Ah, the joys of ideological purity. I can just see the guy who did this living out his own redstate version of La Chinoise.

... and then there's the "reasonable liberals" who call the part of the country that Bush carried in the election "Jesus Land." But I guess you have some point about those nasty people who thought Kerry was a lying hack, or at least not preferable to Bush. Some people really have gone quite mad (Ken Layne} with their "sweeping generalizations at odds with their own personal experience, and [have made] marvelous asses out of themselves in the process." There was a time when I even thought you were a little smarter than that.

They forgot the liberal guy, mouth agape, receiving an offering of human waste from a fellow liberal.

Oh, and the liberal dude, legs ajar, with the arm of another liberal up to the elbow in his arse. Can of Crisco off to the side.

Then don't forget the liberal girl performing oral on a horse. And her liberal friend being f-ed doggy style by a...dog.

You're right, liberals have all the fun...

Wait a minute. The end says "Paid for by Malaysians Against George Soros" Could these be the "Malays" that had Anwar Ibrahim, a deputy prime minister and rising Mahathir political opponent, thrown into jail and beat up by cops on trumped sodomy charges (because of rumors that he was homosexual)? Or are these just decent (Chrisitian?!) Malays who have a score to settle with Soros for precipitating the 1997 Asian Crisis by speculating on the Thai baht, etc? Or are these just your garden variety Los Angeles-based, neoconservative muslim Malays who voted for Bush and have a bone to pick against liberals? Transreligious, globalized biggotry? The hell..

What I resent is the implication that liberals have some copyright on over-indulgent excess. I have snorted, boozed, mud wrestled, and otherwise engaged in alternate unholy perversions to get where I am today. If it weren't for all the fun, I'd expect a little recognition, thank you very much.

Emily -- I guess you'll be finding out how big that tent is!

Bill -- Far as I know, I haven't made a single generalization about the "people who think that Kerry was a lying hack, or at least not preferable to Bush." Hell, I think Kerry was lying hack, and I well understand the foreign policy argument against him. So I don't really know in which way I've become less smart, though I don't doubt it for a second.

Mahathir's Judeophobia is an old story. More than 30 years ago he wrote: "The Jews . . . are not merely hook-nosed but understand money instinctively." He has blasted Jews as "monsters"; in 1994 his government banned the movie "Schindler's List" for being too pro-Jewish. When the Malaysian currency collapsed in 1997, Mahathir blamed it on George Soros, an American investor. "We do not want to say that this is a plot by the Jews," he thundered at a rally, "but in reality it is a Jew who triggered the currency plunge -- and coincidentally Soros is a Jew."

Welcome to the future, Matt. Can you please pass me the blow and strippers?

It's so ... fifties. I mean, strippers? Did Mamie Eisenhower get a script credit?

Quite besides which, it's easier to make fun of real liberals (believe me, I know) who are often -- sometimes for hours -- not under the influence of narcotics, and who are more likely to be carjacked than carjackers on account of living in Bad Coastal America.

A more powerful film would depict genuine academics, intellectuals, media folk, writers, and -- yes --- strippers declaring: "I am a conservative."

Matt, speaking of your Canadian-ness and also speaking of making fun of dumb lefty protestors, is there anything you can add to this: Fleeing to Canada for Excitable Liberal Dummies. I grabbed some of the tidbits from Hit and Run.

Oh crap, I forgot who actually holds power in this country! That's the biggest criterion for mockery, true. Sorry, everybody. A whole raft of O'Reilly jokes by Monday, honest.

Why are you apologizing, Treach? They truly are the "comic gift that keeps on giving," and if you can't make fun of dopes at protest, then the Terrorists truly will have Won. I'm just going to be getting my laughs on from a different source.

Well, the terrorists won on Nov. 2, but I respect your decision.

Matt -- The question I'm trying to get to in my own awkward way goes something like this: Why are these "libshit-baiting" groups being sponsored by what looks to be an anti-semitic Malaysian movement? Do they realize that what they are peddling (and apparently making) amounts to extremist Muslim, anti-Western, anti-Semitic propaganda when it is sponsored by "Malaysians Against George Soros"? Do they realize the connection between these harldine Malaysian thought patterns and those of the Taliban or even Al Qaeda?

Scot -- Dude, it's a joke; there is no such society (or, they made it up for this video). The only question is whether it's funny.

call this one i am a redneck

kinda old but defunitely a classic

Matt -- Oh shit, nevermind. You said it was unitentionally funny so I took it to be serious (so did my Bush-loving friends here at the paper). It actually does remind me of some of the heavy-handed anti-drug campaigns that are run in Asia.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go purge myself of my libshit concerns.

Right on, Emily! I for one have always deeply resented the state of the LSD market since Reagan, godammit.

It's an outrage.

Billy,
That's why I fled to Humboldt County for all those years. The psychedilics just spore right out of the ground, man. Oh yeah, and there was this place called "collidge" or something like that that went to on occassion.

Wow, that video makes it cool to be a liberal again! I'm pretty sure what is gonna be hilarious for the next few years is different for everybody, but the humor possibilities from both sides (including my own: lets wait for the next Ann Coulter column) will be nearly endless.

I am a little confused by claiming the conservatives are going to take "proclaiming] crude and sweeping generalizations at odds with their own personal experience, and making marvelous asses out of themselves" to the bank. So far I've seen at least as much ranting and raving about how idiotic most Americans are and how hicks and Jesus Freaks now control the country. (Although I think lots of people here think that too; maybe its a bad example.)

I will say that the latest issue of our independent campus newspaper is off the charts in unintentional humor. It's difficult to decide whaich article is the most hilarious, but I'll split the difference between the advice columnist who encourages a conservative to shoot himself and the comic with the Bush-Hitler comparison.

Good god ... that film is even more witless than Mark Fiore's stuff.

Carl: There's a lot of dumbshittery on both sides of the Red/Blue war today. The people who made the I Am a Liberal movie and the people who write for your campus newspaper have a lot in common with each other. Maybe we can give all the hardcore Red and Blues their own state -- how about Delaware -- and let the rest of us carry on in peace.

"people here in L.A. who've been in my backyward for cocktails..."
Yikes! What kind of a ward is that?

Ha! Fixed it....

This looks like a parody of NOW's "I'm a feminist" commercial from a few years ago, and a pretty good one at that.

Don't lose your sense of humor, dude.

Dude, I *said* it was "hilarious," didn't I? And I've laughed more these last 72 hours than I have in months. But since I missed that NOW deal, I'll now give extra Parody points to the libshitters.

Oh my goodness. The Left is constantly characterizing the Right in all kinds of pejorative ways. One current example is Jane Smiley's Slate article on "The unteachable ignorance of the red states" , in which she says:

"Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states. There used to be a kind of hand-to-hand fight on the frontier called a "knock-down-drag-out," where any kind of gouging, biting, or maiming was considered fair. The ancestors of today's red-state voters used to stand around cheering and betting on these fights."

Compared to that our spot is good-natured fun-poking.

Anyway, from my own point of view, the people in the ad are not meant to represent typical Liberals at all. I've said that on my site. They're meant to represent the result of the moral relativism that some on the Left cultivate -- the same moral relativism that leads the NY TIMES to call people who cut off heads of civilians "insurgents," "radicals," and "militants," instead of "Islamofascists" and "terrorists." That's why there's a full-screen title card that says (irony intentional) "Moral Relativism is Good."

I sincerely apologize if I've offended you. Your criticism, however, has not offended me. I consider your criticism just and reasonable. I have great admiration for you, and I consider it an honor to know you.

-Vik

Cherry-picking idiocy from the right? Troll over to the Democratic Underground or moveon.org. Cripes, even 'mainstream' sites like Oliver Willis or Daily Kos. Tons more nuts there, so are they any more representative of the left than one single goofball is of the right? Yeah...it's great material for a rant, but a rather slender premise to slam a majority of the nation.

And what's with carping about Taranto's zip code? B'bridges short "the new BMW is in" is hardly the ejaculation you promise in your post. Dude, Red State is a region of the mind, not a zip code.

Where does "Bill Kimball" live?

I live in Jesusland. I grew up in the dead-center heart of Jesusland. I remind you, so did Ken, and his characterization of our culture, while certainly over the top, ain't far off the mark. But Bill's too smart for us, too, no doubt. After all, he noticed that Kerry is a lying hack and Bush is an honest apple.

I'm glad CT is continuing his insightful contributions. Is CT familiar with the term "repressed desires"? He might want to consider why these fantastic mental images pop into his head without much provocation. What kind of web site are you frequenting, CT?

All the above reminds me of a fine article I read some time ago. I found it here.

The article applies now as much as it did the first and second times it was presented. It's hard to do, though, isn't it?.

I'm somehow prompted to be more specific. "It's time to take a chill pill, folks." -- Matt Welch

I believe that applies to all of us. Yes, me too.

As someone who also knows Moxie, all I can say is: What's next, Kristalnacht II?

SylviaKrystalNacht II, maybe?

A stripper, though? Twenty minutes from Chatsworth and they pull a stripper?

We can do so much better than that.

Dude, can you grasp how lame it is to give the 'you just have repressed desires' line on these issues? What era do you currently live in? Some of you liberals remind me of some 80 year old WWII dudes who are just getting around to not being freaked out by homosexuals and think they're AHEAD OF THAT CURVE.

And for the record every image I presented to you can be found by any intrepid internet surfer, but to keep it even simpler visit some hardcore Christian sites that love to tweak liberals with these kinds of images.

Vik -- You'd have to do something horrible to a loved one before I felt offense, so no, I didn't take any. Actually, I thought your film was very well made (I liked the stripper-plunge especially, and the news-anchor punchline was good). And, as indicated above, didn't recognize the parody.

I am fully aware that the Left spouts caricaturist nonsense on an hourly basis; I have probably written more on that topic than on all but a few others. I don't recall, during the times when I did so, a lot of support here for the "yeah, but they do it too," response. And, I have noticed quite an overlap among people who applauded my criticisms of Michael Moore, then championed caricatures just as crude coming from the other direction.

John -- "Cherry-picking"? This is a video made by friends of mine, that was e-mailed to my wife. Nor do I intend to claim that this video = Republicans, or that it somehow is grounds for "slamming" a majority of the nation. I think there *are* some interesting characteristics shared by what I've been calling the Angry Enfranchised Majority, by which I mean to describe the people who reacted to winning this election ... by venting even more anger toward the evil liberals. I've received a lot of e-mail expressing this sentiment, and I find it hilarious. No way in hell do I consider that to be a "majority" of Bush-voters, but neither is it just five people out 58 million.

Yes, I've heard Kos & Democratic Underground both post crap (I don't like or read either), and it is not a revelation to me that there are dumb lefties on the Internet. I don't think it is required to make these acknowledgments before laughing publicly at a single fake commercial.

And it is Taranto, not I, who brought up zip codes, by sneering at "the blue-state elite." I'm merely pointing out that he, too, is a life-long member of the blue-state elite. It would be like me sneering at "these goddamned college dropouts from Long Beach."

Matt -- you rock. Thanks for both the appreciation, and the criticism.

Vik, settle an argument for us, if you please: did you model your bit after NOW's "I am a feminist" ad or not?

Enquiring minds and all that.

I loved it that Richard B. spotted that. We were modelling it after a commercial in the "I am a feminist" genre -- specifically, the "I am an American" spots.