If this story in the Telegraph is to be believed, US marines guarding Saddam Hussein during his captivity claim to have forced the deposed dictator to watch South Park: Bigger, Longer And Uncut “over and over again” — “which is a pretty funny thought,” according to movie’s co-creator, Matt Stone
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Firstly – ROFLMAO
Secondly – I’m thinking that will not be the response of many Baathist/Sunni’s – or fundie Muslims in general.
As much as the guy was hated, I’d think there might be a lot of Iraqis who’d consider that disrespectful. Explaining the movie to them so they understood the context might be pretty funny though…
Surely we can all agree that it indeed was disrespectful. The question is whether one finds the disrespectfulness funny (ie: satirical) 0r takes offence?
Many I fear, missed the day the intellegent designer was handing out the satirical genes though…
Probably the same ones suffering from an irony deficiency.
I can appreciate the humour, crude as it may be, in satirizing Saddam. I was in Kuwait when Saddam occupied it, so jokes at the his expense play to my prejudices.
However, I’m uncomfortable with the fact that the man was forced to watch this movie. Satirizing a dictator is one thing, but forcing humiliation on a prisoner, even the worst of humanity (as Saddam may well have been), isn’t really funny to me.