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Satire is one of America's finest art forms (none / 0)

Its not always a home run, but Obama needs to "tighten up" and "Cowboy up"--people are going to test you, you need to stand up and take the lumps.

Hurtful speech is our most important speech--its the most American speech we have. 

We are adults who are supposed to live a land ruled by the law--that means we all have a certain responsibility to maintain freedom, even when it hurts your campaign.

 

 

by calturner on 07/14/2008 10:57:26 PM EST

Well Said (none / 0)
"Hurtful speech is our most important speech--its the most American speech we have."

Absolutely!  The cancer of political correctness is rotting the sense of humor of the left. 

by alphasigmookie on 07/15/2008 12:57:29 AM EST

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Really now? (none / 0)

Must be why the right is so damn funny.  Remember that Fox "comedy" news show.  High-larious.

Look, the righties are a bunch of whiney little bitches who are completely incapable of taking criticism.  Say a single word against one of them or their insane policies and they call you an America-hater or run an IRS audit on you or treasonously out your undercover CIA agent wife.

I am so sick of this "liberal are so sensitive they have no sense of humor" canard.  Look at just about everything that is funny in the country.  It is pretty much either non-political or liberal (Stewart, Colbert, Cenk, Al Franken etc.).  What do you got to hit back with?  Dennis Miller?

Ouch!

by ProfRich on 07/15/2008 10:09:05 AM EST

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Difference (none / 0)
The main difference is that most conservatives never had a sense of humor to lose.  Yes, most good comedians are liberal or centrist, but that does not mean that the majority of liberal politicians or voters for that matter have a sense of humor (Stewart is much more centrist than liberal by the way...my favorite joke of his is about how there are no "radical moderates" because their rallying call isn't very polarizing "Be reasonable...") & nbsp; 

Political correctness is nearly completely a brain child of the left and it is the absolute enemy of humor.  I guess the more the politically correct way of prasing my original statement is not that that the left is losing its sense of humor, but that everyone who embraces politically correctness has lost their sense of humor and most of them are either on the left on in the MSM.  Is that better? 

BTW Al Franken isn't really that funny (neither is Gerafalo for that matter), you should probably refrain from using him in future examples of liberal humor...Bill Maher would be the better choice.

by alphasigmookie on 07/15/2008 12:56:28 PM EST

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Political Correctness was created by the Right (none / 0)

I can't believe that people still say with a straight face that "political correctness" was created by the "left". &nbs p; Political correctness was created by the right several hundred years ago.  For a couple of historical examples, the right-wing Christian Puritans were the creators of political correctness in this continent and the book "The Wealth of Nations" is a book of political correctness.  For an example from today, the right-wing's "war on terrorism" is completely a war of political correctness, and anyone who opposes the phony war on terrorism is not being politically correct. 

There are ten issues of political correctness on the right for every issue of political correctness on the left.

by Gregory Wonderwheel on 07/21/2008 11:20:59 AM EST

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Thanks for proving my point (none / 0)
Like the "Healthy Forests Act" or the "PATRIOT Act", conservatives use the phrase "political correctness" to mean the opposite of what the words say.  To call the fight against the human abomination of slavery a fight for "political correctness" proves my point that it is the conservatives who invented the phrase "political correctness" in its current form as a shield against their moral corruptness. Every time a conservative is exposed for being morally corrupt they say that the criticism is merely "political correctness" and thus, just as they did with slavery, they say don't pay attention to the issues or the criticism, just know that God is on their side and they are supported by the Bible.

by Gregory Wonderwheel on 07/23/2008 03:39:12 PM EST

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Was The New Yorker's Controversial Cover Okay In Your Book? | 23 comments (23 topical, 0 hidden)