Conservative Satire on the Rise?

GOP.gov has posted a spoof of the David Spade Capital One (™) "No" commercials. You can download it here. Wonkette oh-so-subtly mocks it here.

It's not particularly funny, though the concept is good. I'm more interested in what it indicates, however. Seems to me here's a lot more conservative satire floating around than there used to be. South Park leans right, in my opinion, and sites like Scrappleface and Iowahawk usually hold their own against the likes of Jon Stewart.

This is a tad surprising. Parody, by its nature, mocks convention, tradition, and -- most of all -- those in power. We all know Leno and Letterman will berate whoever happens to be in office. So it's interesting that the parody playing field is looking a bit more level even though the formerly marginalized side of satire has more -- rather than less -- power.

ť February 21st, 2005

posted @ 11:26 AM in Republicans

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