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Annoyed by Beck's Take on Social Justice? Write a Haiku

'Hurling expensive / coffee at the expensive / TV screen now, Ahhh'

By Harry Kimball,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 25, 2010 10:38 AM CDT

(Newser) – Searching for a unusual way to respond to Glenn Beck’s comments on “social justice,” the Jewish Funds for Justice settled on…haiku. “We wanted to do something that showed some wit, some humor, is little bit cathartic, and is highly participatory,” Mik Moore tells the Daily Beast. The site is HaikuGlennBeck.com, and its banner reads “Haik U, Glenn Beck!”

Moore, you may remember, organized the Great Schlep in 2008, which urged young Jews to convince their grandparents in Florida to vote for President Obama. Some examples of outrage in the Japanese poetic form: “ Hurling expensive / coffee at the expensive / TV screen now, Ahhh,” from Christopher Buckley. From Katie Halper: “In Jesus’s Time / Camels were really teeny / And needle’s eyes HUGE.”

Does Glenn Beck have one?
Does Glenn Beck have one?   (AP Photo)
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The site's banner.   (HaikuGlennBeck.com)
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fliberals
Apr 16, 2010 7:15 PM CDT
This just in, Monkeys evolved from Liberals. I love when liberals try to make the case that they are compassionate. There is simply NOTHING compassionate, intelligent, moral or American about liberalism. Some compassion, chaining minorities to a lifetime of poverty. Any black person in America today, that is in poverty, can thank the Dummycrat party for it. They bought and paid for it. Notice how all those who profess to care about the black community like Jesse Jackass, Al Sharpton and the congressional black caucass, have all gotten rich while the black community remains in poverty. You have Jackson and Sharpton who dare call themselves Reverands. These two are charlitans of the highest order and have consistantly miss quoted the Bible. To the congrassional black causes and the two charlitans, Jesus has a messege for you: "I never knew you".

The definition of Liberalism: Believing what you want to believe regardless of the facts.

I was going to say that liberalism was puke but that would be an insult to puke!!!
fliberals
Apr 16, 2010 6:45 PM CDT
Libralism was invented so that the week minded and easily duped would have something to believe in.

Bawney Fwank and Andewson Coopew are REAL teabaggers, pretty much like all liberal limp wristed men.

Oh yeah, and Keith (Little Girl - No Rating) Obewmann is Bill O'Reilly's BITCH!!
Illuminated_One
Mar 25, 2010 4:36 PM CDT
Sad that Americans aren't taught the difference between Haiku and Senryu.

Haikus refer to nature and there and nothing natural about Beck - He is fake.

Senryus apply because Beck is often comical and there is much to satirize.

Definition of Haiku
1) An unrhymed Japanese poem recording the essence of a moment. Nature is combined with human nature. It usually consists of three lines of 5/7/5 (5 kana in the first line, 7 kana in the second line, and 5 kana in the third line) totaling seventeen kana.
2) A foreign adaptation of 1, usually written in three lines totaling 17 syllables or LESS.

Definition of Senryu
1) A Japanese poem similar in structure to haiku, but more concerned with human nature, and is often humorous or satiric -- usually in three lines of seventeen kana.

2) A foreign adaptation of 1, usually written in three lines of 17 syllables or LESS.

 
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