"Shorter Pantsload Theater"
Shorter Pantsload: Quit laughing at my tiny peh-peh you...ruffians...you...rowdies...oh, damn.
Mumsie? What's a rilly, rilly mean word?
Fasc-what?
Whazzit it mean?
Oh nevermind...
"You fascists!"
Yeah!
This episode of "Shorter Pantsload Theater" has been inspired by the good people at "Sadly, No!".
"Sadly, No!: where the elite meet to get their snark plugs gapped."*
*(The money quote: "It’s like Jonah’s never talked to a liberal in his entire life. He reminds me of Steve Carell in the 40-Year-Old Virgin describing a woman’s breast as a bag of sand.")
And sponsored by the 1946 Encyclopedia Britannica:
The 1946 Encyclopedia Britannica -- Because nothing says "We just fought the bloodiest war in history against it" quite like actually having a fucking clue what the difference is between "Despotism" and "Democracy".
OK kids; bust your box score cards and #2 pencils out and see if you can count how many symptoms of a diseased and despotic culture have become central organizing principles of the Republican Party?
(h/t Blue Buddha)
(If you leaped to your feet screaming "Ohmygod, it's all of them!" in horror, then you have obviously stolen a copy of the answer key. Report back here at 3:00 for detention.)
Update: One Googlebomb -- Liberal Fascism -- served hot and tasty.
Because that's just how we nefarious and brownshirty moonbats are.
10 comments:
Reporting for detention.
I always liked detention.
Quite a video.
Thanks, drifty.
Excellent DG! The pledge of allegiance they say in that video is pre 'under-god'!
Aren't we already in detention?
Where do you find these things? That's an outstanding piece of film.
pwapvt
You know, Jonah's got an "author event" In D.C. on January 15th. If I lived in D.C. I would show up and cluck like a chicken(hawk). I hope he comes to NYC!
I guess Joe Klein et al. were out smoking dope while they were showing this film in class.
Merci beaucoup, le Driftglass, for giving us Naomi Klein without the high depression factor.
(That's pitch-perfect Naomi Klein of "Letters to a Young Patriot" on how we've passed ALL 15 or so gateways to fascism. Great message; Greatly depressing.)
Doncha pine for the days when Jonah was just Lucianne Goldberg's effed-up son, as we peeked thru web cams at Mumsy, the Publishing Crap Source for all things anti-Bill Clinton?
No wonder Baby Jonah is worried about the micro-sized weenie. All that Clenis*-What-Bends-To-the-Left stuff started during Mumsy's book publishing reign of error.
(Clenis, for those catching up, is Clinton Penis. It telescopes, yuh see? Ummm. The words, not the clenis.)
An early Rupert Murdoch inspiration... amazing find, dg.
"Despotism stands a good chance."
Word.
I wanna teach myself to talk like the narrator. It will make me more professorial.
Remember when national self-awareness and self-criticism were considered virtues? What the fuck has happened to us? Have we gone completely soft in the fucking head?
Gaht daimed pointy hayded librul EN-cyclopedia book-learnin' sonsuvbitches. See? That there is exactly what's wrong with Amurrica. I mean, what the hell did they know about fascism in 1946? That was sixty years ago!..
But seriously, is that thing part of their blueprint, or what? Wow.
I've been following along keenly over at S,N!, laughing where I can and trying to keep my head from exploding the rest of the time. In the comments, Phoenix Woman brought up the connection I had noticed between J-Load's cover art and the oh-so-charming white-power music sensation Prussian Blue.
Needless to say, the firm they are modeling for is hardly a hotbed of liberal thought. It's not much for thought of any kind, really, but there it is.
So, J-Load couldn't even be bothered to vet his cover art. Not really surprising, judging by the level of editorial excellence displayed in the rest of that wad of overly crisp toilet paper.
Wow! A grainy black-and-white educational film that's actually educational! Most Republicans would think it was produced by the Communist Party of the old Soviet Union. Income distributed evenly? That's communism! No place for that in the Darwinian economy of unfettered corporate capitalism that we call the good ol' U.S. of A! I'm saddened by how far along the road to despotism we've traveled. The way to the slaughterhouse is paved with ignorance. This film should be required in every elementary school along with a civics course in which to show it.
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