Politicians Should be Mocked More Often

Townhall.com ^ | April 1, 2012 | Daniel J. Mitchell

[Kaslin]

I’m periodically asked why I share political humor on  this blog. The glib and easy answer is that it’s good to share amusing material.

But there’s also a serious point, especially when disseminating jokes from the late-night talk shows. Politicians should be mocked. And the more pretentious they are, the more vicious we should be.

Even the ones we like should be subject to ridicule. Elected officials often get very egotistical because they spend all day being flattered by lobbyists. Our role is to make sure there’s a countervailing force.

So enjoy these gems.

Jay Leno

• What do you think your odds are of winning that jackpot? The last odds I checked, 176 million to 1. But then again, still better odds than Newt Gingrich getting the nomination.
• I think even President Obama realizes the Obamacare thing is not looking good in front of the Supreme Court. He’s starting to downplay it. Like today he called it Bidencare.
• Newt Gingrich announced today he is laying off a third of his campaign staff. Is that surprising? He laid off two-thirds of his wives.
• In New York City this week, they had the annual Greek Independence Day Parade. In fact, it was so authentically Greek that before the parade even started it was $12 million in debt.
• A madam in New York City claims that John Edwards was a customer in her brothel. You hear that kind of thing and it really makes you lose respect for prostitutes, doesn’t it?
• This weekend former Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant. And I thought this was nice — they let him shoot the donor himself.
• Fox News sent Dick Cheney flowers. MSNBC sent chili cheese fries.

David Letterman

• Rick Santorum wants to ban pornography. That’s one of the few thriving industries America has left.

Conan

• Yesterday, Mitt Romney told what he thought was a humorous story about how his father closed down a Michigan factory. Then Romney went on to quote some of his favorite funny quotes from the movie “Schindler’s List.”
• The Supreme Court is deciding right now whether the government can mandate that all Americans buy health insurance. Rick Santorum said, “There’s no way I’m letting the government make me go on a man date.”
• In Germany, a court has ruled that German police are allowed to racially profile citizens. But don’t worry. It’s Germany, so things shouldn’t get out of hand.
• Today is Ann and Mitt Romney’s 43rd wedding anniversary. This means that 43 years ago Mitt proposed to his wife and due to a weak field of candidates, she said yes.

Jimmy Fallon

• A new poll found that President Obama’s approval rating is above 50 percent for the first time since last May. Obama made sure to thank the people who made that possible — Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul.
• Rick Santorum gave a speech at the Jelly Belly factory in California. Incidentally, “Jelly Belly Factory” was also Newt Gingrich’s nickname in college.
• A recent survey showed that Rick Santorum is the favorite GOP candidate among Republican women. When he heard that, Santorum was like, “Wait — women have the right to vote?”
• Ron Paul said it’s still too early to count him out as the Republican nominee. Seriously? That’s like Newt Gingrich saying it’s too early to count him out as an Abercrombie model.
• That’s right — Rick Santorum was seen lying on the beach without his shirt on. He would have worn sunscreen, but he’s not really into protection.

Jimmy Kimmel

• Some top Republicans are urging Newt Gingrich to leave the race, but he says he’s sticking around. If they could get him to marry the race, he would probably leave it eventually.
• This Wednesday Mitt Romney goes one-on-one in a debate against the one man who stands in the way of his nomination: Mitt Romney.
• Rick Santorum wants to crack down on pornography. Most political analysts say it could hurt him with the “every single man in America” vote.

If you find these one-liners amusing, you can enjoy previous editions by clicking here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.

[fatrat]

i count one laugh at Obastard and 19 at republicans, about right i guess.

[JudgemAll]

Indeed, it is in our national force and national interest protection to ridicule the stupid politician. Enough of this “taking personal” BS. from these people like the Clinton who think they are entitled beyond the national cause.

[ThunderSleeps]

Politicians should be mocked. And the more pretentious they are, the more vicious we should be.

100% in agreement. Given the way hussein and his fanboys act, he and they should be mocked mercilessly 24x7x365. The nice thing is, they can be, they give us so much material to work with.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

They have been trained to let the mocking roll off like the water off a ducks back at least since the days of the celebrity roasts. It hardly fazes them.

OTOH, we may be their trained seals. Trained to see humor in their actions rather that recognize that they are evil. It’s a form of anger management. So keep up the yucks as they tighten your chains a little bit tighter and a little bit more often each day.

Ignore me, laugh at me, or get angry with me for pointing it out is easy. “Who you calling a trained seal you jerk?” Shucking off our conditioning (as an nation) is gonna be hard mostly because we refuse to recognize it. But the consequences of laughing at and not getting angry with these despots will have our posterity cursing our memory. “All they cared about was being entertained. All they did was laugh.”

[tcrlaf]

“i count one laugh at Obastard and 19 at republicans, about right i guess.”

TV Comedians ARE NOT ALLOWED to mock the Messiah, lest they be fired, black-listed, and never work again.

[FrankR]

[W. W. SMITH]

Those enamored of communism/socialism should be ridiculed at every opportunity. They deserve nothing beyond laughter and finger pointing for believing such a ridiculous political philosophy.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

It’s not merely a ludicrous philosophy, it has proven to be a megalomaniacally murderous one, and thus an evil one.

Never forget that in its name were murdered over 100 million subjects in a mad quest to mold humanity to a economic system that’s impossible from the start because it violates natural law.

Looking at the madness of their enslaving of “science” to bless their climate change thrusts, you better realize that the 150 murders in the last century was only the pilot program. It’s gonna take more than laughter to derail those deathists.

[Avoiding_Sulla]

...the 150 million murders...

[LomanBill]

Politicians Should be Mocked More Often

Ok.

Here's my mockery of Myth Romney and his GeeOpie globalist supporters:

[4Liberty]

Good one, Frank.