I don't like GWB,
April 10, 2001 11:33 PM Subscribe
I don't like GWB, but even I think this artist goes too far sometimes. Like here. (but he is dead on at times)
Yeah, but I think it's one thing to depict Georgie Porgie as an idiot right wing moron, versus a goosestepping pedophile... I dunno, maybe I'm becoming an overly sensitive leftist from hanging out on Mefi too much :)
posted by owillis at 11:52 PM on April 10, 2001
posted by owillis at 11:52 PM on April 10, 2001
(everyone else, me and Matt are just gonna talk back and forth all night :-)
posted by owillis at 11:55 PM on April 10, 2001
posted by owillis at 11:55 PM on April 10, 2001
When I mentioned Dana Carvey, I meant that I didn't find his GW impressions funny at all, like this site. The content on most of those comics don't deserve to be dignified with a response
posted by mathowie at 11:56 PM on April 10, 2001
posted by mathowie at 11:56 PM on April 10, 2001
"Artist"?
(Also from the last thing linked: conservatism is a perfect good word.)
posted by sylloge at 12:06 AM on April 11, 2001
(Also from the last thing linked: conservatism is a perfect good word.)
posted by sylloge at 12:06 AM on April 11, 2001
Carvey is a funny guy, I never got the Bush impersonation thing, I think he meant it in a nice way of such. Then again, SNL was never very funny even though a lot of it's good cast was. (Murray, Martin, Miller and so on)
The humor on the mentioned site is horrible, I don't even think he intended to make the thing funny, or if he did, then I'm very disappointed and want my money back. Now.
Surely there must have been better material, bushism and mispronunciations are great.
Btw, I happened to catch That's my Bush on cc, it was pretty funny, but in the middle ground. I think matt and trey are trying to please way too many people, strangely. Considering the treatment Clinton got, with all the sex and cigar jokes, especially on the simpsons. I guess they're just right wingers.
posted by tiaka at 12:17 AM on April 11, 2001
The humor on the mentioned site is horrible, I don't even think he intended to make the thing funny, or if he did, then I'm very disappointed and want my money back. Now.
Surely there must have been better material, bushism and mispronunciations are great.
Btw, I happened to catch That's my Bush on cc, it was pretty funny, but in the middle ground. I think matt and trey are trying to please way too many people, strangely. Considering the treatment Clinton got, with all the sex and cigar jokes, especially on the simpsons. I guess they're just right wingers.
posted by tiaka at 12:17 AM on April 11, 2001
This "artist" negates any credibility he might have had/achieved as a satirist by going too far, such as the Anan pic and the daughter pic. Sadly, he only adds fuel to the fire of intolerance and ignorance that the anti-Bush people constantly spew. Bush is not some sort of Great Satan - I believe that he is genuinely a decent, honest guy who is trying to do right by as many Americans as he can. This sort of extreme caricaturization is so off-base as to be pointless.
posted by davidmsc at 3:27 AM on April 11, 2001
posted by davidmsc at 3:27 AM on April 11, 2001
I wonder what the translators do when he does hack a word? It is an interesting concept; they are not supposed to change any of the content of what they are translating. Interesting…
I had a class in college on time where there was a deaf student with a sign language interpreter. It was so fascinating to watch the signing, I bombed the class because I never paid attention to the professor.
posted by me myself and i at 3:31 AM on April 11, 2001
posted by me myself and i at 3:31 AM on April 11, 2001
Once you strip away the incest, primate, southern speech, crack and alcohol jokes you're left with humour on par with a dull episode of Will and Grace.
posted by holloway at 3:56 AM on April 11, 2001
posted by holloway at 3:56 AM on April 11, 2001
Sone steals and election and I am not about to worry about "going to far." If what was said and written and portrayed about Clinton for 8 years was ok, then so too anything done to the other guy is ok.
One of the great things about being an American is to be able to let out frustration this way. It keeps the lid off revolution, civil strife, and joining militia groups out west.
posted by Postroad at 4:03 AM on April 11, 2001
One of the great things about being an American is to be able to let out frustration this way. It keeps the lid off revolution, civil strife, and joining militia groups out west.
posted by Postroad at 4:03 AM on April 11, 2001
Unless the artist knows something I don't, unfounded suggestions of racism are stupid, inappropriate and ultimately trivialize legitimate opposition to GWB (or anyone else). The translator thing is, however funny.
posted by ParisParamus at 5:02 AM on April 11, 2001
posted by ParisParamus at 5:02 AM on April 11, 2001
I thought you didn't like the George Washington Bridge.
posted by ParisParamus at 5:12 AM on April 11, 2001
posted by ParisParamus at 5:12 AM on April 11, 2001
Postroad, I don't know if you were joking or not, but I happen to kind of agree with you.
It ain't that the pedophilia or the racism stuff is or isn't over the line. (Actually, I thought the Beatles one was almost subtle, in a hamhanded kind of way.) The problem is, even the funniest ones aren't funny for more than a couple of seconds. (Kind of like the liberal op-ed version of Ziggy.)
On the other hand, strip away the incest, primate, functionally illiterate (not so much southern) speech, crack and alcohol jokes and, um, what's left of George?
posted by chicobangs at 5:57 AM on April 11, 2001
It ain't that the pedophilia or the racism stuff is or isn't over the line. (Actually, I thought the Beatles one was almost subtle, in a hamhanded kind of way.) The problem is, even the funniest ones aren't funny for more than a couple of seconds. (Kind of like the liberal op-ed version of Ziggy.)
On the other hand, strip away the incest, primate, functionally illiterate (not so much southern) speech, crack and alcohol jokes and, um, what's left of George?
posted by chicobangs at 5:57 AM on April 11, 2001
I also agree with Postroad (of course if he wasn't joking). If you don't like the guy, of course you can put up a site to knock him/her down as much as you want. God knows there were plenty of "Clinton is an Alien" sites up. I don't like when people try to put the person down by acting out harm or trying to get people rowled up by harm to the person. What Alec Baldwin did on one of the talk shows about Henry Hyde's family was just plain wrong. There was another talk show host, can't for the life of me think of his name right now, but he had held up a "Wanted" sign with a public officials picture on it. Another thing that was just plain wrong. I mean, talk about his political views or his policies or even how dumb you think he is, but don't talk physical harm. That's just plain stupid. Everybody that has seen me post on MeFi knows I hate Clinton and his whole administration to the end, but I would never wish any kind of harm to him or his family.
posted by the_0ne at 6:53 AM on April 11, 2001
posted by the_0ne at 6:53 AM on April 11, 2001
I think we all pretty much agree that these jokes are in terrible taste, aren't funny, and pretty much suck ass. I want all the conservatives among us to remember that, next time we MeFi liberals are accused of being cretins.
posted by jpoulos at 7:24 AM on April 11, 2001
posted by jpoulos at 7:24 AM on April 11, 2001
I think we all pretty much agree that these jokes are in terrible taste, aren't funny, and pretty much suck ass. I want all the conservatives among us to remember that, next time we MeFi liberals are accused of being cretins.
posted by jpoulos at 7:26 AM on April 11, 2001
posted by jpoulos at 7:26 AM on April 11, 2001
What Alec Baldwin did on one of the talk shows about Henry Hyde's family was just plain wrong.
What Alec Baldwin did on Conan O'Brien's show was hilarious. See for yourself.
posted by rcade at 7:27 AM on April 11, 2001
What Alec Baldwin did on Conan O'Brien's show was hilarious. See for yourself.
posted by rcade at 7:27 AM on April 11, 2001
Wrong's a strong word.
Alec Baldwin (I hadn't seen that before) might have stepped a bit beyond good taste, and threatening someone's family is always going to push some people's hot buttons, even if it's in jest and on a late night talk show that relatively few people see.
If anything's wrong here, it's that Alec's tirade, like Cunningham's comics, just isn't as funny as one might expect, or maybe hope.
Really, that's what's so irksome to me. I just can't stand the petty sniping and the sanctimony and the repetitive braying (from all sides) passing itself off as humor.
You know, mediocrity is killing ths country way faster than ideology ever will.
posted by chicobangs at 8:30 AM on April 11, 2001
Alec Baldwin (I hadn't seen that before) might have stepped a bit beyond good taste, and threatening someone's family is always going to push some people's hot buttons, even if it's in jest and on a late night talk show that relatively few people see.
If anything's wrong here, it's that Alec's tirade, like Cunningham's comics, just isn't as funny as one might expect, or maybe hope.
Really, that's what's so irksome to me. I just can't stand the petty sniping and the sanctimony and the repetitive braying (from all sides) passing itself off as humor.
You know, mediocrity is killing ths country way faster than ideology ever will.
posted by chicobangs at 8:30 AM on April 11, 2001
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