We mentioned the other day that monkeys are now off-limits for humor. We pointed out that the left compared President Bush to a chimp often. But, after that cartoon in the New York Post, it seems that monkeys are now off-limits for humor. Because it’s offensive. And racist. Even when no racial comparison is made.
But think back. The left did more than compare President Bush to a chimp. Remember? They also compared him to Hitler. A lot.
But, according to a Fox News report, using Hitler in humor is now verboten.
…not everyone is laughing. The film itself was criticized for its humanizing portrayal of the Nazi dictator. Now some people are complaining about the YouTube parodies, which play Hitler up for laughs.
An umbrella organization representing Holocaust survivors in Israel asked YouTube on Tuesday to take down one of the spoofs, in which Hitler complains about the lack of parking spaces in Tel Aviv, according to The Jerusalem Post. The organization said that the clip was grossly insensitive to the feelings of elderly Holocaust survivors.
Which means, no more Hitler videos. No more watching Hitler meltdown over his XBox Live account.
They say you can’t use monkeys in humor.
They say you can’t use Hitler in humor.
Maybe all the good monkey humor has been used up. Maybe it’s now tiresome to make Hitler references.
You can still make fun of Jesus, though.
But only until the left gets tired of the references to “Obamessiah.”
I would not compare THE OBAMA to a chimp named hitler. But the left seems to think they are so close to the same that it is off limits to say such a thing. History will show the chimps to be smarter, and hitler to have been a better human being than THE OBAMA. If I had to make a comparison I would choose my words with much more care—-like THE OBAMA is in my opinion the antichrist
That was hilarious! Does it mean that I am not sensitive to the holocaust because I laughed at that? Does it mean that I am anti-Semitic when I giggle at the old Spike Jones song “Der Fuehrer’s Face”? Should I go apologize to the ADL whenever I stumble across a Mel Brooks movie on Starz and guffaw whenever he makes fun of Hitler or Nazis? This makes me question everything I ever thought was funny. I guess I will just go play my Wii.
Hitler, ha ha. Any Jew who wishes to can now leave Israel, travel freely to Europe and piss on Hitlers homeland, where it’s pretty much verboten to praise any NAZI or denounce Jews.
Man up! Everyone knows that a cartoon referencing Obama would use a visual shortcut of his grotesquely misshapen ears. A short hairy smelly ape is referring to Nancy Pelosi!
And the censorship begins……
I love all the Microsoft talk. A scene with Hitler throwing chairs like Microsoft’s Balmer would have been hilarious. Gott in Himmel!!
Funny that it is somehow okay to joke about Jesus but forbidden to joke about Hitler or monkeys.
Considering that Hitler and the chimp in question both died of bullet wounds, and that everyone will one day stand before Jesus (who is very much alive) to account for their lives, this doesn’t sound like an intelligent policy.
I am beyond sick of the Liberal/PC crowd commanding us what is/is not acceptable to say, criticize, or laugh at.
I never elected them to be the guardians of free speech, especially since they have never applied free speech equally.
What I would like to see is a revolution: what all they tell us NOT to do/say/criticize/make fun of, we do it MORE. And MORE OFTEN.
Get ’em NunyaB. Poke them in the forehead whenever you get the chance. I do, and my blood-pressure is lower because of it.
All things PC are evil. The left can be a darkly humorless lot, with a dangerous mob mentality. When they laugh, they laugh with anger and spite. If jokes about Hitler piss them off, I say make Hitler jokes! If jokes about monkeys make them cry racism, I say elect a president that is less monkey-like! http://www.imao.us/archives/010340.html
(Nothing like an “In My World” to make me giggle like a moron.)
Please refer to the President using only his proper title. For eight years, these same PC, sensitive, tolerant libs have instructed us repeatedly that his proper title is Chimpy Obamitler.
I do not think the cartoonist at the Post meant this cartoon to be racist in any regard and i don’t have a hard time believing that the ape depicted is a reference to the Dems in congress. BUT anyone who is unable to draw the parallel as to why the cartoon would be perceived as being racist is beyond ignorant. If someone handed me the cartoon to put in my newspaper i would fist say, “this isn’t funny,” then i would ask, “what is this suppose to mean?” It makes sense that the ape is a reference to Obama, with out explanation i would have assumed it to in fact be depicting Obama (not because i would have associated the ape with Obama, but rather i associate the creator of the stimulus bill as being Obama. If you know anything about American history, you would be familiar with the fact that for centuries African American individuals have been being depicted as monkeys in cartoons, and therefore you could understand how some could have interpreted this cartoon in this way. No question, it was stupid to allow the cartoon to published. But what is worse, and deserves ridiculed (because it is reasonably possible that nobody at the post recognized the alternative interpretation) is the Post’s and the cartoonist’s refusal to apologize for the mistake. And it was this lack of apology and sympathy that caused the uproar of the general American public.
[Anyone who thinks the cartoon is a reference to Obama is a dumbass. I have no sympathy for the feelings of dumbasses. It’s not my fault they are dumbasses. Having said that, if I ran the Post, I would apologize. By saying, “I’m sorry you’re a dumbass.” – B]
I just read TRM’s tear-filled post. Once again we have the ignoramus rambling about ignorance. But maybe this can be a lesson for us all. We assume that anyone who made it through 6th grade knows the president doesn’t write bills. The president signs them, or vetoes them, or lets them die on the vine. If the cartoon had said, “They’ll have to find someone else to sign the next stimulus bill.”, then the libtard’s claim of racism wouldn’t sound quite as ridiculous. I know, let’s all be more sensitive, and look at things from the dumb-ass point of view to make sure we don’t offend dumb-asses. That way, we can be humorless little Marxist too. Or not. Offending dumb-asses is filled with awesome, and gives me hope that our constitution and bill of rights aren’t dead.
“Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a god who knew the way out of the grave.”
– G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man, 1925.