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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.
If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.
It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.
The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.
The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.
Giving up is unforgivable.
Republicans do not pay their debts.
Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.
We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.
A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.
Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll
We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. keep building.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson
People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.
Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.
’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’
“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”
America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.
A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires.
Giving in to doom is how we fail to fight for ourselves & one another.
You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.
“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”
When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.
Billy K
Am I the only one who thinks Jib Jab lacks the in-depth understanding of modern politics necessary to make, um….humor?
I’ve never found their work funny or even insightful in the least.
DBrown
They are rightwingers and like all such people, dumb as hammers
benjamin
Shoot me but I like Obama running around on a unicorn. Seems oddly appropriate (and I say that as one of his fans).
Snark Based Reality
Insightful? It’s a fucking simple parody.
The first two posters need to get the fuck off the rag and realize its not meant to be a fucking indepth look at all that is wrong in the world, its a balanced fucking joke.
Billy K
Parody implies humor. I’ve never found anything they’ve done funny.
Oh, and fuck you.
Snark Based Reality
Oh it’s fine if you don’t find it funny. But it’s still a fucking parody even if some joke they made causes you to remember you have a stick up your ass.
And as for expecting “in-depth” and “insightful” in a two minute flash video… Ok…
Sirkowski
A joke should be at least funny.
The only people who find JibJab funny are journalists, because it represents their basic understanding of politics.
cleek
someone needs a nap
johnosahon
you guys are hilarious fighting over “jib-jab” crap, who gives a **** about this crap?
please put that passion into the fight for the white house.
zsa
Wow … it’s not just a pony … it’s a fucking unicorn! A Sparkly Rainbow Unicorn! Fuck, yeah!
As for funny, this is about as funny as you can get and still straddle that imaginary bi-partisan line …
SpaceCat
I can’t stand JibJab. They media herd has “decided” that it’s just oh so witty, and now we are subjected to this bipartisan inanity every election season. CNN gushed over this piece of crap for 5 minutes this morning.
Snark Based Reality
The unicorn bit got a chuckle out of me. All hail the MUP!
Shinobi
I actually thought it was pretty funny. And It also presents animated truth that the new talking point “no on is allowed to make fun of Obama” is untrue.
Talking about change while bounding around a meadow on a unicorn in the hoity toighty voice, HILARIOUS.
SpaceCat
Oh yeah, fuck you to anyone who disagrees with me and thinks this shit is cute. That would be grounds for a divorce in my book. There’s some crap I just won’t put up with, and laughing along with all the idiots at JibJab definitely qualifies!
Laertes
Not one of their better efforts. The music is much weaker than their usual, for a start.
And they don’t even seem to be trying to be funny. I don’t mean “they’re so lame ha ha its like they’re not even trying.” I mean, literally, they’re not trying to be funny.
They’re aiming instead for that cheap chuckle of recognition, the kind of thing a down-on-his-luck comic goes for when he’s got a gig at a company party: “He was outta there faster than…(looks down at his index card)…Frank from accounting that time Susan came looking for the quarterly expense summary.” Oh, that rolls ’em in the aisles.
I like Jib-Jab. Their bit with the rapping founders was brilliant, Big Box-Mart was excellent, and their Bush-Kerry piece in ’04 was really strong. This one is weaksauce.
Frank Jacobs
Brilliantly funny. Jib Jab, how I’d missed you!
And as for the posters I see here belly-achin’ and hatin’ on this obvious parody of media campaign coverage and the whole political P.R. industry, you all are starting to make me think there’s a point to the claim that a whole lot liberals have completely lost their sense of humor (was Re: New York Post). Grow a pair and learn how to laugh at yourselves.
Frank Jacobs
Oh, and SpaceCat?
Fuck you, too :)
Michael D.
I thin kthe people who are getting bent out of shape over a silly movie are way funnier than the Jib Jab movie itself.
Billy
This clip is pretty funny but not nearly as funny as the Obama video I found at Digitalfuntown. Way better
http://www.digitalfuntown.com/showchannel.php?page=1&title=Central%20Park&swf=central_park&fcontent_id=1
Shinobi
SpaceCat, Dude, take some valium or something.
And Fuck you to anyone disagrees with me about him needing a fucking valium.
DBrown
As always, some times people speak of what they do not understand (I have done that, so I understand). These jerk-off’s first famous “Parody” had Kerry in woman’s sexy lingerie wearing garters, with a collar, on all fours, and had a lease being held by Europeans who were whipping him – that is not parody but a total rightwing blow job and if you think otherwise after learning these facts, you must practice that form of sex.
Clio
More like a prune juice enema…should help with the removal of the stick.
The unicorn was great, and I think it’s pretty telling that Hillary was featured. Too bad the unicorn didn’t gore her.
A.Political
Have you seen the one on network news….thats fairly adroit.
A.Political
oh and since it seems to be the flavour of the day….fuck you all :)
Snark Based Reality
Ok. So just because it isn’t busy giving _you_ the blow job it’s not a parody.
In this spirit may I invite all that subscribe to this line of thought to get fucked, immediately. Kthxbye.
Just Some Fuckhead
I thought it was pretty stupid. Otherwise, what Zsa said fuckers.
A.Political
fuck
that.
Shinobi
Sounds like someone is stuck in missionary position. Bitter Much?
Shinobi
Oh I forgot, Fuck that!
Cain
I liked a lot of the previous ones. This wasn’t that funny as the one other ones. I even thought the Kerry in teh lingerie was funny. I guess I wasn’t as partisan back then since I wasn’t particularly impressed with Kerry so making fun of him was fine with me.
cain
SpaceCat
The Daily Show does funny parodies. The memes in every Jibjab joint are milquetoast and based on lame-ass Beltway media c/w.
“Hey everybody! George W’s a crazy Texas cowboy! Yee-haw!” Get it?
And if you don’t agree with me, intercourse you all to helllll!
AkaDad
This thread made me call my grandma, just to say, fuck you.
Blue Raven
Well, fucking hell, y’all, it’s getting so I can’t tell the fucking satire from the motherfucking serious shit going on here. I mean, is this a fucking sendup of how fucked up the reactions to certain fucking magazine covers managed to get, or is this just one big fuckstain of a discussion with no fucking merit because we’re all too busy being fucking pissed off?
I giggled, but apparently, that means I get fucked up the ass by Europeans while wearing a negligee. Fuck this shit. I’m logging into Second Life where I can get assfucked by a neko from New Jersey.
Just Some Fuckhead
Ever open up a little and then someone else opens up too fucking much?
Everybody in the World
Jib-jab is stupid and sucks.
I’m right. You’re wrong.
So (as they say in Pharyngula comments)–I’ll pray for you.
nightjar
I nominate this song by The Waifs for Official Balloon Juice MUP campaign tune.
Snark Based Reality
Fucking traitor, all you are doing is emboldening the 4chan terrorists.
dbrown
Hey, I didn’t mean that or that is NOT what I was trying to say about you – what I meant to say was what they did to Kerry was terrible (esp. compared to bushwhack) and if you did see it and thought it was fair and funny and still think they are not right wing nutcases than you like that type of thing as comedy! NOT that you get… well, damn, can’t I insult someone without insulting them? … I mean I didn’t mean that. Sorry; I fucked up.
dbrown
Finally, I didn’t read what I quickly typed and really did not mean it the way the thing turned out (I only read it now). I really want to apologize to you for that ignorant post on my part.
Just Some Fuckhead
I apologize for calling everyone fuckers and further for detracting from my own self-worth with this demeaning screen name.
nightjar
How’d you like to be named nightjar with all the cheesy nocturnal emissions jokes. It’s so demeaning, sometimes I want to cry and run away and join the fucking circus. Then I realize, I already have at Balloon Juice. 8)
Just Some Fuckhead
Nightjar is definitely for the birds.
Conservatively Liberal
Fuck every single one of you fuckers.
Now that that is out of the way, I thought it was funny and the Hillary/Bill/Monica/cigar/frying pan moment was priceless. As an Obama supporter, I got a kick out of seeing the MUP with Obama flying through the sky. I really thought the ‘Bambi’ like scenery was a nice touch…lol!
The shots at McCain were good too, but I really liked the GB/Cheney opening lines. I think they took shots at just about everyone in it, and they all were pretty funny to see put to music.
Hey, I like fart jokes so this was a no brainer for me. ;)
Noah Brand
It’s not so much that JibJab takes shots at both sides, it’s that they do so ENTIRELY within established right-wing frames. “McCain wants to seriously fight terrorists and Obama has good rhetoric but nothing else, so who knows who’s right?” is not a balanced viewpoint, and nothing will make it one.
Same as their bit on Ben Stein’s dickheaded documentary, which asked the question: “Since scientists hate God and won’t look at any of the evidence for intelligent design, are they right to stifle anyone who questions their doctrine? Who knows? Maybe both sides have a point!”
Seriously, I know this weak-ass framing shit is good enough to fool TV talking heads, but do any actual grownups fall for it?
Tim C.
I don’t see it that way. To me, McCain is presented as a war-mongering nutcase with PTSD from his time in Nam!