Comments on: Why Conservatives Should Not Attempt Humor, Pt. Eleventy-Squillion http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html Poise! Poise! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:57:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jim http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-632479 jim Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:28:05 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-632479 BushCo comes across as a LOT more Maoist than Obama does ... mythologizing the Great Leader? Check. Purging goverment ministries of any & all dissidents, & replacing them all with allies? Check. An entire new department to protect the homeland from a dubious external threat, which then turns on its own people? Check. An economic sector artificially propped up & given a perpetual Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card, the entire rule-book rewritten to their tastes - then left to do its worst? Check. All Bush needs now is a Little White Book of Quotations. If only he could just finish a coherent sentence. BushCo comes across as a LOT more Maoist than Obama does … mythologizing the Great Leader? Check. Purging goverment ministries of any & all dissidents, & replacing them all with allies? Check. An entire new department to protect the homeland from a dubious external threat, which then turns on its own people? Check. An economic sector artificially propped up & given a perpetual Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free Card, the entire rule-book rewritten to their tastes – then left to do its worst? Check.

All Bush needs now is a Little White Book of Quotations.
If only he could just finish a coherent sentence.

]]> By: Jon Swift and Others on Satire-Gate (The Obama New Yorker Cover) http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-632176 Jon Swift and Others on Satire-Gate (The Obama New Yorker Cover) Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:49:56 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-632176 [...] Of course, not all satire is created equal.  [...] [...] Of course, not all satire is created equal.  [...]

]]> By: Grampaw http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631989 Grampaw Tue, 15 Jul 2008 22:47:37 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631989 Someone needs to tell those would-be satirizing whippersnappers that in its 83 years of publication, <i>The New Yorker</i> has never run a photograph on its cover. Someone needs to tell those would-be satirizing whippersnappers that in its 83 years of publication, The New Yorker has never run a photograph on its cover.

]]> By: ThresherK http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631874 ThresherK Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:22:34 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631874 <i>far more understandable than reprehensible</i> Fair enough. I don't think it's reprehensible, it just doesn't bemuse me like the typical NYer cover does. An opportunity missed. (I wouldn't cancel my subscription over it--which I don't have anyway.) And I'm their target bemusement demographic. <i>everything’s tepid after that</i> Yep. Can't follow that act. far more understandable than reprehensible

Fair enough. I don’t think it’s reprehensible, it just doesn’t bemuse me like the typical NYer cover does. An opportunity missed. (I wouldn’t cancel my subscription over it–which I don’t have anyway.) And I’m their target bemusement demographic.

everything’s tepid after that

Yep. Can’t follow that act.

]]> By: Righteous Bubba http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631795 Righteous Bubba Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:56:36 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631795 <i>Agreed. But is it saying Nat Rev would never do this, or that I’m a humorless lefty because I don’t find the NYer’s attempt funny?</i> I don't think the NR would do this because it would make them look like what they are. You don't have to find the New Yorker's attempt at a joke funny, but I think it's far more understandable than reprehensible. <i>what I meant was</i> I agree that there is an unlimited stash of mean-spirited fun to be had at Cindy's expense. Unfortunately John's already dropped the c-word and everything's tepid after that. Agreed. But is it saying Nat Rev would never do this, or that I’m a humorless lefty because I don’t find the NYer’s attempt funny?

I don’t think the NR would do this because it would make them look like what they are. You don’t have to find the New Yorker’s attempt at a joke funny, but I think it’s far more understandable than reprehensible.

what I meant was

I agree that there is an unlimited stash of mean-spirited fun to be had at Cindy’s expense. Unfortunately John’s already dropped the c-word and everything’s tepid after that.

]]> By: g http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631792 g Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:53:35 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631792 <i>I do love how the whole notion that right now, as we write this, there’s a Communist China that actually exists and will be hosting the Olympics in a few weeks. And that we’re basically owned by them at this point. And they were all Maoists. </i> And IIRC, Obama's the one who said he wouldnt go to the ceremony, but Bush is going and, one can presume, McCain endorses that choice. But OBama's the Maoist. I do love how the whole notion that right now, as we write this, there’s a Communist China that actually exists and will be hosting the Olympics in a few weeks. And that we’re basically owned by them at this point. And they were all Maoists.

And IIRC, Obama’s the one who said he wouldnt go to the ceremony, but Bush is going and, one can presume, McCain endorses that choice.

But OBama’s the Maoist.

]]> By: ThresherK http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631780 ThresherK Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:44:44 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631780 @ Righteous Bubba <i>The crucial part of the joke is the National Review cover.</i> Agreed. But is it saying Nat Rev would never do this, or that I'm a humorless lefty because I don't find the NYer's attempt funny? It works better for me w/o the "For all the irony-challenged literalists..." caption. How about: "The last cover a National Review artist ever draws"? <i>Also “we don’t know if Cindy doesn’t have an Rx problem” is classic wingnut logic and we could use less of that.</i> Thanx for correcting me; what I meant was that it's a woefully undercovered subject and as a source for humor by itself doesn't do much. Now if she were dictating to his healthcare advisor a list of Rx drugs that should be subsidized, or she didn't have a problem until she started hypochondriacking all the symptoms on the drug ads that accompany the nightly news, we might have something. To paraphrase Roger Ebert, drug problems aren't funny; only jokes about drug problems can be. @ Righteous Bubba

The crucial part of the joke is the National Review cover.

Agreed. But is it saying Nat Rev would never do this, or that I’m a humorless lefty because I don’t find the NYer’s attempt funny? It works better for me w/o the “For all the irony-challenged literalists…” caption. How about: “The last cover a National Review artist ever draws”?

Also “we don’t know if Cindy doesn’t have an Rx problem” is classic wingnut logic and we could use less of that.

Thanx for correcting me; what I meant was that it’s a woefully undercovered subject and as a source for humor by itself doesn’t do much. Now if she were dictating to his healthcare advisor a list of Rx drugs that should be subsidized, or she didn’t have a problem until she started hypochondriacking all the symptoms on the drug ads that accompany the nightly news, we might have something. To paraphrase Roger Ebert, drug problems aren’t funny; only jokes about drug problems can be.

]]> By: owlbear1 http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631763 owlbear1 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:30:15 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631763 I guess if Republicans had been going on for years how <i>the U.S. Senator for the State of Illionois</i> was a secret Commie spy that might be funny but they've been going on for years how <i>the U.S. Senator for the State of Illionois</i> is a SECRET MUSLIM TERRORIST. Obviously they DIDN'T get the joke. Typical Republicans. I guess if Republicans had been going on for years how the U.S. Senator for the State of Illionois was a secret Commie spy that might be funny but they’ve been going on for years how the U.S. Senator for the State of Illionois is a SECRET MUSLIM TERRORIST.

Obviously they DIDN’T get the joke. Typical Republicans.

]]> By: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631762 ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:29:57 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631762 <i>But this is the way our elections now work, and the Remnicks rarely seem to notice. Repeatedly, our elections are driven by disinformation, bull-roar, high trivia and lies—often driven along by major pundits who, at their best, can’t seem to care. Let’s put Michelle in a giant huge Afro! Let’s show the two of them burning the flag! Most important: Let’s make Obama a Muslim! To them, this seems like a joke—like a sally that is tres amusant. To us, it seems more like a reprise of Al Gore said he invented the Internet—or of those Swift-boat tales. </i> Seems to me Bob is blaming the wrong person. The major pundits will use it to drive the false narrative! And they are the real problem. I saw the cartoon, I knew who it was making fun of. The people pushing the edge of this crap deserve to be viciously mocked, not kow-towed to. But this is the way our elections now work, and the Remnicks rarely seem to notice. Repeatedly, our elections are driven by disinformation, bull-roar, high trivia and lies—often driven along by major pundits who, at their best, can’t seem to care. Let’s put Michelle in a giant huge Afro! Let’s show the two of them burning the flag! Most important: Let’s make Obama a Muslim! To them, this seems like a joke—like a sally that is tres amusant. To us, it seems more like a reprise of Al Gore said he invented the Internet—or of those Swift-boat tales.

Seems to me Bob is blaming the wrong person. The major pundits will use it to drive the false narrative!

And they are the real problem.

I saw the cartoon, I knew who it was making fun of. The people pushing the edge of this crap deserve to be viciously mocked, not kow-towed to.

]]> By: ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631754 ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®© Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:21:38 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631754 <i>Righteous Bubba said, July 15, 2008 at 19:00 Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes in this motherfucking White House! </i> <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/257/story/44191.html" rel="nofollow">I know what you mean</a>. Righteous Bubba said,

July 15, 2008 at 19:00

Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes in this motherfucking White House!

I know what you mean.

]]> By: Jay B. http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631750 Jay B. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:16:43 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631750 Bob's a little touchy. He's generally right and, given an opportunity like this to nettle David Remnick, he'll take it. Bob’s a little touchy. He’s generally right and, given an opportunity like this to nettle David Remnick, he’ll take it.

]]> By: hardindr http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631742 hardindr Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:08:17 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631742 Bob Somerby <a href="http://www.dailyhowler.com/dh071508.html" rel="nofollow">disagrees</a>. Bob Somerby disagrees.

]]> By: Righteous Bubba http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631740 Righteous Bubba Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:00:55 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631740 Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes in this motherfucking White House! Enough is enough! I have had it with these motherfucking snakes in this motherfucking White House!

]]> By: stryx http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631739 stryx Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:59:18 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631739 Yikes! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGnGFaJqmzU&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Patrice Lamumba and Bobby Darrin!</a> Yikes!

Patrice Lamumba and Bobby Darrin!

]]> By: J— http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631738 J— Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:58:34 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631738 1. The recent Colombian hostage rescue has made the plain old, standard Che t-shirt funny. 2. Raúl is totally stoked. He looks to China, notes the political and economic models in place, sees the preparations for this year's Games, and says to himself, "Yes, Havana will one day host the Olympics. Soon." Freedom is on the march! 1. The recent Colombian hostage rescue has made the plain old, standard Che t-shirt funny.

2. Raúl is totally stoked. He looks to China, notes the political and economic models in place, sees the preparations for this year’s Games, and says to himself, “Yes, Havana will one day host the Olympics. Soon.”

Freedom is on the march!

]]> By: tigrismus http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631736 tigrismus Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:57:20 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631736 Or this, even: http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=barackpantherzq2.jpg Or this, even: http://img299.imageshack.us/my.php?image=barackpantherzq2.jpg

]]> By: tigrismus http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631735 tigrismus Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:56:53 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631735 <i>that further illuminate the New Yorker’s projection of alleged right-wing fears of Obama.</i> Projection my ass. <a>Suck. on. this.</a> that further illuminate the New Yorker’s projection of alleged right-wing fears of Obama.

Projection my ass. Suck. on. this.

]]> By: stryx http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631733 stryx Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:49:11 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631733 Glory to the fighters for national liberation! Long live independence and African unity! <a href="http://www.africawithin.com/lumumba/independence_speech.htm" rel="nofollow">Long live the independent and sovereign [nation]!</a> Glory to the fighters for national liberation!

Long live independence and African unity!

Long live the independent and sovereign [nation]!

]]> By: Jay B. http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631731 Jay B. Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:44:00 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631731 I do love how the whole notion that right now, as we write this, there's a Communist China that actually exists and will be hosting the Olympics in a few weeks. And that we're basically owned by them at this point. And they were all Maoists. But yes, Obama is Chinese. Which is central to their point. I do love how the whole notion that right now, as we write this, there’s a Communist China that actually exists and will be hosting the Olympics in a few weeks. And that we’re basically owned by them at this point. And they were all Maoists.

But yes, Obama is Chinese. Which is central to their point.

]]> By: Righteous Bubba http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/9882.html#comment-631727 Righteous Bubba Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:40:10 +0000 http://www.sadlyno.com/?p=9882#comment-631727 <i>I don’t know that I’d call Horsey’s cartoon a very good comeback. McCain’s own staff claims “senior moments” twice a week, and we don’t know if Cindy doesn’t have an Rx problem.</i> The crucial part of the joke is the National Review cover. Also <i>"we don’t know if Cindy doesn’t have an Rx problem" </i>is classic wingnut logic and we could use less of that. I don’t know that I’d call Horsey’s cartoon a very good comeback. McCain’s own staff claims “senior moments” twice a week, and we don’t know if Cindy doesn’t have an Rx problem.

The crucial part of the joke is the National Review cover. Also “we don’t know if Cindy doesn’t have an Rx problem” is classic wingnut logic and we could use less of that.

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