John Kerry’s “Joke”

Soldiers hold up sign

From Iraq to a Milwaukee radio talk show host to the Drudge Report to the mainstream media, a photograph of U.S. soldiers responding to a “botched joke” by John Kerry rocketed around the cyber-world.

“Maybe this Internet thing will actually catch on,” joked WTMJ-AM (620) host Charlie Sykes, who first posted the photo Wednesday on his Weblog at www.620wtmj.com. “Who knew?”

The photograph shows members of the U.S. military holding a banner reading, “HALP US JON CARRY – WE R STUK HEAR N IRAK.”

Subsequent reports indicated the soldiers are members of a Minnesota National Guard unit stationed in Iraq.

The photo followed coverage of a comment in California Monday by Kerry that he said was supposed to be a slam against the president, but which came out this way:

“You know education, if you make the most of it, and you study hard, and you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

A Kerry spokeswoman told The Associated Press that the prepared text of Kerry’s speech read, “You end up getting us stuck in a war in Iraq.”

Article continues in this Journal Sentinel page: Sykes’ blog gets Kerry zinger rolling

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