Parker and Stone: Shark Jumpers

I used to love South Park...I really did.

Parker and Stone are responsible for some of the funniest TV in history. Lemmiwinks, Towlie, Mr. Hankey...MechaStreisand, the list goes on and on.

I loved their distinctly anti-PC messages, because they frequently, sharply, and eruditely uncovered the hypocrisy underlying political correctness. I loved their skewering of limoliberals, because I felt it, too, as a working class kid. I loved the film...hell, I loved Team America: World Police.

During the last election cycle, a new demographic emerged, the so called "South Park Republicans", "centrist republicans" who are eschew the Right Wing of the party. This, to me, was a no-brainer-I've known people like this my whole life. Good.

This season, however, they jumped the shark.

The "Cartoon Wars" episodes were first and foremost, unfunny, and I doubt that Mohammed would have saved it, and, for the record, I think that Comedy Central fucked this up to. But it was their special guest star, George W. Bush, that really got me.

For a couple of guys who prided themselves on being "independent", taking on "sacred cows", etc., I think they ultimately know where their bread is buttered, and since the emergence of the "South Park Republicans", they know how to play. Afterall, Parker and Stone "hate liberals". Apparently, for such erudite guys, they are content with straw men, and after everything that has happened in the last six years, they continue to give Bush a pass, in this case on domestic spying, making any questions about it seem like "more liberal bullshit", and worse, playing the "liberal media bias" canard. Naturally, the right wing loves it

Are you kidding me. For a couple of guys who have made a fortune on freedom of speech and the press, they seem to conveniently look the other way when it comes to their mascot mania. With so much at stake, I would have expected more from satirists. But then again, when you support the hegemon, can you really call it satire?

"Screw you guys, I'm going home".

Update: As if to prove my point...

I came home from my Dad's, and while repairing a pair of jeans, I flipped on Comedy Central, and lo and behold, a new South Park...Guess what? It was a smear job on Al Gore and his (ours) environmental concerns. The "monster" Gore fears never materializes, and the point is, get this, is that Gore is a loser and he's doing it for attention.

Is Rove paying you guys or something, you spineless apologists. That's that. Fuck those two yuppie scumbags.