So, is the left’s crazed insistence that Stephen Colbert was funny at the White House Correspondence Dinner the new Dan Rather memos – which the left were crazed to insist were real despite all the evidence?
Next Question: How can the left possibly get even more asinine after this?
The reaction of the corporate media and certain others on the right to Colbert’s speech reminds me of nothing so much as the bewildered puzzlement on the faces of Versailles courtiers as the French Revolution went down.
They didn’t get it then, they didn’t get it as they were being loaded into the carts, and they didn’t get it when they were looking at the guillotine blades poised high above their heads.
Defarge,
See, it just reminded me of a comic bombing. Is the left giving him sainthood for his martyrdom of purposely dying on stage?
I loved Colbert’s statements about the performance after it was over. Referring to the non-laughter as “a respectable silence” and how they loved him so much “they carried me out on their shoulders… even though I wasn’t finished.” Now that was funny.
Anyway, I may have to Tivo his show; I hear it is quite funny.
Well, they could declare that the moon is made of cheese.
“How can the left possibly get even more asinine after this?”
Easy: They could really lose it and claim that the mainstream media is biased because they protect Bush and hype the Iraq War.
Ooh, wait…actally they’ve already passed assisnine.
They’ve moved onto tin foil.
When they start threatening us posing as fictional French revolutionaries?
“How can the left possibly get even more asinine after this?”
Oh, ye of little faith…
I got a fair number of chuckles out of Colbert’s performance. It wasn’t hilarious, but it was entertaining enough to keep me watching.
The Helen Thomas bit went on for too long. That much is for certain.
On an interesting note, if liberals admitted to Colbert not being funny, they could blame it on Rove.
They (the Democrats, actually; there are lefties who aren’t Democrats, and maybe even a Democrat or two who isn’t a leftie) could nominate a Presidential/vice-Presidential slate consisting of any two of the following:
Michael Moore
Nancy Pelosi
Harry Reid
Alec Baldwin
Barbra Streisand
Teddy Kennedy
Barbara Boxer
Tom Daschle
Cynthia McKinney
Al Sharpton
Jimmy Carter (eligible for another term)
David Gregory
Dan Rather
Jayson Blair
Ray Nagin
Gray Davis
John Edwards
Al Gore
(neither of the previous two carried his home state in a Presidential election)
Howard Dean
Nina Totenberg
Susan Sarandon
Tim Robbins
As it used to say on the bottom of packs of Lucky Strikes, “LSMFT”, which means, “Let’s stop. My fingers are tired.”
oh I thought it meant
Loose Strap Means Floppy Titty
How can the left possibly get even more asinine after this?
I trust that they are up to the challenge.
Well, let’s see, they claim every election they don’t win is stolen, they claim Bush is an idiot chimp yet was somehow smart enough to make up every bad thing ever said about Iraq, they claim Conservatives are racist then attack minority Conservatives with racist slurs, they falsify documents to influence the outcome of a presidential election, they claim to support the troops in one breath then attack recruiting centers, they claim Bush creates racist hurricanes and blows up levees then creates floods that somehow ONLY flood black neighborhoods……….
Yeah, they probably CAN get more whackbat-ish, but God I’m frightened to imagine what that’ll look like.
It’s like what Hank said on a ‘King of the Hill’ episode-
“Just when I think you’ve said the dumbest thing EVER, you keep talking!!!”
Maybe he was talking about the MSM instead of Luanne…
Umm, it still does say LSMFT on the Lucky Strike pack.
oh I thought it meant
Loose Strap Means Floppy Titty
Sounds like I’m not the only fan of Doug Clark and his Hot Nuts here.
Umm, it still does say LSMFT on the Lucky Strike pack.
They still sell Lucky Strikes? Wow!! I’m going to take up smoking.
LS/MFT-
Liberal Sympathizers: Mutha F**king ‘Tards
Leave Some/Me Find Tobacco
Liberals Say/More Farkin’ Taxes!
Lefties will find a way to be even more ridiculous. Take a look, for instance, at this.
Oh, how the funny have fallen. I guess the Left never saw it coming. After all, their sense of humor was once responsible for Laugh-In, Lenny Bruce, Saturday Night Live (the early, relevant days), National Lampoon (the early, relevant days) and George Carlin (the early, relevant days).
Since then, the real funny has come from a variety of political and non-political sources, none of them lefty. South Park, Ron White, Seinfeld, Napoleon Dynamite all crested much larger waves in the post-Leftist humor era, and are far more relevant today. The Simpsons only jumped the shark AFTER adopting the punchless quasi-punchlines of the Left on principle.
So Leftist humor is kind of like a Bob Hope Special – an empty shell broadly pantomiming a character who once…many years ago…was funny. Well, at least they still have the post-relevant George Carlin.