Al Franken...is this for real?

[Happy Monkey]

I don't think an election can get more accurate than having a court rule on every individual disputed ballot. This is probably be the most accurate election since ballots were counted in the millions.

[TheMercenary]

The Demoncratic Clown Car arrives to the Senate. I love it. 4 years of comedy and blame.

[TheMercenary]

Congrats guys, here is your new Senator. You should be proud. I will find some more pics for you....

[Happy Monkey]

Trying to make fun of Franken, and they misspell authority... Or authoritay if they were trying to riff off of South Park.

[tw]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

The Demoncratic Clown Car arrives to the Senate. I love it. 4 years of comedy and blame.

Sony Bono blazed the trail (or was it Charlie Wilson).

[ZenGum]

Until now I had ignored this thread because I had my fill of US politics.
I think I missed something. I just saw a short explanation on the news of the full story.

Wow.

You guys are always good for a laugh.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by TGRR

You gotta work to play. Problem is, this country forgot the latter. Probably because the first settlers were Puritan fucktards, and everyone seems to feel some need to emulate the humorless bastards.

Bullshit they've forgotten play. It's all around you if you'd bloomin' open your bloomin' eyes. Consider the Jet-Ski and its use. Consider any sports car for a slightly more generalist item. Very few people actually work at The Society for Creative Anachronism, but thirty or forty thousand do play there. Let these few examples stand for many.

The Puritan spark has long been extinguished. Where's the worth in fighting yesteryear's battles as you seem to be doing out of sheer irritation? This isn't an act of bravery, you know. Well, maybe you don't get that one yet -- but cogitate as long as necessary (and no longer). Personally, I don't know one human being who "wants to emulate" the Puritans. Who became Congregationalists, I'm told, and don't even snap witches with wet towels in the locker room.

Originally Posted by TGRR

In a hundred years, you'll be dead. Have fun now.

It's all the more fun if you've earned it, for then the money you so spend is all your own. Meanwhile, your refusal to contemplate the permanent things -- admittedly they are not so numerous as the impermanent ones, but all the more precious thereby -- puts me in mind of a similar crack by Keynes. Keynes' economic theories don't wear so well. He may well have been an idiot.

I've found it easy not to be an idiot. Takes a bit of time, but overall, it's not hard.

[TheMercenary]

Someone please change his diaper...

[richlevy]

Actually, comedy and politics have gone hand in hand for ages.

As for entertainers in politics, here's something to think about:

[Dr. Emmett Brown is doubting Marty McFly's story about that he is from the future]
Dr. Emmett Brown: Then tell me, "Future Boy", who's President in the United States in 1985?
Marty McFly: Ronald Reagan.
Dr. Emmett Brown: Ronald Reagan? The actor?
[chuckles in disbelief]
Dr. Emmett Brown: Then who's VICE-President? Jerry Lewis?
[rushing out and down a hill toward his laboratory]
Dr. Emmett Brown: I suppose Jane Wyman is the First Lady!
Marty McFly: [following Doc] Whoa! Wait! Doc!
Dr. Emmett Brown: And Jack Benny is Secretary of the Treasury.
Marty McFly: [outside the lab door] Doc, you gotta listen to me.
Dr. Emmett Brown: [opens the door to the lab] I've had enough practical jokes for one evening. Good night, Future Boy!
[closes the door leaving Marty outside]

The guy who co-starred with a monkey is considered by some to be one of our best presidents.

Speaking of mixing politics and entertainment, I love the fact that there are a lot of people who believe that Stephen Colbert is really a conservative and is either pretending to parody a conservative or is actually on the level. When you can leave that many people guessing, it shows that you are a real artist......or that they are morons.

[Clodfobble]

Originally Posted by richlevy

Speaking of mixing politics and entertainment, I love the fact that there are a lot of people who believe that Stephen Colbert is really a conservative and is either pretending to parody a conservative or is actually on the level. When you can leave that many people guessing, it shows that you are a real artist......or that they are morons.

It's true he's not "really" a conservative. He's admitted (on only a few occasions, after being prodded many many times) that he is, in fact, a Democrat. However, he is also a practicing Catholic, and he has stated in interviews that there are occasional issues which, while his in-character tirade on the subject is still over-the-top (and anyone who truly believes he's "on the level" about anything on the show is a moron,) he does actually believe the core principals of what his character is saying. He says his executive producer Allison Silverman is one of the very few who can reliably say to him, "You actually believe this one, don't you?"

See here for just one example of his personal beliefs clearly leaking into his character performance.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

...we're anti-stupid and anti-feckless...

You've done a marvelous job of infiltrating.

[richlevy]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You've done a marvelous job of infiltrating.

Oooooh...SNAP!

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

Trying to make fun of Franken, and they misspell authority... Or authoritay if they were trying to riff off of South Park.

And, despite having years of SNL to sift through, they had to go with, whoops, a fake photo.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Congrats guys, here is your new Senator. You should be proud. I will find some more pics for you....

Here's one

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

You've done a marvelous job of infiltrating.

Bruce and Rich, when will you learn such remarks cannot be respected by people of depth? Are you really so determined to remind me you're rather too thick to become conservatives, or something?