Daniel O’Brien over at Cracked.com has a pretty funny tongue in cheek column about kidnapping Sasha and Malia.
I couldn’t help but think of how the Clintons were so obsessed over treatment of their daughter Chelsea that they got NBC to censor a Wayne’s World sketch that mentioned her.
I wonder how the Obamas will react to a joke about kidnapping their daughters, tying them up, and keeping them in a basement. And about whether you should toss them in the ocean to drown or put them in a hot air balloon to die after you get bored with them.
But even more interestingly, I wonder whether the so called liberal media will go ape-shit over this little piece of satire and make a big deal out of it. Calling for terminations, apologies, retractions and the what not.
My guess is that Cracked’s readership is small enough that it might go unnoticed. But this also might be Cracked’s grab at the brass ring, hoping for enough press to put it in the big leagues with satire sites such as the Onion. Who knows, maybe one day Cracked will be successful enough to release its own crappy direct-to-DVD movie. Now there’s a goal worth striving for!
Whoa, people are sensitive.
Of course you can joke about serious things. That’s probably the best use of it, since it allows us to reflect on matters in a light heartened fashion.
When will people get it? Just because you’re offended by something someone says doesn’t make the other person wrong, and you don’t have a right to do anything about what other people says.
This sort of BS gave us “hate crime” laws and other nonsense.
Cracked sucks, it has always sucked. This indeed sounds like a desperate move for attention. They should have given up decades ago.
Whoa, some of you guys need to calm the hell down. It was a JOKE; yes, in somewhat poor taste, but funny nonetheless. DOB stated several times in the article that doing this is actually very stupid and will get you executed, let alone arrested. Well, that’s kind of obvious, but still. Cracked is actually (in my opinion at least) a pretty damn funny little website that gets looked down on because it started as a crappy ripoff of MAD magazine. Well, the website is different. Check it out, but only if you can take a joke without hoping the feds will arrest whoever told the joke.