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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
November 23, 2004
I LOVE BEING ALIVE
I truly enjoy getting up every morning. Because every morning there is something new to enjoy about all us shrieking lunatics on this ever-more preposterous planet.
Just for instance, here's Rush Limbaugh speaking yesterday about the recent NBA brawl (via Atrios):
LIMBAUGH: There is something about this hip-hop culture business... You know what the common theme that I'm hearing is? "Well, I'm not going to be dissed. I'm simply not going to be disrespected. Somebody disrespects me, they're going to pay for it"...This is gang behavior on parade minus the guns... So if anybody will be honest with you about it in the NBA, and a very few will have the courage to, because saying what I just said is going to be tagged as racist, but I, my friends, am fearless when it comes to this because the truth will out... this hip-hop culture is: "I'm not going to tolerate being dissed. I'm not going to be disrespected," and "disrespected" is now so broad that it includes somebody looking at you the wrong way.
What is SO INCREDIBLY WONDERFUL ABOUT THIS is that Limbaugh is actually describing himself and the Bush administration.
Compare to the "senior administration official" who, in a recent issue of Esquire, explained the real reasons we invaded Iraq. Apparently Saddam had dissed us:
"Every day [Saddam] succeeded in flouting us was another day in which the message to the Islamic world would be that America could be defied."
Very few people have the courage to be honest about the gang culture that prevails in the government of the USA, because they'll be tarred as racists. (After all, anti-Americanism is racism.) But I, my friends, am fearless.
Of course, I don't want to say Limbaugh's description of the NBA's "gang behavior minus guns" and the reality of the US government are exactly the same. After all, Limbaugh et al really do have guns.
Posted at November 23, 2004 03:01 PM | TrackBackOH Man! Those idiots!! this is like the thing from the Wash. Post I just saw on attaturks blog. They want bushboy to condemn the voter fraud in Ukraine because the exit polls showed the opposition winning but the government announced results were the opposite!! But all that aside - I ALWAYS knew Limbaugh was a hip-hop gangbanger!! It's SOOO obvious, say one little thing that he doesn't like and he starts foaming at the mouth.
Posted by: Terrible at November 23, 2004 09:06 PMHey, remember that Cheney-Eminem rap I sent you? Time to put it up...
Posted by: Hee En Ming at November 23, 2004 10:23 PMThe much touted mandate for Dumbya and his supporters will be shortlived. With the impending economic crisis, the wasteful destruction in Iraq, the ever widening gap between secular and non-secular, the looming draft, not to mention the incredibly isolated posture of the government that will be felt for decades to come, Republican 'values' can't last for ever. If Clinton could be impeached for his indfidelity, surely Bush can be held to account for his woeful incompetence and sheer indifference to the untold miseries he's unleashed on the world.
Posted by: jr at November 26, 2004 04:49 PM
