{"id":4206,"date":"2009-11-05T09:18:41","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T14:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2009-11-05T09:19:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T14:19:05","slug":"the-political-analysis-of-laughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=4206","title":{"rendered":"The Political Analysis of Laughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=YmM0NzRlMGJmZDYwYTI4ZmQwODJjODViNjdhYmNhMDU=\">Stephanie Guttman writing for The Corner<\/a> at the <em>National Review<\/em> saw a key distinction between Democrat Corzine and his supporters and Republican Christie and his. Corzine, making a joke about his mother being a Republican, said, &#8220;She\u2019s 93 years old so, we\u2019re not going to worry too much about that.&#8221; He got &#8220;a big laugh.&#8221; Christie meanwhile, told the story of a 90-year old supporter who told him he would vote against him in four years if he didn&#8217;t keep his promises. With her reporter&#8217;s ear, Guttman noticed that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The line also got a big laugh, but it sounded more joyous, less sneering, and less subtly derisive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mmmm. Yes. Well, there&#8217;s only one conclusion to take from this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he Corzine remark mirrors a callousness, a coarse attitude about the \u201cdispensability\u201d of the aged, that one sees in the debate over health care reform.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Also, Republicans are &#8220;joyous.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On a related note, I saw a Republican shoot a baby in the face yesterday after which he proceeded to steal the baby&#8217;s candy; and I saw a Democrat jump in front of a speeding train to save a different baby (because a Republican had shot the face off of the other one.) I guess that proves that Republicans are baby-killers and love guns and candy while Democrats love babies and are selfless.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait to see Guttman&#8217;s take on a difficult issue like the Israeli-Palestinian dispute (which incidentally is what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1893554945\">she actually writes about!<\/a>)!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve written some things which I&#8217;m sure make me look like an idiot &#8211; but I&#8217;m pretty sure I haven&#8217;t written anything as stupid as this Guttman post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Guttman writing for The Corner at the National Review saw a key distinction between Democrat Corzine and his supporters and Republican Christie and his. Corzine, making a joke about his mother being a Republican, said, &#8220;She\u2019s 93 years old so, we\u2019re not going to worry too much about that.&#8221; He got &#8220;a big laugh.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[47,4,458],"tags":[2381,2380,117,2379,662],"class_list":["post-4206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criticism","category-politics","category-the-opinionsphere","tag-chris-christie","tag-jon-corzine","tag-national-review","tag-stephanie-guttman","tag-the-corner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-15Q","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4213,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions\/4213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}