FReepers make Lemonade!
Today I’m flying the South Carolina Flag … everything is relatively quiet after the Nobel Prize “selection” event of yesterday. Something very special happened at The Free Republic yesterday, the “angry conservative mob” … made some lemonade!
Relatively Quiet
The Free Republic is just about the very best conservative site to watch the news as it happens and be able to comment on it … all from a conservative perspective. Something every unusual happened the day Obama was selected as the Prize recipient. At first people, like me yesterday (“see An Embarrassing Joke!), were outraged … then the “best” of the FReepers humor started kicking in and there were literally hundreds of “vanity” posts having fun with the ridiculous event. I’ve never seen this happen before on the FR, but I’m not sure there has ever been an event quite as ludicrous as Obama being selected to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
- Note: “Vanity” posts are usually “discouraged” on the F.R. and the regulars know this … but yesterday the “moderators” had the GOOD SENSE, to let the good times roll. And because of this, the FReeper community transformed their sour anger into sweet humor. (Thank you to the moderators for your patience with us!)
The Free Republic
Humor FR Style: For “fun” below I’m posting just a few of the many comments that could be found throughout the day. People kept going back to their computer and refreshing the FR to see the latest “vanity” headline concerning Obama’s latest “Win”. What spontaneously happened was a great example of humor, satire, and patriotism all mixed together in a salve that healed many frowns and spawned many smiles. The result was, many, many people came away from yesterday with a much lighter heart. The day started out with a “gasp” and it ended with a “chuckle”. And this, because of the all-in-fun “vanity” posts on the FR. Read some of these “headlines” and you’ll see why, by the end of the day, we were all smiling.
- BREAKING: Obama Reverses Kudzu Growth
- BREAKING! IOC reconvenes and hands 2016 games to Chicago — new name is “BOlympics”
- Obama Solves 48yr Mystery: Who Put The Bomp In The Bomp Bah Bomp Bah Bomp? Will Tell All In Book.
- Barack Obama Wins $10 Million Publishers Clearing House Sweepstakes!
- Obama Replaces Lennon and Harrison, Reunites the Beatles!
- Breaking: Obama convinces Chuck Norris to abandon his tough guy ways.
- Stanton Friedman: “Alien abductions can be halted by invoking Obama’s name”
- OBAMA FINDS [IS] THE HOLY GRAIL!!!
- BREAKING: Obama Turns The Water Into Wine
- Obama Finds Nobel Prize in Cracker Jack Box
- Breaking News: Obama finds Waldo
- BREAKING: Pillsbury Bake-Off prize goes to Obama!
- Obama Breaks the Speed of Light (Einstein Rolls over in Grave)
- Breaking! Bill Ayers wins Nobel Literature prize for “Dreams From my Father”!
- BREAKING: Limbaugh Awarded Nobel Prize In Economics
- Obama re-invents the wheel.
- World Series Cancelled – Baseball Commissioner awards Series to Obama due to his “intention to win”
- USGS to create new center of the Universe medallion
- Breaking- Obama wears white after Labor Day
- BREAKING! OBAMA WINS WORLD SERIES FOR CUBS!
- Obama Gains Entire World, Loses Soul, Profit Unknown
- BREAKING: Obama inventor of the Internet….Nobel committee takes back prize given to Al Gore.
- Obama Declared Undisputed Heavyweight Champion of the World!
- Obama and Kramer Win Tony For Scarsdale Surprise
- BREAKING — Washington, DC Renamed Obama, District of Barack
- Breaking News – Barry, the Beanstalk and the Magic Peas the Saved the World from Starvation
- BREAKING: AT OBAMA’S COMMAND, JFK, RFK AND JIMI HEDRIX RESUURECTED
- BREAKING: Michelle Obama Wins Miss Universe Pageant
- Breaking! Obama’s Face Found on Mars!
- BREAKING: Obama Wins ‘Biggest Loser’
- Breaking! Obama Named Time Magazine Man of the Year 1961-2012!
- Obama to Star in ‘Casablanca’ Remake
- BREAKING NEWS – NASA To Launch Deep Space Probe To Promote Interstellar Peace
- BREAKING: NASA reveals Obama was first man on the Moon – Photo Release
- Obama Discovers the Higgs Boson, Life on Mars, and the Lost Continent of Atlantis!
- Obama Awarded with Grand Marshall of the Black Angus Cattle Day Parade
- Obama Loses Argument With Self; Yet somehow wins.
- Obama Wins PGA and PBA Championships…With The Same Ball!
- Obama Puts New Ring Around Saturn!!!
- BREAKING NEWS: Family of Archimedes gives up credit for invention. Now called the Obama Screw
- Man Healed By Touching Hem Of Obama’s Robe — Obama Awarded Nobel Prize in Medicine.
- Obama Wins Medium Coke at McDonald’s Scratchers Game, Is “Deeply Humbled”
- Breaking! Present Obama declares Peace in Afghanistan; Awards Taliban contract for Mount Rushmore
- Breaking News! Obama cures child obesity!
- Obama Destroys Deathstar. Saves Endor
- BREAKING! Obama catches Roadrunner!!!
- Breaking: Obama parts Red Sea(Moses dismissed as a poser)
- BREAKING: Obama take home the gold for the 400-meter low hurdles at the 2016 Summer Olympics (Rio).
What you can’t see here, but we could as it was happening, were the “explanations” that accompanied these “headlines” … and many of them were even more humorous than the headlines, causing laughter in more than a few “offices” and “homes” around the country. Isn’t it amazing how the “angry” crowd finds a way to smile?
The Bottom Line
Got Lemons? Make Lemonade! That’s what the FReepers did yesterday. If there is a way to turn a nonsensical event into pure humorous nonsense, the “FReepers” found a way. My personal thanks to all of them for putting a smile back on my face … and again, a very special thanks to the moderators for wisely allowing the “fun” to continue. We needed the “vent” and humor was the best medicine. Today we’ll go back to the serious news and analysis once again, but yesterday was a good “break” from the tedium of political reality.
Keep Smilin'
Yesterday’s Lesson: When you look at just the short list above (and there were many more), you come away with the feeling of just how funny the “Embarrassing Joke” of yesterday really was, we just aren’t sure “who” the joke was on! What is interesting to me as I look at yesterday’s post here on my own blog, before events unfolded on the FR, and realize now that I ended it up with a joke too. I think yesterday was a historic day for The Free Republic specifically, and the angry mob generally. We learned a great deal about ourselves, and we learned “how” we react to political insanity. Maybe there’s just more “humor” in those angry conservative mob genes than we thought! …. they thought we’d reach for the pitchforks and swastikas … SURPRISE … we reached for humor to understand the insanity!
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