Senator and presidential candidate John McCain paid a visit to the New York chapter of the NAACP to appeal to black voters and to insist that he would be the candidate who has the most to offer the African-American community. Despite nearly an hour of such talk, the 500 in attendance for the appearance managed somehow to avoid exploding into several minutes of loud laughter.
“I’m sure many of you are uncertain as to which candidate you will support this November,” the Arizona senator said to a handful of suspicious-sounding ‘coughs.’ He continued, “But let me assure that a vote for McCain is something that black voters can do with immense pride” as NAACP president Benjamin Jealous nearly chocked to death on an hors d’oevre attempting to suppress his laughter.
After performing the Heimlich maneuver on the president, McCain then concluded “So I hope I can count on your support this Novemember as we show just how far this great nation of ours has come!”
The crowd then politely waited for the senator to exit the room before rolling on the floor in raucous laughter. “It was quite a challenge,” says Jealous, catching his breath, “but we managed to make it though the evening with only a handful of awkward moments and nobody suffering any internal injuries.”
The NAACP president claims that the organization prepared for the event by having the crowd suppress laughter as al local rock promoter urged blacks to attend a concert of the band Matchbox Twenty.
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