Oh yes, I’m sure. The little mouse heads left lovingly on the back step reassure me.
Well, the unemployment rate was going down until the Democratic congress took over…
And (if we include TV shows) Alex in Taxi.
No, he was a tinfoil-hat moron who just happened to be right.
For some reason, RWs seem to have a problem with funny. Mallard Fillmore is not funny. Rush Limbaugh is not funny. Dennis Miller has not been funny since his SNL days; P.J. O’Rourke, not very funny since his National Lampoon days. RW political cartoonists like Wayne Stayskal and Michael Ramirez are almost never funny. I’ve heard clips of “Christian comedians’” acts and they’re not funny.
Why is that?
:dubious: Not, I think, “a significant number.”
In fact, as I pointed out earlier, the data explicitly discounts such people.
So it’s not just that “a significant number” overstates the case; it’s that any number greater than zero is wrong.
Oh, I think racism does figure into it somewhere – now as in 1924. I’m sure Pat Buchanan and Lou Dobbs and the Minutemen would have significantly fewer objections if most illegals came from Europe or Canada.
PJ O’Rourke is pretty funny. From his description of his visit to Somalia during the US aid mission:
and,
George Will can be funny. Scott Stantis is funny. Christopher Buckley is funny.
The head of state – whether king or president – is the symbol and embodiment of the nation in a way that the other branches are not. Just like a mayor, even a poltically powerless figurehead-mayor, is the symbol and embodiment of his town.
That does not mean he should not be insulted; rather, it means the POTUS himself has a special duty to preserve the dignity of the office. But just keep it in perspective.
Probably in the 1939 movie, which bears little resemblance to the original poem: the British soldiers treat Gunga Din rather better, for a start, with no beatin’ and flayin’ and he cops a bullet while heroically warning an approaching relief column of an ambush, and thus is posthumously promoted to corporal, whereupon his ghost salutes his own eulogy, bursting his new-found buttons with pride.
Then there’s The World’s Fastest Indian…
I think a rewatch is in order. That doesn’t even come close to describing Hirsch’s character. Not even a little bit.
If the ‘Prickly City’ strips are any guide, Scott Stantis is an un-funny idiot. He embodies every bad stereotype about political cartooning being a safe place to practice logical fallacy while hiding behind a translucent veneer of “satire”. Much like the subject of this thread, in fact.
I disagree. People like that believe (as I so) that the law is the law and if people were flooding our borders in similar numbers from Canada or Europe, I would expect the exact same type of objection. (I’ve also mentioned here before that the family that lives next door to me includes a woman who came here from Mexico legally, went through the process, waited her turn, etc. and came here and made a good life for herself, and currently works for McDonald’s overseeing three of their restaurants. She is resentful of how we’ve allowed people from Mexico to stream in here virtually unchecked, and she is very much against both amnesty and health/welfare benefits because they broke the law to get here. (Which of course puts the lie to everyone objecting to illegal immigration being a racist.)
Such a scenario would make it more difficult for libs to scream racism though. “You motherfuckers hate whi…uh, Europeans!” 
Yep, in the eyes of liberals the U.S. is just one big honey pot, free for all to draw from, and if you object you’re either a selfish bastard or a racist asshole.
Oh, yeah…libs don’t care much for laws either, unless they’re related to hate speech or establishing government progams, so don’t expect to get anywhere by pointing out that the Canadians and Europeans flooding into the country are also breaking the law.
I think Prickly City is hysterical. Not always, of course, but when it’s on, it’s on.
I don’t say they’re all racists – Michael Lind emphatically is not, and he wants to seriously curtail legal immigration for socioeconomic reasons; many environmentalists want the same for zero-population-growth reasons – I only say that racists and racism play a significant and undeniable role in the anti-immigration movement and the others are bound to more or less tolerate them. Strange bedfellows, y’know. And yes, the picture would be very different if the immigration pressure came from Canada.
I’ve seen conservative bloggers like Michelle Malkin sneer at the RNC’s apologies, basically calling them wimps for trying to apologize for a “not racist” and “perfectly defensible” “piece of satire.”
Either way, I expect this’ll blow over pretty soon. It just doesn’t feel like a story with “legs” to me, though I’m sure it’ll turn into one of those things that partisans trying to make a point will bring up at every opportunity, rightfully or not.
The irony… it burns…
It will blow over, if the Pubs and RWs let it, and do not play nor call attention to the song at any of their future rallies or events.
Odds we’ll be hearing it again in 2004?
:dubious: What, um, year do you think it is now?