Another Republican Humorectomy Performed
The first step to becoming a Republican is to have a humorectomy.
Do you know any funny Republicans? You do not.
So, it comes as no surprise that everybody’s favorite Twinkie and Ding Dong replacement, Todd Akin, did not get Jamie Foxx’s joke at the 2012 Soul Train Awards, which, and I’m only guessing here, Akin did not personally attend.
Foxx joked that President Barack Obama was “our Lord and savior.” Again I am only guessing here, but I don’t think that by the use of the word “our” that Foxx meant Todd Akin.
But Akin felt legitimately raped by that comment and sent out this email.
I hope you had a great Thanksgiving. I saw this article and wanted to pass it along, because it is frankly quite appalling.
Our Christian values are being mocked openly by Hollywood elite, the media, and the professional left. This past weekend, a performer on a nationally televised broadcast referred to President Obama as “Our Lord and Savior.”
Article after article has been written about a no-name filmmaker who produced a short video mocking Islam.
How much do you think will be written about an Oscar winning Hollywood star mocking Christianity.
Friends, I may have lost the Senate race, but I do not plan to stop speaking out about the problems facing our country, and I encourage you to do so as well!
Thanks for all you do, in particular your recent help in getting our last few remaining campaign bills paid promptly. We’re making great progress on that front, but could still use your help if you can donate $10 today! We want to make sure our vendors, who sacrificed a lot for this campaign, are paid as quickly as possible.
Sincerely,
Todd
P.S. – Don’t forget to chip in $10 to get our last few bills settled! I want to continue the fight for a better America alongside you.
I hope you have “the biological ability to ward off” puking.
Poor guy, went through a whole election, got beat so bad that his grandchildren will be born shaking, and he didn’t learn diddle squat.
Thanks to Deb for the heads up.
“Friends, I may have lost the Senate race, but I do not plan to stop speaking out about the problems facing our country…”
Well, then, why are you yammering on about something meaningless instead of speaking out against *actual* problems facing our country?
1Dahlink:
I thank that word is “diddly” (squat). But perhaps in the current Texas Urban Dictionary, it has been updated to “diddle”.
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2I know LOTS of funny Republicans. None of them intentionally so. It’s a confirmed scientific fact that they have lost the gene for self-reflection, for shame and for processing irony. It was a self-defense mutation: had they retained those traits, they’d have all committed suicide by now.
Nevertheless, they may still be a dying breed, at least politically. I hope I live long enough to see them scoured out of, not just our political institutions, but country music, as well.
3The sense of irony, satire, and plain ol’ dry wit is LOST on these people.
I’ve to explain EVERY aside to my relatives….and when you have to repeat a witticism….the humor is already gone.
Mark Twain would have a rough row to hoe THESE days….
4Dennis Miller is a Republican and did a sort of funny rant once a long time ago. I think you’re right — they’re not funny. Neither is Dennis Miller. Somebody should tell him.
5So basically this is a plea for money.
6I had a very funny Republican friend, but he morphed into a Druid, so that’s OK. Must not have been thoroughly brainwashed.
P.J. O’Rourke and Dennis Miller THINK they are funny, but are really just mean sumsabitches.
7I may puke.
8Wastebasket, Marge! Not the floor, Please!
9JJ will make us clean the whole damn Beauty Salon, ifya do!!
Boehner just laughed out loud when he got the President’s proposal for the “fixin of the fiscal cliff”. Proves he doesn’t know a joke when he hears one; and he doesn’t know an absolute serious proposal when he hears that either… Hang tough POTUS.
10LynnN you hit the nail on the fat head. Republicans think that if they SAY they are defending the Lord, that’s all it takes to get those dollars rolling in. And, unfortunately, there are all too many intellectually-challenged (think morons) who
11BELIEVE it to be so. Satire, irony, dry-wit, a capacity for self-reflection or the ability to feel shame are all important components of being truly human, but the one most lacking
is empathy. That is the real downfall of the Republican party, hence the 47% comment. And no amount of “reaching out” to women, minorities of any nationality or sexuality will work.