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Hey Kids!<br><br>Here's a neat lil' interactive site that allows you to rearrange some<br>of Chimpie's sound bites into your own laff-filled diatribe:<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.actofme.co.uk/bush_speech/bushspeechwriter.html">www.actofme.co.uk/bush_sp...riter.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>great for answering machines, podcasts, hip-hop mash-ups, and<br>irritating calls to talk radio!<br><br>Have fun! <p></p><i></i>

haha! this is pretty funny, and very easy to use. thanks for the link. <p></p><i></i>

I turned my computer over to my high-school sone, who played while I took his brother to school.<br><br>This proves that this is a fun and educational toy! --MaryK <p></p><i></i>

I'd think it was fun except for two things:<br><br>- the sound of his voice makes me physically ill - no, really, and:<br>- nothing you can come up with here is as dumb/outrageous/"funny" as what he and his scriptwriters have come up for him in "real" life <p></p><i></i>

...that at some point I stop laughing and go, Wait, *WE the AMERICAN PEOPLE* have permitted this man to walk into the White House TWICE.<br><br>The joke's on us.<br><br>Or as Duhbya would say, <br><br>"Look, I'm the President, see? And it's hard work, hard work, being how as I am always misundestimated and all, and [blink, lick lips, blink, stare, jut chin] listen, I don't have to listen to anyone, they have to listen to me, like Condi listened at the UN when I had to go potty or I'd have europated in my boxer shorts. Heh heh. Torture. Yes, these are bad people. Gonna smoke 'em out. On the hunt. Want some wood? Oil. Got to turn down the heat! Thanks for coming. Got to go talk to God." <p></p><i></i>

I assume that a good number of posters here are either 1st or 2nd <br>generation Mad Magazine readers. Certainly such satire has spawned an amazing cultural history in popular media. Such influences (Mad, Monty Python, et. al) had certainly led me at an early age to immediatley view most emporers sans clothing. This legacy itself has been an extremely efficient way of using humor in popular culture as a reverse psy-op on the PTB.<br><br>However, at what point does our media accellerate and become so self-referential and insistant upon novelty, that in effect it ceases to create meaningfull content? Perhaps such a feedback loop has already occured. I certainly find little true subversion in<br>such humor as offered on "The Daily Show". It seems the reverse<br>psy-op has been turned back upon itself. Laughing at political foibles has become a form of armchair activism.<br><br>The Post-Ironic age began about 9 or 10 a.m. on Sept 11, 2001.<br><br>-that being said, I still think the speechwriter site's a real gasser.<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/happy.gif">www.ezboard.com/images/em.../happy.gif</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

I did not see it! <p></p><i></i>

...that when I'm not here on Vigorous Inquisition, I'm reading Gramsci, but then I'd do a post like this and give myself away...<br><br>Last night I was watching Leno and he had Ed McMahon on. Ed and Jay were talking about the power that Johnny Carson and other comics had because once people began to laugh at a President, they were vulnerable.<br><br>Obviously things have changed, because people have been laughing at Bush since before he was even elected, making fun of his stupidity and simian resemblance. However, I don't think that shows that have an already preselected liberal audience count, the sea-change is when the popular media start mocking him. Leno himself who rarely poked fun at Bush, or lobbed soft jokes, now presents him as a total buffoon. Last week Leno had a Jeopardy game with W (impersonated by Brent Mendenhall, who is very good) and "Harriet Myers" (Gilbert Gottfried in drag) and it was hilarious. Listening to Leno talking to Ed last night his comments about late night mockery contributing to the fall of Presidents, I wondered if Leno's gunning for Monkeyboy now.<br><br>Yo, I was a YOOGE MAD magazine fan as a kid--the MAD zeppelin, Spy vs. Spy, Don Martin, Mort Drucker, Dave Berg, "Snappy Answers to Stupid Questions", the MAD movie parodies that in some cases I remember better than the films themselves. I seriously date myself by mentioning some of my faves: "The Agony and the Agony", "For the Birds" (probably my all time fave), "The Carpetsweepers", "Dr. Zhicago", "The Bunch" (totally spoiled it when I finally read "The Group", I kept seeing the MAD drawings), "The Guns of Minestrone", "Hood" (they always did great caricatures of Paul Newman), "Is Paris Boring?", my other fave "Flawrence of Arabia", and "The Spy That Came In For the Gold." <br><br>I still call gadgets "veeblefetzers" and imagine my surprise when an old Polish lady told me "potrzebie" was a Polish word, I had always pronounced it POTrazeebie but she said it should be "poTRESbya". Wikipedia says it's a form of the verb "need."<br><br>The funny thing is, Bush LOOKS like Alfred E. Neuman, I noticed that the first time I saw his goofy-ass face. "What me worry?" sure is the sumbitch's motto--WE are the ones who worry. <p></p><i></i>