{UPDATE} It occurred to me after posting this that the JibJab video below is actually a good example of what satire is supposed to look like (in marked contrast to, say, the infamous New Yorker cover page). If you look at the images associated with each major person (Bush, McCain, Clinton, Obama) you’ll see that they reflect what each person’s opponents actually do say about them: thus, Bush is shown as a incompetent dunce, McCain as an old warmonger, Clinton as a dirty-tricks Marxist, and Obama as a babbling political virgin. You may agree or disagree with any of those assertions, but you certainly can’t dispute that people are making them. And that’s why the JibJab video is funny, and the New Yorker cartoon was not; because the former is based on what is actually happening, and the latter is based on what the artist wished was actually happening. Or, put another way: it’s funny because it’s true. Over the top, but true.
So, the next time this comes up the New Yorker should put a picture of Obama gamboling away on a unicorn, or something. Although I can see why that would be a little too much raw truth for them to handle…
H/T Hot Air:
Nice to see that somebody’s taking the opportunity to completely avoid not mocking Barack Obama. When you’ve got Maureen Dowd (via Instapundit) worrying about her candidate not being properly made fun of, well…
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ROFLMAO!
pilgrim (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 10:25AM EST (link)That was funny, with apologies to Woody Guthrie.
Great! Moe!
Rod_Patrick (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 10:46AM EST (link)ROFLMAO!
BTW, where is the NYer caricature? Can you bring it back with a more serious tone? So that RS won’t ban it again?
Best parts
SteveLA (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 10:58AM EST (link)Great stuff, but I think the best parts are seeing who the background actors are.
I spotted Terry “Global Crossing” McCullef, Mitt, and who else was in there and who was the “Cigar Girl” with Slick ?
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Competency over ideological purity and litmus tests
Too funny
woodsman (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 11:08AM EST (link)…and yet so strangely true.
I have to wipe off my monitor now.
an American classic
KBDay (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 11:40AM EST (link)JibJab will go down in history. This one is the best so far, in my opinion. It is a classic–the unicorn says it all.
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“Good judgment seeks balance and progress; lack of it eventually finds imbalance and frustration.” (Eisenhower)
That's Obama in a nutshell
Dan McLaughlin (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 11:45AM EST (link)And I could swear that was John Edwards on the “Increase Your Manhood” headline.
“No compromise with the main purpose, no peace till victory, no pact with unrepentant wrong.” – Winston Churchill
I have to admit
Shaggy_Dog (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 11:56AM EST (link)The Dowd article was pretty good.
We should definately milk the “Green Coordinator” thing for all we can during the convention.
Let the American people know that when the D’s are running the show that is what life will be like – environuttiness like the requirement to measure the carbon footprint generated by every cup of coffee.
The best part of this video for me
Brian Simpson (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 12:02PM EST (link)is not that they peg Obama.
They peg politics in general. It really is true that a vast sum of money is spent on the various elections this year. Promises will be made. And once they are elected, the only thing that will “Change” will be the names on the office walls and committee seats. It will be back to politics as usual come Jan.
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It was Edwards
Dave_in_Fla (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 1:08PM EST (link)And I burst out laughing at that scene. Just a classic.
“If they were merely incompetent, then at least SOME of their actions would have been to the benefit of the country.” – Joe McCarthy
Someone should throw this on redhot
Pi Over Three (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 3:07PM EST (link)I drive a car powered by hydrogen – C8H18 to be exact.
Someone should throw this on redhot
Pi Over Three (Diary) Wednesday, July 16th at 3:09PM EST (link)I drive a car powered by hydrogen – C8H18 to be exact.
come together, right now
exileoc Wednesday, July 16th at 6:40PM EST (link)dare conservatives and liberals come together for a good laugh?
right wrong or otherwise, I think we just might.
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Nicer to Obama?
Randolph_Finder Thursday, July 17th at 12:21AM EST (link)Frankly, I thought the piece was nicer to Obama than it was to McCain. Everything negative about Obama from the Primaries was in the box of Clinton dirty tricks indicating to me that they weren’t real issues at all (like 3:00, Rev. Wright, etc). Other than that, the only negatives toward him are that he talks about change to the point where Clinton and McCain are sick of it, which they probably are and that he’s living in a fantasy land. OTOH, for McCain, they went after Bush’s disagreements with him, his health problems, his age and his supposed warmongering…
Come on, they had the man riding a unicorn.
Moe Lane (Diary) Thursday, July 17th at 12:28AM EST (link)That’s one of those little details that sneaks up on you later.
The Kim Kardashian of blogging.
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But they, like, left out the magical leopleurodon, Moe!
CincoSolas_del_Bronx (Diary) Thursday, July 17th at 12:58AM EST (link)How will he be able to find his way to the bridge of hope and
wonderchange?Those dreading urbanization should remember that though the Kingdom of God first appeared in a temporal Garden, at the end of the book it is established in an eternal City. (paraphrase, James M. Boice)
soli Deo gloria
Two Parts of the Video I Really Liked
Jake W (Diary) Thursday, July 17th at 2:59AM EST (link)Well, actually, I enjoyed the whole video, but there were two parts i really enjoyed.
FIrst was the part where Hillary hits Bill over the head with a frying pan. I don’t know, I guess I just love a good CLinton joke.
Second was the entire Barack Obama segment. The sad thing is it really is closer to the truth than most people think.
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hah!!! that's hilarious....n/t
Attack Mode (Diary) Thursday, July 17th at 3:17PM EST (link)n/t
“Land of the Free and Home of da Whopper” Peter Griffin…Family Guy
conform and celebrate diversity….or else!!!
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“I’ll create 5 million jobs from out of unicorn farts and pixie dust” Justatron paraphrasing Obamessiah…yes I love it that much.