Jib Jab at it again! Funny political stuff.

[DarkPhenyx]

www.jibjab.com

guarenteed to piss everyone off.

[NMDemDist2]

1. rofl good, no BAD jibjab hehehehe n/t

[npincus]

2. yes, I'm surprised to see hostility toward this new animation at DU

cutting edge satire is bound to push the limits of taste... but you gotta love free speech and freedom of expression.

The homoerotic JK/JE content (to me) mocks the manufactured chuminess of candidates on the campaign trail by taking it to the extreme, and then some. And the Ashcroft bit mocks the administration's efforts to curtail gay freedoms- perhaps they are in denial about their own feelings after all! I heard a JibJab interview on NBC this morning, and they said they got bombarded with requests for McGreevy so they threw that in!

I think if people want to laugh at satire and exaggerations about people they don't like, they also have to be tolerant when the spolight turns on those they empathize with, or themselves. I myself, am Jewish, and JibJab has in their archives an animated character who is Jewish- with very exaggerated steretypical speech, etc. and I couldn't be offended because I laughed at other silly characterizations.

So I say, to those who find the animation offensive- lighten up!

[DarkPhenyx]

3. well put

I've always said if we can't laugh at ourselves we rn the risk of taking ourselves too seriously. I think the animation is hysterical. :)