Satire is the Highest Form of Dissent?

Though 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.  (more…)

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Tags: Burlington Township, Burlington Township School District, Dissent is the highest form of patriotism, G20, G20 protest
Posted Oct 7th 2009 at 12:06 pm in Art, Political Humor, Politics, Video | 23615848 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/sgraves/2009/10/07/satire-is-the-highest-form-of-dissent/Satire+is+the+Highest+Form+of+Dissent%3F2009-10-07+19%3A06%3A00Scott+Graves

Daily Gut: Rightwing Cranks

So just as the other networks predicted, the April 15th tea parties were nothing but cauldrons brimming with rage. Rage against Obama, rage against the government, rage against these troubled times. Take a look for yourself.

(Roll footage of recent New York City anti-Israel protests, with their hate filled signs and chants)

Oh, sorry. Wrong tape. (We must have a new guy in the control room, probably from MSNBC). Anyway, while I was watching the protests, I couldn’t help but feel the anger building among these folks – and I knew it wouldn’t be long before their fury would turn frightening. Like here:

(Roll footage of G20 protesters rioting and smashing bank windows in London)

Whoops. My apologies – we can`t seem to get this right. Anyway, can we actually show some real footage of what went on yesterday? (more…)

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Tags: anti-Israel protests, G20, msm, MSNBC, Obama
Posted Apr 16th 2009 at 11:34 am in Daily Gut, Media Criticism, News | 107870No Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggutfeld/2009/04/16/daily-gut-rightwing-cranks/Daily+Gut%3A+Rightwing+Cranks2009-04-16+18%3A34%3A31Greg+Gutfeld

The Post-American President

As President Obama takes his victory lap abroad, the cheerleading media line up to shake their pompoms. The Huffington Post says “this is what real diplomacy looks like.” Slate calls it “the return of statecraft.” Here’s another way to describe it: dhimmitude, the demeaned and subordinate status of non-Muslims under Muslim rule. 

Did you miss our President’s servile bow before the Saudi King in London? If you blinked you did, because the mainstream media have virtually ignored this significant gesture. The left, of course, on the rare occasion that they even acknowledge the incident, dismiss the bow as a stumble, a search for a dropped contact lens, a sudden bout of abdominal pain, anything but what it unmistakably was … a full-on deferential dip to the ruler of another country. And not just any country, but the home of the most active disseminators of the fundamentalist ideology that seeks our destruction. The left always got a big, derisive (as Obama might say) laugh out of George W. Bush’s hand-holding with the Saudi sheikhs, but while that may have been a distasteful gesture, at least it was not a subservient one. (more…)

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Tags: "America Alone", "Post-American World", Arab media, bow to Saudi King, Fareed Zakaria
Posted Apr 9th 2009 at 5:11 am in Featured Story, Media Criticism, News, Politics | 996542 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/mtapson/2009/04/09/the-post-american-president/The+Post-American+President2009-04-09+12%3A11%3A30Mark+Tapson

The Thought that Counts

I never imagined I’d say it, but I’m beginning to identify with Barack Obama.  I’m certainly not referring to his politics or his narcissism, but it seems that both of us really suck when it comes to gift giving. 

First, he gave Prime Minister Gordon Brown some DVDs that were incompatible with English electronics and then he gave Queen Elizabeth an iPod that contained his speeches.  Well, I hate to admit it, but I can empathize.  Shopping for a prime minister has got to be hard enough, but trying to shop for a woman who has her own country would give me the mother of all migraines.  Frankly, I’m surprised he didn’t just fall back on that old reliable.  When in doubt, I say, you can’t go wrong giving cash.  Which, by the way, seems to be one of the things, as opposed to bowling and speaking without a TelePrompter, at which the president seems to be quite adept.  And, best of all, the cash, unlike the iPod, would be a personal gift because the Queen’s picture would be on it. (more…)

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Tags: DVDs, G20, gift shopping, Gifts, Obama
Posted Apr 6th 2009 at 1:36 pm in News, Political Humor | 9834233 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bprelutsky/2009/04/06/the-thought-that-counts/The+Thought+that+Counts2009-04-06+20%3A36%3A44Burt+Prelutsky

Saudi King 1, America 0

Mr. President, the last line from French playwright Eugene Ionesco’s play “Rhinoceros” is, “I will not capitulate!” Have you perchance read either the original French or English translation?  Did you think that traveling abroad and promising the Europeans the equivalent of personal free sex in the guise of your most sacrilegious “mea maxima culpa,” would result in more than a lot of sticky fingers and “ooo- la la’s”  to satisfy  your cultish yearnings? Has anyone ever said to you, “Everyone likes to have their ass kissed, but the only thing you usually get in return are more requests?”

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How about that bit of groveling before the Saudi King? “No, no, no, he wasn’t bowing!” said the loyal press contingent! ….no… “The president was reaching for something on the floor.” Oh hell, just spit it out!  It was a DVD of that sci-fi horror classic, “It! Sharia From Beyond Space,” wasn’t it! It fell out of the hole that Karl Rove neatly tore in your jacket. How else do you explain that bow?  You gawk, like a newborn camel, mysteriously fumbling about, and then we must listen to an American president kill, through disremembering, the memory of shed blood, leadership, proper pride, and financial philanthropy what have been the hallmark of American exceptionalism. These things were evident at least for as long as you were a… what?  A Com…..Community Organizer?  Is that what you once were?  (more…)

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Tags: America derisive and dismissive, Charles Krauthammer, criticize America, DVD, europe
Posted Apr 6th 2009 at 10:22 am in Featured Story, Politics | 98382131 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dschultz/2009/04/06/dwight-schultz-post/Saudi+King+1%2C+America+02009-04-06+17%3A22%3A45Dwight+Schultz

Our Exceptionalism Comes From Our Constitution

I’m not a big Global Citizen. I’m not proud of how the world conducts itself, it has a terrible history and there’s nothing great about humanity other than we have a great Creator. Mankind’s achievement is only consistent in how spotty it is. Intelligence has only made us immoral with more knowledge. Technology has brought us ways to destroy more lives and project more misery with less effort and more efficiency.

Individual countries pale compared to America. So contrast my relative shame as a global citizen with my pride, excitement and honor of being a member of the United States of America. Our country is the best. I’d say that we’re not perfect, but I hate opening any kind of door for the America haters to drive their Prius through. We have good standards, fund charities around the world and have left more of our bodies in the graveyards of other countries to defend and expand liberty than any other country in the history of the world. Our economy is the singularity of the Big Bang from which prosperity flows to the rest of the world. (more…)

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Tags: constitution, europe, G20, Global Citizen, globama
Posted Apr 5th 2009 at 11:02 am in Politics | 9686661 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/dtennapel/2009/04/05/the-global-armpit/Our+Exceptionalism+Comes+From+Our+Constitution2009-04-05+18%3A02%3A21Doug+TenNapel

The Bobby-Bash World Cup

Reporting from the BBC in London…

Good morning, and welcome to the 34th Annual Bobby-Bash in East London, England!  Today’s event promises to be ripping with action and a jolly tough competition!  As you recall, after yesterday’s bash the Anarchists hold a slight lead over the Bobbies, having yesterday knocked seventeen helmets off policemen’s heads and conked five Bobbies with protest signs and flying bottles; but in the third Over, the Bobbies rallied a strong surge with some fine baton swatting and scored twelve bloody noggins upon the Anarchists. An umpire disallowed three of those, however, in the sixth Over, due to a BPC infringement (or Blatant Posturing for Cameras, i.e., exacerbating of the head wound and rubbing of the blood all over the face), which is clearly against International League Bobby Bashing Association rules.

It’s rumoured by some ILBBA officials that Blatant Posturing by the Anarchists has been steadily on the rise, and that unless something is done to reign in the such over-acting, and what one BBC columnist vehemently decried as, “sympathy sucking”, the spirit of the games “…could be tarnished irrevocably!  And therein, I ask you, where lays our…tradition of…”   The anonymous columnist was unable to continue his remarks, and, so overcome with emotion was he, that he was forced to retreat to the Ten Bells English Pub and counsel with his awaiting and anonymous three pints of Guinness. (more…)

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Tags: Anarchists, bobby, England, G20, Great Britain
Posted Apr 2nd 2009 at 3:56 pm in Featured Story, Political Humor | 9586225 Commentshttp://bighollywood.breitbart.com/ggraham/2009/04/02/the-bobby-bash-world-cup/The+Bobby-Bash+World+Cup2009-04-02+22%3A56%3A45Gary+Graham