Watch It: Roy Blunt's Monkey "Joke"

The monkeys are the lobbyists. They're the ones who throw the balls around the course in D.C. so Congress will play the ball from where the lobbyists want.

He's looking for attention. His use of this story is to generate criticism from liberals, so he will be called a racist and become the next conservative martyr. Now he can go on Beck and Hannity, get a leg up on Purgeson and raise some more money.

By the way, Blunt married a lobbyist. Does that make him a monkey by marriage? 

This is just more blather from an out of touch Roy Blunt.   If I were him, I would stay away from the subject of monkeys.  Even at a republican rally where "monkey see, monkey do" is the norm.  Insert "fair play" cliche now.       

Next time try the google.

Golfing With Monkeys
a sermon by Rev. Scott W. Alexander
Unitarian Universalist Church of Rockville, March 11, 2007

http://www.uucr.org/sermons/golfingwithmonkeys.html

...“Golfing With Monkeys”…now there’s a sermon title that tells you ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about what I want to focus upon this morning, nothing (that is) unless you know the rather intriguing story. Is anybody here this morning familiar with the “Golfing With Monkeys” story?  Good, I like “basically clueless congregations,” they’re more receptive!

Here’s the story: The Rev. Gregory Knox Jones (a Presbyterian minister who serves a church just over the River in Northern Virginia) writes that “Once the English had colonized and established their businesses, they yearned for recreation and decided to build a golf course in Calcutta. Golf in Calcutta present a unique obstacle. Monkeys would drop out of the trees, scurry across the course and seize the golf balls. The monkeys would play with the balls, tossing them here and there. At first, the golfers tried to control the monkeys. Their first strategy was to build high fences around the fairways and greens. This approach, which seemed initially to hold much promise, was abandoned when the golfers discovered that a fence is no challenge to an ambitious monkey. Next the golfers tried luring the monkeys away from the course. But the monkeys found nothing as amusing as watching humans go wild whenever their little white balls were disturbed. In desperation, the British began trapping the monkeys. But for every monkey they carted off, another would appear. Finally, the golfers gave into reality and a rather novel ground rule . Golfers were obliged to PLAY THE BALL WHERE THE MONKEY DROPPED IT…As you can imagine, playing could be maddening. A beautiful drive down the center of the fairway might be picked up by a monkey and then dropped in the rough. Or the opposite could happen. A hook or slice that had produced a miserable lie might be flung onto the fairway.” The unpredictable monkeys, then, brought equal measures of gratuitous bad and good luck to the game...."

I guess it's possible that  the Unitarian Universalists are closet klansmen, but I wouldn't bet on it.

What speech writer would ever think this is funny?  We all know Roy can say some crazy things off-the-cuff, but these were pre-planned remarks. 

It's astonishing that he thought telling a story about building a golf course during the forced colonization of India was a good layout for a discussion about representative democracy.  I think this entire situation is indicative of Blunt's blase attitude as a Congressman and his inability to engage constructively in the work being done in Washington D.C. 

Maybe Rich Chrismer can explain who "the monkey" is in this story?