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By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Sun Jan 09, 2005 at 09:17:41 AM EST
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Quite a coup for blogger Tom Burka of Opinions You Should Have who has a satirical op-ed on Alberto Gonzales, the Tsunami, filibusters and other news stories in Saturday's New York Times. This part made me laugh out loud:

As the result of a bureaucratic slip-up, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was inadvertently included in the United States government delegation sent to comfort tsunami victims in Southeast Asia.

"Waves happen," Mr. Rumsfeld told survivors. "Weather is untidy. Sometimes you have to make do with the weather you get instead of the weather you want."

Mr. Rumsfeld also criticized the news coverage of the disaster. "They just keep showing the same wave over and over again," he said.

TBogg sets a right-wing blogger straight on irony, Barbara Boxer and Bob Dylan. TBogg is right, the writer is clueless. TBogg proposes a more apt Dylan song for the situation than one in which a black maid is killed by a rich white guy who gets off with a slap of the wrist. I think the perfect Dylan song for the Ohio vote mess is TalkLeft's perennial theme (on the bottom left of the site):

The pump don't work
'cause the vandals took the handles.

For more satire and humor from left-oriented blogs, head over to Wampum and check out the nominees in the Most Humorous category. Some of my favorites: Skippy, TBogg, Fafblog, Roger Ailes and Poor Man.

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    The Sunday Funnies | 20 comments (20 topical)
    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#1)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Jan 09, 2005 at 11:11:15 AM EST
    In re Burka editorial. Reminded of phrase usually used in Hollywood questioning how someone got a role. Nevertheless, quite funny *and* I learned something. Best kind of humor if you ask me.

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#2)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Jan 09, 2005 at 11:34:44 AM EST
    "They just keep showing the same wave over and over again,"
    Yep, with Rummies sailors, aviators, and marines behind it. Some days it must s*ck to be anti practically everything that works. -C

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#3)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Jan 09, 2005 at 11:45:18 AM EST
    The looting Rumsfeld joked about was a fundamental loss to human culture, Cliff. The burning, by non-Muslim persons unknown (MERCS), of the Koran/Torah Repository in Bagdad destroyed utterly irreplaceable works of art and religion. The (USPNAC, Chalabi-organized) looting of the national museum devastated the art world, and with the other destruction were specific, intentional acts of genocide, not some kind of funny media propaganda effort. The trashing of archaelogical sites, most notably Ur, is a matter of personal anger for me, since these sites contain irreplaceable knowledge. Being 'anti' the destruction of knowledge and innocent people is not 'against what works'; it's called civilization, something that quite obviously has not reached Bush and his brush-cutting, back slapping, no-book-reading lifestyle. --

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#4)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Jan 09, 2005 at 12:06:35 PM EST
    well said Paul. I love C's constant moaning about peole being anti this or that, when he spends all his time on a site where he is anti everything. He is ALWAYS taking the contrary position. Poor little C, what a perpetual victim. Life is sooo unfair to all the oppressed conservative who control the presidency, the enate and congress and potentially the S. Court as well...

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#5)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Jan 09, 2005 at 12:06:41 PM EST
    Thank you, Jeralyn. I have to say that it was the work of Jeralyn, and other tireless bloggers who filled the internet with new and useful content, that laid the groundwork for cross-pollination between the blogosphere and traditional media. (This can only improve traditional media.) If it's been a historic year for bloggers, it's in large part because of TalkLeft.

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#6)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Jan 09, 2005 at 12:47:01 PM EST
    to this wingnut chris: you say that we are against everything "that works". Huh? That works? And just what might that be? Iraq? badgervan in green bay

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#7)
    by jondee on Sun Jan 09, 2005 at 02:04:30 PM EST
    Break a few eggs - and heads,and bodies and souls to make a strangly arousing,market-friendly Cliff Omelet. And stop being so anti everything. Heh.

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#8)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Jan 09, 2005 at 02:55:44 PM EST
    From this point on has name will be remember as low life. but when the time is right for the rats to make a move on all of us, he will be the top camp learder in the good old AFE.

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#9)
    by ras on Sun Jan 09, 2005 at 04:32:19 PM EST
    TL, Is this all Talkleft.com can do now - poke fun at over 100k innocent deaths, solely cuz it lets you take a snipe at a political opponent of yours at the same time? Not funny. And before you get in high dudgeon over my comment here, first re-read what you wrote very slowly and very carefully.

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#10)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Jan 09, 2005 at 05:07:32 PM EST
    Lah-te-dah. By "things that work" I mean the military and how many people they've freed and keep free. I admit it, I am pro-capitalist, pro-military, pro-LEO, pro-family, and pro-work. Unfortunately, though I used to be a Democrat, that now makes me vote elsewhere. -C

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#11)
    by soccerdad on Sun Jan 09, 2005 at 06:12:34 PM EST
    Ras, cliff Let me give you a hint. We don't give a rat's a@@ what people like you think. Your opinions are meaningless.

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#12)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Sun Jan 09, 2005 at 06:29:37 PM EST
    ...pro-military... ...that now makes me vote elsewhere. If you are pro-military then I hope you don't vote for the Republicans that wanted to cut hazard pay for the grunts they sent to Iraq sans armor.

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#13)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Sun Jan 09, 2005 at 06:53:43 PM EST
    soccer - I know you don't. Don't worry, it won't hurt my feelings any. ernesto - Get a non-refuted talking point from Kos or the DemocraticUnderground or whatever 1/4" deep source you use for news. -C

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#14)
    by Ernesto Del Mundo on Mon Jan 10, 2005 at 08:37:34 AM EST
    Get a non-refuted talking point from Kos or the DemocraticUnderground or whatever 1/4" deep source you use for news. Yeah, sorry for reading that left wing rag called the Army Times. So go ahead and vote for the party of war heroes like Tom DeLay, a strong advocate for the little guy. As they use to say in the military..."pull your head out, son".

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#15)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Jan 10, 2005 at 08:40:45 AM EST
    cliff; if it makes you vote elsewhere, why on god's green earth doesn't it make you comment elsewhere?

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#16)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Jan 10, 2005 at 11:19:49 AM EST
    yeah... what soccerdad said!!! and by the way, yeah... what kelite said!!!

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#17)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Jan 10, 2005 at 12:11:30 PM EST
    The American military on the scene in Indonesia, may be an invitation for trouble, wait until one is killed by a Muslim terrorists. Don't know why Bushie can't come up with all the possible scenarios. BTW Cliff--I'm pro-capitalist, pro-family, and pro-work, and I'm a Democrat. The only difference between you and me, I think the military should be a democracy.

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#18)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Jan 10, 2005 at 02:14:06 PM EST
    one more thing because this is bugging me... just as things like david letterman, the onion, and the daily show helped us to laugh after 9/11, at some point we will laugh after the tsunamis. i really can understand why ras would take offense, but at the same time i can see the humor in the comment that talk left made, and some of the things tom burka had to say. soccerdad - i think you are probably pretty passionate and fired up, and most of the time it is fun to watch you spar with the more right oriented commenters on this site. but i think saying that 'we' don't give a "rat's *ss" about the opinions of cliff and ras -- that their opinions are 'meaningless' -- is pretty wrong. i mean, i think that some posters can go really far with the gross generalizations and abusive language etc... but if you read what ras said, i don't think it falls into that category.

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#19)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Jan 10, 2005 at 03:20:18 PM EST
    And before you get in high dudgeon over my comment here, first re-read what you wrote very slowly and very carefully.
    Take your own advice, ras, and "re-read what you wrote very slowly and carefully"
    Is this all Talkleft.com can do now - poke fun at over 100k innocent deaths,
    In fact, TL was poking fun at RUMSFELD for his breathtaking insensitivity in minimizing loss of human life in Iraq.
    solely cuz it lets you take a snipe at a political opponent of yours at the same time?
    It wasn't a snipe, but a deeply satirical comment designed to call attention to the similarities and differences in natural and man-made disasters and to make you think about why Rumsfeld's comments are so offensive in context of the Tsunami but much less so (it seems) in the context of lives he has control over.

    Re: The Sunday Funnies (none / 0) (#20)
    by Talkleft Visitor on Mon Jan 10, 2005 at 03:24:34 PM EST
    And by the way.... call me sick and twisted, but this is the first time I've laughed at anything related to the Tsunami - mostly at picturing Rumsfeld's Talking Head telling victims of horror to "get over it". Made my day, TL. Some of us get it, keep up the good work!

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