JibJab – Now This is Funny

Whether you love politics or hate politics, whether you’re voting red or voting blue, whether you’re sick of the negative campaigning yet or not, the new video from JibJab is for everyone and spares no one. 

 

 

I laughed out-loud during this video – especially the part when Bill, in his boxers with a sexy lady friend, mentions something about a cigar and simultaneously gets whacked over the head by Hill with a frying pan.   McCain keels over in the hospital.  Obama dances peacefully with the forest animals. 

 

And the best part?  You can have your own cameo – that’s always fun!  What better way to involve people than to make something that has nothing to do with them about them? 

 

Yes, this is sarcasm/wit/humor at its best.  Or worst, depending on your brand of humor, I guess.  But the difference between this and, for example, this week’s cover of The New Yorker…

 

 

…is that the JibJab video is obviously humorous.  The New Yorker’s statement that this is satire would be offensive if if weren’t so ridiculous.  Maybe they figured that since they were such obvious Obama supporters, they could get away with mocking the worst possible things that have been inferred and directly stated about him and his wife.  But the Obamas weren’t laughing.  And neither were the McCains.  Nor were the voters or the news media. 

 

But The New Yorker received a load of press about it.  If Obama wants to see the silver lining in this horrendously distasteful cover, it’s that media outlets from Fox News and CNN to local programs were saying, once again, that Obama is not a Muslim.  He is not a radical.  He does want to capture UBL.  Michelle Obama does love her country.  Also shocking in this fiasco was the Pew Research Center poll presented that showed just how many people in our country still believe Obama is a Muslim. 

 

 

 

As a former Midwesterner, I can safely guarantee that very few, if any, Midwesterners (or likeminded voters) read The New Yorker.  Maybe all the media attention around this cover actually did educate some of those who believed Obama was a Muslim to the truth about his faith and his values.  His supporters have a right to be upset and offended.  But they knew the truth to begin with and are still standing strong behind their candidate.

 

For now though, check out the JibJab video and remember to have a laugh about politics too.