Posts Tagged ‘Suckitude’

Poll: What is the Most Annoying, Insipid, and Self-Righteous Left-Wing Political Song of All Time?

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010

This post by Ann Althouse (and the ensuing comments) got me thinking about just what is the worst liberal song of all time? Being a man of action, I went ahead and created a poll:

What is the most annoying, insipid, and self-righteous left-wing political song of all time?
Bruce Cockburn: “If I Had a Rocket Launcher”
Bob Dylan: “Masters of War”
John Lennon: “Imagine”
Midnight Oil: “Beds are Burning”
Peter, Paul and Mary: “If I Had a Hammer” (originally Pete Seeger)
Pink Floyd: “The Fletcher Memorial Home”
Helen Reddy: “I Am Woman”
Sting: “Russians”
XTC: “Here Comes President Kill Again”
Neil Young: “Southern Man”
  
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A few notes on my criteria:

  • It had to be a popular song people would actually recognize (which meant everything by Rage Against the Machine was right out)
  • It had to suck (so things like the Sex Pistols’ “God Save the Queen” and many Dead Kennedys songs were exempt because they kicked ass)
  • Only one song per artist (I mean, I really could have used just about everything off Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut otherwise)
  • It had to have a certain self-righteous pretentiousness about it, so anything that was actually funny was exempt.

So go ahead and vote for your favorite musical slice of Suckitude.

Republicans Suck Less

Wednesday, October 20th, 2010

This Frank J. Fleming piece over on Pajamas Media is too funny (and dead on) not to quote copious sections from:

So the Democrats sucked. But not just plain old, usual politician sucked, but epic levels of suck where it’s hard to find an analogue in human history that conveys the same level of suckitude. It was sheer incompetence plus arrogance — and those things do not complement each other well. We’re talking sucking that distorts time and space like a black hole.

It’s Godzilla-smashing-through-a-city level of suck — but a really patronizing Godzilla who says you’re just too stupid and hateful to see all the buildings he’s saved or created as he smashes everything apart. Or, to use Obama’s favorite analogy, you have a car stuck in ditch, so you call the mechanic, but the only tool he brings with him is a sledgehammer. And then he smashes your car to pieces and charges you $100,000 for his service. Finally, he calls you racist for complaining. Obama and the Democrats have been so awful, it’s hard for the human brain to even comprehend.

But the Democrats will counter that the Republicans also suck. And while this is true, it’s not really going to help them. As I pointed out before, both a dog incessantly barking and a zombie apocalypse are things that everyone would agree suck. Yet no one during a zombie apocalypse, while hiding out in a boarded up mall, would turn to the other survivors and say, “We don’t want to kill all the zombies; then we’d have to go back to being woken up at night by that annoying dog next door.” But this is the best argument the Democrats can come up with. “Remember how awful the Republicans and Bush were? You hated them. You don’t want to go back to that.” Yes, why would people want to go back to when 6% unemployment was considered high?

People do remember how much the Republicans suck, and they know where it tops out … and that is nowhere near as bad as the Democrats are today. Like with the barking dog, it’s annoying, but you know it’s not going to cause the collapse of civilization as we know it. Not so with the zombie apocalypse; who knows how bad that could get if left to continue? Same with the Democrats and Obama; people have never dealt with anything this horrible their entire lives, and they aren’t that curious to see how much worse it can be.

So the Republicans kinda suck, and that’s why they’re going to win huge this November. Because in the land of epic, mega, ultra, apocalyptic levels of sucking, those who kinda suck are king.

(Hat tip: Instapundit.)