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Chicagoray's Views and News (chicagoray.blogspot.com):
… This comedian is probably going to have to go into hiding now after daring to make fun of terrorists, Islam and Allah all in one shot with his popular ventriloquist act named Achmed the dead terrorist. The Islamic reaction was as predictable as is whenone tries to make fun of American Muslim presidential candidate Barack Hussein Obamaand his campaign. The act is pretty humorous if only that I personally enjoy seeing anyone with the nerve enough to make fun of Islam and it's ridiculousness since my religion of choice is so ably and openly mocked so why the he** why not theirs? This isn't the middle age …

Hello, Negro (hellonegro.com):
… Jump to Comments MAUREEN DOWD dida wonderful piece recently for the NY Timesabout the challenge some white comedians and comic writers are facing when coming up with jokes and jabs about Barack Obama.  I was wondering just what monologue writers were going to do myself.  With so many of the people behind the pens being …

Secrets No One Ever Told You - (www.snoety.com):
… Oh, and the same article mentions that it might be perceived as a plus that Obama’s having difficulty quitting smoking. Oh, now that’s a great attribute to vote for … And shame on Maureen Dowd for her recent New York Times column:“May we mock Barack”, and I quote.”He’s already in danger of seeming too prissy about food” and she refers to The “lean ‘n’ green” catering guidelines which “bar fried food and instruct that, ‘on the theory that nutritious food is more vibrant, each meal should …

Ben Casnocha: The Blog (ben.casnocha.com):
… mainstream opinion advocating just incentive-based national service. 2. Earnestness. Here's my post questioning whether too much earnestness comes at the cost of a sense of humor. Maureen Dowd, who in general isn't half as funny as she thinks she is,today askswhether Barack Obama's "chilly earnestness" and humorlessness is a political weakness if it suggests an over-calculated quality. She notes that Bill Clinton has womanizing, John McCain has being an asshole, George Bush has the constant struggle with …

Reluctant Republicans For McCain (www.reluctantrepublicans.com):
… Topics: Reluctant Republicanism Discuss it: 2 Comments » Maureen Dowd has a great op-ed piece in the New York times entitled, "May We Mock, Barack?" (Read the full posthere). Its an interesting read on the subject of political humor and the odd turn that is taking place with Obama. Satirists have a long history of getting laughs at the expense of our politicians, but for some reason Obama largely seems to be either …

Hello, Negro (hellonegro.com):
… MAUREEN DOWD dida wonderful piece recently for the NY Timesabout the challenge some white comedians and comic writers are facing when coming up with jokes and jabs about Barack Obama.  I was wondering just what monologue writers were going to do myself.  With so many of the people behind the pens being white …

Hello, Negro (hellonegro.com):
… MAUREEN DOWD dida wonderful piece recently for the NY Timesabout the challenge some white comedians and comic writers are facing when coming up with jokes and jabs about Barack Obama.  I was wondering just what monologue writers were going to do myself.  With so many of the people behind the pens being white …

Hello, Negro (hellonegro.com):
… MAUREEN DOWD dida wonderful piece recently for the NY Timesabout the challenge some white comedians and comic writers are facing when coming up with jokes and jabs about Barack Obama.  I was wondering just what monologue writers were going to do myself.  With so many of the people behind the pens being white …

The New Republic (blogs.tnr.com):
… Carla Bruni. Why? Partly he was just following orders. "If Obama keeps being stingy with his quips and smiles, and if the dominant perception of him is that you can’t make jokes about him, it might infect his campaign with an airless quality," Dowdchided himten days ago. "If Obama offers only eat-your-arugula chiding and chilly earnestness, he becomes an otherworldly type, not the regular guy he needs to be." Well, joking with her about another reporter's creepy interest in his smell certainly shows a …

e*star LA (www.estarla.com):
… Spiritualized, Recorded Live In ConcertNovels Informed by Values and Brands of Fashion Are Starting to Pump That Well Dry - NYTimes.comWhy I hate Michael Chang. - By Huan Hsu - Slate MagazineSeeking a road to peace - Los Angeles TimesMay We Mock, Barack? - NYTimes.comL.A. to Mammoth flights set to begin today - LA Daily NewsHurry up, the customer has a complaint - The Boston GlobeW's "Honeys" Work Hard for the Money: Glossed OverHalf-Sister Draws Asian-American Support for Obama …

Emdashes, The New Yorker Between the Lines (emdashes.com):
… of New Yorker Irony as incarnated on last week's cover. He's not worried, he reports, about that small section of America who might not get it. His concern is that it may have led to the perception that Barack Obamacan't take a joke. Sasha Frere-Jones writes about what must be considered a great leap forward in the history of music reviews: LOLdogz. The marriage of icanhascheezburger with Pitchfork is surely an unholy one, yet I can't help but cheer. In …

PoliSci@UST (ustpolisci.wordpress.com):
… “adult content”?  Puh-leeze. How silly and thin-skinned.  Perhaps Gary Kamiya from Salon Magazine was right: liberals have lost their sense of humor.  Maybe those reports that suggest that any attempts at humoror parodies regarding Obama are right. Come on, guys.  Just laugh it off and roll with the punches. You’d think that after eight years of calling President Bush “Chimpy McBushHitler” that you would have just a wee bit more tolerance for someone …

Roxie's World (roxies-world.blogspot.com):
… would have been a whole lot funnier if, like most New Yorker cartoons, it had featured animals rather than people (H/T to Eitan for pointing this out to us via FB). I know that analysis is fatal to humor, but maybe it’s a good thing that eventhe humorless Maureen Dowdis suggesting the Obama team should lighten up (ha-ha!), lest the candidate run the risk of seeming airless and inhuman. Maybe in the long run this tempest in a teapot will help us turn some kind of comic corner. Maybe people will realize it’s okay …

Biodun Iginla's Weblog (bioduniginla.wordpress.com):
… 1. Business: Given a Shovel, Americans Dig Deeper Into Debt 2. Rich: It’s the Economic Stupidity, Stupid 3.Dowd: May We Mock, Barack?4. Movies: The Dark Knight 5. Business: Uncomfortable Answers to Questions on the Economy …

Media and Technology | AlterNet (www.alternet.org):
… Maureen Dowd Whines: 'Obama's So Hard to Mock and Marginalize' Posted by Jill Hussein C. on July 16, 2008 at 1:55 PM. The New York Times' Amber Von Tussle isupset because Barack Obama isn't giving her enough snark material: At first blush, it would seem to be a positive for Obama that he is hard to mock. But on second thought, is it another sign that he’s trying so hard to be perfect that it’s stultifying? Or that eight years of W. and Cheney have robbed Democratic …

Achenblog (blogs.washingtonpost.com):
… why don't you let the intern write your blog for a few days while you play comment cop. It's FUN to zap comments. I love the smell of comment fritters in the morning. (Sadly, I almost never get to zap anything here -- everyone's so reasonable!) --I agree with MoDo: Let's not have a humorless campaign or a humorless presidency. [Am off to an interview in Pittsburgh...more later today...] Posted by | Permalink | Comments (138) Other Blogs' Comments: …

Kavanna (kavanna.blogspot.com):
… "not black enough" to "the black candidate," his politics has always been white-bicoastal-ultraliberal. The cult tendencies are most obvious and disturbing whenever the media's largely successful attempt to protect Obama from questions or criticismbreaks down. The campaign reacts with anger: how outrageous, how racist. Isn't this a preview of an Obama administration, both authoritarian and empty, with a lackey press in tow? There's only one reason to vote for Obama, and that's if you want a seriously …

Whiskey Fire (whiskeyfire.typepad.com):
… Nope. Believe it or not, this Gary Kamiya piece is even more asinine. 8. Holy shit! So is that the most purely idiotic piece of drivel we'll ever have to put up with about what is after all a goddamn cartoon? Not hardly!Here's Maureen Dowd! (Not sure if any comment on Dowd's gibberish is necessary, but to be efficient here -- she believes: Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were not making fun of her; that Jimmy Kimmel isn't a tool; the fact that people …

Media Blog on National Review Online (media.nationalreview.com):
… a fundamental factor is so far missing in Obama: There is no comedic "take" on him, nothing easy to turn to for an easy laugh, like allegations of Bill Clinton's womanizing, or President George W. Bush's goofy bumbling or Al Gore's robotic persona.Mo Dowd today, however, has a different take on Jon Stewart and the ease of making Obama-jokes: When I interviewed Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert for Rolling Stone a couple years ago, I wondered what Barack Obama would mean for them. …

Gerbera Tetra - 15 Seconds of Animation (gerberatetra.blogspot.com):
… the war—only of ending it... if we don't win the war, our enemies will. A triumph for the terrorists would be a disaster for us. That is something I will not allow to happen as president.' Arggh! Additionally, you know it getting bad when evenMaureen Dowdnotes that you can'[t make fun of Obama.. something is really wrong. What is funny is the slip that let us know that a lot of traditional black leaders are pissed at Obama. The question I have is; why? …