R. Emmett Tyrrell: The Prophet Obama -- Not Funny

Human Events ^ | July 17, 2008 | R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Two popular things that will soon crash and burn: Senator Brack Obama and the theory of Global Warming.

[Edit35]

I have been emailing and calling Rush Limbaugh all month, asking him to use the term “false Messiah” rather than “Messiah” for Obama.

Messiah gives Barry waaay to much respect. ‘False Messiah’ is a much better descriptor.

[LibLieSlayer]

osamabama represents all things rotten and evil that infect America. His supporters are ANTI-AMERICAN and the enemies of Freedom and Liberty!

LLS

[aruanan]

Messiah gives Barry waaay to much respect. ‘False Messiah’ is a much better descriptor.

No, it's not. This is comedy. It's sarcasm. Using Messiah Lord Barack is like someone referring to their bestially obese wife as the "little woman" or referring to leftist academics as the "intelligentsia."

[nikos1121]

I think Saturday Night Live is going to have a field day with Obama in the coming weeks.

[syriacus]

"16 months... 16 months...16 months"

It sounds like Obama is talking about the gestation period of a walrus.

[RipSawyer]

Two popular things that will soon crash and burn: Senator Brack Obama and the theory of Global Warming.
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Aye, they almost certainly will, but all that crashing and burning will surely produce heat, resulting in...global warming! Ye canna win, ye know.

[Edit35]

emailing Rush asking him to stop calling Obama the Messiah, and use 'false Messiah."

Just noticed R. Emmett Tyrrell of the Am. Spectator feels the same way.

Except he urges Limbaugh to use the name "The Prophet" ....

"My only complaint is that Rush calls him "The Messiah." To my mind, Obama is The Prophet -- only I am not quite certain of what he is prophesying. He is so famously vague."

Guess great minds think alike (sarc/)

[Nathan Zachary]

Don’t count on it. They only know bush derangement syndrome humor, as all the left leaning late night shows and so called “comedians”. Same old boring unfunny crap.

[Edit35]

No, it's not. This is comedy. It's sarcasm. Using Messiah Lord Barack is like someone referring to their bestially obese wife as the "little woman" or referring to leftist academics as the "intelligentsia."

OK, fair enough.

Actually, I like the term "The Pied Piper" even better.

[RipSawyer]

Messiah gives Barry waaay to much respect. ‘False Messiah’ is a much better descriptor.
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You apparently do not understand sarcasm! In the context of the Limbaugh show “False Messiah” would give him too much respect, “The Messiah” as Rush says it gives him zero respect.

[aruanan]

Actually, I like the term "The Pied Piper" even better.

Except in that story, the Pied Piper is actually a good guy. It was the people of the town who lost their kids who had failed to live up to their contract with the Pied Piper for ridding the town of rats. By contrast, Barack has been busy trying to get our town even more infested by Rats. On the other hand, many of the Rats have been following him as mindlessly as the rats followed the Pied Piper.

[webstersII]

“Two popular things that will soon crash and burn: Senator Brack Obama and the theory of Global Warming. “

They will crash and burn but I disagree about the ‘soon’ part. The momentum is still on his side.

[webstersII]

“I think Saturday Night Live is going to have a field day with Obama in the coming weeks.”

Where would they find a writer in Hollyweird who is willing to write a sarcastic sketch about him?

When Hillary was The Annointed One it was fine to joke about BHO but now that he’s taken her place it won’t be acceptable.

[G Larry]

Seems that BO made a little speech at the Holocaust Museum in Israel.....asserting that it was a place of hope........

At least proving that he is willing to use any opportunity as a prop for his message, as opposed to allowing his experience to influence his thinking.

[metesky]

Except he urges Limbaugh to use the name "The Prophet" ....

Get your "Ghost Shirt" here...

[Hacklehead]

I’ve been referring to his followers as “Obama Cultists”. That seems to irritate them sufficiently.

[mathurine]

Obama Sandwich: white bread on one side, brown bread on the other; nothing inside. Best when toasted.

[freespirited]

An even more inventive tactic was tried by a reporter for The New York Times, Bill Carter. His thesis is that it is almost impossible to get a laugh off the suave, erudite, eloquent, highly intelligent, incomparably gifted Prophet Obama.

I don't know a single "highly intelligent" person who can't tell you the number of states in the U.S.

Bambi is smart. Highly intelligent, not in my book.

[Nevadan]

That's a good analogy. I know someone who has fun with waitresses by ordering “whole wheat on rye” sandwiches in restaurants. “Whole wheat on rye” sounds like an actual sandwich, and the waitresses in automatic mode tend to start writing it down - until they actually process the information and realize there is nothing in the sandwich. It is just bread. Of course, unlike the waitresses my friend interacts with who actually use their brains and figure the joke out, Obama’s followers either refuse to or are incapable of using their brains to figure out the joke being perpetrated on them by their false prophet.