That’s Right Nate

There is a real danger out there my friends.  You see it on shows like the Colbert Report.   When I first started watching the show I found it extremely refreshing.  On a lefty dominated station like Comedy Central, there was Steve Colbert with a solidly conservative voice.  He even called Bill O’Reilly Papa Bear.  Well three years into watching the show religiously, I found out that it was all a put on.  Colbert was a liberal portraying himself as a satirical conservative.  I was sickened.

There was something similar that happened today and many conservatives believed that we were going to be placed under martial law because of a 3 year old story from The Onion.   I’d read the newspaper a few times and didn’t care for it, but now I found it The Onion is also satire.  Here’s the clip:

When ordinarily rational conservatives saw this, they reacted all over Facebook like this.  Is it their fault no?   That’s the insidious nature of satire.  It pretends to be real news and people believe it.   Look at what happened yesterday when Democrats took the bait from brilliant satirist Andrew Breitbart who first came to prominence by editing a video tape to make it look like ACORN was supporting prostitution.  This time Breitbart took a speech by a USDA employee talking about how she learned to overcome her own racist upbringing to learn to help everybody and made it sound like she was refusing to help people based on race.  In fairness to this employee she probably became an employee when her father was murdered by the KKK, but it’s still no excuse for being predisposed not to like white people—we’re very lovable.

Well, the liberals bought this hook line and sinker even though they felt for Breitbart’s pranks before.  Before they even validated the statement, Shirley Sherrod was thrown out of the department and hoping that unemployment benefits would be extended.  Today the liberals have egg on their face after hearing the unedited speech she gave.  Oops!!  You fell for it liberals.

That is why I don’t like satire.  It can hit Democrats and Republicans equally and what makes it so dangerous is you never know when what you read is satire and when it is real.  New Zealand managed to ban political satire.  I am hoping that I can use my influence in the Kimble campaign to get him to pass a similar law here.  One thing’s for sure, at Thatsrightnate.com you’ll be able to continue to count on the same sold Conservative values you’ve always expected and still 100% satire free.

I’ve never been a big fan of satire.  I find that it is the lowest form of humor.  However, I was really disappointed to see how many people overreacted to the New Yorker’s hysterical satire on their newest cover.  The cover which portrays Barack Obama dressed like a Muslim giving a terrorist fist bump to his wife who is dressed as a black panther.  There is a fireplace with a picture of Osama bin Laden and a US flag in the fireplace.

What people have failed to realize is that this is a satire of Obama showing how we perceive him and was in no way racist.  The New Yorker shouldn’t have been surprised that people couldn’t figure it out.  There is a long history of satire involving African Americans being misinterpreted as hatred.   Minstrel shows were a type of satire that were really popular in the 19th century.  They featured white actors in black face lampooning black culture.

In this century Amos and Andy came into America’s living room over the radio for 30 years.  The two main characters were actually played by white actors satirizing the lives of Southern blacks living in the Norths.  Like the minstrel shows, Amos and Andy was mistaken for racism as well.

Its not just black people who don’t seem to get satire.  A satirical book in Russia called The Protocols of the Elders of Zion have had Jews up in arms for centuries. Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail and African-Americans will stop taking themselves so seriously.   Lighten up, its satire.  I don’t get uptight about WASP jokes.