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| NorK Political Humor: Such A Laughing Riot We Are Having! |
| 2005-06-11 |
| From Auntie Beeb, EFL'd: N Korea ridicules Rice, Rumsfeld In what media watchers are calling a first for North Korea, state radio in Pyongyang has turned to the medium of the comic sketch to mock two of the leading figures in the US administration. "You big running dog imperialist lug!" "To the moon, Kimmy, to the moon!!" In a special weekend feature, actors gave their own dramatised interpretation of apparent political infighting between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. The two are presented hurling comic insults at each other as they attempt to win President Bush's favour. "Trollop!" "Bootlicker!" "How funny you are, Condi! Let us laugh uproariously!!" Pyongyang Broadcasting Station announced the sketch by saying it was based on an anecdote it had spotted in a US magazine. The programme - called "The hen clucks at the White House" - marks the first time the North Korean media have been seen to use a form known as "manp'il", or "comic notes". Ms Rice, who in January included North Korea in a list of six "outposts of tyranny", is introduced as "a hen strutting around in the White House, crowing arrogantly". Later she is characterised as "a bitch running riot on the beach". ...Actually, THAT was Madeline Albright. But please - continue. Mr Rumsfeld is portrayed as having ruled the roost during President Bush's first term, but is now little more than an ageing cockerel "keeping a low profile". And the actor playing Ms Rice brands him "an old crock". Such is the animosity between the pair that the actor playing President Bush is forced to intervene to prevent feathers flying. "Just stop it!" he cries out. "A rooster fighting a hen, instead of a rooster fighting another rooster? I've never seen anything like it." Nevertheless, the script writers appear adamant that the rivalry spells trouble for the Bush administration. "As the saying goes," concludes the narrator, "when the hen crows and the rooster remains quiet, the house is doomed to ruin." "And when the Eagle flies with the Dove and you can't be with the one you love...oh, screw it." Mike |
| Posted by:Mike Kozlowski |
| #3 It's sad. Can't Speilberg and Soros help these guys out with their quality control. It's like propoganda written by a 2nd grader on LSD. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2005-06-11 20:34 |
| #2 Yeah, well, you know, it must've been sweeps. They save all the really good stuff for that... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2005-06-11 18:09 |
| #1 Sounds brilliant, like everything else that comes from nkor. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-06-11 18:03 |