Politics and Comedy or Why Aristophanes Had it Right

"'You can't send in men telling them: Look what's going on but you don't have the right to defend yourself or to shoot,' the French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie told RTL radio."
From the very government who insisted on forging a peace process, insisted upon doing the right thing for the Lebanese people. Brilliant comedy from the French.

"Hizbollah handed out bundles of cash on Friday to people whose homes were wrecked by Israeli bombing, consolidating the Iranian-backed group's support among Lebanon's Shi'ites and embarrassing the Beirut government. "
So let me understand this. Your crazy uncle firebombs your neighbors, who retaliate by firebombing your house, and then your crazy uncle comes over and says no problem I'll giv e you money to rebuild so we can do this all over again. Outstanding "New" Middle East Comedy.

"Ned Lamont's victory over Joe Lieberman in the Connecticut primary was a triumph for the European wing of the Democratic party. So it's fitting that Lamont is pro-carrot. It was impossible to go to Europe during Bush's first term without getting a lecture about the utility of carrots, the futility of sticks, and the Bush administration's regrettable neglect of the former and unfortunate proclivity for the latter. So Lamont is an appropriate spokesman for what one might call the Bugs Bunny caucus that now dominates the Democratic party."
An embarassing and shameful debacle in Iraq, but it all can be summed up here at home by references to Warner Borthers' cartoons. One of the great comedians of our day, ladies and gentlemen, William Kristol. Not that well-schooled of a comedian however. If Mr. Kristol knew anything about Loony Tunes he might have avoided Bugs Bunny. As scholars of American cartoons know, Mr. Bunny's nemesis is one Elmer J. Fudd who carries a big stick called a gun and is constantly shown to be the most incompetent hunter on the planet. Well, at least that part of the sketch works.