Can anyone name the last joke Michelle Malkin told?
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OK, I’m just reading the text boxes and Obama comes off as a guy who thinks all the pomp and circumstance of being president is weird.
When I was a kid, I used to wonder if it was possible that peoples’ minds interpret the things they see differently—not in a way that would be obvious to them, but like if I was to look through somebody else’s eyes, green things might look brown or pink, which that person would then perceive as being green. People like Malkin make me wonder again, because she’s clearly perceiving something very different than the content of that interview.
There looks to be a pretty regular attempt at humor, though perhaps not specific jokes. A lot of her posts go for the “scathing wit” angle, hoping for a laugh ... only it’s so steeped in bullshit that (at least for people like us) it ends up being funny for completely different reasons.
Seriously, where can I get a gig like Malkins where I get paid big bucks to write complete hack partisan bullshit?
How does one find such a job?
Just follow her method: write some blatantly untrue crap designed to make people feel better about how awful they are, and it will practically publish itself until you get a book deal.
If it’s that easy, I wonder if she doesn’t even belief the B.S. she spews but does this because it probably involves a twenty hour work week and minimal effort.
The problem with people who can’t tell the difference between meanness and humour is that they wouldn’t recognize actual comedy if it jumped up and viciously skullfucked everyone in their family.
You certainly can’t expect pathological narcissists like Malkin and her ilk to have any ability whatsoever to comprehend the sort of light, genial self-mockery that Obama is deploying, there. They simply can’t imagine what it’s like to talk about oneself in a way that isn’t bombastic, preening, and pompous, so they just assume that anyone speaking self-referentially in any way is ipso facto a horribly arrogant demagogue.
Once again, it’s all just pure, unadulterated projection.
Dan: “...if it jumped up and viciously skullfucked everyone in their family. “
Which would, incidentally, be hilarious.
“wouldn’t recognize actual comedy if it jumped up and viciously skullfucked everyone in their family. “
... I, too, see what you did there.
No matter her innate hilarity she’ll never match the sheer comedic genius of the Gipper, quoted at length there.
“Things have been awfully busy at the White House lately. I’ve really been burning the mid-day oil.”
Their world begins and ends with Ronald Reagan. Domini domini flatularum senilaris.
“You certainly can’t expect pathological narcissists like Malkin and her ilk to have any ability whatsoever to comprehend the sort of light, genial self-mockery that Obama is deploying, there. They simply can’t imagine what it’s like to talk about oneself in a way that isn’t bombastic, preening, and pompous,”
The problem actually may have to do with the image people have of the president. Let’s face it most people who want the job are in it to be president with all the pomp and circumstance. Obama by not wanting the job and giving the image of being forced into it with these and other comments just blows their mind. These Malkinists have never heard or read the comments by the actual great leaders who said they didn’t want the job because of what the job was but that it was forced on them so they did the best job they could have.
Obama speaks to the small flicker of doubt they have in themselves that their supposed Republican leaders weren’t that good a leader or that they shouldn’t have been elected.
A lot of Republicans like to promote the common man image when in reality they are from political families that a century or more ago would have been refered to as royalty or elitist.
Drink a Beer with Bush Jr being a reason to vote for the guy the guy isn’t a drinker anymore so why even raise that point. Obama is far more likely to have a brewski at a pub then McCain would yet Obama was the elitist to these people.
Can anyone name the last joke Michelle Malkin told?
It depends whether sneering counts as humor.
I laughed for hours at her old Iraq video of the blown-up mosque. The building had burned and had a collapsed dome, dumping tons of rubble into the worship area, but she had this crowing “STILL STANDING” in a bad 90’s grunge font plastered across it, as if she TOADALLY debunked something.
Also, the cheerleader video reliably provokes a “holy fuck. Holy fucking shit.” response out of me every time tbogg reposts it. I’m pretty sure that doesn’t count, though.
WARN PEOPLE before you link there. ICK.
Leno asks him about Air Force One; he makes a self-deprecating remark about it. He’s not a scion of wealth and private jets…why wouldn’t being President be odd? He wanted the job, but the aristocratic lifestyle is something different from what he’s used to. The White House is not Kenwood.
She’s complaining that he’s not a more “presidential president”. Like W? Who rolled his eyes and looked bored at ever single official event? That kind of presidential?
As for going on the Tonight Show…FOX has Overton-Windowed the news to the point that getting Obama’s message out takes a bit more effort. We don’t have journalists anymore.
Obama goes on the tonight show and reaches millions of ordinary Americans. He’s with Leno, who is the smarmiest of suck-up interviewers, so he knows he won’t have to face gotcha questions or damned lies.
It’s brilliant. Of course the talking heads will go ape-shit talking about it, but as long as he gets some of his points across to Middle America, he’s up.
Obama’s biggest asset is himself. He needs to be in front of the public as much as possible. About time they start using him like this.
“He wanted the job”
Funny I thought the interviews reports said he was more pushed to it then that he came to want the job.
Can anyone name the last joke Michelle Malkin told?
Well, there was that Modest-Proposal-esque ‘defense’ of the Japanese internment camps. That was pretty funny.
TOTALLY OFF TOPIC
Because we have no live BSG thread, and my work has gone from famine to “feast”—now instead of 7 hr days I’m working 10 on weekdays and 8 each tomorrow and Sunday, straight through to next Friday, so I don’t expect much on-line time any time soon. And besides Amanda probably isn’t caught up herself yet…
So this contains an elliptical BSG SPOILER==anyone not currently caught up who hates spoilers don’t look below the line
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Gods damn it, this is my “called it!” moment.
Because it’s not really Earth until you see Luna!
That is all….
except good thing I started importing music to my workstation (it’s a big noisy warehouse type deal)
Now I can play both “Dark Side of the Moon/Eclipse” and “Here Comes the Sun…”
Back to finishing the show before I go to bed…
“and when the evening rolls around/
I’ll come home/
And lay my body down/
And when the morning light/
Comes streaming in/
I’ll get up and do it again/
Amen…”
Guess I should have posted that on the Eighties thread, making my hopelessly unhip appeal for the Seventies…I also have “Saturday Night,” “Muhammed Ali,” “Convoy,” and “You Sexy Thing” to blast around the place.
So, have you ever noticed that people who are really unfunny literally don’t know what funny is? It isn’t just they can’t tell a joke with both hands and a flashlight, they misidentify unfunny things as funny, and funny things as unfunny.
Typical Barack Obama joke: “Who is Barack Obama? Contrary to the rumors you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father Jor-El to save the Planet Earth. Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for ‘That One.’ And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn’t think I’d ever run for president. If I had to name my greatest strength, I guess it would be my humility. Greatest weakness, it’s possible that I’m a little too awesome.”
This is doing a few things. mocking a gaffe of his opponent (that one) but but the primary dig is at himself and his own press. as a Barack Obama joke of “I’m awesome” which she derides is actually “This press is over the top, and i am just a guy. see, this stuff? it’s hyperbole.”
obviously false bragging is a form of modesty. it’s irony, literal irony, not Morrisette irony. which someone who is irony tone deaf doesn’t get. so for those people we have “what kind of music do hippopotomi listen to? Hippo Hop.”
“So, have you ever noticed that people who are really unfunny”
You should take note that a number of people who could be considered unfunny have a very grave sense of humour or know when not to laugh at a bad joke. Having a sense of humour means more then being able to laugh it means what to laugh at and what jokes are really unfunny.
tootired, you must have stopped reading after karpad’s first line there, because you just repeated exactly what they said.
It isn’t just they can’t tell a joke with both hands and a flashlight, they misidentify unfunny things as funny, and funny things as unfunny.
aving a sense of humour means more then being able to laugh it means what to laugh at and what jokes are really unfunny.
durr how original.
Shorter Michelle Malkin: Wah wah wah, Obama is beloved by millions and I’m not. Wah.
I need to look up her credentials. I always thought she was just a token attractive minority chick for Fox to bring in some old horny men as viewers. I’ve never thought she was to be taken seriously, so for her to criticize somebody’s sense of humor is ironic. She’s the punchline of the joke that is “Michelle Malkin, serious journalist.”
I would, in fact, do Michelle until the grimace seemed semi-permanent. It’s misogynistic and sexist that I think of her that way, but she’s such a bitch normal rules of civility clearly do not apply to Ms. Malkin. If I had to choose between her and anyone else attractive, male or female, Malkin would be left to her own ends.
I forgot about SXSW. I swung by here to get Amanda’s take on the BSG finale. I consider Battlestar infinitely more enjoyable than anything having to do with the anchor baby. If only Ms. Marcotte had been free to comment… Edward James Olmos is a living god now.
BEST SHOW EVAR!
While I was in her site, couldn’t help noticing her own (and her readers) attempt at humor. Obama’s fingers…
We came to know Malkin by the intimidation of San Diego students, by her systematic dehumanization of illegal aliens, by her barely disguised hatred, and incitement of hatred, towards one half of the country.
Se we’ve sort of grown accustomed to that. It once was revolting, now it’s really just kind of boring. But what passes for humor in her site - that’s powerful stuff. And it still can make your skin crawl in emphatic embarrassment.
I couldn’t help to recall Petronius posthumous letter to Nero in “Quo Vadis”, specifically his comments on Nero’s poetry. Thankfully, she’s no Nero. But the message still applies. Here it is:
I can forgive you for murdering your wife and your mother, for burning our beloved Rome, for befouling our fair country with the stench of your crimes. But one thing I cannot forgive - the boredom of having to listen to your verses, your second-rate songs, your mediocre performances. Adhere to your special gifts, Nero - murder and arson, betrayal and terror. Mutilate your subjects if you must; but with my last breath I beg you - do not mutilate the arts. Fare well but compose no more music. Brutalise the people but do not bore them, as you have bored to death your friend
the late Gaius Petronius.
Presto, please refrain from stooping to misogyny. There’s some rules of civility that need to be adhered to, even when you’re confronted w/ an unfunny hack who happily cheerleads the worst excesses of the Rethug party. There’s plenty of accurate insults to hurl at Malkin that don’t involve perpetuating harmful stereotypes.
presto:
It’s misogynistic and sexist that I think of her that way, but she’s such a bitch normal rules of civility clearly do not apply to Ms. Malkin.
Because surely, the best way to establish that you’re a better person than Michelle Malkin is to freely admit that you’re no better than Michelle Malkin.
Seriously, dude. Of all the things you could potentially have said, here, you picked the worst possible one.
Okay. I just scrolled through the Malkin post because there is no way in hell I could stomach actually reading it.
So her idea of a presidential president, when he’s on a comedy show, is to genuflect to the people who fly Air Force One, rather than make a light, fluffy joke of it? I mean, come on.
I will never understand Rethugs. I mean, they make a joke out of the whole of president, and that’s okay, I guess.
Seriously? A “I would do her” rape post? Here?
This? http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wurbtkmKaS4/Ru_izv1IIcI/AAAAAAAAAN0/9CnpsobBd14/s400/grp_edr_soft_stick_toy.jpg Better and smarter than you.
Funny I thought the interviews reports said he was more pushed to it then that he came to want the job.
I’m not really sure where you’re getting this. I mean, I guess there was probably a little pushback to counter all the Republican “The One” talking points. And I also think a lot of people had a sense early on that he was a long shot. But, uhhhhh, the guy Ran For President. Which is something that’s pretty difficult to do without actually wanting to be President.
So her idea of a presidential president, when he’s on a comedy show, is to genuflect to the people who fly Air Force One, rather than make a light, fluffy joke of it?
Which is interesting because that’s exactly the sort of thing Bush used to do, but in the least genuine way possible. And he’d do it in reference to people he actually didn’t give a shit about. And 9 times out of 10, the “I Love The Soldiers SOOOOOOO MUUUCCCCCHHHHHH!!!!!” put on was a direct lie.
But the base ate that shit right up, and now they don’t understand why Obama doesn’t do the same thing. They’d honestly rather a smarmy liar of a President who pays empty lip service to their values than a President who doesn’t much care for the kabuki of being Leader Of The Free World but really just wants to be good at his job and make a lasting positive impact.
“Which is something that’s pretty difficult to do without actually wanting to be President.
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Not necessarily. If people in his own party told him he should run and remember he had a lot of backers while he himself said he was hesitant. Hillary on the other hand has for a long time had the publicliy stated ambition of wanting to be elected president. Her senate and other political actions gave the impression of being building stones for that.
Bush Jr. wasn’t even wanted by his own family to be President they wanted his brother Jeb to run and the impression given off is that Bush Jr. may have sabotaged any efforts of getting another Bush in office for quite some time.
What’s brown and white and flops on the beach?
* A Filipino and a seagull fighting over a fish!
Her idea of a president isn’t a real person - it is a hologram ... a completely programmable hologram meant to impress the masses with wealth and power, while being completely controlled by hidden forces.
In other words, a figurehead, not a real Head of State.
kaninchen, oh lighten up freak show Malkin is a racist Filipino. I was making a statement that she is a gas bag lunatic that disparages people of color that are lighter in color then herself.
No, you weren’t. You quoted a racist joke about Filipinos, and failed to mention Malkin at all. Given the wide array of substantive reasons for despising what she does, you seem to be ignoring that barrel full of fish. Thanks for pointing out my lack of humor, though.
So we have people making sexist and racist “jokes” and justifying it by Malkin being such a bitch. We either have trolls, or we have Malkin herself laying down “evidence” for her sequel to Unhinged.
Either way, geddim’ outta here.
I think everything she prints is a joke, a sick joke but a joke nonetheless.
Ms Kate: Her idea of a president isn’t a real person - it is a hologram
No way I’m digging through Malkin’s scribblings to check, but I’ll bet good money that her idea of a president is Ronald Reagan. In other words: Yes, Ms Kate, exactly.
Pretty much every post of hers.