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Obama and McCain Walk Into a Bar ...
The New YorkTimes ^ | NOV. 3, 2008 | JOHN TIERNEY

Posted on 12/04/2018 3:17:43 PM PST by daniel1212

Do conservatives have more fun? Should liberals start describing themselves as humor-challenged?..

why didn’t the liberals in the Boston experiment like the nonsense humor of “Deep Thoughts” as much as the conservatives did? ... Rod Martin, the author of “The Psychology of Humor,” said the results of the Boston study might reflect another trait that has been shown to correlate with a taste for jokes: cheerfulness....

“Conservatives tend to be happier than liberals in general,” said Dr. Martin, a psychologist at the University of Western Ontario. “A conservative outlook rationalizes social inequality, accepting the world as it is, and making it less of a threat to one’s well-being, whereas a liberal outlook leads to dissatisfaction with the world as it is, and a sense that things need to change before one can be really happy.”

Another possible explanation is that conservatives, or at least the ones in Boston, really aren’t the stiffs they’re made out to be by social scientists. When these scientists analyze conservatives, they can sound like Victorians describing headhunters in Borneo. They try to be objective, but it’s an alien culture...

The studies hailing liberals’ nonconformity and “openness to ideas” have been done by social scientists working in a culture that’s remarkably homogenous politically. Democrats outnumber Republicans by at least seven to one on social science and humanities faculties,...

Could it be that the image of conservatives as humorless, dogmatic neurotics is based more on political bias than sound social science?

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Humor; Miscellaneous; Religion; Society
KEYWORDS: conservative; manliness; religion
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To: daniel1212

An upright turd and an upright sun-dried turd.


41 posted on 12/04/2018 7:11:29 PM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: daniel1212

If you’re under 60 you’ve been forced to laugh at yourself all these years, as SNL and comedians force you to, and lefties can’t do that. If you can’t laugh at yourself you really can’t find anything else funny either.


42 posted on 12/04/2018 7:13:22 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Huskrrrr
Are they saying that McCain is a conservative?

In the eyes of the NYT.

43 posted on 12/04/2018 7:13:39 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Karliner
I sometimes go up to the university just to see what is going on and it's fraught with left wing groups, trans everything multiculturalism, hate of Israel, serious paganism and satanism( including classes), false science( cliate change, evolution etc) , name it it's like the "hedges" in the Bible. Has to be worse than Sodom and Gomorrah. Has to be.

Which is the vision of the world many have.

I don't like off color either but like you I an a follower of The Way. Some i deal with but a person can make a clean joke sans the nasty words. Do love the wit, and everything I posted. I just love to laugh. Used to do a humor group in state hospitals, acute and prisons.

A teacher asked her students to use the word "beans" in a sentence. "My father grows beans," said one girl. "My mother cooks beans," said a boy. A third student spoke up, "We are all human beans."

Then there is http://www.battlefield315.com/2011/03/liberal-universities-explained.html

44 posted on 12/04/2018 7:22:13 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Hot Tabasco
I think you are performing too many mental gymnastics over an article that is over 10 years old...........

Well, again, I thought it would at least be of analytical interest, but which is symptomatic of a deeper cause than the article speculates.

So what DID happen when McCain and Obama walked into that bar?

Maybe the NYT thinks it was not funny, or PC, as it does not tell us.

45 posted on 12/04/2018 7:29:00 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: clintonh8r
Ten year old article but probably even more relevant today.

And can you see the NYT even running that article today?

46 posted on 12/04/2018 7:30:02 PM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: daniel1212

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lu9QH71YKQw


47 posted on 12/04/2018 7:52:18 PM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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To: dfwgator

It was all explained long ago...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a6YdNmK77k


48 posted on 12/04/2018 8:02:40 PM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: daniel1212

The Left hasn’t the ability to laugh at itself...


49 posted on 12/05/2018 3:05:47 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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To: daniel1212

Liberals are too busy hating


50 posted on 12/05/2018 4:38:08 AM PST by okie 54
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To: daniel1212

This is a perfect example of the difference between liberals and conservatives. The writer of this article wants to make some profound statement about liberals and conservatives. We all know he’s a lefty, hey he works for the NYSlimes. Read the comments in this thread. We conservatives care more about the punchline of the joke than any ‘profound’ insight the writer of this article has. I mean, he has the start of a great joke and he blew it by getting all serious on us!!!


51 posted on 12/05/2018 6:18:46 AM PST by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: trebb
The Left hasn’t the ability to laugh at itself...

Its hard core operatives are driven by lust for power as the enlightened elite who are angry at authority and benefits that was obtained by lawful merit, and neither the jealous or rapists are likely laugh at humorous roasting about themselves. I

52 posted on 12/05/2018 6:36:16 AM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
This is a perfect example of the difference between liberals and conservatives. The writer of this article wants to make some profound statement about liberals and conservatives. We all know he’s a lefty, hey he works for the NYSlimes. Read the comments in this thread. We conservatives care more about the punchline of the joke than any ‘profound’ insight the writer of this article has.

Consider how fearful, threatened, touchy, angry, and reactionary the liberal college climate example itself to be.

53 posted on 12/05/2018 6:41:53 AM PST by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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