Goebbels and Gerbils

Watching Fox News, Halt Limppaw got an idea for his eponymous radio show on WKPC.

He ended the show by saying: "Goebbels and Gingrich. Goebbels had a PhD. Gingrich has a PhD. Critics are wondering about the connection. Just coincidence? I don't think so."

He pronounced Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, as Gerbils.

When he ran into Prof. Ben "Seymour" Bottoms later at the Good to the Last Slop Coffee Shop, he told him about it, since he knows that Ben does not listen to his show.

"But Halt," Prof. Bottoms said, "you're a right-wing conspiracy nut. You're implying that Gingrich is just like Goebbels because they both have PhDs. Do you really want to say that Gingrich is a Nazi?"

"Goebbels was a Nazi?"

"Yes, one of the top Nazis of them all."

"Oh, hell. I thought his name was Gerbils and I figured that meant he was one of those animal rights extremists. Newt can't be a Nazi, because Obama is a Nazi."

"You'd better correct that on your show tomorrow," said Ben.

"Oh, can't do that. That would imply that there might be other times I was wrong about something. People might even begin to think those folks at the Crescent Donut Shop aren't Muslim."

"They aren't," said Seymour. "They're Irish Catholic. The Crescent refers to The Old Crescent on the university campus. Their shop is across the street from it."

"Just a coincidence?" asked Halt. "I don't think so."

Seymour sighed. "Newt happens," he said.