Laughing Conservatively!

I love the idea of Conservatives making fun of liberals. For years it was the opposite. Do you remember a show called That was the week that was!. How about Laugh-in, The Smothers Brothers Show, and of course the Mount Everest of all political satire TV Saturday Night Live. Now we have Jon Stewart, David Letterman, Jay Leno and couple of other guys whose names escape me because I've never learned who they were. Most of the time these liberals come across as mean, nasty and hardly funny, as far as I'm concerned. And I'm not even going to discuss the beastly Michael Moore, who has redefined the word treason, which is a subject I intend to write about sometime.

You know what was really funny though? Remember the time Jane Fonda joked with the North Vietnames and clowned around with guns that were still being used to kill Americans while the war was still raging and many former POW's including Admiral Stockdale later wrote that there were indications about that time that the North Vietnamese were ready to give up as their artilery guns were all burned out and the POWS were starting to get better treatment and medical attention in preparation for war trials. And then Hanoi Jane arrived kicking the anti-war movement in the states into high gear, which gave great encouragement to the enemy, by the way. But still, the memory of Jane on those guns kidding around and flirting with the North Vietnamese soldiers really brings a chuckle to my face. (ha ha ha ha) Man was that funny! Anyway...

Rush Limbaugh has been combining political news commentary with tongue & cheek humor for years at the expense of liberals. But the thing about Rush's humor and the reason it is so popular among his 20 million + Conservative audience is that there is always an element of truth to it, which has always been one of the characteristics of effective comedy. The musical satire played on breaks for those who listen to his show as I do everyday online is worth the price for membership in the Rush 24/7 club alone. Listening to musician Paul Shanklin imitate Barney Frank singing the Banking Queen is a scream. And you haven't heard satire until you've heard his imitation of Barney Frank, Bill Clinton, and Ted Kennedy singing background vocals while Barack Obama performs lead vocals on a satiric renditions of a Shanklin produced pop song. Now that's funny!

Recently one of my liberal friends on FaceBook ran a you tube video of convicted rapist Mike Tyson doing an impersonation of Herman Cane about the time a couple of women came forward with questionable sexual harassment claims, making me suspicious of the timing and the real message the producers of the video were trying to get across. I mean, Tyson, who is hardly known for being a comedian, unless you consider the time he bit Buster Douglas's ear off funny, actually did a surprisingly good impersonation of Herman Cain, but surely the creators could have found someone else who wasn't a real live sexual predator to do it. Were they trying to get a subliminal message across? Well, that was the first thing I thought about and when I didn't find it funny, my friend accused me of not having a sense of humor.

He also explained to me one time in a real heart to heart way that Obama deserves respect because he is the President. Oh really? It's interesting however that he and his friends didn't apply that same reasoning when George W Bush was president. And what about the way they treated Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfield, and Karl Rove. How many "Bush is so dumb jokes" can you take? Where is the element of truth when you're talking about someone who has an MBA from Harvard, as though he is dumb. Granted, I'm sure it helped to have his father's name when he applied for admission after a less than stellar career while sewing his oats at Yale, but he was on his own once he arrived at Harvard and began the grueling program of studies, which many are unable to complete. But Bush actually graduated which is a lot more than what Al Gore was able to accomplish. And furthermore those in his inner circle knew him to be a voracious reader even while dealing with his day to day presidential responsibilities, something never mentioned by the White House Press Corps as it ran against the image they had molded for him of not being very smart.

Now I'm not saying that all jokes told by liberal comedians aren't funny, because much of it is and most conservatives I know can laugh when they make fun of Sarah Palan as much as they do at Obama and Anthony Weiner jokes, but more times than not lately they cross the line into an area that is not funny.

These jokes from Newsbusted, however are indeed funny, my liberal friends, so lighten up will you! Don't you have a sense of humor?

For more from Newsbusted go to http://newsbusters.org/other-topics/humor/newsbusted