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Conservative comic visited by Secret Service
Paul Krassner, writing in the LA Weekly, tells of Chris Warren, who had a visit from the S.S. after joking about violence against a “protectee.” Turns out they were hipped to the joke via an irate letter from a doctor in attendance at one of Warren’s shows.
“…So I was surprised with the visit by the Secret Service. I was asked to tell them the joke, and they both laughed! However, I was then told that if I was to tell the joke again, I would be subject to arrest, charged with a federal crime, that of threatening a ‘protectee’ of the Secret Service, then put on a terrorist watch list.”
Read the rest here. We’re not so much disturbed by the Secret Service leaning on Warren as much as we are by some crank writing a letter to a local paper because the comedian rubbed her the wrong way. The letter concluded with “Maybe Warren should look at his material and figure out that there are certain subject matters that are never funny no matter how you tell the joke.” Uh… wrong.
Was it Woody Allen who theorized that “tragedy plus time equals funny.” We’ve amended it around here to be “Tragedy plus punchline equals funny,” taking time out of the equation. Skene will never joke about a protectee– she just isn’t keen on telling anyone her weight!
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The joke in question was about raping and murdering a former First Lady and current US Senator. Whether or not you think it’s funny, if the SS gets hipped to something like that, then they have to investigate. This has been true since there WAS a Secret Service. I like Chris, and there are free speech issues at stake here, but in the snitch culture we now live in, you can’t not expect to ruffle some feathers with a bit like that.
Investigate? Sure. But when they realized it was part of a comedy routine, they could have:
-Asked him simply to tone it down– make sure it’s taken as a joke and not worded as advocating violence.
-Walked away.
The news article also said that the Secret Service said that he would no longer be permitted to do shows for the Republican Party. I guess I was under the mistaken impression that the Secret Service was part of the GOVERNMENT, and not affiliated with any particular party.
You’re accusing the Secret Service of being political? Let’s examine the facts: A comic (an admittedly right-leaning comic) makes a violent joke about a former first lady (a Democrat first lady)…the local paper (the Spokane Weekly, which is a paper that we can comfortably assume is a left-leaning paper runs a letter about said joke. Either the Secret Service sees the article firsthand (On one of their many visits to…Spokane!) or someone at the paper hips them to it…or the lady doctor drops a dime on the comic.
No matter. The Secret Service gotta do what the Secret Service gotta do. They can’t really use discretion in the initial visit. Certain clear actions or incidents trip an automatic visit.
They investigate and they laugh. Then they say that if Warren doesn’t lay off the gag, they can’t give him clearance… security clearance which is necessary to work side-by-side with Republican party people…and some of those gigs have Democrats in the audience as well. If Warren was gigging for Terry MacAuliffe, they’d threaten that clearance as well. It’s their job. Security knows no party.
I read a book about Secret Service agents during the Clinton White House days. They found his philandering to be odious, but they all matter of factly said that they’d take a bullet for him.
It’s the way they operate. How many presidents have we had shot in the 229 years of this republic? How many have been Republican? How many Democrat? Lincoln and Reagan were Republicans. Kennedy and Roosevelt were Democrats. Ford was shot at once. Twice if you count the “click” of a misfiring gun. And Garfield… he was a fat, orange cat.