Conservative Sen. Jim DeMint is resigning, and Stephen Colbert wants the job. All he wants us to do is tweet #SenatorColbert at Gov. Nikki Haley.
Want to help make #SenatorColbert a reality? Check out Colbert’s pitch here.Reblog/share/like this if you want Senator Colbert to happen.
“Tweet @nikkihaley & tell her why I belong in the US Senate. For one, I wouldn’t just block legislation, I’d body-check it! #SenatorColbert”
For our money, we want Alvin Greene back in. Here’s why:
An amusing consequence of state-controlled media: In countries with a closed press, satire, by definition, doesn’t exist, and so when satirical pieces leak over from other countries, they’re often interpreted as real news. In other words, Iranians have more of an excuse for mistaking The Onion for reality than these people do. source
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Hey, just a tip: If you see this link about Anonymous and Romney’s tax returns floating around the ether, it’s not real. In fact, a Forbes writer even spent some time debunking the idea around the article, while noting the source’s satirical nature. Free Wood Post is a satire site that has published a number of realish-sounding things that have surfaced over the past few months. And people keep getting fooled, not reading deep enough into the article to see that there are obvious jokes in the article — a deduction from “Toupee Creators Unlimited,” for example. Unfortunately for us (and unlike The Onion), the things sound somewhat feasible on their face, and readers totally skip over the “Satire Disclaimer” on every page of the site. If someone sends you this link, send them this link back.
Surprisingly, this isn’t an Occupy post: Do you think Ryan Gosling was robbed of People’s “Sexiest Man Alive” title this year? Well, these protesters do, too. Our pals at BuzzFeed started a whole petition to promote Gosling to his rightful place. Today, protesters met outside of People’s NY HQ with chants, signs and masks. We are the 99%, indeed. source
Regarding The Onion thing: The only thing they really did wrong was write this post without any subtlety. If this had just a little bit more color to it, nobody would’ve complained. But The Onion has three million followers — enough so that people without a sense of humor might twist the wording and unintentionally cause panic. With the context of the NBC News hack recently, it made this come off a lot worse than it actually was. The joke is still funny. This tweet, in all its lacking subtlety, may have overshadowed the joke and led to overreactions.
I’ve long been grateful to The Onion for its September 26, 2001 issue. Most simply, it allowed me to smile again.
Pictured above from that issue (and with apologies to the source since I’ve forgotten where I downloaded it from): God Angrily Clarifies ‘Don’t Kill’ Rule and US Vows to Defeat Whoever it is We’re at War With.
In a 2004 interview, Zack Stalberg, Editor of the Philadelphia Daily News and former Pulitzer Prize judge, told Editor & Publisher that he put The Onion up for consideration for a the prize’s commentary category:
“As it went around the table, you could see that people were blown away by this work,” Stalberg said about the entry, which included the paper’s mock Sept. 11 coverage. “But it was a little too different, a little too risky. I voted to make it a finalist, but nobody else did.”
Absolutely agree with this. Comedy should be bold. And nobody was bolder than The Onion. A great lesson on great satire.
See this clip right here? It’s from a “Daily Show”-styled program for the Iranian market called “Parazit.” The show, created by Voice of America and tough to come by unless you have an illegal satellite, nevertheless has a huge fan base – over 200,000 Facebook followers and thousands more YouTube visitors. And, considering the country, the tone of the show isn’t nearly as lighthearted as “The Daily Show.” “We have to walk a fine line,” said Saman Arbabi, one of the show’s DC-based hosts. ”We come from that generation of kids who got up in Iran and protested the government. We share their politics, so we echo their voice.” But that doesn’t mean they don’t get a kick out of making fun of Ahmadinejad. “His bloopers are fantastic,” he said. The show is so popular that Iran has had to create an anti-“Parazit” show which reportedly isn’t as funny. Awesome. source
Jesus Christ Banksy. Yeah, we know all this stuff in this couch gag is true about the Simpsons, but did you really have to expose Western audiences to this harsh reality? source
Banksy comes up with Simpsons couch gag, disturbs us greatly
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