Why I'm not a 'South Park Conservative', by Michelle Malkin

Townhall.com ^ | May 4, 2005 | Michelle Malkin

[finnman69]

[bonfire]

What bothers me is the folks who are upset missed the whole joke. You can't explain it to them because when you do, they STILL DON'T GET IT!!! Their minds immediately went to "dirty" and I find that disturbing.

I don't have any problem with someone who didn't think the jokes were funny. I DO have a problem with twisting something innocent into something perverted.

[dirtboy]

She walked to the edge but didn't cross....

A few years ago, she would have been well over the line. Where will the line be in five more years? That's the point - as the liberals continue their effots to make the previously unacceptable first acceptable and then a right, do we move just behind them into what was once forbidden frontier? Or do we stand where we are so that the journey back some day won't be so far?

[finnman69]

I have to admit that I'm no South Park Fan -- what little I've seen wasn't that funny to me.... But Team America had falling out the seats and singing "America! F***, YEAH!" all the way home. I plan to by the uncut DVT version Very Soon. I guess, though, I'm more of a Benny Hill Republican, a bawdy Scottish folk songs/Robert Burns Republican, a Monty Python Republican (hmmm....I'm starting to sound a touch British here), an Airplane! Republican, a Whose Line is It Anyway? (American version) Republican, and, perhaps above all, a Marxist Republican (of the Grouchoist/Harpoist tendency).

We share the same taste in entertainment.

[bonfire]

"Or if I REALLY REAALY wanted to punish her!"

LOL! I make my teenage daughter watch old black and white films with me for punishment. Now she loves them!!

[Celtjew Libertarian]

No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition!

[RushCrush]

ROTFLMPJO!

[thoughtomator]

I bet that Miss Malkin got herself in such a huff at the first sign of foul language that she didn't even bother to watch long enough to get the joke. She's way off base on this one... the language in South Park is a mocking parody of the foul language used elsewhere on TV. That's why it holds that record she quotes - that was an episode intentionally aimed at skewering overuse of expletives.

[BibChr]

So, you're jumping on her (a conservative) because you think she jumps on other conservatives? Interesting.

I totally disagree with you.

Dan

[mhking]

No One Expects the Spanish Inquisition!

You're slipping - it took 16 whole posts...

[dirtboy]

Their minds immediately went to "dirty"

Sorry, but you can protest otherwise all you want, but because of the way Laura set up the joke, it is a reasonable conclusion that she meant the joke to be interpreted that way. She set up the fact that Bush was such a city slicker by saying he tried to milk a horse. When she added it was a male horse, the joke got sent in a completely different direction. You may believe that she meant otherwise, but the dual inferrence was clearly there.

[sdpatriot]

i agree 100% with you on that. that's why i never even posted on the Shiavo threads.... not once.

but it was my observation that the over the top critics on this Roast joke episode (one thread went on over a thousand posts) are guilty on both sides.. both sides.

i see many who attack the poster.. not even arguing why they dissagree. bad manners, bad form. those posters are marked by me, and i just ignore them. i don't agrue with fools.. ya know? thanks for your gentlemanly reply.

[tiamat]

I empathize.

I saved all of my child-hood books, fantacizing about reading them to the little girl i would some-day have.

My daughter is a tom-boy, and a bit of a jock.

She is also a Play Station Queen.

She wouldd rather catch frogs near the creek or build a fort than sit around with boring old Mom.

(And last Spring's experiment to get Mom on roller-blades was a complete disaster!)

[rintense]

Agreed! I didn't once think of horse masturbation. Seems to me, that the person who DID think of that is the one who has deep issues. Palladin is assuming everyone thinks like him. Clearly, that is not true.

[bonfire]

"but the dual inferrence was clearly there."


Like I said, you don't get it.

[tiamat]

There is that.

Of course, we hadn't had mass media ( other than radio) until then.

[baseballmom]

...Not until the flap here on FR did I get that mental picture. Because the extremists were INSISTING it was a dirty joke.

Exactly. I told my husband about the big flap on FR concerning Laura's jokes, and he was gobsmacked!! He watched it with me and we NEVER considered the horse joke in that context.

[brytlea]

p.s. I really don't think this incident happened, do you?
Nah....come on, the guy lived in Texas for years!
:)
As an aside, I read an interview with the guy who wrote the jokes (his name escapes me--but he wrote for Reagan as well) and he said no, the First Lady also has never watched Desperate Housewives.
susie

[dirtboy]

Like I said, you don't get it.

Like I said, you simply don't want to acknowledge that the other side has a point. You can pretend otherwise all you want.

[Celtjew Libertarian]

You're slipping - it took 16 whole posts...

Internet connection problem. Sorry.