Letter to Wonkette
Dear Jim Newell,
Sometimes on the Internet one stumbles upon something, feels tempted to write a blog post, but can’t help but think that given the subject matter another writer could execute it better. Thus I give you Pajamas TV weighing in on torture as only it could.
(Note: If you have a workplace diversity code that discourages the brand of humor whereby the accents of other ethnicities are mocked you might want to watch this one with headphones on.)
You owe me one.
Conor Friedersdorf
Ps. Could you also forward this to Dave Weigel?
Lawls, Crowder and Zo are the special olympians of humor.
Bring teh outrage!
That was simply awful.
Conservative “humor” is all affirmative action for funnie anymore.
The token black guy and the token young guy taken along with the Young Cons are what is killing conservatives with youth culture.
This is not how to “take culture back”, this is how to drive anyone with a shred of coolth out of the GOP into Jon Stewarts and Stephen Colberts metaphorical embrace, and cause us all to buy Wu Tang Clan, 3!oh!3 and Camillionaire to cleanse our eardrums.
Hehe, check out local rappers the Flobots to see how political action should be done.
I’m going to the Bowling Ball in Belmar on friday where they are bowling against local band the Fray for charity.
This is why you FAIL.
Flobots.org is grassroots.
Last summer they gave a free concert to make their video for Rise which includes footage of volunteers planting trees at the superfund site in Commererce City.
I’m in the video …my arms at least. ;)
— matoko_chan · Aug 30, 02:17 PM · #
Conor:
As you know, I don’t have much patience with your stance on “torture”, but amidst all your tiresome moral outrage, does this make any difference to you?
— jd · Aug 30, 04:12 PM · #
Seriously..Conor….could it be anymore stark?
You have the teabagger demographic, ie people-you-could-meet-at-a-Klan-rally, nazi-shouters and proto-assassin gun nuts, Beck and Crowder and Zo……we have Megan Fox and Will I Am and Scarlet Johannsen……and…. the Flobots and the Fray and the Bowling Ball….bringing it for change.
Who shapes culture in America?
The Youth.
If you can’t get academe back, you can’t “take culture back”.
Game ovah.
— matoko_chan · Aug 30, 04:17 PM · #
One of my long-standing objections to pornography is that the productions are so completely inept, I can’t imagine anyone being proud to be associated with them. Subject matter, sexual mores, and onset safety practices aside, if one of my children were involved with a production that was so amateurish, I would have a hard time being supportive of the choice.
What I just watched falls into the same category.
— Tony Comstock · Aug 30, 05:34 PM · #
“Flobots.org is grassroots. “
The viola is ultimate and incontrovertible proof of their authenticity. Oboes are for chumps.
— Tony Comstock · Aug 30, 05:38 PM · #
No, Tony, oboes are for poseurs.
Crowder and Zo are painfully awful affirmative action for what passes for conservative humor.
Its like Sully giving welfare epics and mercy links to the bourgie conservatives.
Conservative humor, like conservative punditry, is held to lower standards in the interest of equal time.
— matoko_chan · Aug 30, 06:28 PM · #
If you are the kind of person who thinks that making jokes about Michelle Malkin being a Filipina whore who puts ping pong balls up her cunt is screamingly funny, then you should definitely get together with that incisive political commentator Conor Friedersdorf and read Wonkette. The rest of us will pass.
— y81 · Aug 31, 01:01 AM · #
Thank you for noticing this, but I want the three minutes I watched PJTV back and I want PJTV to compensate me for my lost time and my lost hope.
America is doomed.
— tjproudamerican · Aug 31, 11:35 PM · #
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— jordan 6 rings · Sep 1, 09:13 AM · #