What assists parody...

What assists parody?

Being an asshat.

The non-amusing takedown of the real video (as opposed to the above parody) From The Washington Post.

An excerpt: ( Read more... )

The truth is that Romney is mixing apples, oranges and bananas. The three groups he mentions — those who support the president, those who receive payments from entitlement programs, and those who are not required to pay federal income tax — are not the same people. Quite a few senior citizens who receive Social Security and Medicare are Republicans. Quite a few working-class voters are not members of Team Obama. [ME: Also include: active-duty military and/or those receiving military bereavement benefits. Those 'dead beats' only pay for the privilege of being American with their lives. How irresponsible is that? [/snark]] ( Read more... )

{...} In an elegant dining room where the self-satisfaction was thick enough to cut with a knife, Romney made clear that he sees this election as “us” vs. “them” — wealthy vs. the unwashed hordes, makers vs. takers. Romney believes half of America is lazy, dependent and, frankly, not too bright.

Full article here

Stewart unearthed what makes a nice video footnote:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-20-2012/moment-of-zen---mitt-romney-s-boyhood-dreams


ETA: Hee! Someone went to the trouble of slowing down and reading the 'fact-check corrections' that SNL sped across the screen:

* The Bible was not a movie first.

* Stalactites is not a childhood disease

* Iowa City never elected Mayor McCheese

* Allegra is not a religion.

* Jeremy Lin was traded, not deported.

* The sun and the moon do not high-five as they pass each other.

* Vaginas don't look like that.

* A dead person's skull does not contain their memories.

* Ron Paul is one person.

* Not all cats are gay.

* The Atlanta Hawks are a team, not an infestation.

* Ellen DeGeneres never married a car.

* Benedict Arnold was not a character on Diff'rent Strokes.

* A wind turbine has never cut off the head of a pretty girl in a convertible.

* The Tasmanian Devil is not the president of Tasmania.

* Star Wars is essentially a work of fiction.

* Al Gore never claimed to invent Nintendo.

* Hawaii does not rotate every six months.

* Neil Armstrong was not the first person to moon someone.

* The Keystone Pipeline is not filled with Keystone Light.

* Swiss banks are not "full of holes."

* Camp David does not have a sister camp called Camp Denise.

* They did not name Mars after the Mars Rover.

* Monica Lewinsky was never in an internment camp.

* Six comes after five.

* Kim Jong-Un is not the CEO of Yahoo.

* Left-handed people cannot read your thoughts.

* Lobsters are not "ocean spiders."

* Cat Fancy is a magazine, not a man/cat dating website.

* The U.S. Postal Service never released a Kesha stamp.

* "F" is not a blood type.

* Parsley is not one of the Spice Girls.

* Usain Bolt is not a new action movie starring John C. Reilly.

* LIBOR is not a giant praying mantis.

* Old Navy is not one of the armed forces.

* The letters in "Massachusetts" cannot be rearranged to spell "same sex marriage."

* Crabs don't breastfeed.

* Animal Planet is not an acceptable nickname for Telemundo.

* Marco Rubio does not play for the Timberwolves.

* Al Jazeera is not the host of Tool Time.

* Babies never "skip ahead" to being 10.

* Angela Merkel is not a palindrome.

* You can't outrun polio.

* The Negro League is not "back and better than ever."

* Latin Inches is not the Mexican metric system.

* The Russian national anthem is not the U.S. national anthem played backwards.

* Rocky never fought Lassie.

What assists parody...

What assists parody?

Being an asshat.

The non-amusing takedown of the real video (as opposed to the above parody) From The Washington Post.

An excerpt: ( Read more... )

The truth is that Romney is mixing apples, oranges and bananas. The three groups he mentions — those who support the president, those who receive payments from entitlement programs, and those who are not required to pay federal income tax — are not the same people. Quite a few senior citizens who receive Social Security and Medicare are Republicans. Quite a few working-class voters are not members of Team Obama. [ME: Also include: active-duty military and/or those receiving military bereavement benefits. Those 'dead beats' only pay for the privilege of being American with their lives. How irresponsible is that? [/snark]] ( Read more... )

{...} In an elegant dining room where the self-satisfaction was thick enough to cut with a knife, Romney made clear that he sees this election as “us” vs. “them” — wealthy vs. the unwashed hordes, makers vs. takers. Romney believes half of America is lazy, dependent and, frankly, not too bright.

Full article here

Stewart unearthed what makes a nice video footnote:
http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-september-20-2012/moment-of-zen---mitt-romney-s-boyhood-dreams


ETA: Hee! Someone went to the trouble of slowing down and reading the 'fact-check corrections' that SNL sped across the screen:

* The Bible was not a movie first.

* Stalactites is not a childhood disease

* Iowa City never elected Mayor McCheese

* Allegra is not a religion.

* Jeremy Lin was traded, not deported.

* The sun and the moon do not high-five as they pass each other.

* Vaginas don't look like that.

* A dead person's skull does not contain their memories.

* Ron Paul is one person.

* Not all cats are gay.

* The Atlanta Hawks are a team, not an infestation.

* Ellen DeGeneres never married a car.

* Benedict Arnold was not a character on Diff'rent Strokes.

* A wind turbine has never cut off the head of a pretty girl in a convertible.

* The Tasmanian Devil is not the president of Tasmania.

* Star Wars is essentially a work of fiction.

* Al Gore never claimed to invent Nintendo.

* Hawaii does not rotate every six months.

* Neil Armstrong was not the first person to moon someone.

* The Keystone Pipeline is not filled with Keystone Light.

* Swiss banks are not "full of holes."

* Camp David does not have a sister camp called Camp Denise.

* They did not name Mars after the Mars Rover.

* Monica Lewinsky was never in an internment camp.

* Six comes after five.

* Kim Jong-Un is not the CEO of Yahoo.

* Left-handed people cannot read your thoughts.

* Lobsters are not "ocean spiders."

* Cat Fancy is a magazine, not a man/cat dating website.

* The U.S. Postal Service never released a Kesha stamp.

* "F" is not a blood type.

* Parsley is not one of the Spice Girls.

* Usain Bolt is not a new action movie starring John C. Reilly.

* LIBOR is not a giant praying mantis.

* Old Navy is not one of the armed forces.

* The letters in "Massachusetts" cannot be rearranged to spell "same sex marriage."

* Crabs don't breastfeed.

* Animal Planet is not an acceptable nickname for Telemundo.

* Marco Rubio does not play for the Timberwolves.

* Al Jazeera is not the host of Tool Time.

* Babies never "skip ahead" to being 10.

* Angela Merkel is not a palindrome.

* You can't outrun polio.

* The Negro League is not "back and better than ever."

* Latin Inches is not the Mexican metric system.

* The Russian national anthem is not the U.S. national anthem played backwards.

* Rocky never fought Lassie.