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Liberals don't get the joke, but they'll try to get the one who made it
Townhall ^ | May 8, 2007 | Jon Sanders

Posted on 05/09/2007 4:26:21 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 05/09/2007 4:26:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
No sense of humor. Soon people will be rioting over cartoon characters or presidential polls. Oh wait...never mind.
2 posted on 05/09/2007 4:33:35 AM PDT by rhombus
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The crux of the problem, IMHO is you have to be intelligent enough to recognize satire in order to understand it and find the humor in it.

That leaves about 90% of the left out in the cold when it comes to satire.


3 posted on 05/09/2007 4:36:43 AM PDT by DaiHuy (I think owning a gun doesn't make you a killer, it makes you a smart American. (George Carlin)
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No matter how severe the lies from the left become the conservatives have to stop the 40-plus-year reaction of cowering in response to their screams of "Racist!" "Bigot!"

The left can keep on trucking with their lies and distortions (it's what they do) but the right has to stop the truckling.

4 posted on 05/09/2007 4:41:11 AM PDT by WilliamofCarmichael (If modern America's Man on Horseback is out there, Get on the damn horse already!)
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To: Kaslin

The left has no sense of humor. The left is obsessed with eliminating all thought and opinion that it doesn’t accept.

A joke occurs whenever a leftist is caught in a lie and tries to get out of it, for example what Kerry said about the military winding up in Iraq.


5 posted on 05/09/2007 4:47:14 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: rhombus
No sense of humor.

Oh they knew it was humor... and very informed and focused humor as well. They also know how ignorant their audience is... and saw a great opportunity to turn it around for their commissars. It fits right in the game plan of connecting the Imus meltdown to all of conservative talk-radio.

6 posted on 05/09/2007 5:04:09 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Issue in Doubt." -Col. David Monroe Shoup, USMC 1943)
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To: Kaslin

one problem - IT IS NOT LIBAUGH’S! IT WAS FROM THE LA TIMES (big liberal rag that is probably hoping this blows away before big focus comes onto this inconvenient little truth)


7 posted on 05/09/2007 5:04:53 AM PDT by Mr. K (Some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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I heard the Godfather Monday. His filleting of KOVR was brilliant.


8 posted on 05/09/2007 5:07:40 AM PDT by sauropod ("An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." Ernest Hemingway)
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To: WilliamofCarmichael
The left can keep on trucking with their lies and distortions (it's what they do) but the right has to stop the truckling.

Excellent usage, W.

9 posted on 05/09/2007 5:08:59 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Gun Control, the Sequel: More and Morerer)
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I like the use of the word “Negro.” African-American just wouldn’t work.

No Imus moment here; move it along.


10 posted on 05/09/2007 5:10:02 AM PDT by period end of story (Whole Lotta Love)
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To: period end of story

I prefer “magic colored person of color”. Would that work?


11 posted on 05/09/2007 5:14:06 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Vaclav Klaus: "A whip of political correctness strangles their voice")
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To: Kaslin

bttt


12 posted on 05/09/2007 5:14:24 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: Fresh Wind

Magic half-colored person of color.


13 posted on 05/09/2007 5:19:35 AM PDT by period end of story (Whole Lotta Love)
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To: Fresh Wind
I prefer “magic colored person of color”. Would that work?

But...

I thought that what passes for 'magic' these days is properly called...

Illusion!


14 posted on 05/09/2007 5:28:49 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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15 posted on 05/09/2007 5:34:05 AM PDT by Gritty (Dems all claim they'll get rough with the terrorists, but they can't even face Brit Hume-Ann Coulter)
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To: Fresh Wind

My makeup catalogs contain products for “women of color” so I think your phrase would work.


16 posted on 05/09/2007 5:37:04 AM PDT by CaliGirl-R (America is a "safe haven" for terrorists thanks to Political Correctness!)
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To: Kaslin
"Blazing Saddles" would never be allowed to be made today because "it is racist"... yet it's primary message is to denounce the stupidity of racism. ("... but we don't want the Irish!")

Heck, I'm surprised it hasn't been banned from video stores yet.

17 posted on 05/09/2007 5:57:37 AM PDT by Teacher317
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http://www.wamu.com/about/wamudifference/ourtvspots/default.asp

Washington mutual with “magic negro”

not a satire but racism for advertising...


18 posted on 05/09/2007 5:59:37 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Kaslin

bump for later


19 posted on 05/09/2007 6:03:51 AM PDT by visitor (dems Undermine National Defense, Mislead their Voter Base, Demoralize Troops, Encourage the Enemy)
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To: longtermmemmory

Excellent point.


20 posted on 05/09/2007 6:17:43 AM PDT by FortWorthPatriot
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