Monday, June 22, 2009
Politics Conservative Hee-larity!
Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 12:34 PM
Over at conservative entertainment site Big Hollywood, John T. Simpson asks why people aren't telling jokes about Obama. To get the conversation started, he floats a few of his own hilarious Obama jokes:
“Did you hear President Obama had to cancel his press conference today? Got his halo stuck in a TelePrompTer!”
“Well, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright is back in the news again. Said ‘them Jews’ won’t let him in to see Obama. Seems the Good Reverend is going to unusual lengths to get an audience with his former parishioner. He was last seen roosting like a chicken on the White House fence.”
And it doesn't take long to get where you think it'll wind up:
“President Obama said he’s unlike all those other presidents we’ve ever had, and he’s right. What other president in American history could fit in at both an NAACP dinner and a KKK rally?”
Um, rimshot?
And then he asks the commenters to add to the yukfest. The results are even more hilarious:
Obama has been said to be like a god. Unfortunately, he's like one of the petty, vindictive Greek and Roman gods who screwed with mortals for their amusement.
Why did Obama cross the road? To blame Bush for the crumbling infrastructure.
And, saving the best for last:
Obama is a joke, and is the primary source of the top ten reasons, not to vote for progressive/liberal/Democrat candidates.
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My favorite Obama jokes actually come from Jon Stewart playing Obama/Bush's speeches back to back.
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Conservative humor is so awkward. Well, "clean" conservative humor, anyway. We all know what kind of "jokes" are told behind closed doors.
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sore fucking losers. even with my being pissed at the prez, i still do not want him to fail. why does the GOP hate america so much? they just do not value freedom...maybe they need to form their own country! *sound familiar?*
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Wasn't the christian god (especially the OT version) just as petty and vindictive as the Greek and Roman ones? Oh wait...they conveniently forgot about that detail, right?
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I laughed hysterically! Hopefully this guy will be in "Red Eye" with Greg Gutfeld on FOX News. Conservatives are very funny because they have a sense of humor while liberals are bitter and angry all the time.
The joke will be on the liberals and Democrat Party in '10, when tax cutting hard traditionalists sweep the Marxists out of power.
Prepare for the backlash of freedom!
The joke will be on the liberals and Democrat Party in '10, when tax cutting hard traditionalists sweep the Marxists out of power.
Prepare for the backlash of freedom!
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Reminds me of the Tom Lehrer lyric from "The Folk Song Army"
They may have won all the battles, but we had all the best songs
Except in our case we have all the better political humorists.
They may have won all the battles, but we had all the best songs
Except in our case we have all the better political humorists.
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Huh. Not funny. I'm all for making jokes about the president, even if they're crude and tasteless, but they've still got to be funny. Humor is humor and these "jokes" are not it.
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Too bad that Jon Stewart's and Stephen Colbert's Obama jokes are so much funnier and more pointed.
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At least it's a step in the right direction. Conservatives need to sign up for more improv classes.
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Wow, conservatives really aren't funny at all. What do they mean nobody's telling jokes about them. Stewart and Colbert have been all over him. I've heard plenty of comedians riffing on him. Hell, even Obama's in on the act with all the big ear references. d
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"Conservative" individuals can be funny. The thing is that CONSERVATISM is not funny, at least as it exists today: basically just angry identity politics. If you hate Obama because he is a "muslin kenyan socialist", thats your right but there's no coherent idea behind it that can be phrased humorously. Political jokes need to make a point; contemporary conservatism is pointless.
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Of course, these are the folks who think "John Edwards is a FAG!" is the height of political humor.
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