke about Clinton about Jerry Brown?
by debraz on Fri Nov 19, 2004 at 01:20:40 PM PST [ Parent ] The Killing Joke (none / 0) It happened in 1991 when they were running for prez. It was billed as a “lesbian joke” but it was in fact a “Jerry Brown is stupid and/or spacey” joke. Kerrey didn’t know the mike was on and CSPAN got it on tape. It caused Kerrey to drop out of the race and there was much ado about whether Clinton laughed at it or not. PC Follies. Here’s some of a US News & World Report article I googled: Bob Kerrey’s Dirty Little Joke by John Leo | Dec 09 ’91 Have you heard the one about Jerry Brown and the two lesbians Chances are you haven’t, though you might have read a lot about it. This is the joke that Sen. Bob Kerrey told Gov. Bill Clinton at a political roast in New Hampshire. A crew from C-SPAN recorded the story, but the tape was shelved because the conversation was private and presumably out of bounds. The astonishing thing is that lots of people in Washington seem to know the story but no one is willing
