Wanna get high?
Just a little bit?
Posted on 10/06/2002 11:52:53 PM PDT by HAL9000
The author seems somewhat incredulous himself that we're not all cast in the mold of Jerry Falwell.
It must be one of the best lib/big media lies that we're all in lockstep with the Christian Coalition.
I'm not sure I want to disabuse the lefties of this notion, they keep underestimating us.
Just a little bit?
Saying that South Park is little more than potty-jokes is like saying that cake is little more than icing. There's a lot more to it, you're just being blinded by the f*rts. Also some of those potty-jokes are pretty funny.
(singing) Robert-a-Smith! Robert-a-Smith!
Although many in the cohort that this author describes do indeed support Republicans, the creators of "South Park" (two words) themselves, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, have described themselves as libertarians. Small "L," that is, not being Party supporters.Parker and Stone both claim to have voted for Bush. They had an episode skewering the Florida attempted larceny six days after the election.So are many Republican. That was the point of the story.
Which would you rather have in your corner while attempting to persuade the next generation of voters to think your way: the teachers' union or the rudest "outlaw" show on TV?
-Eric
Some of the best episodes are the ones where they slam Babs. And to think she was gonna sue them. Poor, Babs...One of the Haloween episodes was hyped as being filmed in "Scary-vision", which turned out to be pictures of BS in the corners of the screen. >:)
-Eric
"Christian Right" = "Reagan Republican".Reagan was truly a master politician. Even after eight years of doing nothing on the "social issues" except abortion and loading up the FCC with small-l libertarians who believed in "regulation" by ratings (aka the free market), the cultural conservatives still believe he was one of them.
-Eric
Before people brand SPR's social liberals they should check out the Boy Scout episode where they defend the Boy Scouts right to kick out gays (not because they're anti-gay, but because they're pro-free association).Hell, they had the flamingly gay character defend them just in case anyone was obtuse enough to miss the point.
And then there was the NAMBLA episode, where the NAMBLA-leader's "we're victims" speech was punctuated with Stan's "Dude, you have sex with children".
-Eric
There's a significant body of people on FR that watch South Park, listen to heavy metal, and might even purvey smut once in a while.Back in the 80s when metal was big and female fashions were small 2/3 of younger voters supported Reagan. The Democrats were having conniptions about this.I could be the poster child!
Indeed, I personally suspect the sudden popularity of grunge/alternative and homeless-person fashion was partly the result of the cultural elite trying to reverse this trend. (Yes some of the bands are good, but G&R was better).
I was a YAF chapter founder and a CR chairman then, these days I'm not all that thrilled with the GOP in general and neither are a lot of the people I know. Most see the Democrats as useless, though....unless they think the cultural conservatives are gaining power.
-Eric
I heard that a lot of WWE performaers are Republican.The Rock is for sure. Of course he's Miami-Cuban, which might have something to do with that.
-Eric
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