I'm a democrat
Bill at INDC discovered quite the interesting anti-Republican rant on Kos. The piece seethes with rage. I feel sticky for having even posted an excerpt of it here.
What I then discovered was that it's really hard to parody stuff that already takes its own ignorance to the extreme. It crashed. It burned.
Well, except this line, which was pretty funny:
I'm a democrat. I just love trees. When I see a good thick redwood or a soaring vine-draped tree in the rainforest, I sprout some nice, thick wood of my own.But hey! Speaking of conservative political humor, IowaHawk. He noticed that some liberals are getting upset that they don't have "the pitch" of liberalism down. How, they ask, do you explain it to someone riding in an elevator with you? Can you sell liberalism that quickly, in 30 words or less?
He attempts the task. My favorite:
If not for safety laws passed by Liberals, this elevator would now be plummeting helplessly to the bottom of the shaft. And a fat lot of good your precious Jesus would do you.The only thing that could beat this contest is a haiku-off.
Posted by Matt at February 14, 2005 09:24 AM
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Other than "When I see a good thick redwood or a soaring vine-draped tree in the rainforest, I sprout some nice, thick wood of my own", which is fucking hilarious, that was weak, repetitive, unoriginal, and pointless. Even more so than the original Kos post. I'm a liberal, and I could come up a better liberal caricature than that. Weak, weak, weak.
Posted by: Mike C at February 14, 2005 12:26 PM
Oh come on. It wasn't worse than the Kos post.
I think what I discovered here is that it's really tough to parody people who don't have much in the way of limits on what they'll consider to be true. "You probably think Bush was behind 9/11" doesn't belittle anyone if they're the kind of person that would take an idea like that seriously. I'm the only conservative in a liberal office, and the stuff I hear around here isn't that far beyond some of the stuff I wrote above.
But thanks for the "fucking hilarious." I'll try better next time.
Posted by: Matt at February 14, 2005 12:54 PM
OK, so it was only worse than the Kos post in repetitiveness. In unoriginality, it was equal. And try to keep in mind that what people say when chattering with like-minded ignoramuses might not necessarily be the truest belief they hold in their heart of hearts. Or even what they say when arguing with you... my boss is a hard, hard, hardcore financial libertarian / American exceptionalist, and you should hear some of the shit he says about Arabs. It would make Michael Savage shiver.
Posted by: Mike C at February 14, 2005 01:25 PM
Shame when racism accompanies otherwise good ideas.
Posted by: Matt at February 14, 2005 04:51 PM
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