Ayn Rand in Bed with L. Ron Hubbard?
People are most honest about themselves when they're joking.
June 11, 2012 - 9:06 am
Not long ago Hustler “satirized” S.E. Cupp. Now Cracked.Com has its way with Ayn Rand by fantasizing an affair with Church of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard:
How Ayn Rand and L. Ron Hubbard Came Up With Their Big Ideas — powered by Cracked.com
Are Objectivists and Tea Partiers who adore Rand supposed to be offended? Maybe if Rand’s post-coital epiphany hadn’t been ripped from an angry high schooler’s blog rant (or a Paul Krugman column) then the satire might sting a bit more.
Two can play this game.
What if some group of non-Marxist satirists made a video of Margaret Sanger in bed with Elijah Mohammed? What kind of dialogue would those cult leaders have in plotting how they were going to screw up America?
And wouldn’t it be a ménage à trois? Might there be a third person hiding under the bed sheets?
Personally, I cannot imagine Larry Flynt in bed with anyone. Not even himself.
this is idiotic…inane…to call it sophomoric would be an insult to sophomores.
It’s becoming more and more self-evident that leftist have forgotten what satire even is.
Painful to watch.
Well the problem with your return is first you would have to erase historical fact of Martin Luther King accepting Margaret Sanger award in 1966. Second you would then have to include that all the black doctors that worked with her must have been self hating blacks. And thirdly prove that her public pronouncements denouncing racism and her work with black leaders. And finally you must prove it wasn’t James H. Hubert, a black social worker and leader of New York’s Urban League that asked Sanger to open up a clinic in Harlem back in 1929.
Also if you are going to attack Sanger for her hobby horses, then what do you say of Ayn Rand fan worship of American serial killer, William Edward Hickman, whose gruesome, sadistic dismemberment of 12-year-old girl named Marion Parker in 1927 shocked the nation.
Well, that’s Cracked.com, so big deal. The real laugher is that none of the “serious” criticism of Rand these days, from the Left and conservatism alike, is any better than these jokes.
It really is all they’ve got.
One yearns for the days when Cracked was a poor man’s MAD magazine and not an ersatz cultural rag.
Two can play at that game? But…but you’re not even funny…