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Mouthpiece theater parody

by DougJ

Every other blog in the world has this up too, but God it’s funny.



Humor | 1:06 pm |

57 Responses to “Mouthpiece theater parody”

  1. 1
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:14 pm Reply to this comment

    Hunter Gathers

    The narrator sounds like Randall from Clerks.

  2. 2
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:15 pm Reply to this comment

    SGEW

    I really missed these guys since the election (they were the ones behind the John McCain “Like Hope, But Different” spoof video).

    They also have a pretty fuckin’ hilarious libertarian anti-regulation spoof video: “Regulation Vacation Celebration.”

    “The markets at work!”
    “I have cholera!”
    “What?”

  3. 3
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:18 pm Reply to this comment

    MH

    “That was so insightful and trenchant, beer shot out my nose!”

  4. 4
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:22 pm Reply to this comment

    BombIranForChrist

    I can’t stop watching this. The Hillary portion is friggin’ hilarious.

    This will do more damage to the Post than a hundred scathing articles. Good satire is so, so powerful.

  5. 5
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:24 pm Reply to this comment

    Comrade Jake

    Does anyone have a link to the original source video that inspired this? I know WaPo edited it or pulled it at some point.

  6. 6
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:25 pm Reply to this comment

    BethanyAnne

    @SGEW: I love the Regulation Vacation Celebration. I’ve wanted to ask a Libertarian why they don’t up and move to Somalia for years.

  7. 7
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:25 pm Reply to this comment

    Cat Lady

    Ouch.

    /dick whisperer

  8. 8
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:29 pm Reply to this comment

    Joshua Norton

    I saw one of an old goober screaming that the government had better keep their hands off his Medicare. Lordy, how I wish that one was a parody.

  9. 9
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:35 pm Reply to this comment

    slag

    @SGEW: I can’t believe I missed that one!

    Government is the problem and now you have cholera.

  10. 10
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:35 pm Reply to this comment

    Dave C

    What are the chances that Dana Milbank sees this for the truly apt parody that it is and chooses to do the right thing, never showing his face in public again?

  11. 11
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:37 pm Reply to this comment

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  12. 12
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:38 pm Reply to this comment

    matoko_chan

    No way is Ignatious lvl 60.
    He is a scrub.

  13. 13
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:38 pm Reply to this comment

    The Grand Panjandrum

    That video is pure gold. And other news of morans: Transparancy! Abortion=Murdere! Obamacare! With a little racism on the side. Scroll through all the pictures.

  14. 14
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:42 pm Reply to this comment

    Michael Scott

    If Milbank and Cillizza weren’t immune to ridicule, they wouldn’t have made more than one of these execrable videos already.

  15. 15
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:44 pm Reply to this comment

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  16. 16
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:44 pm Reply to this comment

    Rosali

    Andy Cobb needs to get a tv contract. He’s hiarious. Check out his channel: AndyCobbonUTube

  17. 17
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:44 pm Reply to this comment

    Justin

    I like them mocking the Post. But let’s be honest, it’s not really that funny.

  18. 18
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:45 pm Reply to this comment

    Comrade Kevin

    @The Grand Panjandrum: Señor Citizens? Uh, what? Okay, Cletus.

  19. 19
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:55 pm Reply to this comment

    Crashman06

    That video was quite a bit funnier than I thought it would be. Glad I had the door closed so no one could hear me laugh.

    Fight David Ignatius on World of Warcraft. Ha!

  20. 20
    August 4th, 2009 at 1:57 pm Reply to this comment

    Dave Herman

    You forgot to file this post under #dickwhisperer. Discipline, people!

  21. 21
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:00 pm Reply to this comment

    daryljfontaine

    @Hunter Gathers: My thoughts exactly.

    “Jesus, you overcompensate for having what’s basically a monkey’s job. You push fucking buttons. Anybody can waltz in here and do our jobs. You-You’re so obsessed with making it seem so much more epic, so much more important than it really is. Christ, you work at a newspaper, Dana! And badly, I might add! I blog for the same shitty newspaper, badly as well.”

    D

  22. 22
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:01 pm Reply to this comment

    Tim in SF

    I went on youtube first and watched an actual episode of Mouthpiece Theater so I could better understand the parody.

    (truthfully, I watched half of one episode – it sucked too hard to watch a whole episode, even though I usually like Chris Cillizza when he’s on Olberman. Aaaanyways…)

    that parody was so funny beer shot out my nose.

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    August 4th, 2009 at 2:03 pm Reply to this comment

    Tim in SF

    @matoko_chan: No way is Ignatious lvl 60. He is a scrub.

    That’s what I’m saying. No way in hell.

  24. 24
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:04 pm Reply to this comment

    Duncan Watson

    @matoko_chan – Lvl 60 is a scrub. Current level limit is 80 in WOW.

  25. 25
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:07 pm Reply to this comment

    SGEW

    That parody was so funny beer shot out my nose.

    No, no, no! It was so insightful and trenchant that beer shot out of your nose. Trenchant as hell.

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    August 4th, 2009 at 2:08 pm Reply to this comment

    MikeJ

    Perhaps I just have a stronger naso-gastric passage than many, but I was able to contain all the fluids in my body.

    I did chuckle, which is more than 90% of the things claiming to be funny on the internet cause. Milbank and Cillizza are far funnier, although not in the way they intend.

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    August 4th, 2009 at 2:10 pm Reply to this comment

    Violet

    Trenchant as hell! Love these guys. Satire can work wonders. I wonder if WaPo is watching?

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    August 4th, 2009 at 2:12 pm Reply to this comment

    kansi

    I might have to start drinking beer, just so I can get in on the fun!

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    August 4th, 2009 at 2:28 pm Reply to this comment

    nonymouse

    strange error messages are back

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  30. 30
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:29 pm Reply to this comment

    Morbo

    Lead singer from Cannibal Corpse has 4 lvl 70’s and 3 in the 60’s, what do you think of that, Ignatius?

  31. 31
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:35 pm Reply to this comment

    SGEW

    Ta-Nehisi is gonna gank Ignatius’ n00b ass. Hard.

  32. 32
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:36 pm Reply to this comment

    anya

    The blockquote is not working but here is an interesting story—turns out the Birthers used a real birth certificate for their forgery. From ABC (Australia)

    “MARK COLVIN: An unsuspecting Adelaide public servant has found himself swept up in a conspiracy to oust the 44th President of the United States from office.

    A movement known as the Birthers, which originated in California, is attempting to prove that Barack Obama was born in Kenya, not Hawaii, therefore making him ineligible to be President.

    In a bid to stake their claim they released what appeared to be a Kenyan birth certificate with Obama’s name on it.

    Sceptics soon traced the bogus birth certificate and found it to be a forgery. The document turns out to have been based on the birth certificate of an Adelaide man called David Jeffrey Bomford.”

    Check out the full story here: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2646009.htm

  33. 33
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:36 pm Reply to this comment

    MikeJ

    @nonymouse: You got a golden ticket! You get to tour the factory where jcole makes blog posts and everlasting gobstoppers!

  34. 34
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:43 pm Reply to this comment

    JGabriel

    Dave C:

    What are the chances that Dana Milbank sees this for the truly apt parody that it is and chooses to do the right thing, never showing his face in public again?

    About the same as the chances of Sarah Palin never seeking the media spotlight again. I.e., zero to none.

    .

  35. 35
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:46 pm Reply to this comment

    JK

    @matoko_chan: @Duncan Watson:

    David Ignatius is a pompous, preening sissy who doesn’t have a fucking clue about World of Warcraft.

    Millbank and Cillizza should join the circus because they’re just a pair of clowns.

    The Washington Post has devolved into a putrid, steaming pile of excrement.

  36. 36
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:48 pm Reply to this comment

    matoko_chan

    Duncan…..i know that.
    I don’t think Ignatious could ding 60 even when the 3.2 nerf leveling patch goes live on the realms.
    lawlz, scrubs are everwhere.
    ;)

  37. 37
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:50 pm Reply to this comment

    steve s

    Those guys are just concern trolling the WaPo.

  38. 38
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:52 pm Reply to this comment

    4jkb4ia

    I suppose everyone thought “Dan Froomkin Memorial Studio” was too obvious to mention.

    When EW posted one of these things I said that TPMTV has actual wit and Mouthpiece Theater only has smarm. But a reason for Mouthpiece Theater is to compete with the TPMTVs as well and not let the video field be taken over by non-newspapers.

  39. 39
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:53 pm Reply to this comment

    Bnad

    the original video for Comrade Jake

  40. 40
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:53 pm Reply to this comment

    Polish the Guillotines

    High-friggin’-larious.

    New tag suggestion for blog entries debunking craptacular journalism: Post’d.

  41. 41
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:57 pm Reply to this comment

    matoko_chan

    AND i have a dreamstate druid with a 2200 arena rating.
    I could pwn TNC naked.
    that is the coolest thing about warcraft….even grrls can have an e-peen.
    ;)

  42. 42
    August 4th, 2009 at 2:58 pm Reply to this comment

    slag

    @4jkb4ia:

    I suppose everyone thought “Dan Froomkin Memorial Studio” was too obvious to mention.

    It’s that kind of attention to detail that makes truly great humor.

  43. 43
    August 4th, 2009 at 3:01 pm Reply to this comment

    Zifnab

    If Richard Cohen could produce stuff like this, I’m sure he’d win that Pulitzer.

  44. 44
    August 4th, 2009 at 3:02 pm Reply to this comment

    joes527

    @anya:

    Sceptics soon traced the bogus birth certificate and found it to be a forgery. The document turns out to have been based on the birth certificate of an Adelaide man called David Jeffrey Bomford.”

    It is the AUSTRALIAN Birth Certificate that is a forgery. Planted to discredit the valid Muslim Birth Certificate for Barry O.

    Don’t you even read freerepublic?

  45. 45
    August 4th, 2009 at 3:04 pm Reply to this comment

    Anne Laurie

    “Inadvertantly revealing the dying heart of our industry two minutes at a time!”

    Milbank and Cillizza are patently immune to mockery, but here’s hoping their paymasters get ten thousand forwards of this plus some semi-drunken ‘reenactments’ at their next Hamptons/Martha’s Vineyard/Hilton Head bash.

  46. 46
    August 4th, 2009 at 3:04 pm Reply to this comment

    angulimala

    OFf Topic:

    Anyone got any good Japanese gore movies to recommend?

    I just saw “The Machine Girl” and “Tokyo Gore Police” and I’m in the mood for some more in the same vein.

  47. 47
    August 4th, 2009 at 3:08 pm Reply to this comment

    General Winfield Stuck

    O/T

    Definition of Chutzpah

    Justin Barrett, the Boston police officer suspended from the force for his e-mail likening Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., to a “banana-eating jungle monkey,’’ has filed a lawsuit against the Police Department, police commissioner, and mayor, saying the city violated his civil and due process rights.

    Them “Banana-eating jungle monkeys” was a gettin’ him down.

  48. 48
    August 4th, 2009 at 3:14 pm Reply to this comment

    MikeJ

    @General Winfield Stuck:
    From the article:

    According to the lawsuit, the mayor and commissioner’s actions caused Barrett pain and suffering, mental anguish, emotional distress, posttraumatic stress,

    Post traumatic stress? Every veterans group in the country ought to come down on his sorry ass.

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    August 4th, 2009 at 3:14 pm Reply to this comment

    Cat Lady

    @Anne Laurie:

    Oh yes, please FSM, this. However, considering their paymaster has tried pimping them out to the health care lobbyists already, shame and mockery seems inadequate IMHO.

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    August 4th, 2009 at 3:20 pm Reply to this comment

    General Winfield Stuck

    @MikeJ:

    Every veterans group in the country ought to come down on his sorry ass.

    Yup, and I expect they will. What a WATB.

  51. 51
    August 4th, 2009 at 3:27 pm Reply to this comment

    kansi

    Sympathy for Barrett? Sorry, not a square to spare.

  52. 52
    August 4th, 2009 at 3:53 pm Reply to this comment

    nonymouse

    @MikeJ: no thanks, oompa loompas freak me out

  53. 53
    August 4th, 2009 at 4:24 pm Reply to this comment

    Anne Laurie

    “According to the lawsuit, the mayor and commissioner’s actions caused Barrett pain and suffering, mental anguish, emotional distress, posttraumatic stress,”
    ...
    Post traumatic stress? Every veterans group in the country ought to come down on his sorry ass.

    Barrett was in the National Guard before he decided to email his heartfelt sentiments about racial comity to the Boston Globe. From what I heard, the Guard discharged him before the local newsmedia could even get clips of Menino on the air. I suspect Barret’s lawyer didn’t expect a whole lot of sympathy from the hard cases at the Guard, for some reason.

  54. 54
    August 4th, 2009 at 4:37 pm Reply to this comment

    g saider

    This format is taken directly from the Canadian Doug & Bob MacKenzie show.

  55. 55
    August 4th, 2009 at 5:14 pm Reply to this comment

    Tim P.

    Trenchant as hell, man.

  56. 56
    August 4th, 2009 at 7:39 pm Reply to this comment

    Tim P.

    Looking at the views on the Youtube video is also a stark reminder of how few people are actually in our little bubble. Also.

  57. 57
    August 5th, 2009 at 3:03 pm Reply to this comment

    vacuumslayer

    It actually made me laugh out loud. Do you know how few things actually do that?