Folding, spindeling, and mutilating lauguage for fun since Aug, 2004
Friday, January 19, 2007

I've got a new Tag for y'all.

Spoof or no spoof...where I go out into the internet, and find the most outrageous website I can find, and we all vote on if it is a spoof or not a spoof.  It doesn't matter what the truth is, just what we decide.

Come on, it'll be fun.

So, our first candidate is this:

http://www.shelleytherepublican.com

I got the link to this from Pharyngula.  So, whaddaya think?  Spoof, or No spoof?

Please explain your answer, and show your work.  OK, pick up your pencils, and begin.

Friday, January 19, 2007 11:14:15 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00) | Comments [6] | #
Saturday, January 20, 2007 7:29:30 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Sadly, I don't think it's a spoof. Or if it is, it's not so much funny as demented. It's no Landover Baptist, I'll tell you that.
Sunday, January 21, 2007 9:01:32 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Hey David!

I've been leaning toward spoof because it's so PERFECTLY demented. Plus, that little "Chime" thing that goes off from time-to-time seems to have been calculted to the .0001 place to perfectly representative of something that's supposed to be inspirational; and yet actually be perfectly annoying.

Another reason is this passage:

"But what about the War against the Islamofascist terrorists? I just know he would once again stand up for the President. He’d say “Mr President, The whole of my life I’ve campaigned for Freedom. I support America’s war against terror for the same reason I supported our soldiers in Vietnam. It’s time for the whole of America to back the war-effort with prayers but most of all votes… for the Republican party.”

It is well known that King was accused of being a "communist" due to his condemnation of the Vietnam war.

Also, later she describes how King was assassinated while he was in town to support the strike of sanitation workers, and she says something like "Does that sound like the actions of a liberal?"

I'm going to put my hat in the ring for "spoof" But a REALLY good one. I just don't think that it's possible for someone to actually be THAT clueless. Usually, contradictory information is seperated by a paragraph or two, and spans a couple of subjects.
Teresa
Sunday, January 21, 2007 12:27:56 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
I just don't understand how loving God and the US of A automatically makes liberals laugh. I don't make no sense to me.

God is Love!

BBN
Sunday, January 21, 2007 4:17:11 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
OK, that nails it. Definately a spoof. Thanks, Billy Bob Neck for confirmin' it.

"I don't make no sense to me." Hilarious.

Teresa
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 5:31:23 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
I would lean towards a very bad spoof.

First the bloop sound isn't a Republican vote going to heaven but rather someone longing into or out of the chat in the sidebar. Very annoying, unless of course you are 14 years old.

The amount of material is amazing. Whoever Shelly (DracluaCunt?) is, she/he/it is very persistent. The key for me was the 'Are foreign foods turning our kids homosexual?’ (http://www.shelleytherepublican.com/2006/12/18/are-foreign-foods-turning-our-kids-homosexual.aspx) post. (Note, oddly I read that post while listening to The Chef's Song from Disney's The Little Mermaid - "Le poisson, le poisson, how I love le poisson...First I cut off their heads, and I pull out their bones...But I love little fishes don't you?" Very appropriate somehow.)

But, despite links to all the really hard core stuff, I tip spoof.

On the other hand, it took me a looong time to make up my mind whether it was really snarky or really extreme. Perhaps that's the problem. It is too close to being “right.” *shudder*
Tuesday, January 23, 2007 6:55:49 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
I hadn't thought that our spoof site might be a tribute spoof to Ms. Shelly Gibbs.

In case anyone is thinking that Ben is being gratuitously vulger; here's the back story from Wonkette. Link at the bottom:

As Congress has been out of town all week, we haven’t heard from Pretend Representative Shelley Sekula-Gibbs in a while (she’s the gal from Texas who will keep Tom DeLay’s seat warm for a couple weeks before Dem. Nick Lampson, who actually won the election, shows up). No word yet on just what she said to The Hammer’s staff to cause them to all walk out during her open house, nor on the progress of her investigation into all of them. But from the Houston Press comes this bit of Sekulania: a brief list of just some of the names accepted as write-in votes for Shelley by the Fort Bend County elections office.
Voters cast their write-in ballots for, among others: Kelly Segula Gibbs, Snelly Gibbr, Schikulla Gibbs, Sheila Gibbs, Shelly Schulla Gibbs, Shelly Gibkula and, by someone who obviously never wanted the joy of using the machine to end, ShelleySkulaGibbsssss.
The absolute best one — perhaps the best political name of all time — was (we are not lying) “Shelly DraculaCunt Gibs.” It counted. And we will say it over and over again until the end of DraulaCunt’s all-too-brief term.

http://wonkette.com/politics/shelley-sekula+gibbs/pretend-rep-clearly-beloved-by-constituency-216976.php
Teresa
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