Punchline Poll: Martians & The Health-Care Debate

It’s Punchline Poll time! May the best punchline win! The rules are simple:

1. Read the joke
2. Pick your favorite punchline
3. Winning punchline advances to next week’s joke!

Polls close FRIDAY EVENING. Vote early, vote often …

This week’s joke is called “Martians & The Health-Care Debate”:

Four Martians were watching coverage of the health-care debate via a pirated CNN feed. “Look at these idiots,” said Xuu’lth. “How many of ‘em do you think could actually explain the public option?”

“You don’t get it,” replied Mokkl’uhr. “The point of this media coverage isn’t to inform the citizenry; the point is to whip everyone into a frenzy.”

“But how does that serve the public interest?” asked Jhiilaxox The Devastator as he imploded a Class IV star system with his mind.

“Oh, Jhiilaxox, you sweet naive thing,” cooed Gfhjkw’eeo, “how would cable news make money if it devoted itself to serving the public interest? Nobody would watch it because it would be TOTALLY BORING.”

“True,” said Xuu’lth, “Americans hate charts and graphs and sentences that don’t end with exclamation points.”

Mokkl’uhr drained his glass of Ghlormberry wine. “You know, when I heard America was sending 30,000 additional troops to Afghanistan, I felt sad– these people can’t talk about health care without generating more bullshit than the Methane-Fields of Zelnox V; how can they possibly be trusted to wage war? But I perked up when I realized ________________________”

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