Discussion: 'Twas The Night Before Christmas' Used To Bash Obama's<span style="line-height: 1em;"> Guantanamo Plans

system1 · December 23, 2015, 5:19pm

Discussion for article #244086

antisachetdethe · December 23, 2015, 5:38pm

For a parody to be successful, the cadence needs to be the same as the original.

callmeeric · December 23, 2015, 5:40pm

Are you commenting on Republicans invoking Jesus, because if so that’s pretty dead-on.

brooklyndweller · December 23, 2015, 5:41pm

I realize that the Rethugs think this is terribly witty but, in reality, it’s just nakedly venal with little to recommend it. Clearly, Scott didn’t think of this himself; he just BARELY has the intelligence to walk, sit and rollover on command. That’s the extent of his abilities.

pearlywhite · December 23, 2015, 5:43pm

for any pardody/satire to be successful, it must have an essence of truth at its core, and show a sense of humor…
… somethings Repugs sorely lack…

antisachetdethe · December 23, 2015, 5:46pm

Hence Drumpf’s slide into vulgarity at the drop of a hat

weatherservo9 · December 23, 2015, 5:47pm

Silent night, holy Night,
All is calm, all is bright,
Round 'yon turgid, stupid attempt at satire you’ve forgotten that a bunch of people in Guantanamo were never terrorists in the first place because they were rounded up by local bounty hunters rather than trained military personnel and that it’s an affront to the American values you claim to cherish so dearly to hold anyone indefinitely without charge, so,
Sleep in heavenly peace, sleep in heavenly peace.

weatherservo9 · December 23, 2015, 5:50pm

Also, and this is the worst part of this ‘satire’ being retweeted by an elected official: “to” instead of “too.”

I wish our elected officials in America would learn to speak and write American. Or English. Preferably English.

antisachetdethe · December 23, 2015, 5:53pm

He skipped English class the day homophones were taught, thinking the subject matter had to do with the ‘gay agenda.’

steviedee111 · December 23, 2015, 5:56pm

Conservative humor. If there is a Hell one ring will be the sole province of Jeff Dunham, and I’ll spend eternity there.

victorabrahamsen · December 23, 2015, 5:57pm

Senator Scott (and the rest of the right) in a nutshell:

T’was the night before Christmas,
OMGSCARYTERRORISTSFEARFEARFEAR!

Merry Christmas to all, and to all BE AFRAID - BE VERY AFRAID!

meri · December 23, 2015, 6:01pm

This is the guy who is actually mentally retarded, right?

meri · December 23, 2015, 6:01pm

You’re the vulgarian, YOU FUCK!

irasdad · December 23, 2015, 6:02pm

Groucho: “He may look like an idiot, and talk like an idiot, but don’t let that fool you; he really is an idiot.”

mantan · December 23, 2015, 6:06pm

Hysterical that Rethugs don’t understand meter or rhyme.
The stub of his joke held tight in his tweet, as it were…

meri · December 23, 2015, 6:09pm

Are you saying Democrats understand meter and rhyme? Because, you know who ELSE understood meter and rhyme?

mantan · December 23, 2015, 6:10pm

If you read a recipe calling for 2 eggs do you add 3?

meri · December 23, 2015, 6:11pm

Only if on that day I’m really hating on chickens.

boscobrown · December 23, 2015, 6:22pm

I wonder if Scott knows about the following? Being he’s from South Carolina, the news probably hasn’t filtered down that far south yet!

“It was, in others words, an ordinary, orderly federal court arraignment in an international terrorism case. Almost 500 such defendants have been convicted in U.S. federal courts on U.S. soil since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.”

lychnus_diogenes · December 23, 2015, 6:29pm

Scott’s grammar leaves much to, too, two be desired. And on a tangentially related topic…in today’s political climate I just don’t understand black or gay republicans. WTF??

LD