On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 10:51 PM, PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > My philosophy would be to make jokes about Rick > (we-hang-federal-officials-high-in-Texas) Perry right up until the point > that he posts an order on his website for his followers to shoot you.
Oddly enough, if you track how the jokes get told, comics will sometimes tell a joke about an extremist Muslim (as Letterman did), but they would not dare tell jokes about Muslims in general. Can't say the same about extreme Christians. All Christians get lumped together. I am apparently no different than Perry or Bachman or Palin -- we are all evolution hating rednecks who think the sun revolves around the earth. The difference is, the extremist Christian whack-jobs who would make threats are immediately reduced to collective punch-lines (they all drive beat up trucks, date their sisters, and sound like Foghorn Leghorn). Seems a bit of a double-standard that we can discount one faith based on a few jackasses, but another faith gets a free pass. Where are the jokes about the king of the house of Saud having the f-ing balls to tell another country's leader that he is being too violent, when his people will behead a woman for winking? Nope. Can't tell jokes about that, but we can joke about Christian beliefs being fairy tales (silly Christians think dinosaurs and people lived together -- that the Flintstones is a documentary). Sorry. I'll stop. I'm actually agitated about something else entirely; this is just another minor piece of annoyance. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
