I once…
…had a friend who maintained that conservatives have no sense of humor (present company excluded, of course). I insisted he was wrong. And here’s the proof.
And then, of course, you knew that this had to come:
And then there’s this:
Q: Why did @MittRomney put his dog on top of the car? A: So @BarackObama wouldn’t eat it.
Normally I’d say your friend needs to be introduced to the collected works of master satirist Iowahawk, with perhaps a surprise subscription to Jim Treacher’s Twitter feed. But, alas, with old age comes the recognition that the You Will Laugh, Damn Your Eyes! approach rarely works as intended. The perception of humor does tend to rely greatly upon whose ox is being gored, after all, and the mere phrasing of his assertion tells me that he likely has the usual herd of sacred cows that he’d rather eat broken glass than see hamburger’d via @jtLOL.
Via Instapundit:
Same joke:
Such a nice double-gotcha.
Romney is not just going to roll over and play dead for Obama.
Not only do we have a sense of humor, we have an intelligent sense of humor. Which side does more word plays? Gail Collins may take the little girl PETA line, but we come up with chicken poodle soup. And as for the great Iowahawk–who from their side can parody the Canterbury Tales? (Will we get a Canterbury Tails follow-up?) Would the Jaywalker bunch even get it?
OT: I just listened to some YouTube music from the 50s and 60s, prompted by hearing of Dick Clark’s death. Sixteen Candles was among the clips, and my mind immediately jumped to Mad Max Romney and 16-year-old Ann. MoDo may be stuck in the rebellious 70s, but I wonder what the younger generations will think about the romantic 50s music vs today’s nihilistic rap. Sure, there is a lot of fantasy involved in the former, but I still prefer a romantic dream to a nightmare.
Of course Obama would never put his dog on the roof of his car…it dries out the meat.
(full disclosure – I read it somewhere)
The most witty conservatives (like Mark Steyn or David Goldman) are not really conservatives, but outright reactionary. This liberates them from accepting any of liberal nonsense which mainstream conservatives tend to swallow line, hook and sinker. The latest example of which is firing of John Derbysire from National Review by its CINO team.
In my humble opinion, anybody to the left from Barry Goldwater is not a true conservative, but CINO (Conservative In Name Only). Untill a major realinement in USA public opinion, true consevatives will have no chance to be popular or politically viable.
This is the main obstacle to integrity and intellectual honesty of American conservatives: you can have either Judeo-Christian moral values or Enlightenment values, but not both. Alas, most Western intellectuals believe otherwise, which actually makes them hypocrites. Humor is the most powerfull antidote to hypocrisy, so witty conservatives find themselves marginalised and squized to what seen by mainstream as lunatic fringe.
I apologise for moving this thread away from humor, but this Washington Times piece is the perfect contrast to the Dick Clark days.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/18/highway-to-hell-the-changing-face-of-pop-music/
But maybe there is a connection. I remember some of the silly songs of the 50s (Purple People Eater). They were fun, not angry. And I remember the boys in my classes playing silly jokes on our teachers, not threatenting them with knives. Boundaries were set, but the nuns enjoyed the pranks too, and sometimes the guys had to suffer equally silly consequenses. We still laugh about the episodes at class reunions. Such things keep us old geezers young at heart.
Mort Sahl said a few years ago in an interview that if Lenny Bruce were alive today he’d be considered a conservative. I’m a Tea Party Conservative and a Catholic but I still roar with laughter at Sam Kennison and Rodney Dangerfield and although the language of all three of these comedians was blue in the extreme I consider them conservative. Why? Because they dealt with truth, the things people thought but were afraid to say and it’s no secret that the libs hated Sam and took every chance they could get to sandbag him. Like Sir Eltons attack on live TV just before Sam was introduced, it pretty much ended his career. So as far as which comedians are conservative I think you have to listen to what they say and not how they say it.
I gotta say I am totally enjoying this whole dog-eat-dog thing.
Will the MSM late night shows join in? Maybe that’s already happened but with all the great stuff on the internet who needs them.
All I’ve got to say is this complicates the VP vetting process.
Eating dog in asia is not like eating dog in the US… there are a few places in Indonesia were the delicacy is served… given what i have eaten in the world, i was a bit dissappointed that i didnt get a chance to try it… or a few other things the last trip… sigh.. maybe next time…
by the way… putting new text on that movie is SOOOOOO old hat… there are dozens of them…
Gary Rosen
Romney is not just going to roll over and play dead for Obama.
Gary, your sense of humor is going to the dogs. 🙂
Your point is well taken. Romney attacks back- and fast. Like you say, he doesn’t roll over and play dead. I bet that Axelrod and friends regret having ever brought up the issue of dogs.
In the last month or so, we have seen at least three Lefty/Democrat attacks on the Right/Pubs, which have ended up backfiring: the brouhaha over Rush Limbaugh’s slut remark, Ann Romney’s “never worked a day in her life,” and now the dogs. Do we see a pattern here?
In the last year I finally got around to reading Dreams From My Father. I read it fairly closely, but didn’t remember the passage about eating dog.
Which reminds me of the dog-eared joke about the Americans who bring their dog Fido into a Chinese restaurant. They tell the waiter to take the dog into the kitchen and prepare something for the dog. Fifteen minutes later, the waiter brings out a dish of stir-fried Fido.
Review: All Humor is Conservative
“Despite the public perception of conservatives as prissy schoolmarms and bible-thumping Puritans, nothing more clearly distinguishes the Right from the Left than the latter’s complete humorlessness. It’s oft been noted–perhaps too often by me–that to a liberal life is a tragedy, to a conservative it’s a comedy. There are several causes of this. The most important is that conservatives hold to the Judeo-Christian worldview of Man as Fallen. We believe that Man is sinful by his nature and that this capacity for evil precludes the possibility of ever perfecting the species or society. Liberals (like Libertarians) are utopians. They believe that Man is naturally good but that he has been corrupted by money and the artificial stratification of society that accompanies it. They believe in the possibility of perfecting the species once again and of perfecting society. Thus, the two politics, of Left and Right, diverge even at their conception of human nature and of the purpose of life.”
Hitler was a vegetarian.
I keep trying not to laugh at these, and often, keep failing. This is one of the better ones too… Well, within it’s class. Who wants to bet those oh-so funny liberals wet there pants and bunch their panties while watching the little of it they can physically and psychologically handle? *psss* All around, way too funny.
So…Last Days of Berlin, May 1945…Der Fuhrer is in his Bunker deep under the Reich’s Chancellery with his staff, secretaries etc. Suddenly a young military aide runs in–sweating,obviously nervous,stressed,agitated–and Hitler asks him to report: “Mein Fuhrer…Mein Fuhrer…I regret to report that the Red Hoards have massed artillery bombardments on the Berlin Zoo..! Many animals have been killed and most others are horribly wounded!!”
Everyone looks uncomfortably at one another.. Suddenly Hitler leaps from his chair,hurls a water glass across the room and bellows,”ALRIGHT..ZAT DOES IT..!! From now on, NO MORE MISTER NICE GUY!!”
I think it’s like a dam broke- it’s finally OK to make fun of him by proxy- for something he did a while ago, which is revolting to our society. But, it’s also an admission of what a lot of people have been thinking- he’s just not American. He was born here, sure, but he’s just not one of us culturally; doesn’t share our worldview or our basic concerns.
I just watched that video.
I think I know what shell shock feels like.
now I get why they wanted that hairless dog….. easy prep.