Courtesy of mrph

[ephraimjohn]

I read this and couldn't stop giggling. I couldn't help but pass it on to those of you that haven't seen it.

The Saddam and George show

Comments

[adders.livejournal.com]

Things like that bother rather than amuse me. Sure, take the piss out of Bush, but don't skate over the fact that Saddam is a mass-murdering madman and paint him in a relatively good light. Bush may not be the good guy in this mess, but Saddam is very certainly a bad guy.

[cookwitch.livejournal.com]

Thanks John! They're both crazy. That's my take on it anyway. Can't we get them on to Celebrity Deathmatch or something?

[ephraim.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm...
I certainly didn't read Saddam as being painted in a good light in that article. I merely found it all exceedingly amusing, and a nice piece of satire. If I think too hard about what is going on in the world atm, it makes me despair. So, a little light relief is very welcome.

It's not meant seriously, so you should perhaps not let it bother you too much.

[adders.livejournal.com]

If it had been a more accurate satire of both of them, then I'd have found it funny. It's not, though, it's a satire of Bush which ignores Hussein. Lim, on-sided satire is not satire, it's polemic disguised with a thin veneer of humouir. And besides, Saddam is not a man I find it easy to laugh about.

Hell, this situation is not an easy one to laugh about. This one article happened to push my buttons on some stupid ways the anti-war brigade act. I'm sure there are plenty of equally lame attempts of humour out there from the pro-war brigade. I'm just too pissed off with the Mail, Sun and Telegraph to find it right now.

The Times and the Indy until they piss me off too...

[mrph.livejournal.com]

Personally, I thought it was a fairly accurate skewer of Saddam's style of speech, and certainly not too positive about him. I mean, "I've tested them myself, and we don't have any"?

The only person who wasn't victimised to some extent was Stilgoe.

Still, ymmv.