BEST COMEBACK LINE EVER
For those that don't know him, Major General Peter Cosgrove is an 'Australian treasure!'
General Cosgrove was interviewed on the radio recently. You'll love his reply to the lady who interviewed him concerning guns and children. Regardless of how you feel about gun laws you gotta love this! This is one of the best comeback lines of all time. It is a portion of an ABC interview between a female broadcaster and General Cosgrove who was about to sponsor a Boy Scout Troop visiting his military headquarters.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
So, General Cosgrove, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?
GENERAL COSGROVE:
We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery and shooting.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it?
GENERAL COSGROVE:
I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle range.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?
GENERAL COSGROVE:
I don't see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.
FEMALE INTERVIEWER:
But you're equipping them to become violent killers.
GENERAL COSGROVE:
Well, Ma'am, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you're not one, are you?
The radio went silent and the interview ended.
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Brutal!
Brutal!
Awesome. Funny story but I
Awesome. Funny story but I call bullshit though. The interviewer sounds more like she has too much of a belligerent agenda to be a professional interviewer. She should have known her interviewee would object one way or another.
The reply was admittedly a bit sexist but very poignant but a bit too smooth of a story. I still lol'ed. Ha, ha.
I also thought it rolled
I also thought it rolled down "too smoothly." It's impossible that an ABC interviewer would have continued pressing on issues that were too close to the Major General's heart.
The moral, though, is that
The moral, though, is that you just see what you want to see, I guess. It was a hilarious story that belongs in our jokes section whether it was true or not.
It was a much more creative ending than "shut your freaking pie-hole, moralizing pedant."
I actually posted it in the
I actually posted it in the jokes section...or so I thought. Stupid me is yet to learn how to properly use all the features of this website.
Yeah, I see you did mark it
Yeah, I see you did mark it for inclusion in the jokes group. I was just reaffirming that it was a great 'joke'. :-)
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