Monday, March 22, 2010

Parody - Tough Decision

As I began to consider possible sources for this project, I realized that there is so much I would love to ridicule but few that are logistically probable considering the medium. Some topics would be better criticized as a video while others as posters or advertisements. But here is a list of topics or sources I considered followed by my tentative decision.

Scientology
http://www.scientology.org
Hail Xenu! These people are beyond belief. I mean, they know it's a joke right? Do us all a favor and take a one way ticket to jupiter on one of those fancy galactic DC-8s. L Ron Hubbard was a pedophile, I think that's enough said.

Religious Homophobics
http://www.godhatesfags.com
Wow. This must be seen to be believed. The words inflammatory and vile come to mind. My personal reaction is similar to what I would feel seeing a Neo-Nazi or other extremist or hatred based website.

PETA
http://www.peta.org
Extremists. I am in support of stopping animal violence, and these people make everyone look bad. Sure they look caring on the surface but that nutcase Ingrid Nelson is borderline terrorist. PETA has funded and trained people to firebomb and otherwise act violently to various ends. Not only that but they have been proven to kill most of the adoptable animals they claim they are saving. They have a freezer in their headquarters to keep the bodies! http://www.petakillsanimals.com

NASA
http://www.nasa.gov
I love space. I greatly respect astronauts and as a kid there was a time where I wanted to be one. But NASA in the past few decades has ultimately become a workhorse commissioned by the government. The military and government agencies commission NASA regularly to create their modules or weapons of war. Obviously not all their projects are malignant, but let's face it they're not exactly making huge strides towards revolutionary changes. The possibility of mining asteroids for incredible amounts of resources has been one of the many goals of furthering space exploration, and yet NASA doesn't even consider this as a possibility...yet they want to colonize Mars. They are highly misguided and have sadly fallen short of many people's expectations. I don't think that anyone expected that we'd be sending manned missions out beyond the stars by now, but in 40 years the best we've done in getting rich amounts of new data is sending two robots to Mars and now one is stuck. While this feat is very exciting and has proven beneficial in a few ways, in the grand scheme of things it really hasn't done much for us here on Earth, and one of the purposes of space exploration is to also help propagate and develop new ideas on Earth.

Anti-Evolution
http://www.creationist.net
There's not much to say to this nonsense except that it's laughable at best and no one important believes it right? EHH. Two words. President Bush. That's sad.

Bill O'Reilly
http://www.billoreilly.com
I'm sorry if anyone likes him. I'm not a democrat, I'm not a republican, I make my own decisions based on what is true or right. This guy makes angry irrational judgements based on his own arbitrary indoctrinations. He's far too angry and aggressive as well as downright disrespectful of anyone he doesn't understand. He's not always wrong, but he is inflammatory.

Glenn Beck
http://www.glennbeck.com
I have basically the same opinion of Glenn Beck as I do Bill O'Reilly. Glenn is like O'Reilly Lite, with just a pinch of crazy instead of hotheaded anger.

My decision was to tentatively go with a site mocking Bill O'Reilly, or Glenn Beck, possibly and what I thought might work better is to do a mashup of the two, sort of a mock team-up and then ridicule them viciously. I'm guessing that with all the sound bites and videos on the net as well as quotes and merchandise there will be no lack of content, and since they humiliate themselves on a daily basis on television there is always new content to mock.

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