Burt Prelutsky is troubled:
- Recently, two events took place that bode ill for the future of America. The first of these was the election, which saw such buffoons as Nancy Pelosi, Charles Rangel and Harry Reid, assume power and influence they are no better equipped to handle than Daffy Duck or Elmer Fudd.
Fudd was the old round-faced man who was always shooting people in the face while hunting, right ? Yeah, I think we've got more than enough of those guys.
- The second event was the release of the movie, “Borat.†Of the two, “Borat†is probably the more troubling. After all, thinking adults can entertain opposing points of view when it comes to such things as Iraq, the economy and even affirmative action, but I'm afraid that the astonishing box office success of this movie heralds the end of western civilization as we have known it.
Uh oh. There's a bad moon on the rise and the end times draw near ! Some old guy thinks the world is going to hell in a handbasket because people these days are just too dumb!
- A few of my friends, knowing what a low tolerance I have for dumb movies, were surprised that I went to see it. Well, naturally I knew that the movie was in bad taste, but I thought that just meant that it trampled all over the tender sensibilities of those who adhere to the strictest tenets of political correctness. I thought that it merely made fun of feminists, minorities and other sacred cows. Instead, I found it was filled with bathroom humor of the first grade level. I would have thought its natural audience would be six-year-olds.
Six year olds ? I think you'd have to be at least ten to truly appreciate the humor in watching a bunch of bigoted misogynistic rednecks letting their inner hate run free on camera. And I'm not sure even a ten year old would understand what's funny about a stadium full of people cheering when Borat says he wants Bush to drink the blood of all the Iraqis.
- To my mind at least, it's no coincidence that the name Borat has the same root as such words as bore, boor, bozo and brat.
Right. Now that's the kind of stuff a six-year-old would find amusing.
I thought that it merely made fun of feminists, minorities and other sacred cows.
Leaving out the description of feminists as any kind of cow — “merely” made fun of “minorities”? Oh wait, I forgot. Of course, making fun of people who not only are different from you, but don’t have the power or privilege that you have, why, that’s real hilarity! Comedy gold!
Jeez, what a tool.