{"id":25640,"date":"2015-02-13T19:38:21","date_gmt":"2015-02-14T03:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=25640"},"modified":"2015-03-16T01:33:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T08:33:56","slug":"wingnuts-pan-obamas-funny-video-as-undignified-praise-netanyahus-as-delightful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=25640","title":{"rendered":"Wingnuts Pan Obama&#8217;s Funny Video As Undignified, Praise Netanyahu&#8217;s As Delightful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is something about the modern conservative establishment that fosters a deep infatuation with foreign leaders. Whether it be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=11509\" target=\"_blank\">Vladimir Putin<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=25305\" target=\"_blank\">King Abdullah<\/a> or, most recently, Benjamin Netanyahu.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Humor\/konservative-komedy.jpg\" alt=\"Konservative Komedy\" width=\"550\" height=\"298\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-25646\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/posts\/1041711615843633\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Share on Facebook\">Please click here to SHARE this On Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This fascination with tyrants and other non-American heads of state is decidedly unpatriotic. And coming from these Tea party, Republican, nationalist zealots, it is also extraordinarily hypocritical.<\/p>\n<p>This week President Obama and Buzzfeed produced and released a short video to alert citizens that the open enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) would end on February 15, and that anyone interested in acquiring health insurance would need to to do so before then. The video was a humorous affair that sought to inform without banging people over the head with a rhetorical sledgehammer.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KKxY9GqBLEk?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The reaction from the rightist killjoys was not dissimilar to that of radical Islamists who would stone people for the sin of dancing. How dare the President lower himself to expressing humor in order to give out useful information. Obviously he&#8217;s the Anti-Christ. This is identical to the response by tight-assed GOP&#8217;ers to the President&#8217;s appearance on Zach Galifianakis&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UnW3xkHxIEQ\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Between Two Ferns,&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=24846\" target=\"_blank\">his interviews<\/a> with three YouTube celebs. Some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediamatters.org\/research\/2015\/02\/13\/cue-conservative-media-outrage-over-obamas-self\/202531\" target=\"_blank\">criticisms include<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Brain Kilmeade, Fox News:<\/strong> Bad message to friends in peril &#038; heartening to our enemies.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Jim Geraghty, National Review:<\/strong> We&#8217;re not living in silly times, but we have a silly president.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Marc Thiessen, Washington Post:<\/strong> What president says YOLO <em>[You only live once]<\/em>? It&#8217;s just not funny.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Michelle Malkin:<\/strong> America&#8217;s commander-in-chief is goofing off w\/Buzzfeed while the world burns.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Fox News:<\/strong> On the very day Kayla Mueller is confirmed to be dead at the hands of terrorism, how does our president respond? &#8220;YOLO.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And you wonder why there aren&#8217;t any conservative comedians? Maybe because they don&#8217;t have the slightest hint of a sense of humor. Maybe because they can watch that video and conclude that it is <em>&#8220;heartening to our enemies.&#8221;<\/em> And maybe because what they actually do regard as funny is Benjamin <em>&#8220;Bibi&#8221;<\/em> Netanyahu pretending to be a <a href=\"bibi - https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=JQ1BltDU4iM\" target=\"_blank\"><em>&#8220;Bibisitter,&#8221;<\/em><\/a> in a campaign ad. The reaction to Netanyahu&#8217;s fairly lame ad by right-wing aficionados of funny included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ktmcfarland\/status\/562364288565014528\" target=\"_blank\">KT McFarland, Fox News<\/a>: Whoever said Bibi netanyahu doesn&#8217;t have sense of humor? Watch the Bibisitter campaign add &#8211; it&#8217;s hilarious!!<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IngrahamAngle\/status\/563360760374370304\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Ingraham, Fox News<\/a>: Hilarious Benjamin Netanyahu Election Campaign Advertisement.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NROcorner\/status\/563342944598368256\" target=\"_blank\">National Review<\/a>: Bibi Sitter: Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s new campaign commercial. Very funny.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>News Corpse Presents: The ALL NEW 2nd volume of<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>No one can argue that the world around Israel is less embroiled in hostilities than the United States. The Middle Eastern nation is surrounded by enemies devoted to their destruction. Yet somehow it&#8217;s OK, even hilarious, for Netanyahu to make <em>&#8220;funny&#8221;<\/em> videos to promote himself during a reelection campaign despite the turmoil his nation faces. But if Obama makes a funny video to help, not himself, but others who will benefit from having health insurance, he is an ogre who spits on the graves of murdered hostages.<\/p>\n<p>There is an Olympian heap of irony in the fact that conservatives spent years pushing the insane conspiracy theory that Obama was not born in this country, but at the same time they openly yearn for foreigners, some of them unabashed dictators, to take control of America. And yet they still regard themselves as patriots as they feverishly insult our democracy, our President, and the majority of Americans who voted for him twice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is something about the modern conservative establishment that fosters a deep infatuation with foreign leaders. Whether it be Vladimir Putin or King Abdullah or, most recently, Benjamin Netanyahu. Please click here to SHARE this On Facebook This fascination with tyrants and other non-American heads of state is decidedly unpatriotic. 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