Robert Cordle, the chairman of the North Carolina state Board of Elections, abruptly resigned Tuesday after making a lengthy, misogynistic joke to a crowd of 600 elections officials on Monday.
Telling jokes in a public forum is always a risky business. Telling long, stupid, and offensive jokes is never a good idea. The person running the sound system should have done him a favor and shut off the mike until the next speaker was up.
Mutiple choice:
A. Comedy is hard.
B. Comedy is not pretty.
North Carolina, you have a problem.
[at least he resigned]
“He then got into making an analogy that a steer couldn’t mate with a cow and started an analogy to a wife that wouldn’t have sex with her husband,” he said. “And I was like, what?!”
“This is the kind of stuff — it’s never right obviously — but the kind of stuff I remember from meetings 40 years ago,” Cohen remembered. “These are the kind of off-color jokes I haven’t heard in a while.”
This is really no mystery, nor career suicide. Cordle confided to friends weeks ago Adam Sandler had offered him a job, helping with the writing of his movie scripts.
If it has wheels or balls, you’re going to have trouble with it.
The only person that has any business being this damn tone deaf and insulting already has a job as President.
From Wautaga Watch: “ At the opening of the State Board of Elections Training Conference yesterday morning in a cavernous meeting room at the Embassy Suites in Cary, and in front of some 700 boards of election officials from all 100 counties, Chairman of the State Board Bob Cordle reportedly told a version of the wholly misogynistic “The Welsh Cow” joke, in which he compared women to cows unwilling to be mounted from behind, in front, or from the side. Hundreds of people heard it.
The classic goes like this (and we don’t know exactly how Mr. Cordle may have shortened or changed it, but the punchline certainly survived):
THE WELSH COW
The only cow in a small town in Ireland stopped giving milk. Then the town folk found they could buy a cow in Wales quite cheaply. So, they brought the cow over from Wales. It was absolutely wonderful. It produced lots of milk every day and everyone was happy.
They bought a bull to mate with the cow to get more cows, so they’d never have to worry about their milk supply again. They put the bull in the pasture with the cow but whenever the bull tried to mount the cow, the cow would move away. No matter what approach the bull tried, the cow would move away from the bull, and he was never able to do the deed.
The people were very upset and decided to go to the Vet, who was very wise, tell him what was happening and ask his advice. “Whenever the bull tries to mount our cow, she moves away. If he approaches from the back, she moves forward. When he approaches her from the front, she backs off. If he attempts it from the one side, she walks away to the other side.”
The Vet rubbed his chin thoughtfully and pondered this before asking, “Did you by chance buy this cow in Wales?” The people were dumbfounded, since no one had ever mentioned that they had brought the cow over from Wales. “You are truly a wise Vet,” they said. “How did you know we got the cow from Wales?”
The Vet replied with a distant look in his eye: “My wife’s from Wales.” WataugaWatch: How Did Bob Cordle Get To Be Chair of the NC State Board of Elections?
But could he be alone with a cow?
Sincerely,
Robert B. Cordle
CC:
Karen Brinson Bell, Executive Director, NCSBE
Katelyn Love, Acting General Counsel, NCSBE
PS
I’ll be gone all week, try the veal.
Well…he IS sorry 
A Democrat, but also an idiot.
Good riddance.
If there are women in his life, I hope they are OK.
“You can take the boy out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the boy.”
As long as they stay out of the pasture and know how to say,
“gadewch lonydd i mi”
It’s a good reminder that Dems still have some house cleaning to do regarding sexist idiots.
This reminds me of when I was a junior lawyer and we were being talked to by a judge. He told us that as a circuit court judge he went through a rural part of the state and had a case against a guy for buggery of a cow. Riding the circuit he came by 7 years later and the guy was in front of him again on the same charge. The judge asked him “Was it the same cow or were you cheating on the first one?”
Southern living.
There are a number of voters in NC who are registered as Democrats who are more accurately called Dixiecrats. They vote for Republicans but are just too lazy to change their party affiliation. My guess is that he fits that description.
I’ll add:
C. Cordle cannot get hard and is not pretty.
“Dying is easy, comedy is hard” - Edmund Kean
And sometimes, suicide by comedy is a long, tedious slog.
How dairy tell such an udderly offensive joke?