I’m too lazy to do an April Fools post, so instead I’ll just point you to Stefan’s. My favorite comment in his thread thus far comes from RWGal, who wonders “It IS an April Fools thing I hope?” (I suppose it’s the lack of actual humor that she finds confusing.)
Which raises a question: why is it that conservatives tend to be so damn humorless? Can anybody name me one top-notch, overtly conservative humorist or comedian? (I mean, with the obvious exception of the always brilliant P.J. O’Rourke.)
“Which raises a question: why is it that conservatives tend to be so damn humorless?” – If you believed all the insane crap they do, would you be smiling?
Yes, that Stefan guy is so damn funny. I almost cracked a smile.
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I go back and forth between your blog and Stefan’s and I don’t know which one I find more filled with BS and overstatement. Sure, there is a core of wisdom in what each of you says — and while I definitelty tend to the liberal side I wouldn’t discount Stefan’s rap at all: the guy is smart — but both of you exaggerate it so much that it all becomes a silly adolescent caricature. I wish people could have a rational problem-solving discussion — the issues are too big to waste time on silly attack bullshit.
It’s like you guys are mirror images of each other.
People who believe they are absolutely right about every topic have no ability to laugh at themselves, and all great humorists include themselves as the target of their barbs — like Mark Twain.
The guys from South Park are.
Carlos Mencia acts and talks like a conservative.
Dennis Miller is, although I personally don’t find him funny.
Colin Quinn’s show on Comedy Central was pretty funny a couple years ago.
And I haven’t even had to touch upon the comedic stylings of Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White.
Oh, and hanging around enough people from both sides of the political spectrum on my job and personal life, conservatives are for more humorous than the typical uptight liberal, or progressive or whatever label you want to apply to yourself these days.
Although there are plenty of sticks in the mud on both sides of the aisle.
whether you are liberal or conservative, don’t you think its ridiculous that we have the most expensive health care system?
Is the profit in the system here good for health care and the american people? For some people to get above-average care do others need to get below-average care?
Goldy,
So Jose just above I suppose is another example of one of those hilarious, rolicking on the counter-top, fun-loving liberals on your side who has such a great sense of humor.
This is an April Fool’s Day open post and he’s blathering about the cost of health care?
Christ, I thought the whackjobs on my side of the fence were boring enough.
Reporterward:
I’ll give you Colin Quinn.
Denis Miller isn’t funny when he is being political.
Matt and Trey of Southpark are not conservatives. They don’t like people who are full of themselves, but tend leftist (see any of their shows on religion abd their audio commentary to season seven).
I guess you can throw in Jackie Mason.
Rush Limbaugh actually can be funny, that was one of his selling points early on (he is less so now that he has to spend most of his show propping up Bush; one can see how that drains your sense of humor.)
Andrew Sullivan can have a good sense of humor (but does he call himself conservative any more?)
However, most Republican’s trying humor come across like the minnow:. No wit, and at worse, a hint of underlying racism and sexism. Of course, when most of what you say has been reduced to a joke, it is hard to write a joke on purpose.
If you take yourself too seriously, if you cannot admit error, if you are too full of yourself, you cannot be humorous. This includes some Democrats, but 99% of Republicans.
Penn and Teller
Libertarians but they tilt both right and left at times compared to more tightly laced libertarians.
Not strictly comedy but they are often humorous as long as it’s not your sacred cow they are making into hamburger.
Conservatives think Ann Coulter is humorous and you just don’t “get” it.
Farts are funny no matter what your political persuasion. The word “poop”, if not overused can usually elicit a smile. Autistic people can be a riot when they’re not taking themselves too seriously.
re: Ann Coulter
See what I said above:
However, most Republican’s trying humor come across like the minnow:. No wit, and at worse, a hint of underlying racism and sexism.
Captures her/him pretty well.
Inadvertently funny religious website?
http://www.thebricktestament.c.....13-15.html
Another 10 million Mexican ileeeeeeeeeegals and Southern Cal becomes Baja Norte. No hope as Democrats need these illegal votes to win.
JDB,
Thanks for the pickup on Jackie Mason. Since I’m 29, I’ll admit I’m one generation short of having him on my radar screen.
Thanks for the Limbaugh reference too. His comedic golden age was probably in the late-1990s to 2001 with his Paul Shanklin (sic?) produced music parodies.
I will disagree with you over Trey and Matt though. The last I checked, they referred to themselves as libertarians although that could have changed over the past couple years.
Whether they are or are not self-described conservatives, I’ll maintain that their comedy is.
There’s a reason why the term “South Park conservative” has been invented recently.
Last Wednesday’s episode about hybrid car owners and San Francisco is the closest example.
Past episodes have bashed Rob Reiner, PETA, environmentalists.
Team America was all about bashing liberal “pussies” who are protesting the war on terror.
The only time they’ve gone out of the way to take a dig at Republicans was the episode where Kenny was supposed to fight the legions of Satan in Heaven but was kept in a vegetative state on earth.
You mentioned that South Park has taken digs at religion and that somehow this makes them liberal or Democrat. This isn’t quite the case. They’ve made it rather clear that they are bashing some of the fringe followers of organized religions (with the exception of Scientology). Even the Mormon episode on South Park, the lesson was that although they might disagree with the basic precepts of the faith, the religion does make the people into better citizens.
Dems, Say a prayer for racist bitch Cindi McKenney, [D-GA]. The evil white man “disses” her and she had to smack him down!!!!!
Why do liberal Democrats sound like towelhead terrorists???
Ann Coulter is a Republican babe!!! Helen Thomas is a Democrat hag. See the difference?
The only issue I take is with the stereotype that Democrats and liberals (progressives or whatever) are by default more funny or artistic or creative than conservatives.
That’s a nice broad brush people have been painting with for awhile and just because you guys repeat it to each other, doesn’t mean that it is beyond criticism.
And when did Ann Coulter supposedly become a comedian and that we automatically think her funny? I must have missed that memo from the Grand Masters at our weekly conservative purification and thought adjustment rituals.
Dennis Miller used to try.
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“I wish people could have a rational problem-solving discussion – the issues are too big to waste time on silly attack bullshit.” Commentby Raw Data— 4/1/06@ 1:04 pm
That’s how it used to be until the wingnuts turned politics into a mockery of truth and decency.
re 19: Don’t push your luck. We’re all trying to be kind to the president’s mother
The problem with Stefan is he posts something like that as a joke, and by tomorrow he’ll believe it’s true because he read it somewhere (can’t remember where).
Say, Stefan, why won’t you share the loot from your lawsuit against King County with the generous donors to your “legal action fund” who paid for the lawsuit?
6, 7
You guys wanna here something funny? Mike McGavick’s latest TV ad! Here’s a $14-million-a-year insurance CEO promising to “do something” about children without health care. Yeah Mike, try cutting the administrative overhead (e.g. executive salaries) and lowering premiums.
re 15: Once again. The WWII generation is dead. Who is going to worry about Mexicans coming over the border?
Republicans have spent generations “proving” we need them. Now we’re all supposed to be afraid of Mexicans? Rove must be under a lot of pressure. The only Mexican your target audience will fear is a gay one who wants to get married and be Godless.
They are hard to find. Plus , they work hard , smart and cheap, don’t say peep, and don’t join unions. In fact, let’s ship all the mEXICANS HERE AND DEPORT THE rEPUBLICANS TO mEXICO.
Who says conservatives aren’t funny? They make me laugh every day! Here are some examples of wingnut rib-crackers:
Mark the Welsher didn’t pay his gambling debt to Goldy
Surreal Mark thinks a “union shop” is a “closed shop”
Flaky klake said former FISA judges told Congress Bush’s domestic spying is legal
And the ever entertaining Mr. Cynical: http://www.acclaimimages.com/_.....-5258.html (say, didn’t John Gacy dress up as a clown, too?)
Oh yeah, I forgot to mention, Mark the Welsher’s ex got him for FIVE HUNDRED BIG ONES!!! Now that is funnneeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!! :D :D :D
They are hard to find. Plus , they work hard , smart and cheap, don’t say peep, and don’t join unions. In fact, let’s ship all the mEXICANS HERE AND DEPORT THE DEMOCRAT BLACKS TO mEXICO.
Commentby headless lucy— 4/1/06@ 2:28 pm
[Great idea!!! Our taxes should go down. So will the crime rate!!!!!!]
Me!
Right Wing Scumbags Attack Freed Hostage For Statements Made At Gunpoint
“RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (April 1) – Protected by the U.S. military and far from the country where she had been held hostage, Jill Carroll strongly disavowed statements she had made during captivity in Iraq and shortly after her release, saying Saturday she had been repeatedly threatened. …
“‘Things that I was forced to say while captive are now being taken by some as an accurate reflection of my personal views. They are not … fearing retribution from my captors, I did not speak freely. … Also, at least two false statements about me have been widely aired: One – that I refused to travel and cooperate with the U.S. military, and two – that I refused to discuss my captivity with U.S. officials. Again, neither statement is true.’
“The remarks have drawn criticism from conservative bloggers and commentators, but the Monitor said ‘Carroll did what many hostage experts and past captives would have urged her to do: Give the men who held the power of life and death over her what they wanted.'”
These right wing haters are beneath contempt. I spit on them. Ptoooie!!!!
For complete story, see http://articles.news.aol.com/n.....3409990004. This article is copyrighted by somebody or other. If you want to know how, click on the link and read the story! I’m not your fucking research assistant. I’m a fucking rabbit!
yeah, sorry we can’t field a lineup like
lily tomlin
richard pryor
george carlin
i could go on and on
what’s so funny about foul mouthed comedians
and can you name a Leftie dem comedian who is G rated and funny?
yeah, sorry we can’t field a lineup like
lily tomlin
richard pryor
george carlin
i could go on and on
what’s so funny about foul mouthed comedians
and can you name a Leftie dem comedian who is G rated and funny?
Commentby righton— 4/1/06@ 5:58 pm
When Ann Coulter take a couple shot a lefties the whine like little babies. Proof that lefties can dish it out but can’t take it.
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“and can you name a Leftie dem comedian who is G rated and funny?”
Don’t know about their politics, but you might look up the following:
Charlie Chaplin (unless nominess must still be performing, and Chaplin was a noted lefty; I know he worked in silent pictures, but he never flipped anybody off).
Robin Williams (?–you tell me)
Bill Cosby (?–you tell me)
Lenny Bruce (yeah, sure, another dead comic, but today his stuff may pass the “G” string smell test).
Rob Reiner is note noted for his profane performances.
Jerry Lewis (?–you tell me).
On the other hand, Bob Hope thought himself to be royalty, and insisted on being treated as such. I guess there are a few conservative loons who can\could do passable performance comedy.
Great comics mine the irrational absurdities of existence. Conservatives typically have a different take on this matter. Therefore, we cannot blame them for their lack of a sense of humor.
We can, however, pity them.
I like Dennis Miller, he’s a righty.
I like Jon Stewart, who makes fun of Democrats better than the right does.
Cons are a bit too sharp-edged to have a good times anyway. Lighten up, fellas.
Dennis Miller lost it when he threw his support to Ross Perot. He now relies on attitude, not wit.
dennis miller…..and definitely ron white. he is really really funny. and when penn and teller did their “i have to have the best of eveything” schtick…..it was just like they were describing the whiney entitled yuppy bores in seattle.don’t forget that classic “christmas song”….”driving through seattle’s latte land” [GAG]……..
and raw data @3….you really hit the nail on the head with your comments.
Just thought I’d mention that all the right wing dick worshipers were strangely silent as AirAmerica celebrated its second birdthday. Remember when the traitors and cowards on the right were saying AA wouldn’t last six months? Then they said it wouldn’t last a year. Then they said it wouldn’t break 10 markets. Then they said 30, etc. etc.
Well as usual, they are wrong. AA is going strong pointing out the republican culture of corruption and standing up for the America that was before it was raped by the cowards and inbred morons in the Bush regime.
I don’t think Ron White is conservative, not like Larry the Cable Guy.
Ron White is very funny though.
re 42: Ragging on Seattle. How precious and original….
Question: What’s the difference between Dubya and Jane Fonda?
Answer: At least Jane Fonda has been to Vietnam!!
If that one doesn’t have you roling on the floor,here’s another one:
Question: What’s the difference between Vietnam and Iraq?
Answer: Dubya had an exit plan for Vietnam!!
I still got it!!!
Hey all you fuckbags that think young Republicans and the like should join the ‘war machine’ and enlist:
1) Isn’t that hypocritcal considering you are against the war?
2) What about the draft you all told young people would be coming if W was re-elected?
I dunno about the rest of you folks, but a lot of the right’s shtick that once passed for humor ceased to be funny when lots of people started dying.
“We find just as many things to rip on the left as we do on the right. People on the far-left and the far-right are the same exact person to us.” — Trey Parker, In Focus magazine (October 4, 2004)
But, if we are speaking about influential cartoons, it is hard to think that South Park is more watched than The Simpsons, and Matt Groening is a big donation Democrat.
I saw Lewis Black doing an American Voices gig at the Paramount. Lots of Bush bashing from Lew.
Great editorial in the PI today. Where are all the so-called conservatives who support performance audits? They want to spend hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars in Washington state to make sure teachers aren’t getting too many pencils but they don’t want to spend a dime making sure that dictator, Dickless Cheney’s company is spending our money wisely in Iraq. Go figure.
Notice how the cowardly righties want to change the subject every time someone asks them why they haven’t gone to Iraq? It’s one of my favorite things to do when I run into righties. I bait them in by asking lots of questions about their support for Bush’s war for oil. Then I drop it on em. . . “Well if you’re such a strong supporter of the war in Iraq, why not enlist?” Man they stutter, stammer, put their tails between their legs and show us what we already knew; they are cowardly chickenhawk blowhards. Lapel-pin patriots with no courage or convictions. Just the latest talking point from hate radio or the Bush regime.
Anti-Goldy @ 44
“Hey all you fuckbags that think young Republicans and the like should join the ‘war machine’ and enlist:
1) Isn’t that hypocritcal considering you are against the war?”
It’s your fucking war…you fight it! Apparently you are one of those pro-war pusseys who talk the talk, but don’t walk the walk.
“2) What about the draft you all told young people would be coming if W was re-elected?”
Ummm…I recall a few hawks AND doves making that claim, but anybody with any political sense knew that a draft is, politically, out of the question (even if desirable from a military standpoint). And we know for damn sure that Bush would never consider military necessary over political constraint.
That’s why we call upon you to serve. Every young Republican that goes and fights for his/her glorious leader helps in the glorious “battle against WMD.” Glory and triumph comes from having soldiers who believe in the cause…. Sign up now!
Hey lefties, how was your holiday yesterday? Did you write to your favorite loony lefty blog site and leave a pithy entry? Did you quote something refutable from the NY Times? Did you smear someone? Did you say something racist about a Black Republican?
Hey Goldy, tell your family Hall of Fame and Former Pittsburgh Steeler Receiver Lynn Swann needs their vote against Ed Rendell? Why would you want your family to vote for someone who left Philly in a mess?
Puddy, Puddy, Puddy…the joke’s on you.
“Hey lefties, how was your holiday yesterday?”
Just fine. It was a Saturday after all.
“Did you write to your favorite loony lefty blog site and leave a pithy entry?”
There are no loony lefty blog sites, and most of us have been banned from loony rightwing blog sites in their narrow-minded oppressive and dictatorial pursuit of “freedom”.
“Did you quote something refutable from the NY Times?”
Such as their breathless support of the WMD thesis and the war in Iraq?
“Did you smear someone?”
We leave that to the Hannity’s and O’Reilly’s of the world. It’s their metier.
“Did you say something racist about a Black Republican?”
They have black republicans?
Wrongboy (aka Pro-ImpeachBush boy):
We left all the racism to the right. See: http://www.soundpolitics.com
And speaking of easily refutable, do you have something from NewsMax, Free Republic or the Washington Times for us? How is the search for those turban wearing terrorist carrying a surface to air missile that Air Force security saw, but failed to arrest, outside a base in Missouri? Boy oh boy, you have no shame.
It is a great illiustration of why you are always wrong. To you, the New York Times with hundreds of years of history and standards is always wrong, but some right wing web site just pulling stuff out of their asses, that has to be right. Not really that good at critical thinking, are you?
Boy oh boy, Wrongboy (aka Pro-ImpeachBush boy), no wonder you are always wrong.
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“what’s so funny about foul mouthed comedians” Commentby righton— 4/1/06@ 5:58 pm
what’s so funny about Republican lies, corruption, warmongering, torture, constitutional violations, incompetence, and bullying? fuck you, wrongagain!
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“When Ann Coulter take a couple shot a lefties” Commentby RUFUS— 4/1/06@ 6:30 pm
I hope Ann Coulter takes a couple shots at me, so I can exercise my legal right of self-defense! C’mon, Ann, I DARE you!!! (click-click)
I’ll tell you what’s really funny. Righties who assume they’re the only ones with guns, that bunnies can’t shoot straight, and only lefty blood will be on the floor when they start a civil war. Now that is funny! Sort of.
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“Question: What’s the difference between Dubya and Jane Fonda?
Answer: At least Jane Fonda has been to Vietnam!!”
ROFLMAO!!! Now THAT is funnnnneeeeeeee!!! :D :D :D
By the way, right-wing liars concocted a vicious and false story that Jane Fonda gave notes that American POWs slipped to her to North Vietnamese guards, and three POWs were beaten to death as a result. This story was widely circulated on the internet and many people believe it’s true. It’s a hoax!!!
The right-wing bullshitters who created this fiction made a big mistake: They used real names of real people for attribution. You guessed it, Snopes.com (the “urban legend” folks) tracked down these people and got their “what-the-fuck?!” statements on record. http://www.snopes.com/military/fonda.asp
The Jane Fonda POW fairytale is typical of how wingnut liars operate. They target a liberal politician or celebrity and try to make the person look bad by creating a false story about the person, and circulating the story through mass e-mailings, rightwing blogs, etc. These guys are on the same level as the scammers in Nigeria, Russia, and other foreign countries who mass e-mail phony “verify your account” phishing scams. THEY ARE LIARS, AND THEY RUN LIE FACTORIES!!!
Another well known widely circulated right-wing scam e-mail is a photo of a VFW veteran wearing a cardboard “Bullshit Protector” ear flap with the caption, “Bill Moyer, 73, wears a ‘Bullshit Protector’ flap over his ear while Senator Ted Kennedy addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars.” The photo is real, and Moyer is a real veteran, but the caption is so ironically phony as to actually be hilarous. The photo was taken by an AP photographer, and the real caption says, “Bill Moyer, 73, wears a “Bullshit Protector” flap over his ear while President George W. Bush, on screen at rear, addresses the Veterans of Foreign Wars at their 106th convention Monday, Aug. 22, 2005, in Salt Lake City. Moyer served in Korea and Vietnam, and in the post-WWII occupation of Germany.” I got this one in my e-mail probably 20 times, sent to me by friends and acquaintances (some of them die-hard Republicans) who undoubtedly believed the lie that Moyer was snubbing Ted Kennedy. In fact, I’ll bet the vast majority of wingnuts believe the fake version of this caption is the real deal. http://www.snopes.com/photos/politics/earflap.asp
Another example of the BULLSHIT the RIGHTWING LIE FACTORY churns out on a daily basis.
There are more, of course. In fact, the list of right-wing lies and scam e-mails is so long, that debunker web sites like “Urban Legends” can’t keep up with them! There’s a dozen new ones born every day. There’s two things you can safely assume: They’re all BULLSHIT, and our gullible kool-aid-drinking trollfuck friends here on HA swallow these stories (and all the rest of the output from the right-wing bullshit factory) hook, line, and sinker.
Parenthetically, the photo of VFW veteran Bill Moyer is copyrighted by the Associated Press, and its unauthorized use with a fake caption by RIGHT WING LIARS obviously violates copyright laws. The “Fair Use” doctrine gives no legal protection to those who appropriate the intellectual property of others and alter or misrepresent it for purposes of using it for political propaganda.
That’s why the LIARS who create this garbage prefer anonymity — their activities are legally actionable, and they would face lawsuits if they were fingered.
Here’s yet another example of a scam mass-email from the RIGHTWING BULLSHIT FACTORY:
“Claim: University peaceniks are chased from a restaurant by patrons singing God Bless America.
Status: False.”
http://www.snopes.com/rumors/egghead.htm
Like I said above, the scams and lies circulated by RIGHT WING LIARS is endless. This is an oldie, but new ones are born every day. You can safely assume that 99.99999% of these stories are FALSE.
WHY DO RIGHT WINGERS LIE SO MUCH?
Well, this one’s easy. If they had a valid ideology, if their ideas worked in the real world, if they had a legitimate political agenda … THEY WOULDN’T HAVE TO LIE, would they?
Lying is what slick salesmen do when they’re trying to sell you CRAP.
Noticed Kathy Harris’ Florida Senate campaign is imploding. I bet she’s pissed. She helps Baby Bush steal the White House and then the GOP turns on her as their way of saying thanks. Remember this all you republican assholes. Even your own kind don’t like you!
They have black republicans?
Commentby Proud To Be An Ass— 4/2/06@ 8:59 am
Yep, there the blacks who escaped the plantation of the democratic party and grew a mind of their own. The rest of the liberal blacks are slaves.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....jim02.html
Hey everyone. All you need to do is drive around in your grandpa and grandma car with a cell phone scanner. If you pick up on a lefty talking to another lefty just publish it and say the public has a right to know. Easy. We can scare the shit out of these terrorist hugging, commie liberal shit heads.
64.Yeah, the blacks who work and are not on welfare and food stamps.
The winner of DOM was and is definitely RUFUS. Congratulations Mr Dildo.
64.
Yep, there the blacks who escaped the plantation of the democratic party and grew a mind of their own. The rest of the liberal blacks are slaves.
I’ll look for the long shots of the Republican Convention in 2008, with all the black Republicans intermingled in the crowd of delegates.
rufus
you won’t be able to scan any listen any longer, except when you stumble into an analog cell converstaoin. now that digital , no mas
Democrat Blacks: Animal Voter Slaves to liberal Democrat pols.
Well as usual, they are wrong. AA is going strong pointing out the republican culture of corruption and standing up for the America that was before it was raped by the cowards and inbred morons in the Bush regime.
Commentby KlakeSucksDick— 4/1/06@ 9:00 pm
Funny little Rabbit dreams a lot, what is that drug the Doc prescribe for you Roger.
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Of course Klake, there is nothing funnier than seeing donks out of power. The shit those losers make up as to why they are out of power is hilarious.
RUFUS @ 72
“The shit those losers make up as to why they are out of power is hilarious.”
Exactly, like “We wuz robbed!”
Oh…wait…that’s your schtick.
Hmmm, why would it be “racist” to point out that Black Republicans support a party that is both openly and covertly contemptuous of their community?
Daddy_Love@74: I luv how white libruls speak about the black man.
Your policies have destroyed the nuclear black family. Your policies have keep us poor. Your policies have destroyed inner city school systems. Your policies have made our life worse over these last 40+ years. Why do inner city blacks continue to vote for this craziness? Jesse Hi-Jackson and Al Tawanna Sharpton deliver the kool-aid that’s why!!! The blacks in 2004 knew what a charlatan John Kerry was. That’s why in October 2004 he finally asked JJ to assist him in the black vote becuz we were migrating away from the reservation and the 3.5 million vote loss would have been bigger!!!!
Horseless Looselips (Headless Lucy): Please regale us on how Headstart Programs have helped blacks. I challenged you just after PacMan did. I even placed a couple of links to whet that “appetite” you claim to have. Bring it on Looselips!