To the list of items which are always excellent ideas…
…I suggest we add “conservatives rapping“:
After all, there’s nothing wrong with a “knicker” joke among a room of wealthy white Republicans and that one black guy.
UPDATE: Also.
UPDATE II: For the sake of comparison, here’s your modern conservative movement in two images. First, immediately before (1:49) the “knicker” joke:
Second, here’s immediately after (1:57) the “knicker” joke:
That’s where this “rapper” is asking that one black guy “What? I can’t say ‘knickers’?” I’d be indignant too, I suppose, if I wasn’t allowed to proudly be the provocative asshole I am.
Phew…no way. I can smell those mangoes from here and they’re nasty.
Indeed! They are toxic at 50 yards.
And you just know there’s a tiger lurking about.
A tiger? In Africa?
It’s only waif-ee-air thin
There is no other blog I am aware of that can be counted on to take a comment thread from Apocalypse Now to Monty Python in one quick step. Bravo.
That’s awful. That’s, like, Chet Haze awful.
Oh hey, look! The Yeastie Boys reunion tour!
OK, don’t listen to this, just FF it to 1.46.
Parody is dead.
One would hope that those assholes–and the laughers at “knicker”–will one day find themselves alone and mighty white in Nairobi after dark.
It is always sad and pathetic when conservatives try to be cool and hip.
They are incapable of embarrassment, so I am embarrassed for them.
I love that they keep walking in front of the projector. If I remember correctly, they deduct you ten points in the “presentation” portion of your 7th grade social studies final project score for doing that.
Also, I had no idea conservatives liked Chas Tenenbaum so much. It must be because he seems to have an almost preternatural understanding of international finance.
Just the word “rapping” should be in quotes…and in this case it should probably be more like “”"rapping”"”
Protip for CPAC: The Upper Crust were performing satire, and were good at it. You, not so much.
I like how I can always tell that the presence of stills from a film in a post immediately causes me to go “oh, SEK wrote this.” Also, that he’s always so damned incisive.
Erp, I meta-ized that post unintentionally. *The presence of stills always makes me immediately aware that SEK wrote it.
Appreciate the compliment, but really, I just look at things too long. It’s less of a talent than a disorder, really.
I wonder if the ‘knicker’ schtick was planned, and the black guy was a plant? Or was it really just dumb luck that the black guy from tech support (that’s what it looks like he’s doing down in front; he’s not in the audience) was there when the knicker joke kicked in?
I’m not sure there’s a difference, really, between it being an actual offense vs. a bit. In both cases, they’re appealing to the same audience, i.e. white people who feel black people are too sensitive about issues of race despite there being a black president.
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