Interesting parody of a Newsweek interview of the Obamas, although I don’t read Newsweek and don’t know if it actually supports Obama as much as is parodied.
And therefore very nearly invisible on the SDMB.
Regards,
Shodan
Heavens yes. Since Rush’s audience tends to be so much better informed than the people who watch most other media outlets (like CNN or network news), there is that much less need to dumb it down or explain it the way it might be necessary in other cases.
Regards,
Shodan
I would bother wasting my time doing this to show you the many posts of yours I have read where you don’t hide your disdain for blacks, but if you don’t think Rush Limbaugh is a blatant racist then I won’t go to the effort.
I don’t think politically correct means what you think it means.
I haven’t heard these comments or anyone calling them racist for that. I would say though that the racism would be from the person who wouldn’t hire someone for using black American english, and the people who can’t handle dealing with someone who speaks with a different accent than theirs, just as it would be racist to not hire someone with an intelligible Irish accent. In America speaking with a black accent makes you sound “ignorant” but with a white accent quaint… except for southern accents which both blacks and whites can sound like that is considered by some to sound ignorant. That’s wrong too. (uh-oh, I’m promoting tolerance, EEEEVIL liberal PC alert!)
Do you have a cite for a liberal calling ANYONE a racist simply for promoting the importance of education? I don’t believe you.
Are you nuts? :dubious: So you’re saying I go up to my liberal buddies (most of them are) and I say “Youth should look to education instead of thug life”, and they are going to call me vile names? Are you serious, do you actually believe that?
Do you really think that to be a racist one must hate every SINGLE member of the group you think lowly of? Racism is not as black and white as you think it is, nor does it have to be taken to racial supremacist extreme levels to be racist. Muhammed Ali wasn’t allowed to try on a shirt before buying it at one white store in the south…no violence, wasn’t even rude to him, but it is still racist to not let him try on a shirt that he would let white customers try on.
Personal example, my father is a racist, but he almost exclusively dates black women.
It’s simple. While Rush is a blatant racist, he is also not unintelligent. So he gets to have his cake and eat it too, using a word that is considered offensive in a parody song to refer to our president, while being able to hide behind the “Magic Negro” trope as a shield from pointing out how racist it is…all while his aging, racist white viewership laugh it up because they know what it REALLY means.
I hope you will give me some credit when I say I agree with you, but those accusations are true for a not insignificant amount of the people against universal healthcare and taxes…or are you denying that they exist at all?
Starving I have a question for you. Since you have pointed out more than once your disgust at how many black people voted for BO due to his race, shouldn’t you be posting much more often your disgust at whites who only vote for white candidates due to their race? Considering the fact is that only 1 out of 44 presidents has even been half black, and also that blacks in the U.S. comprise 13 percent of the U.S. population (and tend to vote less than whites), and thus CANNOT get a president elected?
It seems to me that with so many white presidents and such a large white majority, stating that whites vote on the issues but blacks must all vote on race, seems racist in and of itself.
Is knowing the names of politicians more important than being more educated? Is dumbing things down more likely (and more necessary) if your audience didn’t go to college? Or finish highschool?
You ask this like it would be easy to list a few dozen well-known “liberal comedians.” Is it? Because I can’t think of many who focus on political humor, rather than are simply democrats who are also comedians just as some of the ones listed in this thread aren’t really conservative comedians so much as comedians who vote republican. Sure, I can think of more liberal comedians, but it’s not as though they’re a dime a dozen either.
No one is asking for a plethora here, no one is even asking for a stand-up comedian. How about a cartoon, comic, tv show, radio humorist? I asked in the OP for conservative humor, I’ll take anything you can come up with as long as it tickled your conservative sympathies.
It doesn’t have to be a conservative version of THIS but it’d be awesome if you could find one.
Well, then he is an idiot, on top of his many other failings. “Puff” was written in 1961 and recorded in 1963, a good couple of years at least before the first “far out!”. Maybe there are some tings we can be fairly blamed for, but not “Puff, the Magic Dragon”.
I once saw Peter Paul and Mary in concert on TV and one of them prefaced “Puff” with a long-sustained-note insistence that the-song-is-about-the-lost-innocence-of-childhood-so-tell-everybody-the-Dragon’s-father-himself-told-you-there-was-never-any-interpretation-but-the-obvious-oooooooonnnnnneee.
“Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds,” OTOH – I don’t care if Lennon went on record in Imagine, please don’t take this away from me! 
Define “quality”, I guess. I had a couple of liberal friends say they would never, ever watch King of the Hill because it potrayed liberals as clueless, airheaded, pie-in-the-sky slackers and hippies. They couldn’t get past that, and notice that the show blatantly made fun of the stick-in-the-mud conservatives of Arlen as well, such as making fun of gun nuts via its portrayal of Dale as a loon. One liberal co-worker exploded at me ranting about the “green energy” episode, where Hank’s boss started selling carbon offsets which were imaginary. I thought she was going to have a stroke, and said “that show is BANNED in my house! It’s teaching my kids that the environment isn’t important!” No, actually, it’s not…
I thought it was a pretty balanced bit of humour myself. But I guess all you have to do is say “that’s not quality” and you win. Did it “suffer” from it? How on earth would one prove that? I don’t even know where one could get the data. I do know that the few liberal friends I have were unanimously turned off by the show because it “made fun of liberals”, putting on blinders that it made fun of conservatives just as much. Jesus F. Christ, nearly every recurring character in the program was a walking, talking satire of a conservative, and they couldn’t get that? 
Perhaps you’ll recall that “Puff” enjoyed a resurgence around 1968/1969 when the hippie/lib set decided it was about drugs, and therefore, oh, so cool. PP&M were enjoying a resurgence around that time anyway thanks to “I Dig Rock And Roll Music” from a year or two earlier. And Rush, being around our age and a disc jockey not too long after that time would surely have known of the revived song’s connotation.
I don’t think it’s balanced, the characters in the show are conservative, the plot and the themes side with them. Sure it pokes fun at Dale, but he’s a liberal caricature of a conservative, so making fun of him is still conservative humor. In the end the audience is meant to see his humanity anyway and hes a sympathetic character. Who the hell doesn’t pity a guy who’s wife is cheating on him?
I’m a moderately leaning liberal and I love the show. It’s perspective is fresh to me, or at least unique, which is why it’s the first sentence in this thread.
Your liberal acquaintances are being ridiculous, but they aren’t the reason there isn’t more conservative humor.
You haven’t the slightest idea what you are talking about. It was the tighty righties with the stainless steel assholes who decided that “Puff” was about drugs. From the cite above, which seems to have eluded your notice…
PP&M were seen as purveyors of beatnik communist folk music by the same people who couldn’t understand why their daughters wanted to tear the clothes off of some foppish English metrosexuals. Even as bland and commercial as PP&M were, PP&M were seen as a threat, until they got a good look at the Rolling Stones, and totally shit themselves.
(There’s a story about Jerry Lee Lewis and Jimmy Swaggarts, who were cousins back in Bumfuck, Louisiana. Jerry nearly followed his cousin into the, ah, ministry but strayed from the path because “the Devil has all the good music.” True story. Maybe not factual, but true.)
You seem to forget that virtually everyone I knew and/or went to school with during that time glommed onto the hippie/dippy lifestyle, growing their hair and doing drugs like a motherfuck. (No, really. They were. You’d have been so proud.) Anyway, they were the ones who told me about the so-called hidden meaning behind “Puff”, and with the same gleeful insider amusement as kids four or five years previous were snickering over the “real words” to Louie Louie. I’ll admit that I didn’t click your link as I thought its purpose was merely to cite when “Puff” was recorded and released, but that doesn’t mean you can tell me what my own experiences were. If “tighty-righties” thought “Puff” was about drugs (and after all, what could be more revealing of priggishness on the part of conservatives than their disdain for drugs), it’s because that’s what your crowd was celebrating it as.
Oh, btw, the 20-year-old son of a couple of good friends of mine died on April 12 of a drug overdose after about a five-year downward spiral. You wanna tell me again why it is that drugs are so cool and why righties are such assholes for their disdain of them?
The Pit is that way, you two.
Let the door hit your ass on the way out.
- You can define quality any way you wish, since it is your opinion I am seeking.
- Even so, King Of The Hill is a very bad example if you wish to put forth a show that suffered and was driven off the air for being conservative-it ran for 13 years.
Starving did you just miss my post, or decide not to reply to it? Thanks.
This was a considerable amount of wrong in it and I just didn’t feel like tackling all of it at the time. Still don’t. Maybe later.
OK, now that’s funny! Maybe not Dennis Miller funny, but definitely *Mallard Fillmore *funny!