Political Humor

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.

Back in the days of the Joe the Plumber fiasco, we were told that it is not Socialist to “spread the wealth around.” Vice President Joe Biden declared that “(Obama) is NOT spreading the wealth around,” after inquiring as to whether he was even being asked a serious question.

Now, NewsWeek declares (in their cover story) that we are all Socialists now. I’m a bit confused about this. Does that mean that it’s now okay to admit that spreading the wealth around is Socialist?

I have a few diagreements with a few of the editorial points of the article. Authors Jon Meacham and Evan Thomas state, correctly, that President G. W. Bush “effectively nationalized the banking and mortgage industries.” However, they seem to be under a false impression that President Bush was, and I quote, “a conservative Republican administration.” Ba-dum-bum!

This is the President whose gigantic leaps in spending and Socialization of the US made Hugo Chavez giggle like a shoolgirl, and Russian Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin is warning against the dangers of meddling in the free market. I have stated for years that President Bush is a Left Wing Socialist.

In fact, I don’t have the slightest idea why it is that the moonbats didn’t love the guy. He was on their side of damn near every issue, from deleting our national borders, to supporting and passing Chappqiddick Ted’s No Child Left Literate bill.

The article warns, “As entitlement spending rises over the next decade, we will become even more French.” I agree. With Rabidly Left wing Democrats at the helm, it won’t merely be entitlements that make us more French. We’ll be more like them in the most French of all ways, surrendering to everything in sight.

I surrender!

No, that’s just a cockroach. Hire an exterminator, and it won’t be a problem anymore.

I surrender!

No. That’s just a serial rapist. Pump him full enough of potassium chloride and watch the recidivism rate plummet.

I surrender!

No. That’s just a baby. Let it come 2/3 of the way out of the birth canal and suck out it’s brains and no one will be punished by it.

I surrender!

That’s just a terrorist. Put a bullet in his head and he won’t harm anyone.

I surrender!

No, President Obama. That’s just your shadow. Just stick your head back in that bucket and it can’t harm you.

Dope image by IMAO.us right wing humor reader Bryan. Source: Lolbama part 7.

Thanks to Conservative Scalawag for tipping me off to the article. Compare and contrast.

Everyone complained about the primary scheduling but did anyone notice the six weeks of no elections whatsoever? Did the DNC and the RNC not consider us bloggers and political humor columnists? What the hell are we going to write about?

Some are trying to come up with good fodder for us. This week President Bush is drumming up the positives about the Iraq War as we hit the five-year mark Wednesday.

Cheney is still claiming Hussein had something to do with 911. McCain is busy confusing which terrorist regime is funding/backing whom, which seems like just an argument in academia.

But this is simply more rehashed and recycled news stories.

I will buy the excuse that maybe the political media scene is worn-out from the craziness lately and could use a break. An asshole Democrat Governor’s penchant for whores sank his dreams of living in the White House. A Presidential candidate tells us that having racist friends is alright as long as you don’t believe in the rhetoric.

So that begs the question: do racists have friends and are there a lot of excuses made for awful behavior?

Joseph Goebbels (to a friend): “You know Adolph isn’t really a bad guy, he’s just misunderstood.”
Friend: “He wants to kill the Jews.”
Goebbels: “He was just kidding about the killing thing. That Hitler, what a minx!”

No elections for six weeks also means the Global Warming alarmists have more room to push their warnings the planet is on fire. These days they tell us that glaciers are melting all over the world. They know this because they studied thirty out of 100,000 total ice packs.

I didn’t know they hired Nielsen Media Research to do their surveys.

What did they do, send a diary and a ruler to thirty people that lived near a glacier? I wouldn’t be surprised if this is close to the actual experiment procedure. It would make sense since the scientists can’t figure out why the oceans aren’t warming like the fancy computer models predicted.

So this is what we have to look forward to for the next six weeks? Wake me up when it’s time for the next primary.

Or when Larry Craig resurfaces in a restroom somewhere.

Every Thursday, Chris Cameron writes this weekly political humor drivel most would find offensive and crude yet funny and topical. Who knew? You can read his other works of the humor variety at Angry Seafood.

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