Obama’s Skin: White, or Black – It’s Still Too Thin
Geesh! I guess this is what we have to look forward to with Obama’s "new politics." Is there anything he isn’t prepared to be outraged over? I thought satire was acceptable humor within the political realm? Not so much when it comes to the media-anointed one and his AK-47 toting spouse. But why did they leave out the little suicide vests for the kids?? ; )
Oh, and lest someone else forget to point it out … all humor has its basis in reality. Evidently the article doesn’t, as it suggests the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy has been painting Obama to fit the cover. Since when has Hillary been considered part of that?
The Obama campaign is condemning as “tasteless and offensive” a New Yorker magazine cover that depicts Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) in a turban, fist-bumping his gun-slinging wife.
An American flag burns in their fireplace.
The New Yorker says it’s satire.
Obama believes jihad is a result of U.S. foreign policy
It’s more of the same Democratic party line – blame America first. This guy is dangerous! Related “must read”: Making It: How Chicago shaped Obama (he’s just a typical conniving, manipulative, say-anything- and-do-anything-to-get-elected, lying, south …
Obambi and Mrs. Shrew shouldn’t take things so personal-like, ya know… unless it is a case of “if the shoe fits, wear it”.
He’s mad because he was saving that flag for little Billy Ayers to wipe his feet on when he comes over.
What is so different about this satire vs the countless similar digs at President Bush over the past 8 years.
Next he will just use his brainless followers and leftist media hacks to claim that “Dem damn racist’s doin’ dey shit again!
Mr. “Chope” better get use to it, this is only the beginning!
The picture of Michelle is way to funny. Typical Michelle though, she chose the AK-47 instead of a gun made by those white, bitter, clingy Americans.
This one can’t be good for the kids!
Now, now, we need to learn to play well with others. Oh, those millions of cartoons of George Bush as a monkey, as Hitler, as a cowboy, as Alfred E. Newman, etc, etc? Never mind.
“The demise of William Tweed, a New York politician in the 1870s, caused by the attention paid to him by Thomas Nast, a political cartoonist was “perhaps the defining moment” in American political cartooning (Fischer, 7).
Tweed is attributed with exclaiming, “‘Stop them damned pictures. I don’t care so much what the papers say about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see pictures!’”
Fred Beloit=Anne=Sad Old Loser in a Trailer
Enjoy those golden years, patriot!
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Fred Beloit=Anne=Sad Old Loser in a Trailer
Enjoy those golden years, patriot!
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Now this here is comedy gold: BobinStamford attempting to call someone out for sockpuppetry….
HAW HAW HAW HAW!!!
The Boob thinks Anne and I are the same person? No. Now Miss Snarky Doucher (say Doo-SHAY)is a separate question altogether.
Now, Mr. Boob, how could Mr. Beloit be sad when a personage of your quality notices him? Hhhmmm?
seek, I read this in a review of a book about jokes in Friday’s WSJ. “What is an Irish homosexual? A man who prefers women to whiskey.”
Wouldn’t this be funnier if the word sissy were substituted for homosexual? Or no?
I actually agree that the Obama folks totally whiffed on this one. The cartoon is obvious satire. And it’s actually very good satire because it perfectly mocks every superstitious, backward, paranoid, dishonest, bigoted, and flatly stupid right-wing smear leveled against Obama. That right-wingers don’t understand satire is common place. That the Obama camp didn’t get this one, is kind of lame. The good news is that Obama will never run out of opportunities to mock right-wing stupidity.
“..flatly stupid right-wing smear..”
But chimp, Bushitler, scrub, Halibushitlerburton and all the other Leftist tripe dished out over the past 8 years passes your inspection, eh, THC? For you to even mention…mention…and I mean mention this subject proves what a hypocritical bastard you are. Go to hell, you ingrate.
“– I thought satire was acceptable humor within the political realm? –”
Satire, yes. But let’s get real, Dan. You don’t take that cover as satire at all. Besides, Obama’s been called on to condemn his pastor, various members of his staff, fellow Senators, General Clark, various news organizations and bloggers, potential VP candidates, his wife, and himself. All of a sudden, he’s condemning something and you start throwing up objections?
Perhaps we can get J. Sidney McCain III to condemn Obama’s condemnation of the New Yorker cover. Then when can really have fun in indulging in trivial bullshit. Just so long as we don’t talk about tax policy or the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Because on those issues, you’re screwed.
“”..flatly stupid right-wing smear..”
“But chimp, Bushitler, scrub, Halibushitlerburton and all the other Leftist tripe dished out over the past 8 years passes your inspection, eh, THC? For you to even mention…mention…and I mean mention this subject proves what a hypocritical bastard you are. Go to hell, you ingrate.”
Tisk tisk tisk. This must be the *serious*, *reasoned*, and *civil* argument I’ve read so much about. If you can “prove” that “chip, Bushitler, Halibushitlerburton, and all the other Leftist tripe” you mentioned are sentiments I’ve espoused, rather than merely what the voices in your head (and Rush Limpbaugh) tell you, then you might have a point.
Absent that, yes I WOULD like fries with that, please.
Can anyone name a good contemporary satirist?
“– Can anyone name a good contemporary satirist? –”
Steven Colbert, much? You’ll be hard-pressed to find his conservative counterpart. The Half-Hour News Hour kinda died in vitro.
If you’re looking for blogs, I’d suggest Jonathan Swift.
http://jonswift.blogspot.com/
His only flaw is his failure to blog more often.
In other news
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZjI5MWE3ZDJhZGE4MmZiMTcwOGEyYmNjOTI3YzNhYWI=
John McCain kinda-sorta defends Barack Obama and throws his own thin-skinned condemnation into the ring.
“– On the record, the McCain campaign adds: “We completely agree with the Obama campaign, it’s tasteless and offensive.” –”
ZOMG! Is there anything he isn’t prepared to be outraged over? I thought satire was acceptable humor within the political realm?
I don’t think Colbert is funny. I took a quick look at Swift, he seems to be mildly amusing. I like Scott Ott at http://www.scrappleface.com.
Too bad all the politicos don’t have any sense of humor. Also how many people actually read the New Yorker. If the MSM hadn’t picked up on this nobody beyond NYC would even have noticed. Mildly amusing satire. A big So What?
My latest is a strong dislike for all politicians and preachers. And more and more I am seeing they come from the same pond scum and defective gene pool. I hated these guys and gals in high school and I hate them now. So obviously wanting someone to love them. They will say and do ANYTHING.
Listening to Bill Clinton’s speech to the National Governors Conference he was as usual throwing zillions of suspect statistics around. Then it hit me. He makes this stuff(the statistics) up as he goes along.
Just like that Senator in the Manchurian Candidate saying there are 57 communist homosexuals in the State Dept. Where did he get the figure 57? From a Heinz ketchup bottle. You can’t make this stuff up.
You don’t come here for serious, reasoned and civil discourse, you hypocrite, and you never have. Let me see…your favorite term is wingnut. Wow, now that’s serious and reasoned, and so civil.
And if you could read, I never accused you of espousing any of those sentiments, just not repudiating the people who do say them. Kinda leaves the impression that you approve of same, which makes you a hypocritical bastard. As for your french fries, I just wish I had the chance, I’d spit in them. And on you. You ingrate.
After what the Democrats have done for the past few years, Obama should be fair game for whatever insults, caricatures, cartoons and satire that can be used against him on the part of Republicans and Independents. I know I will enjoy that aspect of his reign, if he in fact wins. I’m sure the “supporters of free speech” on the Left will do everything in their power to suppress it. That’s a given.
Anyone with a screenname as childish as ‘shockwave’ deserves no gratitude. What a tool…
Totally off-topic, but since it is out there…
“— Anyone with a screenname as childish as ‘shockwave’ —”
Not for nothing, but Shockwave as a Transformers (1980′s cartoon character) was kinda cool. I mean, way underused as a character, but he was a 40′ tall robot that turned into a giant 40′ flying blaster gun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockwave_(Transformers)
Anyone whose whole comment life on this blog consists of one-liners on the level of morons has no business judging anyone, chris. I take you about as serious as I would a worm. Good for putting on a fishhook, living in manure, and improving the soil…actually, a worm is infinitely superior to you and your alter ego Boob.
Choke on it, arugula-boy…
check out what The Idiot Directory has on the presidental candidates
especially obama fighting with hillary
http://www.theidiotdirectory.com
“– Not for nothing, but Shockwave as a Transformers (1980′s cartoon character) was kinda cool. –”
Wow. Ten nerd points to Seek. I never thought you would manage to score any of those. Congrats, dude.
Still, I don’t think anyone on these boards has room to crack wise at another man’s anonymous internet handle. The pun abuse in the sites title precludes any of that.
“– I don’t think Colbert is funny. –”
Well, no one is perfect.
“– After what the Democrats have done for the past few years, Obama should be fair game for whatever insults, caricatures, cartoons and satire that can be used against him on the part of Republicans and Independents. –”
The Democrats have done a horrible job of running the executive branch the last 2 years. I agree. And the New Yorker is definitely a right wing publication and in no way a part of the villified “liberal media”. Making fun of the President is a time-honored tradition in American politics, so I fully encourage Obama to be lampooned to our hearts’ content.
Three cheers.
“– You don’t come here for serious, reasoned and civil discourse, you hypocrite, and you never have. –”
Also, Mr. Kettle, I call you black! Black I say! Black! Black! Black!
More bad news for rednecks
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/07/14/busch.reax/index.html
It’s been downhill for them since #3 hit the wall.
“— Wow. Ten nerd points to Seek. I never thought you would manage to score any of those. Congrats, dude. —”
Somehow, I manage with my inner nerd, I reckon. I’m a bit of a fan of the various Dr. Who series as well. Now a TARDIS, that’s the way to get around both time and town.
As for the Budweiser/InBev deal:
I hope it results in an improvement. InBev makes Stella Artois, a decent brew if not particularly outstanding.
As for the Bud and Bud Lite, that stuff is cheap for a reason. I haven’t tormented myself by drinking that mule-urine laced sludge since the early 1990s, if I recall correctly.
InBev should bring some quality to the American beer mass-production market – some of my faves include Franziskaner Hefe-Weißen and the somewhat more rare (in the US) Castlemaine XXXX (a very good Aussie bitter lager).
And for good measure, these non-InBev beers rate pretty well in my book:
(Warsteiner) König Ludwig Dunkel
Spaten Optimator (Doppelbock)
Hacker-Pschorr
Bitburger-Pils
Guinness Stout
Kirin Lager
Asahi
… But lest I seem unduly down upon US brews, there are some good American beers:
Sam Adams
Fat Tire Amber Ale (mostly available in the Mountain and Pacific Coast states, harder to get here)
Pete’s Strawberry Blonde
And my all-time favourite (and American brew) : Yuengling Dark-Brewed Porter
Shame on the New Yorker! How dare they print that satire of Obama and his wife on their cover…and forget to include Michelle wearing her “Che” T-shirt, and a sign over the mantlepiece reading (no, not “Home Sweet Home”, but): “God Damn America” – as the Obamas concurred from the pews at Trinity with Rev. Wright for 20 years!
Satire or not, the cartoon simply lampoons Obama’s true “sympathies”.
Althor
Best.Brewer.In.America
http://www.dogfish.com/
Check it out.
Damn, the subject of beer finally brought forth a sensible comment from Bob. I know God exists, because this is a miracle!
Ah, beer… the great uniter.
“Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
– Benjamin Franklin