Sunday, August 13, 2006

Candidate For Governor Takes Satire VERY Seriously

You know, I was really hoping to bait Jeb Bush (or at least Tom Gallagher) into a ferocious diatribe of self-righteous indignation at my previous blog entry Who You Should Vote For . Unfortunately, the only gubernatorial candidate who bit was apparently Socialist party candidate Atlee Yarrow. I guess I'll just take what I can get! (you can read his priceless comment here).

The comrade pontificated extensively on the unforgivable ignorance and political naivete in the blog. Of course, ad hominem attacks and numerous derogatory insults on my intelligence and are surefire ways to win my vote!

Fortunately for me, there were a couple of things that protected my fragile ego from being shaken by the full force of such an earth-shattering retort from the good comrade. One is my thick skin and imperviousness to adolescent name-calling, especially by candidates running for governor.

Another thing, and more importantly, was the fact that the entire article was intended as a political farce and satire, using newfangled literary tools such as humor and hyperbole. In other words, it was a fucking joke! Perhaps my endorsement of a baboon for governor was a little too subtle for political candidates to appreciate. Or maybe the comrade's vision is a bit too myopic to see that I was taking jabs at ALL of the candidates I listed, not just him. Any middle school student (and any other human with the remotest sense of humor) can read into such context clues and come to the conclusion that this wasn't serious political commentary.

This is just classic. I mean, here I am trying to write a piece of satire, and along comes a politician who trumps the satire without even trying! I admire such Zen-like skill. He was so intent trying to force my foot in my mouth that he failed to realize I was already speaking with my tongue firmly in cheek. Don't you just love unintentional humor?!

Oh... one more thing, there never was any character named "Schmo" on the Three Stooges, comrade. Get your slapstick straight!






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1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

Anyone who knows me also knows I take the business of politics seriously. You did a piss poor job at humor. To don't really have some hope of Jeb Bush coming here when he hides in boiler rooms from people like me? Don't make me laugh. Besides the fact he cannot run for office; he is best off not talking, I am sure he was advised for the best intrest of the GOP to only speak when told to do so. I did not run for office based on getting one vote. If you'ld call me and take the time to ask questions than there might have been a fair election. Instead you took the low road and from the campaign donors I can see they did too. Of course that might be a better question for trying out in your jokes by defining corporations and living beings as being one in the same to the voters.

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