As the election draws near, President Obama’s celebrity
supporters are stepping up their political presence in pop culture – and in the
process, exposing their bizarre, immature predilection for spewing obscenities.
Foul-mouthed purported comedienne Sarah Silverman, for
example, recently fired off a controversial, unsurprisingly unfunny question
to Republican candidate Mitt Romney on Twitter, in which she asked him, “Quick
Q: Do you eat p**s? Need to know asap. Thx.” Hilarious. And such a useful
contribution to the political discussion in the most critical election of our
time, if not in all of American history.
You may remember, if you keep up with the juvenile antics of
Hollywood’s out-of-work D-list comics, that Silverman recently posted an online
video
address to Republican billionaire and Romney supporter Sheldon Adelson. In that
mercifully short clip, she proposes to Adelson that he give his millions to
Obama instead, in return for which, “I will scissor you, wearing a bikini
bottom, through to fruition. That means until you c*m”:
Do you know how many Republican billionaires are giving money to Romney?
All of them. How many of them are getting scissored by a bikini-bottomed Jewess
with big naturals?
Then she attempts to demonstrate said scissoring with a very
unwilling and mortified-looking dog on a couch. Classy. And why that doesn’t
qualify as animal abuse, I don’t know.
Despite the fact that the Rock the Vote video is loaded with
openly Democratic celebrities and features not a single openly conservative
one, the video isn’t explicitly partisan; Obama’s name is not mentioned, and another
of its unrecognizable celebs urges everyone to get out and vote for “the
candidate of your choice.” But then he adds the punch line: “at least ten
times.” That nod to voter fraud would be a funnier line if it didn’t represent
the left’s actual election strategy, which consists of voting multiple times
and collecting votes from dead people and cartoon characters.
Academy Award-nominated
actor Samuel L. Jackson, who believes
Obama’s opponents are racist (this,
from the man who once said that Obama’s “message didn’t mean s**t to me,”
and “I voted for Barack because he was black”) and whose unparalleled F-bomb
skills are becoming something of a lucrative side career, recently starred in a
video
called “Wake the F**k Up,” a parody
of his spoken rendition of the children's-book-for-adults, Go The F**k To Sleep. In the political ad, Jackson magically appears
in the homes of apathetic voters of all ages to poetically browbeat them into taking
this election seriously. Here’s a sample of Jackson's colorful, as well as
misleading, language:
Sorry, my friends, but there’s no time to snore
An out-of-touch millionaire just declared war
On schools, the environment, unions, fair pay
We’re all on our own if Romney has his way
And he’s against safety nets
If you fall, tough luck
So, I strongly suggest that you wake the f**ck up.
An out-of-touch millionaire just declared war
On schools, the environment, unions, fair pay
We’re all on our own if Romney has his way
And he’s against safety nets
If you fall, tough luck
So, I strongly suggest that you wake the f**ck up.
Jackson interrupts
an elderly couple getting intimate, and warns them about the disaster they face
if Romney’s elected. “What do you want us to do?” the old lady asks. He shouts
back, “Say ‘Hell no, motherf***ers!’” The video closes with a little girl
shouting out her window to the world, “Wake the f**k up!” Only progressives,
who in recent years have stepped up their anti-family strategy of destroying the
innocence of children, could find a child shouting the F-word to be funny.
The Jackson video
was sponsored by the liberal Jewish Council on Education and Research Super
PAC, which also produced another expletive-sprinkled Sarah Silverman video,
this one encouraging Florida seniors to take “the great schlep” to the ballot box and vote for Obama.
These are just the recent standout examples of the celebrity left’s fondness for obscenity in
political discussion. It’s always there as an underlying constant. Bill Maher, for
example, the host of HBO’s Real Time with
Bill Maher, can barely get through a sentence on his political show without
crudity, and his audience eats it up.
What’s the point of this barrage of F-bombs? What does this
obsession with obscenity say about the left – and the right? The left likes to
believe that they are “edgy,” and that conservatives are uptight. Substitute “juvenile”
for “edgy” and “adult” for “uptight,” and they’d be correct.
Lighten up Tapson, it’s comedy! This is all just meant to be
a lighthearted take on the normally heavy topic of politics, right? Not entirely.
The expletive-laden silliness educates no one about the issues and adds
absolutely nothing to the political conversation, but that’s not the intention.
The gutter language is aimed at winning the support of left-leaning youth who
respond less to serious examination of the issues than to cool celebrities and “edgy”
behavior. It is aimed at a generation that is still young enough to be
titillated by dirty words and that gets
most of its news from Facebook, Twitter, and satirical news sites like The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It is
designed to ridicule conservatives as uptight old fogeys like their parents, and
to paint the left as youthful and hip by contrast. And what young person
doesn’t want to be hip?
