It’s the feakin’ Pit! My Rep affiliations are well-known, but I find nothing in this thread that’s not outright hilarious, especially the retarded baby one. Get off your high horse, jayjay, and come mingle in the gutter with us.
Sorry, it’s not a high horse. It’s my own two feet. I didn’t like derision based on gender when some Obama supporters (of which I am and was one then) did it to Clinton earlier this year, and I don’t really like it now about Palin.
Don’t get me wrong. I think she was a ludicrous choice for the VP slot, especially of a 72-year-old presidential candidate with a history of cancer. I don’t like her one bit, and I despise her politics. But I’m just not comfortable with jokes based on her gender, or based on her personal characteristics as filtered through her gender. They’re not only kind of reprehensible, they weaken the arguments of Democrats against her because they open us up to legitimate charges of sexism. It’s a dirty double-cross from the party that has spent the last 40 years or so fighting against the women’s movement’s goals (and a candidate that’s spent the last 26 years in Washington doing so), but it’s there and we have to fight around it.
No offense, jayjay, but I wasn’t even trying to make a high-minded point. I was just funnin’ around. And I thought NurseCarmen’s and Mosier’s riffing on the “Lassie Eats Her Young” stuff was pretty funny.
I think it was Jon Stewart or Steven Colbert or somebody like that who was telling jokes about Obama, and was greeted with stony silence rather than laughs. And said, and I agree, “It’s OK to laugh at him.” Same for Palin.
If we can’t take nasty, mean-spirited cheap shots at our politicians, the terrorists have won.
I had a dream about Sarah Palin over the weekend. I was taking pictures of her for some reason, then asked her to take off her clothes. She did, but she wouldn’t let me take pictures of her naked. It was kinda hot.
I also had a dream about Obama, but it wasn’t as hot. Obama and two other guys were participating in a bullfight. The two other guys were supposed to take care of the bull for him, because Obama was not able to fight a bull. One of the guys had a knife, I can’t remember what the other had. The bull trampled and gored the two other guys and they weren’t even able to scratch the bull. People were saying “What’s Obama going to do?” Obama sat down next to the wall at the edge of the arena and started praying. The bull charged at him and hit him with it’s head, and there was an extremely loud crashing sound as the bull hit Obama and the wall. Then the bull started walking around, and Obama appeared to be unconcious and draped over the head of the bull, held up by it’s horns. Then Obama woke up, positioned himself so he was sitting on the head of the bull with his arms on the horns like it was a throne, and he reached down and scratched the bull lovingly above it’s eye.
He was in an arena, and he had to fight a bull, same as you.
But he was buried up to his neck in the sand. The bull came rushing at him, but Obama managed to dig away with his chin into the sand, and got his head down low enough to dodge the horns. Then, as the bull passed over him, he lunged up and bit the bull in the scrotum.
And the master of the games shook his finger at Obama from the sidelines.
We are not politicians representing people, we are making the kind of jokes about Palin that she invited us to make. Note that this isn’t a dump on women thread. Just because a woman is being dumped on, doesn’t mean that she is being dumped on for being a woman. A woman who happens to be a nasty bitch doesn’t get a free pass for being a nasty bitch because she is a woman, she gets called on being a nasty bitch because she’s a nasty bitch, which is a voluntary quality. If she were a man she would get called on being a relentlessly obnoxious asshole loser. She doesn’t get a pass. In her acceptance speech she dumped on every group she thought of that was so weak it could not fight back if showing bigotry would get her points with her audience. She only calls Obama Sambo in private. She’s got a national podium and arugula eaters don’t. Well I sometimes drink Chardonnay, this is my pit and I’m dishin’ the insults here. If she wants to march her self down here and defend herself, she’s welcome to it, but you fighting for her is pathetic. You don’t owe her any help and she doesn’t deserve your sympathy.
(snerk)