Posted on 05/03/2005 10:06:52 PM PDT by Coastal
I'll get to First Lady Laura Bush's bawdy stand-up routine in a minute. But I want to highlight a related new book out about how young conservatives are shaking up the dominant liberal media culture. It's called "South Park Conservatives." My name is listed on the cover along with many other (mostly) right-leaning pundits, websites, and bloggers, but I must confess to having mixed feelings about the honor.
The best-selling book's author, Brian C. Anderson of the Manhattan Institute, writes a fun, breezy survey documenting the rise of talk radio, FOX News, the Internet, conservative publishing, and college Republican activism. Anderson's chapter on the success of conservative talk radio and the abysmal failure of liberal Air America to replicate it is incisive. Another chapter on the blogosphere (alone worth the price of the book)
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalledger.com ...
Nor should we have it readjusted every time we turn around by Bible-thumping pinheads with their collars buttoned too tight, their shirts stuffed too far, and their underwear starched daily.
Did you read her book on that yet?
She made the case crystal clear that we were right to do just that!
Oh, brother.
Take a step back and look at yourself. "...we feel we're attacking whackjob needlebutts." What are "whackjob needlebutts," and why do you feel so impelled to "attack?"
This seems to be a trait of some people (not all) who are devotees of what I call junk comedy: When they laugh out loud at something someone like me finds revolting, and we might say so, they are angry at us for not finding it funny!
The prime example is that of South Park, but there were even people on FR who applauded the lifeless losers who would dupe TV anchors into putting them on the air during live coverage of Columbine, JFK Jr's plane crashing, and Princess Diana's deadly accident so they could promote Howard Stern.
As for Christians, there are people on this thread (who know who they are) that have gone insane since the Schiavo situation (when they were callously referred to as Nazis), and are ready to drop trou and start a pissing contest whenever they detect anything that resembles "right-wing" Christian attitudes.
Michelle Malkin needs to get LAID.
That's OK, Michelle. We love you anyway.
LOL
She's a fuddy duddy waiting to happen. Maybe in thirty years, she'll remind of me of the crotchety asian lady that used to live next to me *lol*
WOW .. such a Christan way to speak
Conservatives MoDo. LMAO!!
Conservatives MoDo. LMAO!!
OMG I wouldn't go as far as Dowdy puss *lol* Maybe Phyllis Schafly. I like her but I think she's fuddy duddy-ish.
Not too familiar with Schafly, but now that you mention it, it's probably a good thing. LOL
Would that make you the only one that didn't take Cartman's mom? LOL! Cue the music by Chef when they were in the barn!
"The First Lady resorting to horse masturbation jokes"
"A ridiculous statement, no matter who makes it."
Oh man, Michelle has gone to a place the First Lady would never even think about going. Over-anylizing is an understatement in this case. Still love Michelle though even when she gnaw's on a sapling and misses the forest around her.
Puh-leeze. Those guys are washouts even by third-party standards (i.e. they don't just lag far behind the Big Two; they lag behind halfway-organized third parties like the Libertarians and Greens).
Precisely.
This is a classic example of one of the harms done by abusive and overreaching government -- it discredits even the most reasonable and legitimate efforts toward the same end. In this case, the fact that there are people who want outright censorship discredits people who simply dislike vulgar entertainment. (Of course, there's also the fact that many of us don't believe that the First Lady's joke were, in fact, vulgar, but that's a separate issue.)
I won't be vicious, but I gotta say what little I have seen of southpark is 100% incompatible with Christianity. If you find people mocking Jesus and His message to be humorous, if perversity and vulgarity amuse you, you have missed the whole point of Christianity.
No one can thumb his nose at God, live in rebellion and be saved. If you think otherwise, you might want to spend some time reading the bible.
Well she's right that South Park is vulgar. So what? It's far more than that, South Park is extremely clever satire which skewers its targets perfectly. The vulgarity is not gratuitous, it hugely enhances the sense of ridicule.
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