Any criticism/sarcasm/ridicule of 0bama will be prosecuted as a hate crime.
The Devil cannot abide scorn.
True, and if even half the fears so many of have, there will be even less to joke about in the future.
Oh I’m sure they’ll find a way to work in Obama. He’s kind of boring and well-spoken though. Watch when he starts to mess up though - people like to believe that the media and these comedians are all vehement liberals, but Bill Maher said it himself on his last show - when Obama mucks (not the word he uses, but it rhymes) up the economy, starts a unilateral war, and tries to get his babysitter placed on the supreme court, then maybe things will turn around. Bush gave them a lot of food to deal with. As some posters have noted, however, Joe Biden looks ready to take GW’s place.
If I know these guys, they’ll just keep making fun of Bush for the next twenty years. They’ll be too stupid to know when he’s gone.
This reminds me of the beginning of the Carter administration. Comics didn’t know how to deal with him because he was perceived as such a genius/saint. Watch SNL’s take on Carter in early 1977:
Obama has no sense of humour or humility about himself; otherwise, he would not be encouraging this cult of personality his followers have built around him.
The Messiah will not, nay, cannot, be mocked. Such would be blasphemy.
That is why the comedians will be silent about Obama, because many of them are his votaries.
So am I...
My theory is, that's why you keep hearing about Sarah Palin in the news. The lefty comedians know they cannot make fun of "The One", so they're keeping her around for that purpose.
Everyone knows that even comedians must gently treat Hussein with ‘kid gloves’, and any humor MUST be in good taste and done in a ‘good-spirited’ manner. To do otherwise (as we found out in the campaign), is completely unthinkable, and the perpetrator must realize that there ARE CONSEQUENCES to be paid for what they say and do. It’s as simple as that.
What is Hollywierd to do when they can’t create a movie script or tv show to ridicule the current president? Ooh...maybe they’ll go under too. Oh! There’s that wishful thinking again.
They have one thing right: There is nothing funny about Obama as President.
A half way decent comic will figure out that he can make jokes about obama that are flattering to him, while at the expense of whitey—at the very same time! Book it.
It will be like the days in Berlin that inspired Cabaret. Isherwood and Auden, anyone?
Late-Night Comics Skewer Republicans 7-to-1, Study Finds
If you’re a fan of Jay Leno or David Letterman, you may already know this: You have to listen to seven Republican jokes for every one the late-night comedians tell about Democrats.
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A study shows the Kings of Late Night are not equal-opportunity destroyers this year when it comes to telling jokes about the candidates for president and vice president — they’re hammering Republicans a stunning seven times more often than they skewer Democrats.
The Center for Media and Public Affairs, a media analysis group, kept a tally of jokes told about the presidential contenders on the “Late Show” and “The Tonight Show With Jay Leno” in the five weeks after McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his running mate and vaulted the little-known Alaska governor into the national spotlight.
The total: Republicans, 286. Democrats, 42.
“Generally the Republicans get targeted much more often than Democrats, but this election is driving it off the charts,” said CMPA Executive Director Donald Rieck.
Letterman and Leno told 106 jokes about McCain and 180 about Palin in the 25 shows that aired between Aug. 29, when McCain chose her, and Oct. 2, the date of the vice presidential debate.
Barack Obama, who may be Leno’s guest next week, was targeted only 26 times — barely once a night. His gaffe-prone running mate, Joe Biden, who is scheduled to appear on Leno Thursday night, was hit only 16 times, not even one-tenth the number of jokes told about Palin over the five-week period.
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/10/16/late-night-comics-skewer-republicans-seven-study-finds/
Before I went to work last night, the tv was tuned to Jay Leno. The first five jokes I heard during his monologue were directed at Bush and Palin. Someone has to tell Jay that there’s a new president. I’ll bet they’ll still be doing Bush jokes eight years from now.