Video: Bring your daughter to war day
posted at 7:49 pm on March 17, 2008 by Allahpundit
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I thought the onion was supposed to be funny?
alilianstrom on March 17, 2008 at 7:52 PM
And this was supposed to be funny?
GarandFan on March 17, 2008 at 7:54 PM
“Let me see your hands.” HAHAHA. Nothing beats a father-daughter bond of raiding houses.
fanderbiles on March 17, 2008 at 7:54 PM
LOL….Comedy
Watch out, the nuts at code pink might believe this is real.
mpax on March 17, 2008 at 7:58 PM
Satire is not always funny.
EJDolbow on March 17, 2008 at 8:00 PM
leezles
spmat on March 17, 2008 at 8:11 PM
I learned “Sharmouta” !
Duane Ingalls Glasscock on March 17, 2008 at 8:11 PM
Terrible.
Disgusting.
Not funny.
Screw the Onion.
angryamerican on March 17, 2008 at 8:12 PM
It wasn’t that bad.
toliver on March 17, 2008 at 8:14 PM
I’m torn. A little funny. A little effed up.
Can’t recommend.
MikeZero on March 17, 2008 at 8:16 PM
“Only four girls were killed.”
Not funny, azzhole.
Tony737 on March 17, 2008 at 8:21 PM
I thought it was pretty cute. Juxtaposing appropriate and inappropriate elements and going in a “that’s so wrong” direction for the sake of humor happens a lot at the Onion; remember this?
Also it was funny because ours isn’t a culture like some middle east countries who have no qualms about sending their kids to war. It’s funny because it isn’t true, but if it were, what would it look like?
While not uproariously hysterical, it is good for a chuckle–i liked it.
PolitiNOOB on March 17, 2008 at 8:25 PM
I thought it was funny. Beats “take your daughter to the boring frikkin office day” by a long shot…
Guardian on March 17, 2008 at 8:31 PM
Yep. Over the line, not funny.
TexasDan on March 17, 2008 at 8:35 PM
I’m peeling through the layers. I’m sure there’s something funny in there.
Kini on March 17, 2008 at 8:35 PM
Oh for heavensakes people, man-up. It was funny.
thatcher on March 17, 2008 at 8:42 PM
Well, just maybe they weren’t trying to be funny.
Exactly. Just like editorial cartoons.
davidk on March 17, 2008 at 8:43 PM
Sick.
fogw on March 17, 2008 at 8:45 PM
Where’s rightwing to put this all in perspective for us?
Kini on March 17, 2008 at 8:46 PM
Oh, I wish they’d do a Bring a Code Pinko to War skit.
Kini on March 17, 2008 at 8:51 PM
Satire is not always funny. – EJDolbow
Exactly. Just like editorial cartoons. -davidk
The difference being that nobody will threaten to kill the Onion guy.
Tony737 on March 17, 2008 at 8:55 PM
Oh, I wish they’d do a Bring a Code Pinko to War skit. – Kini
Now THAT would be funny!
Tony737 on March 17, 2008 at 8:58 PM
Sorry, folk, but it is pretty funny, in a morbid kind of way (hey, my Old Man was a coroner; what do you expect?).
I would like Onion to do a Code Pink World Tour, with them visiting the Darfur rebel camps, the Congo jungles, the Taliban compounds, the Tibetan riots, etc. to protest the violence. That would be more fun; I could give them the whole script easily enough.
michaelo on March 17, 2008 at 9:03 PM
Ahh come on guys, lighten up. I thought it was pretty funny. But then again, I am a sick twisted 8astard by nature.
conservnut on March 17, 2008 at 9:07 PM
It was a good laugh. Good thing today wasn’t take your girl to work day at Bear Stearns.
Do they need one of those disclaimers at the end that say “No little girls were actually harmed in the taping of this video”?
pedestrian on March 17, 2008 at 9:22 PM
The girl parachuting got me…
bikermailman on March 17, 2008 at 9:26 PM
What sad sick little people they are….and where as some will see it as greatly humorous, some will find great offense in the fact that the horrors of war are being glamorized and and think that for this reason all of our troops should be withdrawn immediately. They do not think about the fact that while we were not at war with the terrorists that started the hate seen in this war, they were at war with us. For this reason I would rather fight terrorism where it lives then to allow it to come to my country. For this reason I went to Vietnam to keep communism off these shores. Call me stupid but I believe in the idea of freedom…if I were able to re-enlist I would do so immediately.
Vntnrse on March 17, 2008 at 9:30 PM
Hilarious.
SouthernGent on March 17, 2008 at 9:52 PM
At the very least it was in very poor taste.
Most soldiers would do anything and everything to prevent something like this from occurring.
F15Mech on March 17, 2008 at 10:04 PM
That is just wrong. Our service men and women fight so that their children and everybody’s children will never have to experience the horrors of war. The Iraqi children who have experienced it I am sure will not find this funny. This is just in poor taste all the way around.
Just A Grunt on March 17, 2008 at 10:07 PM
“Bitter the jest when satire comes too near truth and leaves a sharp sting behind it.”
Grow Fins on March 17, 2008 at 10:13 PM
Something tells me you folks wouldn’t begin to find funny half of what the people who actually go through the crap find funny. When you face death everyday you get your chuckles for some twisted things.
Lighten up people.
CTDeLude on March 17, 2008 at 10:16 PM
Sorry, but after watching many a “Jayne Wayne” day while on active duty when they would bring in wives of servicemembers and have them shooting automatic weapons… I laughed at the video. My daughter climbed up on many a armored vehicle, granted they were all states side at a military installation.
It’s so outlandish is what makes it funny, depending on your life experiences I suppose. Lighten up, it’s not a cartoon making fun of islam.
Hog Wild on March 17, 2008 at 10:19 PM
I wonder how funny the daughters and sons of the brave men and women fighting this war who’s Daddy and/or Mommys don’t come home alive feel about this tripe?
Remember?
Seven Percent Solution on March 17, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Exactly,
Was in very poor taste.
If you want funny pictures about little girls in Iraq then just go to Yon’s front page. I hear that one is very funny.
/sarc
F15Mech on March 17, 2008 at 10:29 PM
How about a nice knock-knock joke for all you humourless bee-otches. Oofah.
PeteRR on March 17, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Funny until the last part which stepped over the line.
frankj on March 17, 2008 at 10:36 PM
Knock-Knock: Who’s there?
PeteRR….
PeteRR who?
PeteRR, As*-Clown, that’s who!
HA, yeah, that works for me……… Thanks!
Seven Percent Solution on March 17, 2008 at 11:54 PM
I don’t mean to offend, but some of you people need to get a sense of humour. Just because a comedy bit does not re-affirm all of your deepest held political beliefs does not mean it’s not funny.
Humour is to be found everywhere. And the bit is hilarious.
Harmonic Mean on March 18, 2008 at 12:10 AM
Instead of telling all of us offended to get a sense a humor, perhaps you should review what is tasteful and distasteful humor.
Not that I mean to offend you or anything.
/sarc
F15Mech on March 18, 2008 at 12:34 AM
F-A-U-X-T-O-G-R-A-P-H-Y-!-!-!-!-!-!-!-!
What?
Shy Guy on March 18, 2008 at 1:01 AM
Well, I’m not going to “review what is tasteful and distasteful in humour”. But, I will say that there is room for tastelessness in humour. Plenty of it. Quite often tastelessness is what makes something funny.
That being said, I don’t believe the Onion video is tasteless. It’s using the guise of a real news story to draw humour out of an absurd premise (taking your daughter to war) based on a reference we’re all familiar with (taking your son or daughter to work). We all know Iraq is serious business. That’s what makes the bit funny.
Although I can see how you would miss that. You actually thought it was funny to put a strike-through through my name and replace it with “Moronic Man.” Now, that’s comedy!
Harmonic Mean on March 18, 2008 at 1:01 AM
Some people have just accepted the fact that broadcast comedy is at least vaguely and often radically left-wing, and have just given up on avoiding being constantly insulted.
The Onion USED to be funny, but that mostly ended before they went video. They used to be “equal opportunity” and now they have a pronounced slant.
If it wasn’t for that context, this might have been more funny. I did laugh at the “saw a leg” part, but it was a sardonic laugh. I wanted it to be funny, but between the bad FX and the context, it just wasn’t.
Maybe the fact that I don’t watch TV (regularly) makes me more sensitive to the messages that I’d otherwise be bombarded with. I do seem to find constant lefty mock-mock slightly less funny than others do.
Or maybe I’m just sick of their crap. Who knows.
Merovign on March 18, 2008 at 1:37 AM
Funny no, however I used it to show the difference in the styles of humor.
I agree it was a cheap shot an not one I would normally have taken except in this case I did it to prove a point.
In short it was a deliberate attempt at tasteless humor.
Going back to the onion article…
Why should I find that funny and not tasteless?
F15Mech on March 18, 2008 at 1:40 AM
That was as wrong as Rev Wright.
winemkr on March 18, 2008 at 1:49 AM
I liked the irish spring hotties in the commercial
tlynch001 on March 18, 2008 at 3:21 AM
“Edgy” trumps “funny.” That’s why people still tell me that Kids in the Hall is a good show.
This, similarly, is not funny.
joewm315 on March 18, 2008 at 4:28 AM
I recommend that anyone offended by this should never go to any military humor sites. Hint: we don’t do Reader’s Digest’s Humor in Uniform.
James on March 18, 2008 at 7:41 AM
HAHAHA!
Just a comment and question. I recently read something about Full Metal Jacket concerning the uniforms not being exactly correct. It was to the effect that in movies, uniforms must be altered else the actor is wearing a uniform of the federal government.
Is this true and illegal? If so, did anyone recognize anything in the uniforms to alter them from official military uniforms?
Sensei Ern on March 18, 2008 at 9:05 AM
Not true. It’s illegal for civilians to walk around in military uniform. It’s an urban legend that uniforms in movies have to be “out of uniform.”
scotth on March 18, 2008 at 9:15 AM
That was worth the view. A paradoy that shows how some of the lefts ‘touchy feely’ programs are just as absurd as the parody itself.
It’s 10:00 do you know where your parents are?
MSGTAS on March 18, 2008 at 9:28 AM
Here’s a story about one of those middles east countries who commemorates a 10 year old as one of its fallen war heroes:
ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3445181,00.html
And a report on child recruitment from that same middle east country:
iansa.org/regions/nafrica/documents/child_recruitment_israel_en2004.pdf
It’s not just children. That middle east country also recruits mentally challenged citizens:
haaretz.com/hasen/spages/962337.html
Middle eastern countries are barbaric.
dave742 on March 18, 2008 at 9:45 AM
Meh. Everyone’s a critic. I found it absurd, rediculous, outrageous and hence fully chuckle worthy but then, I live the corncob free lifestyle.
ronsfi on March 18, 2008 at 9:51 AM
Precisely!
Vntnrse on March 18, 2008 at 9:58 AM
Funny… thanks for posting.
Still-A-Neocon
stillaneocon on March 18, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Some of you need to lighten up, here.
You have to understand the context. The Onion a satire site with a decidedly liberal anti-Iraq and anti-military bias. This wasn’t close to being the worst slam they have done on the military and the war.
With that in mind, this was humorous. Not ROTFLMAO funny but good for a chuckle for any of us that have had to endure take your daughter to work days at the office(complete with outrage that somebody would bring their son to a day set aside to teach little girls that men are pigs and that women can do anything they want without the help of men).
highhopes on March 18, 2008 at 10:18 AM
The kid in the parachute, priceless. Long live “The Onion”.
pueblo1032 on March 18, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Lighten up = let the opposition win.
All too often, anyway. The cultural field has been surrendered to the left, some people just aren’t comfortable enough with that to “lie back and enjoy it.”
Merovign on March 18, 2008 at 4:40 PM