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Can Conservatives Be Funny?
New York Magazine ^ | Published May 20, 2014 | Frank Rich

Posted on 05/20/2014 1:07:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

It’s hard to be funny when you see your world crumbling around you.


21 posted on 05/20/2014 2:04:32 PM PDT by dangerdoc
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To: nickcarraway

Well, that was an enormous pile of crap. Oh, I see, Frank Rich wrote it. I wish I had seen that before diving in.


22 posted on 05/20/2014 2:05:31 PM PDT by cdcdawg (Be seeing you...)
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To: Mears

bfl


23 posted on 05/20/2014 2:09:53 PM PDT by Mears
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To: nickcarraway

Can Liberals Get their Inane, Nasty, Narcissistic Ideas Across In Less Than 3 Pages?

Anyway, I think Rush is Hilarious, just to start.

Plus, we find liberals to be sickeningly easily amused.

We see it when they show clips like in the Bernie Brief, and when we go to the movies at the artsy revival cinema.

Watch the clip of SNL making fun of Jayzee and solange. They are apopleptic. It’s like they’re amazed that people can be so funny. But it’s not funny. It’s a nasty domestic dispute and the spoof is unimaginative and amateurish.


24 posted on 05/20/2014 2:12:30 PM PDT by stanne
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To: nickcarraway
What delusional left-wing jackasses like this Frank Rich character don't realize is that the stereotype of the conservative as a finger-wagging church lady is long outdated. Left-wingers are now the new church ladies - finger-wagging at anything and everything that might fall slightly out-of-bounds or paint one speck of color outside of the lines. Try making a real joke these days - racist! sexist! homophobic! Heck, for that matter, just try saying hello to someone, but don't forget to check your privilege!

Left-wingers constitute the whole of the Hollywood machine these days, including comedy, but only because the rezident political officer allows only left-wingers to be seen. The truth is that left-wing comedians are funny to nobody except other hardcore left-wingers, or those under 18 who laugh uproariously at their scat and sex jokes. Here is the gist of "humor" during the Bush years: "George Bush - what an a**hole, eh?" [crowd of leftwing nutbags goes wild]. "I sure hate that guy, wish he would get AIDS from a gorilla and die!" [crowd of left-wing nutbag goes wild again].

I'm not saying you have to be retarded to laugh at left-wing comedians, but it helps.
25 posted on 05/20/2014 2:15:49 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: nickcarraway

Oh the liberals DO have an agenda in Hollywood, even if it costs money.

“How I trained your dragon II” (a kids’ animated movie) has a major gay character coming out.

That will kill their market, and they don’t care. They just want people to know.


26 posted on 05/20/2014 2:42:48 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem)
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To: nickcarraway
Sure Frank, watch this...

A brunette, red head and blond go hunting. They come upon a set of tracks. The brunette says, "deer tracks." The red head says, no "bear tracks."

The blonde gets hit by the train.

5.56mm

27 posted on 05/20/2014 2:50:40 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: nickcarraway

Apparently, Frank Rick never saw MadTV’s parody of The View

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8-RGQUAdno#t=16


28 posted on 05/20/2014 3:04:48 PM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

We’re hilarious. Leftist media trash have no sense of humor, and are not funny. They are mean-spirited, offensive pricks. Thanks nickcarraway.


29 posted on 05/20/2014 3:35:35 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: nickcarraway

The most outrageous claim was that liberals are all so self-deprecating and never take themselves too seriously, unlike conservatives.

What planet is Rich living on? He has to be kidding?

Political correctness comes from an aggrieved, over victimized classes and that is the nature of the liberal left. They practice it!

They caterwaul over the tiniest perceived slight - they have been doing it for decades.

He is out of his mind!


30 posted on 05/20/2014 3:54:26 PM PDT by Titus-Maximus (Light from Light)
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To: nickcarraway

Conservatives definitely have the lock on funny conservative pundits. There are no liberal scribblers as funny as Mark Steyn, Ann Coulter, James Lileks, P.J. O’Rourke, or at times Jonah Goldberg. Today’s standup comics are not funny. Invective and foul language is not necessarily humor.


31 posted on 05/20/2014 3:55:55 PM PDT by driftless2 (:-))
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To: fr_freak
Just one example: Did you hear the latest Obama joke?

That's not funny and you're a racist.

Liberals are the thinnest skinned little twerps who ever existed. Oh, they can be funny when they DON'T talk politics.

But if someone DARES to ridicule a liberal "icon", the long knives come out.

32 posted on 05/20/2014 3:56:45 PM PDT by boop (I just wanted a President. But I got a rock.)
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To: nickcarraway
If conservatives thought it was funny liberals wouldn't laugh anyway. Hence, to a liberal, a conservative cannot be funny.

Hence, P.J. O'Roarke was quite the wit, but remains esoteric.

33 posted on 05/20/2014 4:31:30 PM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: nickcarraway

When you present a false premise everything else you state is
just so much drivel.....

“conservative = privileged ; liberal = underdog”

Frank, if that bullshit were ever true it sure as hell isn’t now and
hasn’t been for a long time.


34 posted on 05/20/2014 8:26:03 PM PDT by Sivad (NorCal red turf)
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To: nickcarraway; GeronL
The right, like the left, has a habit of overplaying the victim card. Given that there are many out A-list Republicans in Hollywood, from Rupert Murdoch to Clint Eastwood to David Mamet to Adam Sandler, it would seem that all the paranoia about left-wing McCarthyism is unfounded.

He lost me by the third paragraph.

The bitchmedia's backlash against the Duck Dynasty show, the HGUAAC-TV home show, and others who "dissent" show that there IS a hard blacklist/pinklist in effect. And it is led by the Left's own version of "Red Channels" called "Right Wing Watch".

Only a dipsh!t libtard would refuse to see the forest for the trees.

35 posted on 05/21/2014 4:29:41 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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To: a fool in paradise

This person ignores reality on purpose of course


36 posted on 05/21/2014 8:56:45 AM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
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