"Can we talk about Islamification cause I wrote a song"
November 18, 2011 10:49 AM   Subscribe

This post was deleted for the following reason: I'm not sure that Victoria Jackson hosting a poorly-produced trainwreck is really something that needs any extra attention. -- cortex



 
I can't even. How the hell "Conservatives" manage to perpetuate this victim myth is a feat to be both studied and feared. I really wish the fate they think they're already suffering would really, truly befall them.
posted by spicynuts at 10:51 AM on November 18, 2011 [8 favorites]


In what alternate universe are conservative pundits outnumbered? This willingness of conservatives to say things that are blatantly and provably untrue has always baffled me.
posted by Larry Duke at 10:52 AM on November 18, 2011 [2 favorites]


The AV Club's headline about this was pretty great:

Victoria Jackson Launches Hilarious Parody Of Excruciating Conservative Talk Show

posted by Ian A.T. at 10:52 AM on November 18, 2011 [14 favorites]


Liberal robots spewing their hatred?!

Wow, that sure looks like it will present a fair and balanced analysis of the issues of the day.
posted by headnsouth at 10:53 AM on November 18, 2011


TV talk shows and news programs are inundated with liberal robots spewing their hatred toward all-things-Conservative.

For the love of god how many times do we have to go through this with you? For the last. fucking. time.: Watson was not a robot, he was an artificial intelligence inside of a computer. That thing up on the stage was a prop. And he was answering trivia questions. I am sorry that you do not understand the basic conceit of Jeopardy!, but this is getting embarassing for both of us.
posted by griphus at 10:53 AM on November 18, 2011 [31 favorites]


Wow. Victoria Jackson looks like an Easter Egg.
posted by Pacheco at 10:53 AM on November 18, 2011 [1 favorite]


> This willingness of conservatives to say things that are blatantly and provably untrue has always baffled me.

Why mess with success?
posted by The Card Cheat at 10:54 AM on November 18, 2011 [4 favorites]


And it's not just TV. I'm allatime having to wade through piles of books by Rachel Maddow at Barnes and Noble just to find a single copy of ANYTHING by Sean Hannity.
posted by Legomancer at 10:54 AM on November 18, 2011


man i wish they would not use the word conservative! it's killing the very idea.
posted by facetious at 10:55 AM on November 18, 2011


And her hidden gift to us all: music
posted by filthy light thief at 10:55 AM on November 18, 2011


re: Wow. Victoria Jackson looks like an Easter Egg.
posted by filthy light thief at 10:56 AM on November 18, 2011


Hey, come on now. My liberal robotics projects are designed with only love in mind.
posted by mccarty.tim at 10:56 AM on November 18, 2011 [1 favorite]


Also, does anyone know if that was Victoria Jackson doing a cameo in Waiting for Guffman? It was like five seconds during the scene right before the rehearsal where Fred Willard and Eugene Levy's characters first meet. She's sitting next to Eugene Levy doing some sort of neck excercises in a costume with a very low top and Levy gets caught looking at her cleavage. I am convinced that is Victoria Jackson but IMDB doesn't even have a credit for the character.
posted by griphus at 10:57 AM on November 18, 2011


Larry Duke: This willingness of conservatives to say things that are blatantly and provably untrue has always baffled me.

There's truth, and there's truthiness, the "truth" that a person claims to know intuitively "from the gut" or that it "feels right" without regard to evidence, logic, intellectual examination, or facts.
posted by filthy light thief at 10:58 AM on November 18, 2011 [1 favorite]




I stopped when Victoria Jackson started into the chorus of her song, and now I fear I'll go around humming or quietly singing "Sharia law, Sharia law" in a sing-songey voice.

Thanks, The Whelk.
posted by filthy light thief at 11:00 AM on November 18, 2011




It's coming to a point where Iran having nukes is a safer idea than the Tea Party folks fielding a President.
posted by Harry at 11:00 AM on November 18, 2011 [6 favorites]


"I just found out that Snopes is owned by George Soros."
posted by Flunkie at 11:01 AM on November 18, 2011


It's coming to a point where Iran having nukes is a safer idea than the Tea Party folks fielding a President.

The Tea Party represents the law-abiding, tax-paying, middle-class mainstream. Are you sure you want to trade that for Iranian nukes? You sure?
posted by lstanley at 11:03 AM on November 18, 2011


"I just found out that Snopes is owned by George Soros."

I was wondering when this was going to happen. A cursory look at Snopes seems to answer the question, "Which political party is the dumbest?" by noting who the most unbelievable, absurd, easily-debunkable-yet-impossible-to-kill rumors are designed to appeal to. I figured sooner or later this documentation of Conservative idiocy was going to be chalked up as yet another Soros-driven plot.
posted by Legomancer at 11:04 AM on November 18, 2011 [2 favorites]


I got as far as "Today were going to talk about Gay Marriage"
posted by wheelieman at 11:04 AM on November 18, 2011


The fact that conservatives are not only tolerant of Victoria Jackson, whose blinkered natterings and empty stare should be universal signifiers of benightedness, but actually take steps to make her their spokesperson -- well, if anybody needs proof that the American right has become the party of naked anti-intellectualism, there it is, staring at you with big, wet eyes and talking in a little girl voice about how Obama is a socialist antichrist.
posted by Bunny Ultramod at 11:07 AM on November 18, 2011 [6 favorites]


The Tea Party represents the law-abiding, tax-paying, middle-class mainstream.

hehehehehe.... that's funny. I like your style of comedy.
posted by Mister Fabulous at 11:08 AM on November 18, 2011


The Tea Party represents the law-abiding, tax-paying, middle-class mainstream.

I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.
posted by inigo2 at 11:08 AM on November 18, 2011 [2 favorites]


It is odd that even if you only consider the two things they mention (Fox News & talk radio) that is STILL the highest rated news channel in the country and basically all of the radio talk shows that aren't even "balanced" but are rather openly far-right.
posted by Winnemac at 11:09 AM on November 18, 2011


Is the wall behind them just green for no reason, or is it a green screen which will be used in post-production to project an image of a benevolently smiling Ronald Reagan holding his hands over a map of the United States to protect it from missiles launched by gay Islamists?
posted by The Card Cheat at 11:10 AM on November 18, 2011 [3 favorites]


The Tea Party represents the law-abiding, tax-paying, middle-class mainstream. Are you sure you want to trade that for Iranian nukes? You sure?

Wait, was this a very wry joke?

The Tea Party represents self-pitying jingoistic cranks who don't want to contribute to the cost of running the country the profess to love, and who have undisguised contempt for people from most other nations. And as far as a Tea Party president versus Iranian nukes, either way it's a closed-minded xenophobe with access to a nuclear launch button - only the Tea Party president's nukes would be a lot more likely to actually work when activated.
posted by aught at 11:12 AM on November 18, 2011 [6 favorites]


Good god, that theme music is awful.
posted by koeselitz at 11:12 AM on November 18, 2011


I really wanted that liberal robot T-shirt to have a fruit fucker on it.

In re: Outnumbered Conservatives. They are able to spout their 'we are the victim' nonsense perpetually because they do not require proof to believe things. They will adhere to any idea which appeals to them and validates their personal choices and the choices that were made for them as children.
posted by Fuka at 11:12 AM on November 18, 2011 [1 favorite]


The Tea Party represents the law-abiding, tax-paying, middle-class mainstream.

As a member of the law-abiding, tax-paying, middle-class mainstream, they certainly do not represent me. It sure looks to me like they really represent the moneyed elites they think they can be. In any case, I think that the Tea Party and their ilk are more of a threat to the country than nukes in Iran.
posted by me & my monkey at 11:13 AM on November 18, 2011 [2 favorites]


I kept waiting for a factual argument to be made, but it was all:

- I remembering hearing about...
- My friend said...
- I'm pretty sure that...

This just has to be a parody, right?
posted by WinnipegDragon at 11:15 AM on November 18, 2011 [2 favorites]


You're all missing the big question. Is that a guitar or a ukulele in VJ's paws? It looks like both and sounds like neither.
posted by chairface at 11:15 AM on November 18, 2011 [2 favorites]


At minimum I can't recall the last time I saw an Iranian mullah try to walk into a town meeting carrying an assault rifle and wearing some asinine tricorne.
posted by aramaic at 11:16 AM on November 18, 2011 [1 favorite]


Their demonizing of George Soros just demonstrates how far they have to reach to find a scapegoat.

Any time one of my nearby teabagger acquaintances mentions his name, I get them to agree with me that rich foreign born guys with a naked, extremist political agenda shouldn't have significant media holdings, and then I say "glad you feel the way I do about Rupert Murdoch."
posted by George_Spiggott at 11:16 AM on November 18, 2011 [12 favorites]


When she puts those glasses on and plays the ukulele, Jackson comes across like Lynda Barry's crazy wingnut sister.
posted by The Card Cheat at 11:16 AM on November 18, 2011


The pictures on the sides are so groovy.

Also, I love that Victoria reunited with her high school sweetheart, a now helicopter pilot.
posted by MHPlost at 11:16 AM on November 18, 2011


The Tea Party represents the law-abiding, tax-paying, middle-class mainstream.

Well, this is debatable, but, even if true, none of this qualifies any of them to make life of death decisions for nations. I'd prefer the person with their finger on the trigger is able to make reasoned decisions based on vetted facts, regardless of whether they obey the law, pay taxes, are middle class, or are mainstream.
posted by Bunny Ultramod at 11:17 AM on November 18, 2011 [1 favorite]


It's because of the strong overlap (near identity) between political conservatism and evangelical Christianity, which is shot through with a cultural identity that insists they are oppressed martyrs, no matter how predominant their power becomes.
posted by Naberius at 11:20 AM on November 18, 2011


It's because of the strong overlap (near identity) between political conservatism and evangelical Christianity, which is shot through with a cultural identity that insists they are oppressed martyrs, no matter how predominant their power becomes.


Look, I've already seen a store flyer this year that said "Happy Holidays" on top. If that's not oppression what is, man?
posted by Pater Aletheias at 11:23 AM on November 18, 2011 [1 favorite]




Watson was not a robot, he was an artificial intelligence inside of a computer. That thing up on the stage was a prop. And he was answering trivia questions.

Not so fast. Those were facts he was spewing out, which have a well-known liberal bias.
posted by straight at 11:27 AM on November 18, 2011


WinnipegDragon: This just has to be a parody, right?

Beware the power of whisper campaigns. That's the power of truthiness.
posted by filthy light thief at 11:27 AM on November 18, 2011


what more can be said besides, "look at these assholes"?
posted by nadawi at 11:28 AM on November 18, 2011


“My boss at Vision to America said, ‘Victoria, we want videos. People don’t want to read all the time,’” Victoria says. “I’m thinking, do you know how hard it is to come up with a funny, interesting video every week? I mean, I’m a human being. On SNL, I’d write two things a year!”

Well. I guess that explains some things.
posted by verb at 11:29 AM on November 18, 2011


I just...I don't even know what to say here.

This is worth watching for the song, but then, yeah, just stop.

But do watch the song.
posted by fyrebelley at 11:32 AM on November 18, 2011


Christ, what an asshole.
posted by zomg at 11:33 AM on November 18, 2011


VJ on Islam in America:

"It's so hypocritical, because we're not allowed to say 'In Jesus' name, amen' because of separation of church and state, but their religion, they're allowed to beat up, or behead their wife legally in America because we're open to all religions."

Followed by mumurs of assent and nodding from her co-panelists.

Laugh all you want, but the internet is much better at spreading bullshit like this than it is at correcting it.
posted by Missiles K. Monster at 11:33 AM on November 18, 2011 [1 favorite]


lstanley: The Tea Party represents the law-abiding, tax-paying, middle-class mainstream. Are you sure you want to trade that for Iranian nukes? You sure?

I think I missed where that trade was offered to me. Was it the guy in the trenchcoat who mumbled as I passed by last week? Or was it a TV advert I flipped by late at night? Do I need a landline for this offer? I only have a cell phone.

Anyway, I stand by Bora Horza Gobuchul's comment on the Tea Party and their lack of sense of history. I don't care if they are mainstream, they're misguided, forgetful, selfish, and/or short-sighted.
posted by filthy light thief at 11:33 AM on November 18, 2011 [1 favorite]


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