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I’m glad that the right is showing their usual maturity about the important debates of our time. Not surprisingly I found that link via Michelle Malkin, who is usually the conservative blog that reacts to important news with silly Photoshop pictures.
But then I guess when the leader of your party is Rush…
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Botchmen. That was awesome! With the added bonus of it being completely true.
Oliver=FAIL.
Because the economy was doing so awesome under George W. Bush.
You cons had the keys to the kingdom for six years, and a Dem congress unwilling to stand up to Bush for two.
What did you accomplish? Where did you succeed? Name three reasons why any intelligent American should ever vote Republican again?
Not that funny. I did laugh at “Silk Pantsuit” though.
I second Jaim’s entire post.
Also, if you really want to see how you make fun of the Democrats, look at the Daily Show from last night. Jon Stewart, I salute you.
That was pretty funny. I like Biden as The Comedian.
Critical difference between the upper echelon of political comedy.
Liberal comedians = mock the powerful
conservative comedians = mock liberals
Movie poster? I haz it.
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The text at the bottom is really small. It says;
Republican National Committee in association with FOX news presents Sarah Palin, Michael Steele, Joe the Plumber* in
The GOP Squad
Karl Rove, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, Anne Coulter with Laura Ingram and Rush Limbaugh as “The Chief”
Just out of curiosity, where is the Left and the “important debates of our time?” Nearly every thread on this blog and others, nearly every story on Olberman/Maddow, etc. is attacking either Republicans, Conservatives, the Right, and/or anyone who doesn’t agree with President Obama. So where is the big debate?
@Hedley:
Maddow is pretty good at criticizing Obama from the left. Olbermann, not so much, although if the blogs get all huffy, he’ll respond, as he did when he didn’t call out Obama for his inexcusable FISA flip-flop. And while there is plenty of room for improvement, both are in no way the liberal equivalent to the many, many right wing Usual Suspects.
Repukblicans are too short on imagination to be satirical, let alone funny. They don’t know how.
What they know is hate and repetition, like chimps trained to be evil.
Oliver Willis, who considers “debate” to be blog post after blog post of pure ad hominem nonsense, talks about “maturity”. Oh the irony.
pure ad hominem nonsense
You keep usin dat word. I do not think it means what you think it does.
>You keep usin dat word. I do not think it means what you think it does.
Do you? Oliver has the classic partisan’s approach – he doesn’t try to attack the argument someone is making (because that requires reasoning, looking up references, otherwise known as work), he tries to attack the arguer. Don’t worry, it isn’t a phenomenon localized to the left. Among the left though, this website is particularly fond of that style of “debate.” It does cover my daily dose of clown juice pretty well though.
Uh-oh. “mature.” We can’t hope to meet standards that high. Advantage: wingnutz!
Parthenon has it right. Humor and comedy is about knocking down the powerful, if only in one’s imagination. Republicans are boot-lickers, worshipful of power for its own sake. Humor just doesn’t work for them.
…because if there’s one character I associate Nancy Pelosi with, it’s the right-wing sociopath based on an unabashed Ayn Rand follower.
It does cover my daily dose of clown juice pretty well though.
See kids, this is how an adult debates.
Hey, Parthenon, old chum:
Critical difference between the upper echelon of political comedy.
Liberal comedians = mock the powerful
conservative comedians = mock liberals
In that poster, the people being mocked are the President of the United States, the Vice-President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Majority Leader of the Senate, the White House Chief of Staff, and the Secretary of State. If that ain’t “mocking the powerful,” could you point me towards some more powerful liberals who got off unscathed?
J.
Oh, and Parthenon, for a converse point about “Liberal comedians = mock the powerful,” I got three words for ya:
Joe The Plumber.
J.
I only mean it as a general principle I’ve observed, mate. I’m sure it’s not hard and fast. I’ve never seen a conservative comic go after an ideological brother. And with how much favorable media exposure he’s been granted in the conservative press, I think it’s hard to make the case anymore that JTP didn’t have some power, as an arm of the McCain campaign and now a… well, whatever he is. Journalist, I guess.
In other words, in the poster, the people being mocked are indeed powerful, but they are also all Democrats. Would they go after Republicans at all? I’m skeptical.
Sounds like “the exception that proves the rule,” Parthenon, but I don’t think that generalization holds true as well as it’s pushed. It’s more of a reflection that for a long time, there weren’t that many truly powerful liberals.
The Clintons, of course, being exceptionally rich targets.
I suspect that’ll change, now that Democrats are in power. It’ll take a little time, but it’ll swing back.
J.
Oh, and Parthenon, for a converse point about “Liberal comedians = mock the powerful,” I got three words for ya:
Joe The Plumber.
Oh. Joe the Plumber* is a comedian? I thought he was serious.