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By: skunky

skunky — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:05:50 +0000

DET – what liberal humor talks about harming Dick Cheney? citation, please. We make fun of him HARMING OTHERS, like his friend, like hundreds of thousands of civilians in a war he concocted.

Also “a lot” of liberal humor does not encompass one washed-up comedian. The person with a noose on the neck of any effigy isn’t trying to be funny, but it says something about your sense of humor that you are reading things into people’s Halloween decorations.

By: DET

DET — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 19:33:50 +0000

iberal humor tends to dwell on the dark side, wallowing in bitterness. (It’s funny to talk about physically harming Dick Cheney, for example.) Conservative humor ought to walk in the light, with joy and kindness, even for one’s ideological enemies. (It is not funny to talk about physically harming Barack Obama, ever.)

A lot of liberal humor also seems to think it’s funny to talk about physically harming Sarah Palin. (I’m talking about a mannequin dressed like her hanging with a noose around the neck in West Hollywood, and Sandra Bernhard joking that her black “brothers” would gang-rape Sarah in New York City.)

By: Neil Ferguson

Neil Ferguson — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:19:07 +0000

An American Carol tried to mix genres – slapstick and earnest parable. Now we know. It doesn’t work. The tone of AAC reminded me very much of a venerable Warner Bros. cartoon, starring Porky Pig, I think, probably circa WWII. Porky had a number of evocative conversations with our founders. Porky put aside the jokes and got serious. AAC never quite did.

By: Scott Ott

Scott Ott — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 02:11:15 +0000

I walked out of the same screening of “An American Carol” in St. Paul with a profound sense of sadness. It’s the feeling I got when “Half Hour News Hour” appeared on Fox News. Conservative satirists and humorists fail most when they fail to be genuine. Pandering to a set of supposed expectations, a template established by left-wing writers, is the recipe for box office doom.

Liberal humor tends to dwell on the dark side, wallowing in bitterness. (It’s funny to talk about physically harming Dick Cheney, for example.) Conservative humor ought to walk in the light, with joy and kindness, even for one’s ideological enemies. (It is not funny to talk about physically harming Barack Obama, ever.)

Sleazy innuendo, coarse language and extreme violence may be funny to some, but it’s not the kind of humor generated, or appreciated, by people with a high view of morality, and love for other people — in other words, by conservatives.

By: Tired Old Cliche

Tired Old Cliche — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 01:21:28 +0000

I saw “W” … stinkeroo ! D+

I saw “An American Carol” … pretty good. B-

I saw “Bella” … came out of the theater thinking “what was that all about ?” C-

I saw “Expelled” … very good ! A-

By: Annabel

Annabel — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:54:08 +0000

I’m not sure why David Levavi brought up “The Lives of Others” in this completely unrelated thread, but I could not disagree with him more, or agree more with Patrick Tyson. Levavi’s fixation with national character vis a vis the level of personal betrayal in East Germany is bizarre. To begin with, the movie most certainly doesn’t white wash it. It’s very much about that. The film was inspired by the true story of the brilliant actor who played the Stasi agent. This man (now deceased) who was an anti-Communist dissident later discovered that he had in fact been spied on by his then wife and mother of his child, who was revealed to be a registered informant. Rather than whitewashing the experience, which he knew was all too common, he exposed it and created a piece of art.

Additionally, that kind of personal betrayal is part and parcel of living in all repressive societies. Ask the Czechs, the other Eastern Europeans, The former Soviets, the Iraqis, the Iranians, the North Koreans… I could go on and on around the world. I don’t understand what point Levavi is trying to make. Is he claiming the Germans should have behaved better under the circumstances than other nationalities have managed to do?

By: Patrick Tyson

Patrick Tyson — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 15:09:56 +0000

The Lives of Others — the 2007 Oscar winner for best foreign language film about life in East Germany under the Stasi — is to my mind the finest filmmaking of any kind in this century so far.

No doubt.

By: Brit

Brit — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:08:24 +0000

The general view which I pick up in the UK is that the movie is rahter sympathetic to GWB, for example see this (conservative with small and large C) paper:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/london_film_festival/article4994396.ece

By: Mrs. J.A.S.

Mrs. J.A.S. — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 00:41:32 +0000

Too many people think that positions can substitute for ideas.