I’m a big fan of political humor, particularly when it exposes absurdity. This is why I shared all these jokes (here, here, here, here, here, and here) about the Occupy Wall Street crowd.
But I also appreciate good jokes that target me and other libertarians (here, here, here, here, and here).
If I had to pick a favorite, though, it would be the jokes that teach economics. That’s why I like this joke about Keynesian economics, this cartoon about Obama’s stimulus, this video on Halloween taxes, this cartoon about the minimum wage, and this joke about the perverse incentives of redistribution.
And it’s also why I shared the cartoon yesterday about Ms. Fluke and the controversy over the birth control mandate.
This motivated readers to send several others, all of which make the point that this is an issue about subsidies and redistribution, not birth control.
Here’s one that was posted on the Powerline blog.
This one’s obviously a photoshop creation, but definitely appeals to me because of my support for the 2nd Amendment.
And here are a couple of posters featuring Ms. Fluke.
I especially like these two posters because there’s no attempt to personally demonize Ms. Fluke. It’s her ideas are bad because she wants to coerce others.
I’m not making an indirect dig at Limbaugh, by the way, who does a rather impressive job of staying on the right side of the line while spending three hours every day trying to be funny, entertaining, and informative. I shudder to think how often I would step in you-know-what if I tried to do the same thing.
Instead, my goal is to change hearts and minds. We won’t win the battle for liberty if we focus on personalities as opposed to ideas.
Love watching Sun !
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I’d rather pay for birth control than abortions.
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And the scary part is …. wouldn’t we, as a society, be better off if the Sandra Flukes of the world all had only to make a phone call and a birth control option of their choosing would be immediately hand-delivered?
Pat, Issa’s committee hearings were not to discuss women’s access to contraceptives. They were to discuss the imposition of providing birth control by a Roman Catholic entity whose core beliefs are anti-birth control. It was clearly a 1st Amendment issue, not a woman’s entitlement issue. Fluke was a plant and a distraction. Her “testimony” was before a jury-rigged meeting of Democrat women for the purpose of obfuscating the issue. Unfortunately, they succeeded.
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Pat mentions “WOMEN’s access to birth control!”. Is that really something that is difficult to obtain? I never thought this was an issue as all the women I know
have never found it to be so.
Nah, so-called progressives and feminists want something more, much more.
They want to tell churches and everyone else what to do and how to do it.
They want to do this by growing government which will be run by liberals who know what is best for all of us.
As to name-calling, it seems that Bill Maher is exempt from left wing criticism because he is a lefty and has donated a million bucks to the Obama Super Pac which shouldn’t exist because the president has always said that he opposes them.
It’s true, with liberals everything is indeed relative.
It’s Pat!
If you had bothered to listen to what Rush actually said you would realize he was right on this money. This woman told us all how she and her friends were going broke paying for contraception and that somene else should pay for it. Not the guys they were banging but 30K /yr university they were privileged to be attending. She thinks we are all stupid. We think she is a slut. Case closed.
This would never have become a huge story if it weren’t for the absurd all-man team that Issa created to testify on – of all things- WOMEN’s access to birth control! And then the vile mischaracterization by Rush Limbaugh of Ms. Fluke’s testimony to a smaller non-committee Democratic gathering which he could just have ignored.
Be honest and stop minimizing the stupidity of Issa and Limbaugh.
Limbaugh spent 3 days (9 hours of radio time) slandering this woman in the vilest way and misrepresenting her testimony- in other words, misleading his entire audience of MILLIONS of Americans!
This is not at all paralleled anywhere else by any left-winger.
Rush used his “apology” to further the lie by claiming his only transgression was in the choice of 2 words. After that he continued to allow his callers to regurgitate his original mischaracterization of Fluke’s testimony.
A real apology should include a statement that he mischaracterized her entire testimony (slander and defamation) and a continuing correction of his ditto-head callers whenever they repeat the mischaracterization over the airwaves to millions of listeners.
Be honest.
This is reality.
^^bingo
Never before in the history of this country has any president called anyone who had their feelings hurt by a talk show host. Halfway through her interview on the “view”, Ms. Fluke opined that everyone should head over to Media Matters to get the full skinney on the situation re the contraception controversy and the administative desires and drives. Just a coincidence that this is being staged in an election year and all of the players are lining up to shill for Presbo and to try to damage control Obamacare.
How much is she getting paid? How much up front coordination and planning has gone into this? This is absolute smoke and mirrors right out of Alinski’s Rules for Radicals. This is another crisis that has been manufactured. The players were all set up and in place before this even occured. They were ready to jump at the oportunity whenever a perceived conservative spokesperson stepped too far over any line. Even if it was one defining a person advocating slutty behavior as a slut herself.
We are being played.