I love political satire. Don’t matter it’s silly or biting. This one is pretty darn silly. 
Lord of the Right Wing
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I still say satire only works (is funny) when it is correct.
There is little, if any doubt as to who the enemies of the US want to win the election.
[quote=“Hassan Nasrallah, a Sadr relative and leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah”]We may be unable to drive the Americans out of Iraq. But we can drive George W. Bush out of the White House.
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Satire doesn’t work when the facts need to be altered to make it funny… in the TT cartoon… TT has to pretend that there is some confusion for his “satire” to be funny. Given that there is no such confusion… I don’t find it amusing.
[quote=“tigerman”]
Satire doesn’t work when the facts need to be altered to make it funny… in the TT cartoon… TT has to pretend that there is some confusion for his “satire” to be funny. Given that there is no such confusion… I don’t find it amusing.[/quote]
Isn’t that what he wants you to think?
Satire is funny if it fits you viewpoint. Some people think Rush is funny. Others think Al Franken is. But most people probably don’t think both are.
i prefer more subtle satire like theonion.com. in-your-face partisan satire is boring.
[quote=“tigerman”]
Satire doesn’t work when the facts need to be altered to make it funny… in the TT cartoon… TT has to pretend that there is some confusion for his “satire” to be funny. Given that there is no such confusion… I don’t find it amusing.[/quote]
I guess so.
I’m going to agree re the first point that many people find satire that jives with their own view as humorous, but I really do attempt to ascertain whether the satire uses correct facts, otherwise it isn’t, IMO, funny. And I definitely agree with your second point.
You mean those “Soong is feces” sites aren’t funny ? 
[quote=“Richardm”][quote=“tigerman”]
Satire doesn’t work when the facts need to be altered to make it funny… in the TT cartoon… TT has to pretend that there is some confusion for his “satire” to be funny. Given that there is no such confusion… I don’t find it amusing.[/quote]
Isn’t that what he wants you to think?
Satire is funny if it fits you viewpoint. Some people think Rush is funny. Others think Al Franken is. But most people probably don’t think both are.[/quote]
Al Franken is an idiot, but Limbaugh is an even bigger idiot. I don’t have much respect for Michael Moore either. I think these people discredit the left with their half-truths and sentimental garbage. I especially dislike Moore for his tirade against Charleton Heston in
YOU MIGHT BE A REPUBLICAN IF…
You think “proletariat” is a type of cheese.
You’ve named your kids “Deduction one” and “Deduction two”
You’ve tried to argue that poverty could be abolished if people were just allowed to keep more of their minimum wage.
You’ve ever referred to someone as “my (insert racial or ethnic minority here) friend”
You’ve ever tried to prove Jesus was a capitalist and opposed to welfare.
You’re a pro-lifer, but support the death penalty.
You think Huey Newton is a cookie.
The only union you support is the Baseball Players, because heck, they’re richer than you.
You think you might remember laughing once as a kid.
You once broke loose at a party and removed your neck tie.
You call mall rent-a-cops “jack-booted thugs.”
You’ve ever referred to the moral fiber of something.
You’ve ever uttered the phrase, “Why don’t we just bomb the sons of bitches.”
You’ve ever said, “I can’t wait to get into business school.”
You’ve ever called a secretary or waitress “Tootsie.”
You answer to “The Man.”
You don’t think “The Simpsons” is all that funny, but you watch it because that Flanders fellow makes a lot of sense.
You fax the FBI a list of “Commies in my Neighborhood.”
You don’t let your kids watch Sesame Street because you accuse Bert and Ernie of “sexual deviance.”
You scream “Dit-dit-ditto” while making love.
You’ve argued that art has a “moral foundation set in Western values.”
When people say “Marx,” you think “Groucho.”
You’ve ever yelled, “Hey hippie, get a haircut.”
You think Birkenstock was that radical rock concert in 1969.
You argue that you need 300 handguns, in case a bear ever attacks your home.
Iraq makes a lot of sense to you.
You’ve ever said civil liberties, schmivil schmiberties.
You’ve ever said “Clean air? Looks clean to me.”
You’ve ever called education a luxury.
You look down through a glass ceiling and chuckle.
You wonder if donations to the Pentagon are tax-deductable.
You came of age in the '60s and don’t remember Bob Dylan.
You own a vehicle with an “Re-elect Bush” sticker.
You’re afraid of the “liberal media.”
You ever based an argument on the phrase, “Well, tradition dictates…”
You ever told a child that Oscar the Grouch “lives in a trash can because he is lazy and doesn’t want to contribute to society.”
You’ve ever urged someone to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, when they don’t even have shoes.
You confuse Lenin with Lennon.
Chewy… good post.
I saw this yesterday…
[quote]Wood agrees that humor varies from country to country.
“Americans, because we are individualistic and confident, tend to do a lot of put-down humor,” she said.
“It’s a big deal for the British; they believe it breaks tension,” said Hodge. “But their sense of comedy is different. They use more irony, which Americans may mistake for sarcasm.”
Ethnic or gender-related humor is still acceptable in some parts of the world, but in U.S. business meetings and presentations, you’ve got to keep it clean.
“That means no off-color jokes,” said Hodge. “Sometimes Europeans make sexual innuendo jokes, but that doesn’t go over well with Americans. And ethnic jokes are out.”
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George Bush and John Kerry outside the Skull & Bones crypt, circa 1966.
Shortly after this photo was taken, the two engaged in nude mud
wrestling and drank from the skull of Geronimo.
[quote=“Alien”]YOU MIGHT BE A REPUBLICAN IF…
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OK, that was funny…
[quote=“tigerman”]Here’s one for everyone:
FLY THE PARTISAN SKIES:
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It is funny!
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The experience of flying on Liberal Air will be different than flying on normal airlines, and the company will be structured in different ways. For example, the frequent flier program will reward customers the less they fly, just to make things even. Airfares will be symbolic, since everything is paid for by George Soros. Pilots, who look disturbingly like Arlo Guthrie, will greet passengers at the door of the plane to apologize for the oil they are about to consume.
After the safety teach-in, mandated by the F.A.A. (“All bike messenger bags must fit in the overhead rack . . . in case of a water landing, your moral vanity may be used as a personal flotation device . . .”), there will be an inflight entertainment program, eliciting the complete range of highly attractive liberal emotions: rage, anger, disgust, contempt, pessimism, gloom and despair. For a full hour, passengers will watch Michael Moore movies; then for the next hour they will congratulate themselves for having a nuanced view of reality.
…
Right Wing Express will have a different corporate culture.
…
They will find the fares surprisingly affordable, especially if they fly up front, because first-class fares will have been drastically reduced in order to stimulate economic growth and the first-class meals will be especially lavish to give the hungry folks in coach an extra incentive to work hard and reform their lives.
…
Right Wing Express flights will not only land at airports, they will occupy airports. Passengers might sometimes find the flight attendants a tad abrasive (“You want me on that wall. You need me on that wall . . .”), but the cigarettes will be free and plentiful, and each passenger will be greeted with an appropriately conservative mantra, “Welcome to Right Wing Express, how can I help you help yourself?” [/quote]
I think it’s important to laugh at ourselves, especially at our politics.
People who can’t do that are really pretty sad, IMO.
Fred?
I’d love to catch you on candid camera some day.
Watch these from David Letterman:
“Bored Bush Boy,” Tyler Crotty (The Yawning Boy) VERY FUNNY! 
(4/2/04)
An Apology from CNN
(4/1/04)
Not for everybody, but I have always had a soft spot for Bob Boudelang:
[quote="Bob Boudelang,* Angry American Patriot,"]
“Our Great President is on Vacation Again, So Every Thing Must Be All Right!!”
April 10, 2004
It is mourning in America, and George W. is on vacation! That says it all!
Certainly I would hate to be a LIEberal Democrap Socialist Moran these days, with the economy going up in flames like a house afire and things going so well in Iraq, except for the fighting and the killing and the wounding.
In fact, things are going so well that George W. has gone on vacation to rest up and rehearse for his visit to the 9/11 commission with Our Great Vice President Dick Cheney, where they will appear together behind closed doors and not under oath and will censor the final report. And that is because he has nothing to hide as we saw from Concertina Rice’s testimony.
Any idiots who think Hitlery is the smartest woman in Washington has just gotten serious proof that Hitlery has a long way to go to get to the level of intelligence of Concertina Rice. Would Hitlery of read a report that was titled “Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States” and said that it was “historical information based on old reporting” and done nothing at all? I do not think so, and neither do you.
George W. only had 223 days before we were attacked, and during that time he was busy telling the country how the Klintoon kool-aid drinkers trashed the White House. Plus he had to apologize to the Chinese people for them knocking down our spy plane, and hide all the things he was doing for Enron, and fight to give rich people the tax cuts they desperately needed. So he had no time to do anything about terrorism, which was his number one priority.
And Slick Willie did not do anything but swat flies, which Concertina said, “We decided immediately to continue pursuing the Clinton Administration’s covert action authorities and other efforts to fight the network.” So they did not, and the result was eight months of peace and quiet, during which Our Great President was able to take the entire month of August off.
You see, George W. was tired of swatting flies, although he did not swat any. So instead he let flies just flit everywhere, like the dumpster behind the fish market on a hot day, and then came up with a bold plan to attack Iraq, which you cannot prove he ever claimed had anything to do with September 11. And was it not a good joke about how there were no weapons of mass distraction even though George W. looked under desks? We Republicans still get a laugh out of that.
Speaking of Iraq, as Concertina Rice said, we “have to depend on intelligence agencies to tell you what is relevant.” Fortunately, we have Our Great President, who knows that “relevant” does not mean “something to listen to.” After all, if he had listened to intelligence agencies, he would not of been able to say that there was an imminent threat from Iraq, which you cannot prove he ever said either. And he would not be able to say the current trouble is all the fault of Al Sadder instead of a broad-based uprising if he listened to intelligence agencies. But no one has eve accused George W. of intelligence I am proud to say. Instead he is Our Great War President, showing the Iraqi people the meaning of democracy and freedom by saying “Bring them on.”
And yes, they do seem to be bringing them on, but that just shows that the people we are fighting think George W. is a great leader worth listening to. And yes, they are Iraqis but they are anti-Iraqi, unlike our American soldiers and contractors who are pro-Iraqi. Get that straight!
But it would be premature to say that this is the end of the end of major combat operations or that the Mission Accomplished" sign that the Navy is to blame for was wrong. And once we get this guy Al Sadder we will be safe, the way we were when we got Sodom Husane and the before that when we got Oosy and Goosey, or whoever the hell the Sodom sons were.
So yes, we blew up a mosk, which is against the Geneva Convention, but this is no time for George W. to act civilized even if he was. These animals will never learn that savage violence does not solve anything unless we give it to them. After all, you do not hear any more threats from the tyrants of Grenada after me and Our Greatest President Ever Ronald Reagan taught them that lesson.
And so who cares if more soldiers have to go to Iraq to fight for nothing, or our soldiers have to stay there longer than expected again, as long as Our Great President can be Our Great War President. Support the troops by not asking questions about why they have to pay for their own body armor, or why the troops captured and tortured should not get the money they won in court, or what Halliburton gets out of it all.
A-Men.
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*–Bob Boudelang is a Republican team leader who wishes he had a Concertina Rice action figure to go along with his action figure of Our Great President which he wishes still had its own head instead of the Barbie head that was glued on, and it is not a dolly dammit! If you would like to send him a Concertina Rice action figure or even better the money for one which would really go for a Concertina Rice action figure and not booze and slim jims and some cigarettes and an adult magazine, contact me at bobboudelang@yahoo.com.
[quote=“Alien”]YOU MIGHT BE A REPUBLICAN IF…
You’re a pro-lifer, but support the death penalty.
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This is what gets me about the Left sometimes. The above is supposed to be a sarcastic jab at how ridiculous right wingers are, but then, when you stop and think about it, the “Republican” is basically saying that an innocent, unborn baby should not be killed, but a guilty, 35 year-old serial rapist-slash-murderer deserves to die.
The moral equation here just doesn’t add up. How about this:
You might be a Democrat if…
You support second-term abortions, but weep crocodile tears at the thought of Jeffrey Dahmer being executed.
Honestly…which side here is more wacko?
I think this is quite amusing - www.theonion.com - the first “In The News” picture on the right.
[quote=“porcelainprincess”][quote=“Alien”]YOU MIGHT BE A REPUBLICAN IF…
You’re a pro-lifer, but support the death penalty.
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This is what gets me about the Left sometimes. The above is supposed to be a sarcastic jab at how ridiculous right wingers are, but then, when you stop and think about it, the “Republican” is basically saying that an innocent, unborn baby should not be killed, but a guilty, 35 year-old serial rapist-slash-murderer deserves to die.
The moral equation here just doesn’t add up. How about this:
You might be a Democrat if…
You support second-term abortions, but weep crocodile tears at the thought of Jeffrey Dahmer being executed.
Honestly…which side here is more wacko?[/quote]
don’t think you can pidgeonhole this issue as being poliitcal. What about conservative Catholic Democrats or Socially Liberal “Rockefeller” Republicans (albeit a dying breed).
What about somebody who supports abortion as a method of population control, but is against it on a personal basis. Or someone who believes punishing murder with murder is wrong. Both issues are complicated and not as “black and white” as you portray them.
Ah, but Chewy… PP was only responding to the statement made by another poster that mocked Republicans. Thus, your reply should at least be directed at both PP and the original poster… I think it was Alien… 
And after reading your post again, I think you probably were directing your reply to both posters… 
I’m pro-abortion, pro-death penalty, pro-war. Kill’em all, I say. Where does the “pro-death” position fall on the political spectrum?