• About Kathy Shaidle
  • Kathy Shaidle: Donate
  • Kathy Shaidle: Privacy policy

5 Feet of Fury

Kathy Shaidle's blog. Est. 2000

Shock! Richard Dawkins and his cultists turns out to be humourless morons

July 16, 2008 By admin

Turns out God-fearing, gun-toting “Middle Americans” aren’t the only ones “not sophisticated enough to appreciate satire.”

How embarrassing (do read the whole thing…)

That incident came rushing back to me a while back as I read the Vox Popoli blog, which seems to have been one of the first to have posted this hilariously subversive “Dick to the Dawk” video spoofing the arrogance of Richard Dawkins and his New Atheist devotees.

Now it frankly never occurred to me that anybody—wherever you come down on the “Intelligent Design vs. The New Atheists” quarrel (I think they both have big problems)—could watch that video and not know that it was a satire of Dawkins and the New Atheists (it is, in fact, transparently the work of viral advertisers for [the Ben Stein movie] Expelled).

However, I discovered that, thanks to the same sort of bizarre lack of elementary social aptitude that Leakey displayed in the film I saw decades ago, the humor and satire are indeed lost on… Richard Dawkins.

I don’t mean that Dawkins got angry about being spoofed. I mean that Dawkins was too thick to figure out if he was being spoofed or not. On his blog, after discovering the video, he pleads for enlightenment from his fellow Brights:

    If anyone can understand a single word of this, don’t bother to translate, just tell me whose side it’s on.

That would be funny enough, given that Dawkins is our natural moral and intellectual superior, according to his own press releases. But the hilarious part is the response of the Brights who chorus into his combox to assure him and each other that the video is, in fact, on “their side”…

More from my site

  • ‘But according to many, Smith’s Cherokee identity is a complete sham’‘But according to many, Smith’s Cherokee identity is a complete sham’
  • Today’s Islamophobic post!Today’s Islamophobic post!
  • ‘I’m here to sing with the King of the Jews. Who could ask for anything more?’‘I’m here to sing with the King of the Jews. Who could ask for anything more?’
  • Islam’s greatest invention? The ‘Palestinian’ (video)Islam’s greatest invention? The ‘Palestinian’ (video)

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: :entry:fivefeet-2008-07-16-0009

« “Well, a satirical piece in the Times is one thing, but bricks and baseball bats really gets right to the point”
Omar Khadar: the poor little boy you feel sorry for »
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Archives

Copyright © 2023 · Magazine Pro Theme On Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in