SOUTH PARK, Colorado, November 3, 2011 – Love it or loathe it, that always vulgar and always funny cartoon series “South Park” continues to stand out as the only equal opportunity satirical comedy show on television.
Most blow-dried TV faux intellectuals, ranging anywhere from the likes of Jon Stewart to David Letterman, veer predictably and fashionably left. Refreshingly, Trey Parker’s and Matt Stone’s “South Park” seems to skew libertarian most of the time. This satirical cartoon series, along with Fox News, provides about the only counterpoint to the otherwise stultifying, dumbed-down socialism that gums up the bulk of TV programming today, whether jammed into nightly newscasts or buried in sitcoms and crime shows like “Law & Order: SVU.”
Friendly folks of South Park's 99% solution. (Credit: South Park.)
In a recent “South Park” episode, Parker and Stone lobbed a long overdue animated slimeball at the uninformed pod-people pawns of Occupy Wall Street (OWS) and its various hinterland spin-offs.
Billed by media propagandists as a grassroots movement to oppose teabaggers the Tea Party and American business from the left, OWS participants are too dumb to understand that the fat cats they purport to hate are not Republicans at all. They’re actually wealthy upper-class Wall Street socialists. I.e., the enemies of OWS actually fill the campaign chests of those Democrats that the protestors generally admire.
Denizens of OWS also seem blissfully unaware that they and their “movement” have been co-opted by Soros money, the SEIU, and journalist-style agitators like Dylan Ratigan, whose idea of “objective reporting” is grooming ragtag OWS pawns to sharpen their socialist message to make for better TV clips. Hard lefties have been doing this sort of thing successfully for nearly a century now. There’s no reason why they should stop.
Enter “South Park” where breathless MSM reporters blow a tiny school protest out of proportion, redefining the term “class warfare” in the process as well as butchering “99 percent” beyond recognition. Meanwhile, out on the street, a wealthy and exceedingly overfed loudmouth who looks a lot like Michael Moore harangues South Park kids with even more meaningless nonsense, culminating in a Howard Dean-style war whoop to boot. See it all—and a crucial Eric Cartman subplot—in the short clip below.
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Peopled with bizarrely knowing kids and easily manipulated parental units who’ve conveniently failed to mature into rational adults, “South Park” has rarely failed to escort conservatism and organized religion to the woodshed. But the show’s writers and animators seem to take particular relish in skewering those pompous blowhards and mindless liberal airheads who occupy the current “knowledge class,” aka, the East and West Coast liberal elites. You can easily pick this up from the preceding clip.
For the full episode and even more nonsense, click here. (Warning: Commercial incoming first.)
In the end, “South Park” doesn’t offer any solutions for our current political impasse. But laughing at the empty rhetoric of the real-life politicians ultimately responsible for driving our economy into a ditch while supporting a continued flow of fat bonus checks to Wall Street money mavens—well, that might just might a good way to start. We might then get less inclined to take their empty re-election blathering seriously next fall, the better to elect some new kids who might actually begin to solve problems rather than creating them or kicking the can down the road.
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