Osama Bin Laden is dead and it's funny

At least that seems to be the general feeling. David Letterman (as well as others) have made jokes about Bin Laden night after night (every single night), while the audience just laughs and claps their hands like trained seals at Sea World.

I think the general consensus is that his death is not particularly sad, but I personally find it pathetic and sad that it has become a punch line/topic of many jokes on a nightly basis.

If this were some foreign media making jokes about dead American soldiers, you know the world would be pissed off.

Why does the western world's most hated man become a punch line for dumb, brainwashed idiots? Is the serious nature of our peace and well being really that malleable and influencial? Are we really at the point where our most wanted individual becomes a fucking clown for the late night crowd audience to laugh at? We're a very sick society.

 

They have very limited skills in creating jokes otherwise..

 

Maybe they are just not taking it seriously because the whole thing seems like a big joke and they are refusing to prove they actually got him. As far as I'm concerned, he's probably been dead for years, possibly even before 9/11. As if they'd just dump his body in the ocean like that, knowing all the controversy around this war and 9/11. Knowing they could have laid all this shit to rest just by going, ''we got him, here he is''.

Anyways, now that I've digressed enough, I'll agree that it's very disrespectful. To quote Martin Luther King Jr: ''I Mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy.''

 

I'm also equally distressed by Mel Brooks The Producers, making light of Hitler.

I don't think Letterman has told a joke in like 12 years.

 

It's the fact (among others) that they've (late night shows) shown video of Bin Laden and edited it into some kind of joke.

Sure, he may have been a bad guy, but why do we celebrate death? Are we that fucking disgusting of a society? Are we so extremely desensitized that we can laugh when someone is gunned down during war?

He may have been bad, but death is something to be respected, not turned into a fucking punch line.

 

Pretty much, actually I like to imagine him trying on a dress in the mirror when the Seals broke in, saying "Who's the prettiest girl? You are yes you are."

One in the chest one in the head. I don't think mass murderers deserve reverence, and neither does death. It happens to everyone. And in this case he lived and died by the sword.

I just think late night tv could come up with some better jokes.

 

Mel Brooks was a hero of World War II. He was a minesweeper, and during the Battle of the Bulge he combated loudspeakers spewing Nazi propoganda with loudspeakers of the Jewish Al Jolson.

He can say whatever the fuck he wants about Hitler and I will salute him while he does it.



That being said; I really haven't been too in tune with this whole Bin Laden thing. I wonder if Frankenstein celebrated after his monster's death..

 

Sure, he deserved to die by the sword.

I just find it terrible how we can turn that into weeks of jokes and entertainment.

 

Frankenstein actually died before his creature. The doctor died on a ship while his monster observed the body only to lament his own suffering while coming to the conclusion that his own existence was then meaningless and without purpose and the hate that drove him. He then fled into the Arctic night to die somewhere amongst the ice.

Good analogy though.

 

i haven't watched enough tv in the last couple weeks to realize this was going on.

i don't care much either way. i'm all for respecting others, but i can also see humor in pretty much anything, and if i had a motto in life, it would probably be something along the lines of "don't take shit too seriously."

 

"Rhetoric does not get you anywhere, because Hitler and Mussolini are just as good at rhetoric. But if you can bring these people down with comedy, they stand no chance." Mel Brooks

 

Letterman still has a show?

 

For years, Americans have been suffering through all kinds of bad shit because of this crazy fucker. We've earned a couple of laughs at his expense. He doesn't deserve anything better.

 

I don't think he deserves the respect of Americans, but at least some dignity if only for the fact that he is dead.

You have to remember, when there is war, there is always two sides. Yes, he was a bad man to Americans, but to others he was something else; a father, brother, friend, uncle, son, etc. and he is a dead human being.

If Dick Cheney was shot in the head by the Taliban and then they (Middle Eastern tv shows) went on to joke about it for weeks on tv shows, would the laughs be justified? Could you laugh knowing that he and many other Americans killed and injured many, many, many Middle Eastern people, including innocent children? Would the jokes and applause at their expense be justified?

 

Eh it's so like horrible that ya just need to laugh

 

Yea, personally I find Holocaust footage to be a real fucking hoot. Rwanda had some knee slappers too.

 

Yea cause that's the same thing

 

No, they're not the same at all. The Holocaust was the mass murdering of millions of Jewish people in Germany in the 1940s. The Rwanda incident was the mass murdering of almost a million people in East Africa in 1994.

This is just one guy, I guess that's why it's easier to laugh.

 

Yes exactly

 

Poland (while German occupied) is where the most lost their lives in extermination camps...