{"id":102376,"date":"2016-07-25T17:08:11","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T01:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102376"},"modified":"2016-07-25T19:39:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T03:39:50","slug":"nyt-tv-comedians-worried-nothing-amusing-will-happen-at-dnc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=102376","title":{"rendered":"NYT: TV Comedians Worried Nothing Amusing Will Happen at DNC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Steve Sailer writes<\/a>: I suspect that the rise of Trump has something to do with the self-inflicted Humor Drought of the Obama Era.<\/p>\n

I always come back to the test case that the President lives with his mother-in-law, and yet, last I checked a few years ago, I couldn\u2019t find a single joke about that on Google.<\/p>\n

COMMENTS:<\/p>\n

* I love the \u201che\u2019s too streamlined to mock\u201d thing.<\/p>\n

Obama:<\/p>\n

Has a wookie for a wife who is clearly angrier than he is
\nHas an imaginary son named Trayvon
\nTalks like Steve Urkel
\nHas jug ears and purple lips
\nHas made numerous racial blunders in his haste to overcompensate because not black enough
\nGot whupped in an election by some local Chicago black pol
\nIs the focus of hilarious levels of wishful thinking and worship from DWLs (preemptive Nobel Prize)
\nHas a habit of being unquotable
\nClearly leans on teleprompters
\nHas been driven into fits of stuttering by Trump of late
\nIs the first black president, was raised in Indonesia and Hawaii by white people, and has no slave ancestors
\nThrew his granny under the bus
\nActually said out loud that he\u2019s always the smartest guy in the room, knows more about any given field than his experts in said field
\nIs \u201cblack\u201d but hilariously un-athletic (baseball pitch, judo cringe)
\nBows to every non-white head of state he possibly can<\/p>\n

There you go \u201ccomedians,\u201d no charge.<\/p>\n

* The DNC might turn out to be a humorless affair, but Obama gave me a good chuckle when he ended a sentence with the opposite pronoun from what I was expecting: \u201cI think the kinds of rhetoric that we\u2019ve heard too often, from Mr. Trump and others, is ultimately helping do ISIL\u2019s work for us\u201d.<\/p>\n

* One woman couldn\u2019t go to the Democratic National Convention because after a long day of drinking she shot her husband in the neck. That\u2019s a little strange. What\u2019s really strange is, that woman is not Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

Remember at the 2008 convention, Obama stood in front of all those fake columns that served no purpose besides making him look good? The email leak from the DNC shows that the papers have been full of the same thing ever since.<\/p>\n

The DNC is claiming the leaked emails are proof there\u2019s a sinister conspiracy between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump. Apparently from the DNC\u2019s perspective, former KGB officers are \u201cRight Wing\u201d.<\/p>\n

The DNC is suggesting Russia is an adversary of the United States. The 1980s tried to call and ask for their foreign policy back, but Hillary was extremely careless and wiped the message. Like with a cloth.<\/p>\n

So far in the convention, delegates have booed Rep Marcia Fudge and Rev Cynthia Hale, practically driven Debbie Wasserman Schultz out of town, and demanded Hillary Clinton be locked up. Looks like the War on Women is over, and women lost.<\/p>\n

In other Democratic news, Secretary of State John Kerry compared ISIS to air conditioners, in the sense that the Obama administration is committed to letting large numbers of each enter America.<\/p>\n

And wouldn\u2019t it be great if the terrorists had the same concept of what would hurt us as the Democrats? Then angry Muslims would do things like run into a shopping mall and adjust the thermostat down. Slightly. Or charge into a crowd of people and address the whole group as \u201cyou guys\u201d. Or hang out by rest room doors and make sure men used the men\u2019s room. Instead of _murdering lots of people_.<\/p>\n

Interesting speakers at the DNC. Monday night, there\u2019s a woman whose bio says both of her parents are in the country illegally and \u201clive in fear of deportation\u201d. I guess they\u2019re what they call \u201cin the shadows\u201d, which isn\u2019t surprising, because of all the lights focused on their daughter as she gives a speech in front of thousands of people that is broadcast nationally by all the tv networks.<\/p>\n

That woman\u2019s bio mentions her parents \u2013 specifically, it says \u201cher parents, including her mother, Francesca\u201d. I think it\u2019s nice that there\u2019s still a place in the Democratic Party for a person old-fashioned enough to have just the one mother.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s kind of strange that a woman speaking at the DNC will get up and say that both of her parents have been breaking federal law continuously for many years. What\u2019s really strange is, that woman is not Chelsea Clinton.<\/p>\n

Yeah, I don\u2019t see any potential for humor here at all.<\/p>\n

* \u201cHillary\u2019s campaign is now accusing Vladimir Putin of trying to rig the election\u2026 by leaking that they rigged the election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Well put. If Trump were clever, he would steal that line and use it as his own. Not his style, however. He\u2019s a very funny guy, but his humor does not rely on word play so much.<\/p>\n

* They probably had a slew of these jokes in the can for safe keeping if Obama ever left the reservation and went centrist. I\u2019m betting Jim Downey had a few sketches written for SNL by the end of the first hundred days.<\/p>\n

But Obama has been a reliable totalitarian commie for eight years, ginning up racial violence, increasing crime, obliterating the entire mideast, rewriting the law with executive orders, blaming whitey, and imposing nationalized healthcare via fiat. Therefore, the Left had no reason to release the hounds.<\/p>\n