WARSAW - Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney's warm-up jokes tonight left the audience stunned in disbelieving silence.
Speaking to a gathering of Poland's glitterati, Romney's prepared remarks reinforced support for the long time U.S. ally, praising the nation as a "defender of freedom," but it was his warm-up routine that shocked the crowd.
"Why did the Polack cross the road?" Romney said to a stunned room. "Because he couldn't get his **** out of the chicken." At this point, a person in the very back of the auditorium dropped what sounded like a fork.
"No, but seriously, what do you do if a Polack throws a hand-grenade at you? Take the pin out and throw it back," Romney continued, chuckling quietly to himself.
"We find it very difficult to understand the American sense of humor," said Szymon Filipek, a reporter for Gazeta Pomorska. "But when Mr. Romney asked, 'What's the motto of the Polish Solidarity Union?' and then answered, 'Every man for himself,' you could cut the air with a knife so to speak. To say he bombed would be an insult to those comics who have truly bombed."
American commentators were more direct. "Was this guy off his meds or drunk or something?" wrote Gerrard Noguerra in The Times-Advertiser of Washington D.C. "He may as well have barfed on [Lech] Walensa's lap, like [George H.W.] Bush did to Miyazawa in '92."
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