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“But I heard ACORN helps pimps and their bitches!”
By Rusty Shackleford | October 14, 2009
Once again, Matt and Trey get all “preachy”…and the result is epic win:
“South Park used to be really funny, but then they got all preachy and now they suck!!1!”
Um…no. They’ve ramped up the satire, and unfortunately for those on the left, 90% of the jokes made are at their expense…
Some conservatives have blasted South Park for its mind-boggling vulgarity, even calling it a “threat to our youth.” But those critics don’t get it. As the show’s co-creator Matt Stone sums it up, “I hate conservatives, but I really (expletive) hate liberals.” Stone acknowledges that he and his fellow 30-something Coloradoan colleague Trey Parker are “more right-wing than most people in Hollywood” — though, he cautions, that’s the case partly because Hollywood types are so out there on the Left.
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In a 2004 interview, Parker and Stone expanded on just how much they loathed meddling celebrities. “People in the entertainment industry are by and large (tramp)-chasing drug-addicted (expleted),” Parker noted. “But they still believe they’re better than the guy in Wyoming who really loves his wife and takes care of his kids and is a good, outstanding, wholesome person. Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they’re the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.” (This contempt for Hollywood activist lefties was also on display in Parker and Stone’s hilarious puppet movie “Team America: World Police.”)
Hollywood, in its knee-jerk leftism, has also long looked down on the business world; indeed, one study from the 1990s showed businessmen committing almost half of all murders and vice crimes on the tube. On occasion, South Park gleefully bucks the anti-business trend. In one entry, a “Harbucks” coffee chain arrives in South Park. Town residents resist it at first, but everyone eventually admits its coffee is better than anything else on offer in town. “Harbucks Coffee started off as a small, little business” Stan tells a town meeting, “But because it made such great coffee, and because they ran their business so well, they managed to grow until they became the corporate powerhouse it is today. And that is why we should all let Harbucks stay.” It’s worth noting that Matt Stone’s father is a semiretired economics professor.
South Park has also satirized the 1960s counterculture; abortion-on-demand (Cartman’s mother seeks to have him aborted — even though he’s 8); sex-ed in school; hate-crime legislation; and many other liberal shibboleths.
Conservatives sometimes find themselves skewered too — phony patriots and Mel Gibson have been among those slashed. But the deepest thrust of South Park’s politics is pretty clear.
Parker and Stone have made their show not only the most obscenity-laced but — paradoxically — also the most hostile to liberalism in television history.
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research
H/T: Hot Air
That is all.
Topics: ACORN, Teh Funny, Things That Kick-Ass, Society and Culture, Right Wing World |
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