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Tuesday, July 08, 2008
 
Conservatives Are Not Racists, And They Are Too Funny

Cracked.com has an amusing compilation of catchphrases coined by the TV show The Simpsons, including everyone's favorite, "Cheese-Eating Surrender Monkeys".

But this list has aroused the ire of the so-called Modern Conservative Movement because of a nasty (but admittedly funny) swipe at National Review's Jonah Goldberg:

Groundskeeper Willie coined this expression in "Round Springfield" (April 30, 1995). However, the origins of the phrase can't be separated from its appropriation by conservative writer Jonah Goldberg, who helped spread this slur for the French by using it in many of his National Review columns. Alas, Jonah Goldberg isn't funny-at least not intentionally-so we're giving this one to Willie and the Simpsons writers. Sorry, Jonah, you'll get your chance next week when CRACKED runs "14 Racist Things Jonah Goldberg Said That No One Cared About."

Now, the only thing Jonah hates more than being called a racist is being called not funny, so he cried foul; and a number of sympathetic posts appeared on the Cracked.com message board, like this very very thoughtful one from "Dirkbelig":

Nice job in perpetuating the impression that comedy writers are nothing but extreme liberals who can't resist smearing conservatives as racist/sexist/bigoted/homophobes like you did to Jonah Goldberg, who is NONE of those things and quite humorous to boot. It's so typical of liberals to slander anything they don't like as some sort of "-ist" as if everyone who reads this site shares in their abject hatred of conservatives. (Good luck keeping this site going under Sharia Law. Idiots.)
Nice job in perpetuating the impression that conservatives have no sense of humor, Dirkbelig!

(Good luck posting comments like that under Sharia law! Idiots.)



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