You know, it's funny, 'cause I was just with Chris Matthews. I was back east and I needed to catch a plane and so did
Chris Matthews, so I agreed to give him a ride to the airport.
He climbed in and buckled up and we started off. "So," he said, "What did you think about what McConnell said?"
"What, about taking Obama at his word that he's a Christian?"
"Oh, come on!" Matthews scoffed. "You know that's code for he's a Muslim. Turn left here."
"What?" I cranked the wheel and turned hard left, missing three cars only because of my finely honed superior driving skills.
"Route recalculation," the GPS said.
"But the airport's the other way," I said.
"No, it's not," Matthews said. "It's north of here."
"Route recalculation," the GPS said.
"It's south of here," I said. "That's a fact."
"Route recalculation," the GPS said.
"See?" Matthews said. "The GPS even confirms it. She said route confirmation."
"No, she didn't," I said. "She said route recalculation."
"Well, you and I both know that's code for route confirmation."
"Turn right . . . followed by . . . merge right," The GPS said.
"See, now you have to hang another left," Matthews said. "What are you doing?! Do what the GPS said! Turn left!"
"She said turn right!" I said.
Matthews scoffed. "Geez, you're so naïve."
"Make a U-turn and travel to highlighted route," the GPS said.
"Okay, smart guy, what does 'make a U-turn and travel to highlighted route' mean?" I asked.
Matthews gave me a quizzical look, like I had just asked him what year this was. "Duh!" he said. "It means park in the third stall
to the left and take the elevator to the penthouse and await instructions from the midget in a tuxedo."
Fortunately Matthews had to get out to tingle down his leg, and I took off and left him behind, so I didn't miss my plane.
You know that's a made up story because it's so ridiculous. I made it insanely unlikely on purpose so no one
would think I was serious and call me a liar. It's crazy. You know I would never let someone just climb in my
car and buckle up without a ten minute lecture on not slamming my car door.
I need to sit down with the liberals and explain to them how to execute humor (like I do so flawlessly here).
See, back in the day they had a show called Saturday Night Live. They would do skits that took every day
situations and make them funny. After a few years SNL became not funny. For years and years and years it has been not funny.
That leaves a hole in the entertainment market that MSNBC is now trying to capitalize on.
The left just doesn't understand how to be funny. They suck at it (witness SNL). The key to being ridiculous is
that it has to be a sharp contrast from accepted reality. You have to immediately go from zero to ridiculous.
The leftists' problem is that they snuck up on it. They got just a little whacked out, then a little bit more,
then a little bit more. Each small step toward ludicrousness everyone thought that the left believed they were
still doing serious commentary.
If the left had immediately gone to the hilarious "Purple is code word for Italian Dressing" gag, people would
have caught on and been rolling in the aisles.