Political Humor

If you like me want to make money writing and creating websites, you will notice that there seems to be a bountiful supply of keywords that can bring in the money, but are about as interesting as watching dry paint. That can be fine if you don’t have to write any of it yourself. You could always outsource all your content if you want. But I enjoy writing, and I want to enjoy what I am writing about.

Yes, I said dry paint. Watching wet paint is more interesting because at least it changes from wet to dry.

I’m not going to walk you through all the basics of how to build a website, how to research keywords, and all that. What I will do in this post is let you in on a secret. Now, the reason I am doing this is because I don’t fear competition. I reject the notion that one person’s gain is another person’s loss. My philosophy is more along the lines of “when the tide comes in, we all float higher.”

Today, The Planet’s Best Political Humor will take a break from making fun of President Obama to focus on writing a political humor, or satire site, and understanding how you can do that profitably. You, like me, have probably noticed that the CPC (Cost per Click) for humor oriented keywords sucks. You don’t want those ads. You want good ads showing up.

Now, the first thing you need to realize is that if you are going to monetize political humor is that the keywords you are really targeting are about something else. Everything relates to politics in some way.

The world of politics affects everything, because when laws, taxes and regulations are passed, this has an effect on everything. In one way or another, politics is related to money, finance, business, and the economy. It also has an effect on individuals personally.

I don’t know, maybe you live in a cave, or have been too busy cruising your time travel machine back to the 13th century, but most people are aware of something or other happening with the housing market recently. Mortgages, real estate, insurance, and loans. Nope, no good keywords there. Let’s try something else.

Another one of the biggest topics right now is, what? Health care. Hmm. What’s that now? Prescription medications, surgery, doctors. There couldn’t possibly be any good keywords there, could there? Probably not.

Of course, politicians are always looking to raise your taxes. This can influence people’s spending habits, their employment status, the success of their business. You know, it’s the economy stupid. So, we have tax help, accounting, legal help, business, retail and products, money, saving money, jobs, and stocks. You know what. I’m starting to think that I was wrong. There’s just no way to get good keywords on a political humor site.

Obviously I’m being facetious here. My point is to try and expand your consciousness and creativity. The opportunities you have available are as limitless as the number of keywords there are to target. By now, you know that you are going to go after profitable industries with your humor site. You know that one way to get people to click on ads is to write lots of keyword strong content that really doesn’t solve the visitor’s problem. But the ads might.

You want to take a conservative approach though. So you need to have solid, original content that will stand up to a review by a Google quality checker. It also needs to stand up to review by competitors. You need to keep out of trouble, so you don’t want your content to be crap. That’s no fun anyway.

So, you write a satire on the topic. I suggest looking at how I did this with a few posts here, because I walk the walk, although my own approach isn’t all about the money, so not everything is strategic, but these are. Here’s a recent one that is doing pretty well for me, with a competitive keyword. Obama Work at Home Government Jobs Program. Since posting that, it has the highest CPC and one of the highest click through rates of anything on the site. I haven’t even built backlinks to it yet.

I’ve got money saving tips, and more money saving tips. Of course, “Going Green” is a topic that is getting set to just explode on the market. I can’t help but wonder if that repetitive post-hypnotic suggestion for everyone to be green will result in a generation of little green men. Literally.

Speaking of ecology, this is a hugely popular, high ranking page on global warming. Haha. Or maybe you just want to cut to the chase and know about how to save the planet. Well, if that’s what you want, that post probably won’t help much.

That should be adequate link flogging to make the point that all you need to do is write about something that targets a keyword that pays money, and do it with satire. Another thing I was demonstrating just now is how to anchor links with good, keyword strong anchors, because this will also be an important part of creating pages that work, rank, and make money. By using a little creativity now you know how to make money writing political humor.

If you do need help with the basics, You should check out Grizzly’s Make Money for Beginner’s site. There’s a lot there, so hit the archives link in the sidebar (Way down the sidebar) and get reading. All of it. Including comments. You should be done by 2012.

Someone named Dave wrote a condensed version of the Grizzly Method to make money online. It’s still a book, but you should be able to finish it sometime this year. And Carla showed how to make money with Hubpages. Although that is geared towards Hubpages specifically, she does a great job explaining the basics, such as keyword research whether for hubpages or not.

If you really feel like you need someone to walk you through the whole process of getting started, I highly recommend Court and Mark at the Keyword Academy. They will walk you through the entire process from keyword research, how to buy a domain, how to install wordpress, and a schedule for content and backlink building. They have a forum full of veterans from the program, videos, webinars, and flat out everything you could need to know about making money online.

Of course, backlinks, backlinks, backlinks are the key to ranking well. There’s no better place to start for exchanging links than the page Grizzly created for niche backlinks exchanges. So head over there and get to work… Oh, right, you should head over there too. I need to stop talking to myself all the time.

If you expand your awareness, and expand your creativity, you will realize that there are so many different ways to make money online. Don’t get trapped thinking that just because one person has a method of doing things a certain way, that you can’t find another way to do it.

Many people think that it’s always either/or. You have to do things this way or it’s wrong. I hope that even if you’re not looking to use a political humor site to target keywords, you have still come away from reading this with some new perspectives on the variety of options you have available for for your Internet marketing strategies.

UPDATE: Here’s what happens when you have an authority site and you get a perfectly anchored link from a related authority page. This screenshot is from a search query run on Scroogle.Org to keep out Google results customizations. The number 4 result is the linking page, or course.

The long tail keyword is already conquered. With further linkbuilding efforts, this page will be able to compete in a truly competitive market.

Frank J. of Imao.Us right wing humor, wrote a satire about how smart President Obama is. If you’re not familiar with Frank’s work, I would spend some time over at Imao.Us and familiarize yourself. Frank and his site are probably the main reason why RadioactiveLiberty political humor exists.

Normally I don’t pay any attention to his comments or responses, but this time he drew attention to a response on the Daily Kos. The Kos diary was the same old, tired, predictable “conservatives like Faux News because they’re too stupid to understand the enlightened complexity of Pravda.”

This got me thinking about all the times that I have read some dull Liberal screed about “why conservatives aren’t funny,” because the reasoning behind such wastes of bandwidth are almost identical in their vacuous and insipid line of reasoning. In fact, we’re treated to such a discourse in the comments section of the Pajamas Media post by comment #38.

As for this article . . . Brilliant? Very funny? Flat-out hilarious? . . . Nonsense. This essay is a perfect example of conservative thinking . . . half-assed, desperate and aimed at the lowest common denominator. There’s nothing clever about it. It offers no new insights. It’s just re-heated leftovers from EVERY OTHER POST on this site, proof yet again that conservatives are nothing more than humorless, witless, sexually repressed retards.

What this particular analysis of why conservatives aren’t funny has in common with all of it’s tiresome, predictable conservatives are teh stoopid rants is that is completely and utterly fails to look at the situation from the angle of how to write humor. This is predictable, as Liberals are prone to completely and utterly failing to comprehend anything that isn’t one of their own vapid fantasies.

What is Political Humor?

As any author of political jokes knows, writing political humor is largely based on some form of cruelty. Usually, the goal of a political joke is to, in some way, ridicule, humiliate, mock, or make folly of something to which the author is opposed. That can be a politician, a policy, an organization, or just a broad class of people, like Conservatives, or Liberals.

Sometimes the goal is compliance or persuasion through humiliation or ridicule. Other times, it’s just the pleasure we get of knowing that it’s the other people that are the stupid ones. In other cases, it’s just a matter of bringing levity to a situation so that it does not weigh too heavily on us, like with making jokes about a bad economy.

What most screeds about why conservatives aren’t funny do seem to grasp is that we’re being cruel towards them. What they don’t seem to grasp is that they are doing exactly the same in return. They see what they are doing as funny and what we are doing as – to quote commenter #38 above – humorless and witless.

The Key to Writing Cruel Humor

This is because of the nature of cruelty based humor. In order for cruelty based humor to be funny, the audience member, or reader needs to feel that the ridicule, humiliation, whatever is deserved. This is why ironic justice is funny. If someone is a total cocknozzle and winds up humiliated, that makes us say, “Yeah! You had that one coming, cocknozzle.” It’s pleasurable because it appeals to our sense that what goes around comes around.

This is the premise for why a movie like Home Alone is funny. A cute kid beats up on bad guys in clever ways. Whenever Kevin gets one over on the bad guys, it triggers the brain to produce pleasure, because they’ve earned their punishment. In fact, it triggers enough pleasure to produce laughter.

Video Link: Home Alone Trailer

To understand Liberal political humor, you have to understand that in their tiny, insufficient lemming brains, they truly, sincerely and deeply believe that conservatives are evil, destructive, violent, malevolent, demonic cavemen. The best case scenario is that we’re simply stupid. Either way, give a conservative an inch, and it’s mushroom clouds and extinct species for everyone.

As Conservatives, we know that Liberals are evil, America hating, terrorist loving, tax increasing, Socialist, tree hugging Dirty Hippie Communists. The best case scenario is that they are simply stupid. Either way, give a liberal an inch, and it’s mushroom clouds and extinct species for everyone. Therefore, they are deserving of the ridicule that we direct towards them.

There is an element of fantasy to what we do. In Home Alone, where Kevin did plenty of things that would have killed an actual human, yet only minor injury was inflicted on the bad guys. On the same note, when we talk of beating hippies, we are speaking of the manner in which the fantasy stimulates the pleasure center of the brain. By no means are we advocating actual violence.

Conservatives are smart enough to understand the more complicated nuances of such things, but Liberals, with their convoluted, drug addled minds, are not sophisticated enough to differentiate between fantasy and reality. This is why they think we just need to show a little compassion to the terrorists and it will be Kumbaya and unicorns for everyone.

Why Liberals Aren’t funny

Based on the Liberal delusion of reality, President George W. Bush was a vicious genocidal maniac. Thus, Tony Snow was the propaganda mouthpiece for a deranged mass murderer. This is why they seemed to think it was appropriate to laugh about Tony Snow having cancer.

You would not be concerned for the family of Joseph Goebbels if he was said to have cancer, and in the hallucinogenic Moonbat mind, that is exactly what Tony Snow was. To the moonbats, the cruelty was more than deserved.

One thing I have noticed about Liberal political humor is that is generally lacks the self awareness that is often exhibited in it’s conservative counterpart. It’s exceedingly rare to see a Liberal satire that simultaneously takes jabs at the author’s own perspective, while offering a more severe level of ridicule at the opposing viewpoint. They just lack the ability to make fun of themselves. All well written humor stems from a good humor toward oneself, especially when that humor is cruelty based.

That is why Liberals aren’t funny. So, the next time a Liberal makes a joke that fails to hit the mark. Don’t get mad. Laugh. Not with them. Laugh at them.

Because they deserve it.