Proof Conservatives Can Laugh At Themselves

I have several favorite comedians who are left-leaning: Bill Maher, John Stewart, Chris Rock. They hit conservatives pretty hard and generally leave the heavy lifting on the liberals to Dennis Miller. Generally unfair, but that's life. The times they get my dander up are when they make what I perceive to be irresponsible comments based upon false premises (usually some form of conventional wisdom). This happens more than I like, but the problem is conventional wisdom and not the leveraging of it by comedians who seek laughs.

Larry David is another favorite and he manages to get my dander up several times in this piece. But like the other guys, he's able to keep me in the fold with some grounded attacks that I find humorous. Here's one example:

If they hate Hollywood so much, maybe they should just start making their own movies and TV shows. In fact, we should just split into two different countries. Then, after our stem cell research gives us the cure for all these diseases, they’ll all be trying to get across the border for our medicine, but our minutemen won’t let them. And we’ll have a lot of minutemen. I think I’ll be a minuteman. “Sorry, but our scientists worked very hard to come up with a cure for Parkinson’s and there’s only enough medicine for our people. So beat it.”

Again, there are probably some things here you could get offended about. But in my opinion, the one thing this country needs more than anything is for people to get the ENORMOUS chips off their shoulders which put them on a perpetual hair-trigger for taking offense to something. Face it...we're all ridiculous. If you can't laugh at yourself, life gets pretty damn dreary pretty damn quickly.