Liars Own The World
I bought a textbook for college. The semester is over and now I’m going to sell the book on Amazon since I don’t need it anymore. This is perfectly legal. I could sell it on the streets and that would also be legal. The writer, publisher, editor, and everyone else involved with the making of that book won’t see a single penny from my sale. MP3’s don’t magically appear on the internet. Someone bought a cd, ripped it to their computer, and uploaded it to the internet. If I then download the MP3 that someone else uploaded, that’s illegal. Got milk?
-JGlaus
Humorless
“It’s a cartoon … and that’s why we’ve got the First Amendment,” Obama said. “And I think the American people are probably spending a little more time worrying about what’s happening with the banking system and the housing market and what’s happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, than a cartoon. So I haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about it.
“I’ve seen and heard worse,” he said. “I do think that, you know, in attempting to satirize something, they probably fueled some misconceptions about me instead. But, you know, that was their editorial judgment.”
According to Obama, you shouldn’t tell jokes because some people are too dumb to understand them. At least, that’s how it comes across when his campaign managers refer to the cover of a recent issue of The New Yorker as “tasteless and offensive.” The cover of this issue shows Barack in a turban, giving a “terrorist fist bump” to his wife, who is weilding an AK-47.
The cover was meant to be a satire against the people making the outrageous claims that Obama is a Muslim Terrorist, but instead Obama and his staff think it is just feeding the stereotype. His people are worried that people will see the cover and take it as more proof that Barack is a closet suicide bomber. First of all, this was on the cover of The New Yorker, so the people reading it are most likely liberals and/or people who are smart enough to understand what a satire is.
Sat-ire (noun): the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices. Which is exactly what the artist, Barry Blitt, was trying to do. The cover was meant to make fun of “the use of scare tactics and misinformation in the presidential election to derail Barack Obama’s campaign.” Most intelligent people would understand this, and not view it as an attack on Obama’s credibility.
The point of a joke, especially a satirical one, is to make fun of misconceptions and stereotypes. If you can find humor in other people’s prejudices, then you can defeat them. Obama is too serious about everything. All of the time. He needs to lighten up and ignore the stupidity of a small minority of people. Instead of focusing on these things, he should laugh it off and focus on the things that really matter. This way, people won’t be thinking “I ain’t votin for that Barack guy, he’s a damn A-rab,” but instead they’ll be thinking “Man our economy sucks huge balls, maybe this guy can help us.”
John Mccain may have had barbecues with dinosaurs, but at least he can laugh about it. He recently appeared on Saturday Night Live saying “I ask you, what should we be looking for in our next president? Certainly someone who is very very very old.” C’mon Obama, Mccain can laugh at things that don’t matter, why can’t you?
But with that in mind, I don’t know which is worse, a president with no sense of humor or a president who hasn’t yet learned to use the internet. No. Wait. I do.
Still, a sense of humor can go a long way, and as a society, sometimes we can be a little too uptight.
