Archive for the ‘Media Satire’ Category
Thursday, September 22nd, 2016
Will the media (including debate moderators) finally do its job during the upcoming presidential debates? My 3-verse open limerick to the press begs the media to do exactly that:
Dear press, that low bar you employ
Judging Trump must be raised. Don’t be coy.
If he hides some bad traits
In these crucial debates,
Don’t applaud Donald’s “pivot” with joy!
If he fails to behave like a clown
And he brings his high lying rate down,
Doesn’t act like a mad man,
Or Trump-bus’ness ad man,
Don’t hand him a pageantry crown.
Stop pretending that Trump’s not an ass.
Stop giving The Donald a pass.
It’s time to admit
That he’s clearly unfit
To be prez. Do your job! Show some brass!
Tags: Campaign Satire, Debate Limerick, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Election Humor, Media Bias, Media Humor, Presidential Election, Press
Posted in Campaign Humor, Debate Humor, Donald Trump, Election Satire, GOP Humor, Media Satire, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, Republicans Humor | Comments Off on Open Limerick To The Press (3-Verse)
Sunday, August 14th, 2016
The media’s biased, ill-bred,
And in bed with that crook who’s ahead.
If I lose, it’s the press
Who’s at fault for my mess.
How dare they report what I’ve said!
Tags: Campaign Satire, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Election Humor, Hillary Clinton, Media Humor
Posted in Campaign Humor, Donald Trump, Election Satire, GOP Humor, Hillary Clinton, Media Satire, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, Republicans Humor, White House | Comments Off on Trump Wrote Another Limerick!
Monday, May 30th, 2016
According to this strange interview, Republican Kelly Maher, a political analyst, is so depressed by Donald Trump that she bought a pet wallaby for emotional support.
About Trump, Kelly’s very upset.
She’s so jumpy, she got a new pet
To help with her sadness
And wall off the madness.
Will a Wallaby help her not fret?
Tags: Campaign Satire, Donald Trump, Election Humor, Wallaby Humor
Posted in Campaign Humor, Donald Trump, Election Satire, GOP Humor, Media Satire, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, Republicans Humor | Comments Off on Donald Trump Boosts Pet Wallaby Sales? (Limerick)
Monday, May 16th, 2016
I keep seeing headlines like this: “Trump Reversal on Fundraising Not Hurting Him.”
So I decided to make up some headlines of my own:
“Trump Reversal on CHANGING HIS GENDER Not Hurting Him.”
“Trump Reversal on KIDNAPPING POLO PONIES Not Hurting Him.”
“Trump Reversal on EVICTING CALIFORNIA Not Hurting Him.”
Feel free to create your own fake (yet almost plausible) Trump headlines using this format:
“Trump Reversal on {BLANK BLANK} Not Hurting Him.”
You may either use your own words, or choose one word from “Group 1” and one word from “Group 2.”
Group 1:
Abusing
Adopting
Appointing
Arresting
Banishing
Banning
Beating
Berating
Bilking
Borrowing
Bribing
Building
Burying
Changing
Cheating
Complimenting
Curing
Declaring
Decorating
Demolishing
Destroying
Disclosing
Donating
Drooling
Envy
Evicting
Firing
Forgiving
Freeing
Hacking
Helping
Hiding
Humiliating
Impeaching
Incorporation
Insulting
Inventing
Kidnapping
Negotiating
Killing
Lampooning
Legalizing
Locking Up
Lowering
Lying
Manipulating
Marauding
Mocking
Mortgaging
Mourning
Selling
Occupying
Ordering
Outlawing
Pardoning
Pillaging
Praising
Promoting
Punishing
Raging
Raising
Raping
Refinancing
Renaming
Renting Out
Revolting
Rewarding
Slaughtering
Smoking
Shooting
Strangling
Subdividing
Suing
Switching
Tearing Down
Torturing
Unburying
Voting
Winning
Worshiping
Group 2:
Amazon
Animal Sacrifice
Art Museums
Asians
Assets
Bankers
Bankruptcy
Bathrooms
Ben Carson
Bernie
Bezos
Birth Certificate
Blood
Brand
Budget
Builder
Bums
Cabinet Member
California
Canaries
Cheapskates
Cheater
China
Clinton
Clouds
Clown
College
Conspiracy
Corpses
Court
Crickets
DNC
Debate
Debt
Defendant
Democrats
Disclosure
Donations
Dope
Election Fraud
Elephants
Executive Orders
Fairness
Figure Skating
Flautists
Gender
Ghosts
God
Golf Course
GOP
Haters
Health Care
Heathens
Hillary
History
House
Illegals
Immigrants
Immigration
Insurance
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Jews
Justice
Kindergarten
Latinos
Lawyers
Liars
Litigation
Loans
Loser
Mars
Math
Media
Medicare
Megyn Kelly
Men
Mental Illness
Mexico
Miss Universe
Models
Monkeys
Monopoly
Moron
Mosquitos
Muslims
Neanderthals
Negotiator
New York
Obama
Oboe Players
Order
Parties
Paul Ryan
Peace
Penis
Penis Envy
Plaintiff
Pluto
Polls
Polo
Ponies
Porn
Press
Prison
Privacy
Protesters
Putin
Rain
Real Estate
Republicans
Respect
Revolution
RNC
Running Mate
Russia
Science
Secrets
Senate
Shadows
Slob
Snow
Social Security
Supreme Court
Tacos
Taxes
Tax Returns
Terrorists
Total Loser
Turtles
Unfairness
Vagrants
Vampires
Voters
Waitresses
Wall
Wall Street
War
Wealth
White House
Women
Zombies
Tags: Campaign Satire, Donald Trump, Election Humor, Media Humor, Trump Headline Game
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Saturday, January 30th, 2016
I’m so sick of the news stories meant
To defame Mrs. Clinton with bent,
Sleazy headlines and lies
Told to make you surmise
That her emails were “secret” when sent.
Tags: Bias Humor, Campaign Satire, Classified Email, Election Humor, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Haters, Media Bias, Media Humor, Press Lies, Private Server, Sleazy Media
Posted in Campaign Humor, Election Satire, Hillary Clinton, Media Satire, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, White House | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, November 25th, 2015
With their lies, guys like Donald Trump try us.
Prove them wrong, they just laugh and defy us.
They keep getting their way
Cuz there’s NO price to pay.
Call them out? They shout, “Media bias!”
Tags: Campaign Satire, Donald Trump, Election Humor, GOP Lies, Media Humor, Presidential Election, Press
Posted in Campaign Humor, Donald Trump, Election Satire, GOP Humor, Media Satire, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, Republicans Humor, White House | Comments Off on Trumping The Truth (Limerick)
Monday, November 9th, 2015
The “liberal bias” lie is in full bloom this election cycle. And in its latest manifestation, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus and Hugh Hewitt would have us believe that the press is being really mean to Ben Carson, while treating Hillary Clinton with kid gloves.
Of course such assertions are so laughable, even Joe Scarborough is mocking them.
Hugh Hewitt and Reince look askance
At the Ben Carson cov’rage. Their stance:
It’s a lib-press vendetta!
Hill’s treated much bettah!
(Even Joe isn’t buying their rants.)
Tags: Ben Carson, Campaign Satire, Election Humor, Hugh Hewitt, Joe Scarborough, Liberal Media, Media Bias, Media Humor, Reince Priebus
Posted in Ben Carson, Campaign Humor, Election Satire, GOP Humor, Media Satire, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, Republicans Humor, White House | Comments Off on Shedding Tears For Ben Carson? (Limerick)
Tuesday, October 20th, 2015
Anyone else sick of the breathless “will he or won’t he” Biden stories? Well, not to be outdone by all that foolishness, the Washington Post “inadvertently published” a website story under this headline: “Biden to launch a presidential campaign.”
Biden cov’rage is dumb as it gets:
Now the Washington Post sends regrets
For its story proclaiming
Joe’s running. It’s blaming
A “technical glitch.” Cool your jets!
Most journos don’t bother to air
Real issues. That’s work they can’t bear!
Seems their duties they’re ceding.
Instead they keep feeding
Us nonsense. So reader beware!
Tags: Campaign Satire, Election Humor, Joe Biden, Joe Biden Poem, Journalism, Media Humor
Posted in Campaign Humor, Election Satire, Joe Biden, Media Satire, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, White House | Comments Off on Press Biding Its Time Till It Gets Serious About The Issues (2-Verse Limerick)
Friday, October 16th, 2015
You’ll never guess who is to blame
For the rise of The Donald. This claim
By Ms. Noonan is mad:
Seems Obama’s the lad
Who’s at fault. “Pundit” dame has no shame.
Tags: Campaign Satire, Donald Trump, Election Humor, Election Punditry, Media Humor, Peggy Noonan, Pundit Humor
Posted in Barack Obama, Campaign Humor, Donald Trump, Election Satire, GOP Humor, Media Satire, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, Republicans Humor | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, July 29th, 2015
Jeb’s the cure for the GOP mess
Cuz he’s civil — so sayeth the press.
Yet as gov, Jeb was rotten!
Is Schiavo forgotten?
Jeb’s transgressions caused tragic distress.
Tags: Campaign Satire, Election Humor, Jeb Bush, Media, Terri Schiavo, Terri's Law
Posted in Campaign Humor, Election Satire, GOP Humor, Jeb Bush, Media Satire, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, Republicans Humor, White House | 1 Comment »
Monday, July 27th, 2015
The guys (and one gal) vying for the Republican presidential nomination are in a bind. With Donald Trump in the picture, it’s virtually impossible to get press coverage and boost poll numbers, even if you say something crazy. But I do have a “modest proposal” for them:
Debate Spot “Strategery” (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Many would-be debaters are freaking
Cuz that spot on the stage that they’re seeking
Is elusive at best;
They’ve been Trumped by a pest.
Here’s a tip for attention: Try streaking.
Tags: Campaign Satire, Donald Trump, Election Humor, GOP Humor, GOP Lies, Republicans Humor
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Friday, June 19th, 2015
Conservatives Race To Alter Race-Crime Reality
By Madeleine Begun Kane
When a racist whose head’s out of whack
Kills nine churchgoers just cuz they’re black,
Wingnuts lay it on thick
With a claim that’s just sick:
“Christian freedom is under attack.”
Right-wing culprits in this outrageous distortion of the Charleston church massacre include Rick Santorum, Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, and sundry Fox News hosts.
Tags: Charleston Church Massacre, Christianity, Dylann Roof, Fox News, Hate Crimes, Lindsey Graham, Religion Humor, Rick Santorum
Posted in Crime, Fox News Humor, GOP Humor, Lindsey Graham, Media Satire, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, Republicans Humor, Rick Santorum, South Carolina Humor | Comments Off on Conservatives Race To Alter Race-Crime Reality (Limerick)
Thursday, June 4th, 2015
Jeb Bush’s “Non-Campaign” Con
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Why are so many newscasts ignoring
Bush’s lie when he claims he’s exploring
A possible race?
It’s clearly the case
That on FEC regs Jeb is warring.
Jeb’s been stretching the Super PAC rules
And playing the public for fools.
He coordinates madly,
Treats fed’ral law badly,
And laughs as the press acts like tools.
(You can read about Jeb’s “stretching the limits of election law” here and the lack of broadcast evening news coverage here.
Tags: Campaign Funds, Campaign Satire, Election Humor, FEC, Fund Raising, Jeb Bush, Super PACs
Posted in Campaign Humor, Election Satire, GOP Humor, Jeb Bush, Media Satire, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, Republicans Humor, White House | Comments Off on Jeb Bush’s “Non-Campaign” Con
Friday, April 24th, 2015
Election Season (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Watch cowardly pols run away
From positions they used to display.
And the liars’ technique
Is denial with pique.
Either way, they hold journos at bay.
Tags: Campaign Satire, Election Humor, Journalism Humor, Journalists, Media Humor
Posted in Campaign Humor, Election Satire, Media Satire, Political Limericks | Comments Off on Election Season (Limerick)
Saturday, March 21st, 2015
Glenn Beck just announced that he’s quitting the Republican Party.
It seems the GOP isn’t quite crazy enough for him.
*****
To prove he really means it this time, Donald Trump is forming a presidential exploratory committee.
Some circuses just can’t have too many rings.
*****
Dear Rand Paul, I don’t live in Kentucky,
And I think that you’re far worse than yucky.
Why’s your newsletter clogging
My email and dogging
My bandwidth with viewpoints so sucky?
*****
Facts can be pesky
and undermine views.
But the right just discards them
like old, worn out shoes.
*****
In a Playboy interview, Dick Cheney said Obama is “the worst president of my lifetime”.
I could have sworn that title belonged to Cheney.
*****
Why don’t I call
the GOP pols heartless?
I hate redundancy.
*****
Re Matt McLaughlin’s gays-killing CA ballot initiative, doesn’t his “Sodomite Suppression Act” deserve a “Matt McLaughlin Suppression Act?”
*****
Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young suggested letting wolves loose to cure the homeless problem.
What a foxy way to angle for a job at Fox News!
*****
The duped marks wallow
in hollow crap they swallow
from pols they follow.
*****
Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza has denounced Hillary Clinton’s “lawlessness.”
But I think D’Souza is just lonely serving time for violating campaign finance laws.
*****
Sudden clarity
of thought and reason in pols–
Can’t a gal dream?
*****
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a “Right-to-Work” law, a/k/a the “Right to Destroy Unions by Reaping Benefits Without Paying Dues” law.
******
GOP hucksters
hock our nation’s future
to gain/maintain power.
*****
Tags: California, Dick Cheney Humor, Dinesh D’Souza, Don Young, Donald Trump, Fox News, Gay Rights, Glenn Beck, Hillary Clinton, Kentucky, Matt McLaughlin, Political Tidbits, Presidential Campaign Humor, Rand Paul, Scott Walker, Sodomite Suppression Act, Unions
Posted in Campaign Humor, Collective Bargaining, Dick Cheney Satire, Donald Trump, Election Satire, Fox News Humor, Gay Rights, Glenn Beck Satire, GOP Humor, Homophobia, Legal Limericks, Media Satire, Political Commentary, Political Haiku & Senryu, Political Jokes & One-Liners, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, Punditry Humor, Rand Paul, Republicans Humor, Scott Walker | Comments Off on Political Tidbits
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015
Limerick Ode To Science Disbelievers
By Madeleine Begun Kane
The Republican problem with science
Is their members respond with defiance
To facts that are proved.
(Have their brains been removed?)
They spread lies to excuse non-compliance.
*****
Refusing vaccines,
Don’t-Tell-Me-What-To-Doers
now infect us all.
*****
Exodus of thought–
an exodus of science–
the GOP way.
*****
Misinformation
delib’rately spread by Fox–
blindly accepted.
*****
Republican pols–
implacable enemy
of fairness and facts.
******
The truth-challenged pols
have taken over Congress–
therein LIES the rub.
*****
Tags: Anti-Science, Climate Change, Climate Science, Congress Humor, Fox News, Global Warming, GOP, Health Humor, Media Humor, Political Haiku & Senryu, Republicans Humor, Science Haiku, Science Humor, Science Senryu, Vaccine Humor
Posted in Climate Change, Global Warming, Health Satire, Media Satire, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, Republicans Humor, Science Verse | Comments Off on Limerick Ode to Science Disbelievers plus Sundry Haiku
Monday, November 3rd, 2014
Writing Verse, When Things Go from Bad to Worse
By Madeleine Begun Kane
My goal is political mockery,
Poking fun at election-time squawkery.
But the polls are so bad
And the news is so sad,
That all I can do is throw crockery.
Tags: Campaign Satire, Election Humor, GOP Lies, Media Humor, Political Polls, Poll Humor
Posted in Campaign Humor, Election Satire, GOP Humor, Media Satire, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, Polls, Republicans Humor | 1 Comment »
Friday, August 22nd, 2014
As a devout liberal, I’ve been pretty disappointed in Obama’s presidency. But the constant complaints about his letting off steam via golf are absurd.
To those who claim Obama’s too indifferent to public opinion, think about this: When no matter what you do you’re under constant (often nonsensical) attack, you might as well do what you want.
And don’t even get me started on the fact that most of the horror we’re embroiled in right now is a direct (or indirect) result of the war of choice in Iraq that George W. Bush (Mr. Vacation himself) lied us into.
Golf Wars (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
When Obama goes golfing, the press
And the pols say the world’s in a mess,
So the prez should not play.
But they’ll bitch come what may.
So he might as well drive off some stress.
Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Golf Humor, Media Humor, Presidential Vacations, Press, Public Opinion, Stress, War and Peace
Posted in Barack Obama, Election Satire, George Bush Satire, GOP Humor, Iraq War Humor, Media Satire, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, Republicans Humor, War & Antiwar Poems, White House | 3 Comments »
Tuesday, August 12th, 2014
This could very well be the silliest limerick I’ve ever written. But when the focal point of a political ad appears to be a horse with a huge penis, I can’t help myself. And if you don’t know what I’m referring to, you simply must take a gander at Gary Kiehne and his well-hung horse.
Horse’s Ass Of A Candidate (Limerick)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
There once was a horse who was mad
Cuz his penis was used in an ad.
“How dare you imply
I’m endorsing that guy!
Scratch my likeness. That candidate’s bad!”
Tags: Advertising Humor, Arizona, Campaign Satire, Conservatives Satire, Election Humor, Gary Kiehne, GOP Humor, Horse Limerick, Political Ads, Political Advertising, Republicans Humor
Posted in Campaign Humor, Election Satire, GOP Humor, Media Satire, Political Ads, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, Republicans Humor | 1 Comment »
Thursday, August 7th, 2014
The press is having a grand old time making fun of Rand Paul’s “bad limerick” about Mitch McConnell’s Democratic Party challenger, Alison Lundergan Grimes.
The problem is, Rand Paul’s verse isn’t close enough to limerick form to even qualify as a bad limerick. At best, it’s bad doggerel. Here’s what I’m talking about:
There once was a woman from Kentucky,
Who thought in politics she’d be lucky.
So she flew to L.A.
For a Hollywood bash,
She came home in a flash
With buckets of cash.
Sorry, but to call Rand Paul’s mishegas a “bad limerick” defames my beloved limerick form.
Open Limerick To Rand Paul Poetry Critics
By Madeleine Begun Kane
Rand Paul deserves plenty of blame
For his doggerel terribly lame.
Yes his Grimes verse is bad,
But the press makes me mad
When they call it a lim’rick. For shame!
While a limerick often does start
With “there once was a…” please have a heart.
There are rules to this form.
Five strict lines are the norm.
And to jump to conclusions ain’t smart.
It isn’t a lim’rick at all.
Those who call it a bad one, appall.
They have lim’ricks maligned,
And I really do mind.
Hence my three-verser limerick squall.
Tags: Alison Lundergan Grimes, Campaign Satire, Election Humor, Limericks Humor, Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, Writing Humor
Posted in Campaign Humor, Election Satire, GOP Humor, Media Satire, Mitch McConnell, Political Limericks, Political Verse, Politics Satire, Rand Paul, Republicans Humor | 9 Comments »
Political Tidbits
Saturday, March 21st, 2015Glenn Beck just announced that he’s quitting the Republican Party.
It seems the GOP isn’t quite crazy enough for him.
*****
To prove he really means it this time, Donald Trump is forming a presidential exploratory committee.
Some circuses just can’t have too many rings.
*****
Dear Rand Paul, I don’t live in Kentucky,
And I think that you’re far worse than yucky.
Why’s your newsletter clogging
My email and dogging
My bandwidth with viewpoints so sucky?
*****
Facts can be pesky
and undermine views.
But the right just discards them
like old, worn out shoes.
*****
In a Playboy interview, Dick Cheney said Obama is “the worst president of my lifetime”.
I could have sworn that title belonged to Cheney.
*****
Why don’t I call
the GOP pols heartless?
I hate redundancy.
*****
Re Matt McLaughlin’s gays-killing CA ballot initiative, doesn’t his “Sodomite Suppression Act” deserve a “Matt McLaughlin Suppression Act?”
*****
Alaska Republican Rep. Don Young suggested letting wolves loose to cure the homeless problem.
What a foxy way to angle for a job at Fox News!
*****
The duped marks wallow
in hollow crap they swallow
from pols they follow.
*****
Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza has denounced Hillary Clinton’s “lawlessness.”
But I think D’Souza is just lonely serving time for violating campaign finance laws.
*****
Sudden clarity
of thought and reason in pols–
Can’t a gal dream?
*****
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has signed a “Right-to-Work” law, a/k/a the “Right to Destroy Unions by Reaping Benefits Without Paying Dues” law.
******
GOP hucksters
hock our nation’s future
to gain/maintain power.
*****
Tags: California, Dick Cheney Humor, Dinesh D’Souza, Don Young, Donald Trump, Fox News, Gay Rights, Glenn Beck, Hillary Clinton, Kentucky, Matt McLaughlin, Political Tidbits, Presidential Campaign Humor, Rand Paul, Scott Walker, Sodomite Suppression Act, Unions
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