Campaign Humour

Here's a McCain supporter who hilariously doesn't want Obama supporters to park in his lot...



"For political reasons, he's just throwing a little humour into the presidential race":

"I don't expect to go after anyone with a baseball bat. I would grin at them and laugh and ask if they could read English".

Given the US's rich tradition of racial segregation, that seems a little strange to me. But hey, I guess it's just comedy.

Then there's these:


See, here's what I don't get. You can say these images are a joke - that they are not meant to be taken seriously. But if they are a joke, the joke is "Obama looks like an arab terrorist". Am I meant to laugh at that?

Now, take as an alternative some "progressive liberal" humour. Is the message here that Sarah Palin will give you VD? Or that she'll fire ping-pong balls from her vagina to get votes? Or is it more subtle?

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For me, comedy works when it's not laughing at someone... It's laughing at attitudes, expectations, mores, ourselves... It's not about inciting hatred and mistrust and fear and ignorance. But them I'm a godless liberal, so what would I know?

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Obama v. McCain/Palin

How did I miss this one? I can't find the original source. If anyone has the proper credit, please let me know...


I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....

* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're
"exotic, different."

* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American
story.

* If your name is Barack you're a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.

* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well
grounded.

* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become
the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a
voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend
12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a
State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people,
become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human
Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate
representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131
bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public
Works and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real
leadership experience.

* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city
council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000
people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000
people, then you're qualified to become the country's second
highest ranking executive.

* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while
raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches,
you're not a real Christian.

* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left
your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month,
you're a Christian.

* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education,
including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the
fiber of society.

* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with
no other option in sex education in your state's school system
while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very
responsible.

* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position
in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner
city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's
values don't represent America's.

* If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude," with at least one DWI
conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote
until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the
secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely
admirable.

OK, much clearer now.

All Glory To The HynoPalin

More on Sarah Palin.

Sarah Palin - Brutal Satire

The Daily Show nails it as ever. This is quite staggering. The idea that anyone actually thinks Sarah Palin should be a heartbeat away from the Presidency is just insane.



Meanwhile, over the the Onion... Check out the cojones on this satire:

Gov. Palin Has No Foreign Policy Experience, Refuses To Acknowledge Global Warming, And Supports The War In Iraq

vs.

Please Keep Your Voice Down, My Poor Retarded Child Is Sleeping

For something gentler, try The Onion's Infographic on the rules for tonight's VP debate.

And if after that, you're still hungry for more, here's Sarah Palin's Greatest Hits, courtesy of TPM:



Enjoy yourselves tonight!

Sarah Palin Speaks In Tongues!!!

Sarah Palin is the Republican Governor of Alaska. She can be articulate and charming. Why then, has she been incoherent and babbling in her recent press interviews?

PTET can exclusively provide the answer... And yes, it's related to her Pentecostal past. Hold on to your hats, as Sarah Palin Speaks In Tongues!!!



More Sarah Palin Stuff!

I only meant one of those votes for McCain

A Simpsons parody? Preview? Leak?



If Obama does win we're going to see a lot of chat bout the election being stolen by illegal votes.. Just as we saw with Bush II's victories in '00 and '04.

Yet still, in 2008, votes made using many machines in US cannot be verified or audited. That is absolutely insane.

HypnoPalin - The Russia Question

Apparently around 52% of Americans have a positive opinion of Sarah Palin. Now you can see her as they see her - and just as Bill Kristol intended. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... HypnoPalin:



Don't listen... Just look into her eyes. Politicians don't have to think, as long as they make you feel good, right? All hail HypnotoadPalin!

When I had the idea for this last night, I Googled Hypnopalin and got one hit:

"...I'm just tired of the Hypno-Palin trance that the whole country seems to be in." - obamasOHangel

So obamasOHangel, I salute you :)

Sarah Palin Speaks In Tongues

Wow. Apparently Pentecostals are "offended" by this cartoon, and want it removed from Washingtonpost.com. In their defense, they are right that the Washington Post refused to run the Danish "Mohammad Cartoons". After all, they ran in an Egyptian newspaper (as shown) and nobody rioted there.

I often wonder in these sorts of discussions whether Christians are complaining that they wouldn't riot; or whether they are threatening that they might?

Here's what I think. We should be proud in the West that we don't riot when someone makes a joke involving something about our religious beliefs (or lack thereof).

Am I wrong?

Edited to add: It's worth mentioning the original cartoon ran on 9 September - before Palin started speaking in tongues during CBS News Interviews...

Exclusive! Sarah Palin on Russia

Don't you hate it when you have a really good idea for a joke, then it turns out that everyone else had pretty much the same idea? Enjoy in any case. I made this as a present for Drew.



I love America. I've only been once, as a kid. But I loved it. I love American music, movies, food, comedy, television, people, politics and spirit. I even love the crazy fundamentalists. It drives me crazy, it fills me with joy. I love it so.

But golly gosh has Sarah Palin become an embarrassment for the USA.

Here's the original video in case you missed it.



What do you think? Should Palin resign to spend more time with her family? Or is she qualified despite what people think, because she "knows Jesus" in that special way?

Sarah Palin: Dinosaur Rider

It must be great being Sarah Palin. When you're not riding dinosaurs or waiting for Jesus, you're almost a heartbeat away from being supreme ruler of the known universe. That, and you get the world's softest interview from Sean Hannity.

Still, she managed to mess that up. Even when fed the simplest leading questions in the safest environment, Ms Palin looked wooden and unprepared. Fortunately, this does not affect her biggest assets: she is white, pro-life and likes guns.

John Stewart has more:



Scary biscuits, or the best thing since sliced bread? You decide.

Music In Hell (ft. Jack Van Impe)

OK so it needs more work... Enjoy in the meantime :)

Intelligent Design: Dr Suess Stylee

Time to re-visit a classic from Amadan of Mollycularity:
Intelligent Design: explained in the style of Dr. Seuss.

You may remember Amadan from this wonderful song (sung here by Karl J. Mogel):
I Am The Very Model Of A CDesign Proponentsist

Enjoy.

Is Sarah Palin Cthulhu in disguise!?

Does anyone really care whether Sarah Palin believes in the rapture?

There are more important questions, surely.

Such as: Is Sarah Palin the great Old One Cthulhu in disguise?

You be the judge:



We have the right to know.

I demand that Sean Hannity asks Governor Palin to answer this vital question in his next interview.

Guest Post: Denyse O'Leary

Hello and welcome to the latest addition to my family of blogs. Yes, you've read that right. I'm delighted to have been asked to post at PTET, my one-hundreth blog, in celebration of his one hundredth post to "After The Bar Closes". I've never been there myself. Apparently it's materialist, Darwin-worshipping, God-hating heaven.

For those of you who don't know me, I'm a Toronto-based journalist; Roman Catholic Christian. I'm an avid blogger, an award winning author, and three time winner of a "world's best grandmother" mug. Look out for my books of ghost stories, "The Spiritual Train" and "The Spiritual Lane". I got help with the big words from a real scientist I met at a dinner party! Coming soon, there's a sequel set in the world of sewage management, "The Spiritual Drain", and a children's book set at the docks of old Newfoundland, "The Spiritual Crane".

Darwinists are mean and spiteful because in their world-view, life is meaningless. I mean if all we are is material atoms, then what possible use could here be for love, hate, science or helping people? We'd all just be animals rutting, rutting, filthy rutting to pass on our genes.



Darwinists persecute me because of my beliefs. Sometimes I wish I was Jewish, because they really get persecuted, but I get persecuted so much for being Roman Catholic I don't think I'll change.

Life is so obviously, like, designed. I mean, just look at it. Do I look like a monkey? Do I look like a rutting animal? OK, so DaveScot is like the missing link (joking!), but that nice Dr. Dr. Dr. Dembski says there's some incredible secret they have which means it's important Mr Stroppy Cheesy-Poofs won't be going anywhere for a long time.

"Intelligent Design" is so obviously not religious. Just look at it? Does it look religious? Darwinism - now there's a religion. That's why Christians (and my Jewish friends!) don't believe in it. Some people call themselves Christian evolutionists, but they're so far removed from real spiritual beings that I can pretend they don't exist. And anyway, they say that God is bigger than science. That's absurd. It's obvious to anyone with half a brain. That nice Dr. Dembski has three doctorations so he's very very, very clever. He agrees with me that it's completely obvious that everything is front-loaded into our DNA... So all of us carry the entire future of the Universe already written in our genes!

Materialists never dream. What's the point if all we are is rutting beasts? They're not interested in the future, where maybe one day President Palin will be arm and arm with a Toronto-based grandmother journalist, thrust by popular acclaim to be Prime Minister of Canada? With a pony! Now that's a future we can all believe in.

Now, over at "The Mindless Hash", bake the best communion-cookies you've ever tasted.

Don't miss me at "Salvage Blag", where I tell all those "scientists" with their fancy-pants "degrees" just where they are going wrong.

Buy my book.

(As told to )

Playmobil Security Check Point

"I like the basic idea. I applaud Playmobile for attempting to provide us with the tools we need to teach our children to unquestioningly obey the commands of the State Security Apparatus, but unfortunately, this product falls short of doing that. There's no brown figure for little Josh to profile, taser, and detain? Where are all the frightened plastic Heartlanders pointing at the brown figure as they whisper "terrorist?" Where are the hippy couple figures being denied boarding passes? And shouldn't someone be forcing a mother figure to drink her own breast milk?" - Gen. JC Christian, patriot

HT: Redflame @ B3ta. The amazon product reviews are astoundingly brilliant, like the one quoted above :)

Denyse on Worthwhile Discussion

Denyse O'Leary writes in her new piece at Salvo Mag:

"The new atheists have inherited that unmistakable self-righteous post-Sixties vehemence which doubtless feels good to the venter and those who share the venter's views, but makes no new point and advances no worthwhile discussion."

I thought it might be useful to list some of Denyse' own "worthwhile" additions to discussions on...

1. Science

"I have no objection to origin of life research, but then I have no objection to the search for the Lost Atlantis either."

2. Economics

"I've sometimes said that Darwinism is the Enron of biology, but I hadn't realized that the Enron guys themselves were actually Darwin freaks. A friend tells me, re the Enron documentary, The Smartest Guys in the Room, Of interest to me was the unapologetically explicit philosophy of Darwinism which was prevalent at Enron from top management to commodity traders."

3. Ethics

"I wonder how many... would prefer to be... mere evolved amoeba, as long as they knew that they would not be held accountable for their own behaviour?"

4. Philosophy

"...producing... infants... is not an intellectual enterprise. So whatever is going on with the intellect, and therefore about philosophy of science, is not Darwinian, apparently."

5. Religion:

"If I weren’t so happy being a Catholic, I would be tempted to be a Jew. I wouldn’t be tempted to be an atheist/agnostic, because it doesn’t sound like anyone cares much."

Can anyone tell me what's wrong with this picture? Anyone? Bueller? Anyone?

Family Guy Jesus Compilation

Total genius. I saw the clip at 3:09 in an episode on TV the other night and nearly fell of my chair. It's all funny, 'cause it's all true.

I'm John McCain, and I am a liar..

If you ain't seen this rebuttal to McCain's attack adds, you oughta. It's all going to get much nastier before it gets nicer...



Now's not the time for me to re-hash the horrors of the US Election Campaign... Check out En Tequila Es Verdad's excellent daily coverage; the ever interesting Andrew Sullivan; and my fave stat-meisters Electoral-Vote.com.

Need another video? Here's Gina Gershon skewering everyone's favorite VP candidate hockey-mom...



Nicely done...

The Top Five Sarah Palin Songs

ZOMG! !!1!eleventy!!1!one!

Blog post of the week.

The wonderful Anorak brings us The Top Five Sarah Palin Songs.

Here's the Ballad Of Sarah Palin to be going on with...



Don't miss the other songs tho...

"Most didnt even know her name/ It doesnt matter/ Hates Choice and all those pesky Gays/ umm…Like Hillary But Better/ Has a Vag and Boobs/ Baby we cant lose/ We’re Going all the way.”

It's funny because it's true.