Biblical Obama

If you haven't read this piece by Gerard Baker, you should. It's a funny Biblical adaptation of Barack Obama's (Guitar Hero*) short political career. Predictably, the Obamaniacs (read: the media) are less pleased with it than anyone else. Can't these people have a sense of humor about themselves and their candidate?

(Thank you Matt Drudge for bringing it to our attention.)

It's humor, people. Someone should remind the humorless Obama surrogates in the comments section. Their response to this bit of satire is a replay of the whole New Yorker kerfuffle from a couple of weeks ago.

Here's a little sampling:

The Child was blessed in looks and intellect. Scion of a simple family, offspring of a miraculous union, grandson of a typical white person and an African peasant. And yea, as he grew, the Child walked in the path of righteousness, with only the occasional detour into the odd weed and a little blow.

*Over the top performance, no real skill.

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David Horsey: Obama Backers Have No Sense Of Humor

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In response to Obamaniacs' outrage over The New Yorker's satirical cover, David Horsey, a fav cartoonist of ours from the Seattle PI, sketched this one with John & Cindy McCain.

General conservative pundit response? A few chuckles.

You see, this harks back to something we have discussed on the pages of this blog before. Since conservatives do not revere their Presidential nominees the way leftists do, we don't take it as a personal affront when they are lampooned--even ironically.

And we get that The New Yorker was irony--not part of the right-wing attack machine meant to derail the utopian-Presidential campaign of one Barack Obama. The New Yorker cover wasn't designed to make fun of Obama--it was designed a send-up of gun/religion clinging conservatives. Duh.

It's not that leftists aren't smart--we're sure they're roughly as intelligent as McCain supporters--it's that they are blinded by their love of Obama.

What's even funnier is the fact that many leftist commenters on the pages of the PI see the Horsey cartoon and say, "take that, Republicans!" As though The New Yorker cover and Horsey's cartoon were some sort of back-and-forth name calling game between Republicans and Democrats (as opposed to funny satire from two leftwing periodicals). They didn't get The New Yorker cover and they don't get that the McCain cover makes fun of their lack of humor.

Oh well, they can just go back to watching The Daily Show and laughing when prompted by the laugh track.


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This, Too, Is Satire

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For the record, and to forestall all you haters, this and this.


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