ELEPHANTINE WIT :

Bush Gets Colonoscopy: Doctors Find His Head (Paul Krassner)
See, now that's funny and some might even argue that it's liberal humor. However :

(1) It is based on another person's misfortune and discomfort.
(2) It is basically an amusing way of saying someon's an idiot. In calling attention to this person's idiocy it violates several tenets of liberalism, among them belittling someone who's handicapped.
(3) There's a whiff of homophobia about it.
(4) It nowhere points out that Bush stole the election of 2000.
(5) Despite mentioning doctors and a medical procedure, it nowhere points out that 35 million Americans (give or take 250 million) have no health care.
(6) It nowhere points out the injustice of colonoscopies for men being done routinely, while women have to beg for mammograms and gays plead for AIDs screening.
(7) It omits a potential comparison of the colonoscopic procedure to drilling in ANWAR (funded by Enron).
(8) It doesn't mention soccer.
(9) The grammar's a little sketchy--whose head is found, Bush's or the Doctor's? This kind of mistake is symptomatic of Republicans who were all business majors at state schools, not of Democrats, 72% of whom are teachers or professors and all of whom majored, or at least minored, in English.
(10) Like we said, it's funny.

In short, this merely represents further proof, if any was needed, that all humor is, by it's nature, conservative. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 3, 2002 8:01 AM