Satire is the Highest Form of Dissent?
by Scott GravesThough Thomas Jefferson never said, “Dissent is the highest form of patriotism,” the well-applied use of satire is certainly one of the highest forms of dissent. Jonathan Swift, after all, is more remembered for his grim irony in castigating the British and Irish for their collective humanitarian failures than for any contributions to the culinary arts.
Mad Magazine reigns supreme in creating a satirical crucible through which all subjects, social, cultural, political, artistic and philosophical typically pass. The difference between valid satire and mere mockery being, of course, the elements of truth contained therein, it is sometimes difficult to rule out former as as being buried so deeply in the latter as to be inconsequential, particularly during political campaigns. The editors of Mad would likely say that if such a line is drawn, they erase it, but nonetheless credibility rests on facts in satirical endeavors, humor being in the manner of delivery.
Ignorance Is Strength...
All this comes to mind partially as a result of hearing, for the umpteenth time, that horrid, superciliously intoned little chant that goes “Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm, Barack Hussein Obama…” as sung by the children in that “unauthorized” Burlington Township School District video that is making the rounds. The message being obvious and well-analyzed elsewhere, let us not forget how disturbingly cloying and memetically insidious the song is, in and of itself. Even the 1910 Fruitgum Company, acknowledged masters of the form, would be hard-pressed to corkscrew such a tenaciously mind-numbing ditty into the listener’s skull.
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The mind reels. The brain, in a desperate attempt to exorcise the alien and excruciatingly insufferable mental loop, invents its own lyrics to alleviate the suffering, at least temporarily:
Ooooo, Ooooo, Ooooo
Barack Hussein Obama
Ooooo, Ooooo, Ooooo
I’ll tell my daddy and momma
Two, four, six, eight
Let’s build a liberal fascist state
Ooooo, Ooooo, Ooooo…
The President of the United States is
Black so all dissent is racist
Ooooo, Ooooo, Ooooo…
Remember all that you are taught
His problems all are Bush’s fault
Ooooo, Ooooo, Ooooo…
Little ones to him belong
We are weak but he is strong
Ooooo, Ooooo, Ooooo…
Redistributive justice rules
So we will be our Leader’s tools
Ooooo, Ooooo, Ooooo
Barack Hussein Obama
Ooooo, Ooooo, Ooooo
I’ll tell my daddy and momma
But not even Weird Al Yankovic would touch that one. Better to catch a chunk of concrete upside the head at a G20 protest in the act of dissent than go there, such dissent, contrary to the President’s own honest assessment, being instantly equated with the evils of race-hatred by those who would silence opposing viewpoints. Well-heeled anarchists can surely yell “no borders, no banks,” block traffic and hurl garbage all day to further the destruction of capitalism. That’s healthy, and double-plus so for those who favor the particular dissent that would herald the end of the aforementioned economic system.
Thus, the temptation to round up a gaggle of youngsters to sing the horrid little satirical ditty of unknown origin mentioned above, record it on a cell phone, and snag a cheap zillion hits by posting it to YouTube is quashed. Mmmm, mmmm, mmmm.
But, really, nobody does it better than these folks:
We have always been at war with Eastasia, er, Westhollywood...
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Funny stuff, highly recommended, and fans of Thomas Jefferson will likely approve.
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Well, it seems that since our illustrious president is black, ANY dissent is racism. You know what? I don't rat's batutti! He's absolutely horrible!
As Alfred E. Newman Obama might say: "What, Me Worry?"
Watch it or I will have CNN fact-check this post. That is what they are doing now right, fact-checking all comedy?
Seriously, though, good article.
Watch it or I will have CNN fact-check this post. That is what they are doing now right, fact-checking all comedy as it relates to Dear Leader?
Seriously, though, good article.
It's hardly just the president. He didn't get elected on his own, and he's not running every individual office. It's the revenge of the 1960 radicals.
I figured between arrests, drug over doses, drowning in vomit, and disco, they were pretty much a spent force. And if any of them were still standing, the crash of the USSR and market economics in China would have proved even to them that they were dinosaurs, and completely discredited.
And now it looks like the joke was on me.
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Hey…thanks for the link. Some of their stuff may cross a line (for me, anyway), but I found a new wallpaper for my computer.
A great deal of people tried to warn you about the Neocon hijacking of the GOP. Since you wouldn't listen, you lost election after election. Don't expect to just win by default because Obama is bad.
That's the good thing about MAD… though I may not find them funny all the time… at least they are nondescriminatory satirists…
We conservative MUST go after everything liberals do. The liberals are BEGGING us to make fun of them. Pelosi is a satirist's dream! There is a vast wealth of material out there with the Clintons, Obama, Reid, Rangel and the best group is the Hollywood losers. They open themselves to being attacked every time the open their mouth. This is an incredible time to make fun of everything the stand for and bring it home.
F*** "em if they can't take a joke.
Anyone notice that Alfred looks disturbingly like David Letterman?
Or is it the other way around?
hmmm cockroaches… 60's radical leftovers… notice how you never see them in the same room at the same time?
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And not the wussy kind of satire… no… the kind that gets deep down that only the liberals are offended at…
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Don't think MAD isn't an echo chamber for the MSM. They are the NYT of humor magazines, except they have a monopoly.
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Put a pair of glasses on him.
Dead ringer!
An appropriate analogy. Turns out what they did was burrow into academia, set up a hive, and began cranking out acolytes.
If you have a long time, and want to gut a society, you work on converting the children. Even I have to admit, it was one hell of a plan. Take over college faculties. Use that as a base for taking over teacher programs. And then use them to infect high schools, and continue working on down to pre-K.
Reading Bill Ayer's writings (know your enemy), I didn't think he was that smart. Actually reading his work hurts my head its so rambling and basically ridiculous.
People's Cube is great. I thought that at first, too. They're no friend of the left.
I'm not so sure. They're adamantly anti-nuke. I sense a weakness.
I've heard it said the Barry O is Alfred N in photographic negative. It's all in the ears.
I love the peoples cube web site. The do a great job!
Even the 1910 Fruitgum Company, acknowledged masters of the form, would be hard-pressed to corkscrew such a tenaciously mind-numbing ditty into the listener’s skull.
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And the award for the most obscure pop culture reference of the week goes to Scott Graves. : )
Thanks for the parody update. I have enjoyed some of those as well. Frowns on one side and smiles on the other of course. And such it is with such parody – satire, if it is effective.
Here is one parody where Obamacare is targeted in an old war movie clip:
http://bit.ly/1goTAi
"Satire is the Highest Form of Dissent?"
Someone better tell that to CNN.
Maybe it's their only weakness, and that's why they want to get rid of nukes. We'd be depriving ourselves of our only weapon against them.
I owe most of how demented I am today, to Alfred E. and Bill Gaines. Thank you, MAD!
Jonathan Hoenig a Fox Business and Red Eye regular is the REAL Alfred E. Neuman. Do a search for his picture…it's freaky.
This line has been swirling around in my brain for three days now:
RUSH HUDSON LIMBAUGH, MMM! MMM! MMM!
RUSH HUDSON LIMBAUGH, MMM! MMM! MMM!
I want the groucho marx poster…Nuff said
The best comedy has truth as the basis of the joke. That is something the Left fails to understand.
Perhaps they have the DNA of cockroachs… :/ A nuclear war can't even take them out…
Little buggers scurry under the walls pretty quick when the "light" comes on, too.
Damn! ……..there goes another one……….Die hippie!
When I heard this on Rush's show, I laughed so hard. The best part is having the children sing it–adds to the humor.
I thought the Ohio Express did "Yummy Yummy Yumm. and "Chewy Chewy." The 1910 Fruitgum Company did "Simon Says" and "Indian Giver."
That is one catchy tune you penned! Sorta like a Wrigleys commercial! I am still chewing. I think of Obamacare as the Nightmare before Crappy Care. Der Fuher Obama has the Goose Step down and funky! Didn't Hitler have a Child's Choir to sing him praises, too?
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