Most of the skits -- over 70% by Sherry's count -- lampooned the right, and weren't even witty in doing so. However, one bit they have used again and again over the years had us rolling on the floor laughing hours later. Known as Lirty Dies, it uses spoonerisms -- reversing the initial consonants of two nearby words in a sentence -- to great effect.
Here is an example from -- to hear them tell it -- the Spurld of Warts.
This afternoon, I have a few web pages open in the tabs of my -- new 4.0 -- Firefox browser, awaiting some time to relay my thoughts on them to you. As I turn to this one, forwarded to me by one of my correspondents, by George Friedman, founder, editor, writer, be all, and end all at www.stratfor.com, I found myself wishing that our present humanitarian interventionist misadventure in Libya were nothing more than a Capitol Steps Lirty Die skit -- not that they would ever do such a thing. With his completely correct, if ploddingly pedantic analysis, Friedman makes the ludicrous nature of humanitarian interventionism clear: if you are effective at it, it must be through escalation -- crission meep -- whereas if you leep a kid on the mission, scrou are yewed as ineffective.
Continuing with the gallows humor theme of intermanitarian huventionism, we have George Will at his most brilliantly acerbic. His take on our Libyan effort is so filled with belly laughs, I laughed till I cried. Or was it the other way around?
How can you not weep at this:
- At about this point in foreign policy misadventures, the usual question is: What is Plan B? Today's question is: What was Plan A?
When he finally returns to earth he hangs the foreign policy albatross that took down Jimmy Carter around Barack Obama's neck:
- Obama's inability, or reluctance, to say clearly why we are involved in Libya or under what conditions the mission might be said to have been accomplished has occasioned comparisons with Iraq. A more apposite comparison is to Jimmy Carter's invasion of Iran -- a nation twice as large as France -- with eight helicopters. This became emblematic of a floundering president out of his depth.
- As Calvin Coolidge, who knew his depth, was leaving the presidency in March 1929, he said, "Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business."
None of this will matter to his tingly-leg admirers, of course, since "Obama is Awesome." Which brings up the question of how much longer we have to put up with the Awesome O. Read about his 2012 campaign kickoff, and about the campaign manager, both written by investigative reporter Ari Berman for The Nation, which Wikipedia says "is self-described as 'the flagship of the left.'"
Apparently, the left is unhappy with the Awesome O for ignoring the grass roots movement that got him to the dance! Can you spell triangulation? I knew you could.... You don't suppose he hopes that the muddled middle will forget his progressivist policy enactments, do you? That would be Bermuda Triangulation!
And finally, Jay Cost, political prognosticator for RealClearPolitics, takes on the survival myth of the leftists: that if unemployment is near 8% in the Fall of 2012, the Awesome O is a shoo-in.
After all, it works that way in Europe!
