"I don't get it."

Of course they got it. They merely wanted to pretend they didn't get it, as if the unseemly business with the plump fellatrix was about matters that they simply did not know about, or were sufficiently unfamiliar with, so as not to quite get, right away, the joke. Lewinsky Stooped To Conquer; these possibly made-up "rock-ribbed Republican friends"  were stooping -- and pretending to be stupid -- to conquer any suspicions of their own favorite forms of recreation, in another way.

Hollywood rumor has it that there is to be a remake of "Born Yesterday" with a man taking the role once played by Judy Holliday. Someone should let Mr. Holt know when VARIETY -- it's the spice of my life -- announces casting calls.