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Much as we dislike spoiling humor by having to explain it, we've received numerous inquiries from readers asking whether one or the other of several various forms of this joke is true. Of course, they're all simply slightly different versions of one of the many bits of humor that are periodically trotted out and refurbished with the names and dubious achievements of current political figures: Example: [Collected via e-mail, September 2004] The example reproduced above circulated just before the 2004 U.S. presidential election, naming in its punchline the then-Democratic presidential nominee, Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, and his colleague, Senator Ted Kennedy (also of Massachusetts). In mid-2006, an updated version invoked the names of President George W. Bush and Vice-President Dick Cheney: By early 2008, yet another version referenced Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (while retaining the names of John Kerry and Ted Kennedy found in the 2004 variant): All of these entries are riffs on a much older, generic joke about hypocrisy and religion:
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