Don't worry pundits, satire is not new to the flyover

As I suspected, all the worry America's pundits have flooded upon the "dreadful" New Yorker cover, is nothing but crocodile tears.

There are smart people all over this country who know how satire works, and how worthless pundits are.

From the NY Times, this morning, an explanation.

Hell, Gary Kamiya says it better than me

I don't get the folks at Buzzflash. First they skewer Ralph Nader, and now they rail against satire.

They actually write a headline that reads, How About A New Yorker Cover With The Editor's Head Up His Ass?

Ho, ho, now that's funny, in a childish, unsophisticated, sophomoric kind of way. The editorial is the most stupid misunderstanding of satire that I've ever read. How about a Buzzflash headline that reads, "This Just In: Stephen Colbert Is Not A Right Wing Asshole!" Mark Karlin, better re-read your idiotic "editorial" (notice the "ironic" use of quotation marks, Mark), because your own predjudices are on display.

At Salon, Gary Kamiya diagnoses a severe "loss of sense of humor" on the left, as a result of cynicism overdose.

Where's Kurt Vonnegut when we need him?

It ain't Ralph, it's the Democratic Party

For God's sake, put the blame where the blame belongs.

It's clear now that the Democratic Party is incompetent to affect change. Ralph Nader did not steal the presidency from Al Gore. The Republicans stole the election, and Al Gore didn't have the spine to stand up to them (abetted by the advice of none other than Creepy Joe Lieberman). Now look where we are.

So why does the formidable liberal website, Buzzflash, have this to say:

Nader Vows He Has the Right to Help Drain Votes from the Democrats and Give Us Another Eight Years of a Republican Nightmare. Ralph, Park Your Bruised Ego Already and Stick with Consumer Issues. You Couldn't Govern a Parking Lot


This is a website that rails against hypocrites, acting as hypocritically as those it criticizes. I think Buzzflash owes Nader an apology, and needs to consider whether it is a mouthpiece for ineffectual Democrats.