APACHE JUNCTION, Ariz., Feb. 20 -
Green Party presidential candidate Richard Grayson, running in next week's Arizona Green Party presidential primary, today called for a nationwide moratorium on Jeremy Lin puns.
Speaking at a press conference, Grayson said, "Enough is enough. While the First Amendment protects every citizen's right to free speech,
I call on Americans to exercise restraint and stop making puns based on Jeremy Lin's last name. Most of these puns totally suck.
Cut it out already!"
Grayson, co-chair of the Pinal County Greens, noted that twenty years the Chicago Sun-Times called him "fun-loving and pun-loving"
and Best Sellers, in reviewing Grayson's Lincoln's Doctor's Dog, said he was "given to outrageous puns."
"So it's not that I don't love puns," Grayson said.
"I'm a Knicks fan who adores Jeremy Lin. But there is no excuse for any more Jeremy Lin puns. The time wasted on creating them is hurting our economic recovery."
Grayson, in calling for the moratorium, condemned the fact that "林疯子几乎占据美国各大体育网站的头条"
and announced the support of Tao Lin, the bestselling author of Shoplifting From American Apparel, and other writers who are being made physically ill from all the Lin-related puns.
"If I win the Green Party primary next week and am elected President, I will stop this insanity," said Grayson. "Insanity. Insanity!"
