Political Humor

This week’s edition of Political Humor Quick Hits is about Harry Reid, Indiana Jones, new political parody videos, and dumb doll ideas…

Reid Must Be Smoking Some Good Stuff

Last week Harry Reid said the media was to blame for the August health care reform deadline:

Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday blamed Capitol Hill media for setting an August deadline for health reform and Republicans for blocking the bill’s progress.

“That is a deadline that you created,” Reid told a group of about 75 reporters.

Apparently Congress’ health care plan includes prescriptions for medical marijuana. How else does one explain Harry’s short-term memory loss?

Reid even elaborated on his accusation that Barack “Teflon” Obama had nothing to do with the deadline:

“Dude I could really go for some Doritos. Hey man you ever wonder if Jesus is made out of pancakes?”

Puff puff give Reid! Share with the rest of us so we can forget anything Obama says or does too!

If this lapse in memory is not due to the chronic however, there can only be one other explanation: this is Reid’s Three Dog Night moment…

Real Life Indiana Jones

Sometimes truth beats fiction. Well sort of:

Digging for buried treasure in the Gobi Desert sounds like the opening scene of an Indiana Jones film. For Austrian-born Michael Eisenriegler, it was a real-life adventure.

The 40-year-old amateur archaeologist was in the Gobi over the weekend…less than an hour of digging revealed two crates filled with priceless treasure, including rare manuscripts, Buddhist statues and clothing.

Within minutes the Nazis showed up however, and Eidenriegler, Marion, and Short-Round narrowly avoided capture with an escape by plane.

Auto Tune the News Rocks

Look out JibJab, you have some competition and its name is Auto Tune the News. This is their latest video just released Monday about race relations, a broke government, and texting while driving.

I think their recent video, #6 was their best one so far. This is like comparing the episodes of your favorite television show though. All are good.

Moxie Girlz Worst Doll Idea Ever

Mattel introduced their new doll line last week:

MGA is rolling out a new line of dolls called Moxie Girlz as Mattel Inc. plans to take over MGA’s former marquee product, the saucy Bratz dolls, following a four-year legal struggle.

Moxie? Really? Is the best they could come up with? When I think of moxie I think of crappy-tasting soda or the 1920’s, a decade most adults alive do not remember.

MGA explains more about the product line:

This new line of toys will signify today’s young girl. The play sets will include a vaudeville stage, a speakeasy, talkies, and also flagpoles to set world records on. When you pull the string, the dolls say catch-phrases like “Look at the gams on me!, “Oh applesauce!” and “Playing with you is the cat’s meow!”

Looks like the marketing people are frigging mailing it in these days.

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Political Humor Quick Hits is a weekly commentary on the news/current events written by Chris Cameron every Tuesday. You can also read his odd take on things at his own humor blog Angry Seafood and his serious take on politics at Clearly Political.

This week’s edition of Political Humor Quick Hits is about UN sanctions, a new Barack Obama video, a new Guevara revolution, and Democrat pirates…

I Cannot Understand Why UN Sanctions Are Not Effective

So a ship from North Korea is bound for Myanmmar with alleged banned small arms cargo. Do not worry though because the UN has the rules in place to deal with this situation:

“The Security Council resolution calls on all 192 U.N. member states to inspect North Korean vessels on the high seas “if they have information that provides reasonable grounds to believe that the cargo” contains banned weapons or material to make them. But that requires approval from the North.”

192 nations signed off on this? Did Johnnie Cochrane come back from the dead to lead the lawyers on the deal?

This is like the episode of Seinfeld where Jerry rips on the rental car company for taking the reservation while at the same time not being able to hold the reservation.

Pirates Were Really Democrats

This is a good one:

“Pirates have been long maligned and cursed as thieves and sea dogs, but according to one economist they formed vanguard capitalist democracies, with constitutions, elections and healthcare plans…

…The economics professor at George Mason University outside the US capital, says he has found evidence that some 18th century pirates wrote down rules and principles which foreshadowed the US Constitution by decades.

“We have three or four surviving accounts of pirate constitutions,” Peter Leeson said”

In the world of liberals three or four examples always prove something.

This is like when only a handful of the tens of thousands of glaciers in the world are actually being studied and researched, yet all of them are melting.

A funny thing happened on the way to real history however: 20% of our country’s revenues in 1800 went to paying off the Barbary pirates in North Africa. We even gave them ships to use for piracy, thanks in large part to Thomas Jefferson.

The only difference between the “Democrat” pirates of the 1700’s and the ones in Congress is who they are fleecing- us instead of our ancestors.

Saying pirates in the 1700’s were civil is like saying Patrick Bateman was civil when talking about Huey Lewis and The News in America Psycho.

Jib Jab’s Awesome New Video: Obama Saves the Day

Obama saves the world in Jib Jab’s latest skewering of politics:

(The video was adjusted to fit 450 pixels wide. To see the full size click here.)

Che Granddaughter in PETA Ad for Vegetarians

Viva La Revolution:

Lydia Guevara poses semi-nude in a PETA campaign that tells viewers to “join the vegetarian revolution,” said PETA spokesman Michael McGraw.

In the ad, Lydia Guevara wears camouflage pants, a red beret, and bandoliers of baby carrots while standing with one fist on her hip and the other outstretched.

“It very much evokes the tag line of the ad, which is ‘Join the vegetarian revolution,’” McGraw said. “It’s an homage of sorts to her late grandfather.”

I seem to recall that the last time a Guevara family member led a revolution a lot of people died. PETA knows no boundaries when it comes to a homage that is for sure.

So remember folks, if you don’t go vegetarian you will be killed for your indiscretion!

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Political Humor Quick Hits is a weekly commentary on the news/current events written by Chris Cameron every Tuesday. You can also read his other weekly column here every week as well as his own humor blog Angry Seafood.