Tomorrow Barack Obama turns 100. In days. It’s a big deal, apparently, and apparently also nobody but us finds such a milestone embarrassing, gratuitous, pathetically uber-American.
Enough about the Big 100, though. There’ll be plenty of that tomorrow.
One day at a time, people. One day at a time.
On this 99th day (!!) of Barack Obama’s torture … errr, tenure, the only sure thing in politics is that Republicans are way out of touch. Which surely people already know, but it turns out it’s a lot worse than anyone thought.
For example, conservatives actually believe comedian Stephen Colbert’s shtick, which is to say that they don’t believe it’s a shtick at all.
Which is to say that they believe him, believe that he’s serious.
In fact, conservatives think he’s only pretending to act. From the Ohio State University study:
Additionally, there was no significant difference between the groups in thinking Colbert was funny, but conservatives were more likely to report that Colbert only pretends to be joking and genuinely meant what he said while liberals were more likely to report that Colbert used satire and was not serious when offering political statements.
So, the world according to Republicans: Colbert acts like he’s acting, all so he can infiltrate and undermine the leftist media. To this end, he makes fun of conservatives . . . but only subversively so. It’s an exercise in dog-whistling: Colbert’s peddling conservatism to conservatives, but only conservatives can detect it. Everyone else just thinks he’s being funny and satirical.
Talk about a vast right-wing conspiracy!
By Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo April 28, 2009 at 10:49 am
I think Colbert does a good job of poking fun of folks on both sides, and part of what makes him so compelling is trying to figure out at what points he goes in or out of character. For example, I think he does take religion pretty seriously. Or maybe I’m just falling into the “trap.” Either way, watching him de-pants the guy who wrote “Blogging the Bible” was funny.
By Pat Hendrix April 28, 2009 at 2:12 pm
A Republican pretending to be a Democrat pretending to be a Republican. Andy Koffman would be proud.
By El Grande Beano April 29, 2009 at 3:41 pm
This is absolutely hysterical! Good for Colbert, but bad for the reputation of the GOP. Although, they do say that a strong intellect correlates well with the appreciation of good satire. Given that consideration, I suppose this is a completely understandable result.
By John Lofton, Recovering Republican April 30, 2009 at 5:44 pm
Forget “conservatism,” please. It has, operationally, de facto, been Godless and thus irrelevant. Secular conservatism will not defeat secular liberalism because to God they are two atheistic peas-in-a-pod and thus predestined to failure. As Stonewall Jackson’s Chief of Staff R.L. Dabney said of such a humanistic belief more than 100 years ago:
”[Secular conservatism] is a party which never conserves anything. Its history has been that it demurs to each aggression of the progressive party, and aims to save its credit by a respectable amount of growling, but always acquiesces at last in the innovation. What was the resisted novelty of yesterday is today .one of the accepted principles of conservatism; it is now conservative only in affecting to resist the next innovation, which will tomorrow be forced upon its timidity and will be succeeded by some third revolution; to be denounced and then adopted in its turn. American conservatism is merely the shadow that follows Radicalism as it moves forward towards perdition. It remains behind it, but never retards it, and always advances near its leader. This pretended salt hath utterly lost its savor: wherewith shall it be salted? Its impotency is not hard, indeed, to explain. It .is worthless because it is the conservatism of expediency only, and not of sturdy principle. It intends to risk nothing serious for the sake of the truth.”
Our country is collapsing because we have turned our back on God (Psalm 9:17) and refused to kiss His Son (Psalm 2).
John Lofton, Editor, TheAmericanView.com
Recovering Republican
JLof@aol.com