JABbering Stooge

A preview of the Quitbull’s new (ghostwritten) book:

How is it that a comedian who hosts a fake news show is more of a journalist than the “real” journalists?

So, I had lunch with Dad today at a Chinese restaurant here in Austin. The fortune in my fortune cookie was rather appropriate in light of the Quitbull’s recent speech in Hong Kong. It read as follows:

Do not listen to vain words from empty minds.

It seems a fair number of people there were (unwittingly, perhaps) heeding that advice.

The latest masterpiece from Funny or Die:

Humor, with a purpose. Imagine that! (Bonus: Hiro Nakamura Masi Oka gets a couple of lines!)

Spread the meme.

And now comes the time on JABbering Stooge when we PARODY!

Over at The Grist, David Roberts explains why now-former Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Van Jones is not the scary bogeyman that Glenn Beck makes him out to be. The rest of the piece is a good, serious read, but I could help but laugh at this line:

A while back I lampooned a Glenn Beck segment on Van Jones, who’s an advisor to the White House Council on Environmental Quality. According to Beck, Jones is the man on the inside for a vast cryptosocialist conspiracy involving the Apollo Alliance, Color of Change, the Center for American Progress, George Soros, ACORN, Al Queda, and the Trilateral Commission. Everything that goes bump in Beck’s closet at night.

Back then I still thought the Gomer Pyle meets Father Coughlin shtick was harmless, too clownish to be taken seriously. Ah, those innocent days before the nation was locked in a room with frantic teabaggers.

Thanks, Dave. After Glenn Beck’s high-tech lynching of Van Jones, I needed some levity.

Sidebar: I would be remiss if I didn’t point out that Glenn Beck’s petulant revenge fantasy has eerie parallels with Bill O’Reilly’s jihad against Dr. George Tiller. While the scalp claimed by Beck was fortunately metaphorical rather than literal, we’ve already seen how quickly right-wing lunacy can spiral into violence. And it’s just going to get worse the more Obama caves to the lunatic fringe.

Keith gleefully mocks Glenn Beck’s General Ripper-esque paranoia about the artwork in Rockefeller Center in NYC:

Well played, sir. I bow before your comedic might.

JJ, in her own comments section, on Professional Outrage Maven Bill Donohue’s predictable reaction to a recent episode of Penn & Teller’s Bullshit.

First, the setup:

Does Bill Dohohue have a side other than paranoid?

And now, the punchline:

Alison S — “Paranoid” is his good side. “Psychotic incontinent screaming red rage” is the other side. It’s a toss-up as to which side is dominant.

Comedian Rob Paravonian ranting about Pachelbel’s Canon and Gigue in D Major at Penn State (circa 2006):

In case you were wondering, the songs referenced are as follows:

• Graduation (Friends Forever) by Vitamin C

• Cryin’ by Aerosmith

• the folk song One Tin Soldier

• Hook by Blues Traveler

• Basket Case by Green Day

• Push by Matchbox 20

• Good by Better than Ezra

• Machinehead by Bush (No, not that Bush!)

• With or Without You by U2

• Torn by Natalie Imbruglia

• Sk8er Boi by Avril Lavigne

• We’re Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister (used as top-of-the-hour bumper music on The Stephanie Miller Show before Obama was elected President)

• Making Our Dreams Come True (Opening Theme for Laverne & Shirley)

• No Woman, No Cry by Bob Marley

• Let It Be by The Beatles

Or you could check Ye Olde Wikipedia.