Posted on 07/14/2008 10:44:38 PM PDT by giotto
What's so funny about Barack Obama? Apparently not very much, at least not yet.
On Monday, The New Yorker magazine tried dipping its toe into broad satire involving Senator Obama with a cover image depicting the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and his wife, Michelle, as fist-bumping, flag-burning, bin Laden-loving terrorists in the Oval Office. The response from both Democrats and Republicans was explosive.
Comedy has been no easier for the phalanx of late-night television hosts who depend on skewering political leaders for a healthy quotient of their nightly monologues. Jay Leno, David Letterman, Conan O'Brien and others have delivered a nightly stream of jokes about the Republican running for president — each one a variant on the same theme: John McCain is old.
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What is not a joke, and is even frightening, is that a substantial number of voters seem to think he's a good choice for the office.
Let a joke be done about Hussein and there will be hell to pay.
You will comply. Borg.
How about a joke about the bogus birth certificate posted on the BHO website. Jay Leno could crack “ And this week, a spokesman for the Obambi campaign states he was born, Barry Dunham, in a small town near Vancouver, Canada........that must be one of the 57 states Obama referred to last week......hahahahah! Or, It could be turned into a betting game, like football pool, with the punch line tied to the wagering.
TOP TEN Audacities of Truth:
1. Born BHO in Hawaii, just ILLEGITIMATE - no dad listed.
2. Born BHO in Hawaii to a dad listed as ARAB, not negro.
3. Born BHO in Hawaii, to Muslim dad & race listed as WHITE.
4. Born BHO in WA, OR, CA or KS in ‘HOME for UN-WED girls.
5. Born Barry Dunham, not BHO, but born in Hawaii.
6. Born Barry Dunham, some OTHER GUY listed as dad.
7. Born Barry Dunham, in another state as in # 4.
8. Born Barry Dunham in CANADIAN ‘home for un-wed girls’
9. Born Barack Husein Obama in KENYA, Africa, but flown quickly to Hawaii and registered as a home birth in USA
10. Born Barack Husein Obama in KENYA, Africa, and legally naturalized as American citizen at some later date.
We should be respectful since, if he wins, we are all liable to be part of the Obama nation.
I think the jokes will come...and come like rain. This guy is an empty suit. I’ve heard some parodies on Rush that mimic him, and they’re funny.
“A hunter in Northern Wisconsin gets caught in a snow storm after killing a deer and crawls in the deer skin that night to stay warm. In the morning he finds himself sealed in, and try as he may, he can’t get out. He’s sure he’s going to eventually die. Then he remembered he voted for Obama in the primary, and felt so small he crawled out the @ssh*le.”
Seems I recall at a New York Press Club luncheon with Clinton in attendance, a video montage for the audience included some clips of Clinton, intermixed was a small dog humping someone’s leg, that they kept coming back to. Tore the place up.
There’s nothing funny about this Maoist!
Brilliant IncPen!
The “57 states” didn’t make it to late night comedy either.
The LIBERALS slime Obamarama but say “that what republicans are going to say” and people denounce the republicans for it...
It does not get much better than that.
hee hee hee... that IS funny
In other words, whenever the inevitable accusations of racism come, say, “I was referring to his white half.”
Ears.
Bah-ha-ha!
Another clear case of liberals missing the forrest for the trees.
GREAT IDEA to make jokes about Oblahblah’s white half.
A substantial number of Americans also thought that the OJ decision was “getting back” at “the man” somehow even though they feel that he was getting away with double murder.
How it “got back” at unaffected people by letting a celebrity get off the charges is unclear.
Just like these Obamessiah voters are cutting off their noses to spite their faces. Putting an unskilled manager in charge of the nation isn’t a victory. It says “none of it matters”. Not just experience. It isn’t worth investment of time to investigate issues or credibility to holding one position over another.
Neither did Obama calling McCain “Bush’s fourth term”.
Just like when Clinton was in office, you have to wonder how the humorists and joke writers can even restrain themselves.
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