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Jib-Jab Releases New Bush and Kerry Parody
AKAImBatman writes "Our friends over at JibJab have just released a new flash movie called, 'It's Good to be in D.C.'. As per 'This Land', this movie pokes fun at both Bush and Kerry, with some stop-overs for the Vice Presidents former, current, and hopeful. Check it out before they get sued off the 'net again!"
It's great.
The Republicans are in bed with Big Oil and the Democrats are in bed with everybody else.
Beautiful.
sigs, as if you care.
The last one seemed just a tiny bit right leaning, though enough of an equal opportunity offender to just be amusing... This one seems VERY Right leaning. There are shots of B&C with buckets of money but they have Bin Laden and Saddam holding a Pro Kerry banner, and portray Edwards and Kerry as Gay lovers. All politicians deserve a good mocking now and then - well often, but this seems mildly duplicious when one side gets a mild tease and the other gets a full blown character assasination... And it was supposed to debut on the Tonight Show. Wonder if that had anything to do with the increased slant?
It doesn't offend me.
It doesn't make me laugh.
It just wasted some of my time.
Your post made me feel the same way.
Attention deficit disorder is a complicated issue, spanning several major... HEY LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
It's a caricature. It's supposed to be derivative. It distills the accusations of both sides into two 60 seconds of comedy. At least do yourself the favor of watching the whole thing; the overall message of "go vote or let the supreme court decide" is not a bad one. If you don't get the references to the madness of this campaign that's fine, but a lot of people will.
Bush: Halliburton reference in opening scene.
Bush/Cheney in money barrels.
Kerry: Showed with Kim Jong Il, Saddam Hussein, and (I think) Ayatolah Khomeini;
Edwards says "I love to hug and kiss this guy" (gay reference #1),
Gay man asks "are they gay", Kerry/Edwards respond "we won't say" (gay ref #2),
Kerry/Edwards in bed in a pink room with a "Justin" poster on the wall (gay ref #3),
Daschle says he's gay (gay ref #4),
Clinton appears & is slapped twice by Hillary,
Dan Rather of CBS appears,
Teresa Heinz-Kerry burns a bra and bursts into flames,
and Kerry is shown holding Heinz ketchup (this last one is minor so I'm counting it 1/2).
The count of knocks is Bush 2, Kerry 8.5. I agree it was a funny parody, but the bias is obvious. Unless you saw 6 insults to Bush I missed, which I doubt, but please point them out to me if I did.
One last thing... good on you Squinky86 for disagreeing in a mature way instead of just flaming (as usually resort to.)
"A witty saying proves nothing." ~Voltaire
"d'Oh!" ~Homer