Tim Blair

Way to go, Treacher!

Similar to Tom Wolfe's sentiments in this article.

I'm a Trojan Horse!

yah, but is it a trojan horse that shits twenty dollar bills?

Good job, Jim "The Trojan" Treacher! I like this one comment from www.lucianne.com ....

"If you can't see this article for what it is, I have very little hope for intelligent discussion here. "

Give them Puce.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: Jim Treacher rocks.

Shrieking at one's opponent can actually be very therapuetic, but only if you're in the right and they're woefully, woefully wrong.

Mr. Simon, like many others, is coming out of a very dark hole, slowly but surely, and should be warmly encouraged by every right-thinking person.

Next stop: Iran!

9. Two words: You. Are. Dumb.
Grabbing guts funny. Reminded me of early high school when class dunce announced: "You are dumb Slatts, D-U-M dumb!"

What is the world coming to when the WSJ thinks you need to put a satire warning lable on obvious satire. Whose supporters do they think will be fooled without it?

What is the world coming to when the WSJ thinks you need to put a satire warning lable on obvious satire.

I once would have agreed with you but now that I've spent the last two years reading the journalistic stylings of Robert Fisk, John Pilger, Michael Moore, Margo Kingston and the assorted lunatics on the Democratic Underground, I think it probably is a good idea to point out that it's satire.

That Lucianne thread Threacher linked to is hysterical. I know we're the party of the Common Man and all, but crime in Italy!

Threacher?

G'night.

Did they just add that "this is satire" warning to Treacher's piece in the last few hours or did I miss that on the first read through?

i'm not sure where to put this, but: a few of us Sydneysiders who happen to be on Karl Rove's payroll are having a get together at the Rocks on Wednesday night to celebrate or mourn the US election results. if anyone's interested in coming, email me :)

What time in Australia will we start to get US Election results coming in?

And what's a good place where I'd be able to see them online?

Obviously, some WSJ readers do not get Treacher's satire, while internet commentators are up to it like dogs to a thrown bone.

But then WSJ readers have comprised the engineroom driving the world's best economy - leading to the conditions everyone in the world is benefiting from - therefore they might not be up to speed on internet satire - so cut them a little slack, hmm?

#11 Bush invaded Iraq for oil and I haven’t gotten my oil voucher yet. Stupid Frenchmen got oil vouchers for millions of barrels and red blooded Americans get nothing.

I find it highly amusing that Treacher's stuff has to be labeled as satire clearly (and I believe Bill at INDC journal has had to do that, too)... not because regular readers of the site are confused, but because there are enough people out there saying these things seriously that one doesn't know where the author stands.

I don't think IMAO or protein wisdom have had to put labels up (and I know the Onion doesn't), but I still find it so funny to read comments from people who don't get it.

But then, I've been to DU only a few times in my life. I guess those who have been exposed to it more might think these comments are real.

You have to read the comment thread in Jim's original post to see why the WSJ people figured better safe than sorry. (Betcha they still get 50,000 outraged emails.)

Please tell me that Bush got the all-important Puce endorsment. Didn't he? It's our only hope if we've lost Treacher and the WSJ. I'm inconsolable until I KNOW we've got Puce in the bag.

If democrats had to pay a compulsorary WSJ license fee in order to read newspapers, then they would be about half as angry as I am with the BBC's constant campaigning for Kerry.

P.S. You can tell satirants from normal moonbattery by the lack of spelling mistakes.

Who is this Treacher man-woman? He talk much sense. Bring down bastard Bushes of world better than Kos do. I write Kos see if he run Treacher. Ha ha Tim Blair, your type finished now that Treecher in Wall magazine.

Woah, I remember Lucianne. And now I also remember why I stopped reading it (right about the time the picture of the lady was replaced by the picture of the eagle).

"I don't think IMAO or protein wisdom have had to put labels up"

Neither have I. But I don't mind that Taranto did.

heh. what a hoot.

tomorrow will be a nervous day in binglandia...

The comments were funny, too. I particularly liked the "That's not funny" ones. They reminded me of this joke:

Q: How many radical feminists does it take to change a light bulb?

A: That's not funny.

Q: How many radical feminists does it take to change a light bulb?

A. Heaps. One to actually change the globe and the rest to workshop the long-term effects of the aggressive intrusion on the socket.

Wait, can I say that..? No ? How about this..

Q. What's the difference between a radical feminist and a wheelie bin ?

A. A wheelie bin gets taken out once a week.

Call me un-reconstructed, call me old-fashioned. Just don't call me late for dinner.

jafa,

Your dinner is ready. Unthawed frozen fishsticks are nutricious and chewy.

nutritious. It's a woman's right to be creative with spelling.

You bitch, after all I've done for you, that's the best you can do !

'What have I ever done for you ?!...'

I'm talkin' to you aren't I..?

OK, jafa, NOW i'm a radical feminist!

That's your problem.

"That's not funny."

I tried to post the following at www.lucianne.com. I hope you don't mind if I stick it here. Please excuse the vitriol -- it was for another blog after all.

As an ardent admirer of the USA, and especially of the spirit of its founders, I can't begin to tell you how delighted I was to read the reactions here. You may be acquainted with the recent activities of some of my fellow Britons, in particular the spectacularly stupid, Guardian-inspired, own-goal stunt perpetrated on the voters in Clark County.

I mention this with the thought that it might be a consolation to some of you posters here to know that an inability to see oneself as others might is a characteristic not confined to the American branch of Bien-pensantista Party.

Of course, those fellow countrymen of mine I mentioned above are also self-righteous, self-loathing, sanctimonious, anti-American, wittering-cretin, left-liberal ideologues. And I winced with embarrassment when they exposed their mean souls to decent Americans in Ohio. A hundred years ago we would have kept them* safely in the attic away from sharp implements – you know pencils, that kind of thing.

Yes, I was delighted. I was beginning to think we had a monopoly on supreme stupidity. I'm heartened to see direct evidence to the contrary – that there are other nations with factions in the race to the bottom besides my own and those festering pustules of demagoguery on the mainland of our benighted continent.

But more: I was delighted also to see that a fair number of the posters here were clued in and very sensible. Good. Some of us recognise we have a common problem. It’s a start.

Meanwhile, I’ll continue to enjoy the laugh. Great fun. Thank you.

God bless America.
George W Bush for President.
(But I really don’t want to interfere. You decide.)

Very best wishes,
JamesUK
* British cretins to the attic, not Americans of course. Ed.

Thanks for your best wishes for the US and Bush and really for all of Western civ, JamesUK.

James,
Bienpensantista Party. Lol!

Quentin:

The polls open in the US at 7:00 am Eastern Standard Time on November 2. Polls typically close at 8:00 pm in each time zone, and all polls (aside from Hawaii) will be closed by 8:00 pm, Pacific Standard Time (where I live).

Oh yeah, and for some reason, November 2 in the US is November 3 in Australia.

If you're in Australia, you should start hearing preliminary election results for the East Coast about 20 hours from the time identified at the bottom of this post (I'm not even going to TRY to calculate LA/ Sydney time -- sorry). And don't forget that the East Coast is a Kerry stronghold, so the initial vote counts will probably not favor Bush, regardless of the eventual outcome.