After the post below about “Political Incorrectness” (and Ms.** Amanda’s update post is terrible in a “What I was misunderstood? Yeah, it was my fault, but , well you’re stupid,” kind of way) I had to post about this Political……

Ah, that explains all the unfamiliar faces arriving by train, with so much baggage to unload.

ka. blink.

yeah, I’m gonna have to ask for a quote there, skippy.

aside: someone bumped the “Juggalo gay-basher psycho” thread today, which sort of reminded me.

Bill Maher is what ICP is gonna be in another 20 years. They’re gonna have a late night “comedy talk show” called “raping bitches with bats” and have on the cream of the psycho right wing pundit crop, and anyone else they can possibly book to argue with them, no matter how low tier they are. They shall expound on the virtues of Faygo cola and how it’s totally unfair that after the “we’re sick of this crap” revolution of 2012, it’s impossible for anyone who doesn’t support universal health care and the ERA mark 2 (which includes clauses on sexuality in addition to gender) can’t get elected and how white males who wear stupid makeup are the ones who are really discriminated against.

which is why they only get low tier liberals. because high tier liberals are busy building our socialist palaces that we might live like the welfare queens of old.

He may be funny as hell, but I have no problems with people mocking him for that.

Screw it, I think the guy has his moments. His stand up usually sucks but in the round table format he rocks. Is he sexist? Yup. Egotistical? Yup. Does he have some strange allegiance to Ann Coulter that just boggles the mind? Yup. But the show makes me laugh out loud, alot of times about stuff that makes me initially want to tear my hair out, so I watch it. It’s cathartic in a way similar to John Stewart and alot of blogs, although I think the similarities end there.

I also personally think it’s rather absurd to judge people based on the TV shows they enjoy. I don’t worship at the feet of libertarians or egotistical men with Hugh Hefner fetishes, seldom if ever do I put that much thought into my television viewing habits, nor do most people I’d imagine. I have the ability to separate what entertains me from what influences my personal belief system, and I certainly hope I’m not alone in that talent.

In other words I don’t demand that every personality, comedian and/or commentator constantly adhere to my personal and political viewpoints in order to deem them worthy of performing. Last time I checked people find different things funny and seldom is it a window into their ethical system and/or intellectual aptitude. More often than not, it’s just a matter of taste.

…and those who cannot do, teach.

I mean, if you want to argue that you’re being set upon by touchy Maher fans who just don’t get the joke (the irony of that defense, of course, is unbearable), hey, it’s your sandbox. But it’s not exactly respectable.

1) After calling Maher a “hack� in the post title, I immediately undermine my own statement to alert the slower members of the audience that this is probably a bit of facetiousness on my part.
1a) And here I thought this was standard-issue liberal/progressive “being fair despite the undermining of my argument” an effect never seen on the Right.

2) There’s no way that this could be inarguable, as is evidenced by the comments. This statement is standard-issue hyperbole.
2a) Of course things are inarguable: the Red States’ superiority, the right of elitist right-wing mouth breathers to insist they speak for the common man, BushCo’s infallability …

3) Massive hyperbole.
3a) I thought Amazon wrote me an e-mail offering this for pre-purchase. Must be all those O’Reilly books (The tech guy, not the loofahmaniac)

4) Silly word to indicate that this is Teh Funny.
4a) This looked like one of those high-faluting literary references, maybe to Ethan Allan Poe, who cut off his ear when the laudunum ran out or something, I dunno, couldn’t stay away … yawn … in English … yawn … class … zzzzzz

5) No one can be incisive and original 100% of the time. More hyperbole.
5a) Except BushCo, and me

6) Hyperbole.
6a) C’mon, something has to be the most asinine phrase. Why not “politically incorrect”?

7) Notice that I’m moving away from the subject of Bill Maher. This might indicate I only used his TV show title as a hook to amuse the audience.
7a) Oh, yeah, we love hooks. And whips. And chains. Hurt’s so good … C’mon baby now make it hurt so good … Sometimes love don’t feel like it should

8) At this point, careful readers will notice that I’ve dropped the topic of Bill Maher altogether and have moved onto the meat of the post.
8a) Careful readers?!? LSHMSOMNACAEFITIAIOP! (Laughing so hard milk shoots out my nose and causes an eletrical fire in the inkjet all-in-one printer!) This is a blog, baby. We don’t read carefully. We read while running with scissors, into traffic without looking and with (only) unclean underwear on!