(2004-11-19) — Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee today announced their unqualified support of U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter, R/D-PA, after he admitted that his long-standing advocacy of abortion was “just a running gag.”
“People don’t get satire anymore,” said Mr. Specter. “I was just kidding about that pro-choice stuff, and my colleagues on the judiciary committee know it. Does anyone really believe that they would back me for the chairmanship if they thought I advocated the killing of infants in the womb? It’s laughable.”
Mr. Specter said his Jewish faith makes the “inside joke about abortion even more absurd.”
The senator added, “If a standup comedian came out on the stage and said, ‘Good evening, I’m a Jewish, pro-choice Republican,’ that would be it. He would slay them. Thank you, goodnight.”
