Roseanne Cash Takes Offense at John Boehner using her father's name as Punchline

[YankeeLeft7x]

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Oliver Burkeman
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 2 November 2010 20.27 GMT

On US midterms 2010 election day, Roseanne Cash took offence at John Boehner using her father Johnny Cash's name as a punchline.

".....John Boehner, the leader of what remained until today the Republican minority in the House of Representatives, has been cracking up supporters with the following pun-laden line: "Remember when Ronald Reagan was president? We had Bob Hope. We had Johnny Cash. Think about where we are today. We have got President Obama. But we have no hope and we have no cash." The Huffington Post notes the angry tweeted response of Cash's daughter Roseanne: "John Boehner," she writes, "Stop using my dad's name as a punchline. You asshat." Boehner, of all people, ought to understand the perils of names as punchlines. Actually it's pronounced "Bayner"....."

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[BrklynLiberal]

1. The asshat's name will always be "BONER" to me.

[tanyev]

2. I think whoever wrote that joke stole the idea from the Dixie Chicks.

from Long Time Gone:

Now, me and Deliah singing every Sunday
Watching the children and the garden grow
We listen to the radio to hear what's cookin?
But the music ain't got no soul

Now they sound tired but they don't sound Haggard
They've got money but they don't have Cash
They got Junior but they don't have Hank
I think, I think, I think

The rest is a long time gone
No, I ain't hit the roof
Since I don?t know when long time gone
And it ain't coming back