MAD Magazine: The Unabridged NRA Press Release

[tuvor]

[CrispyQ]

1. FUCK THE NRA. -nt

[Care Acutely]

10. + 1000

[ProudProgressiveNow]

19. +1 nt

[xtraxritical]

31. It should have been done in red and blue not red and black.

[Cheap_Trick]

32. with a rusty chainsaw

sideways

[ellisonz]

54. +5

[hlthe2b]

2. How did the writers at Mad Magazine read my mind?

Spooky....

[MrModerate]

18. No, I think they got their hands on the actual first draft. n/t

[lastlib]

20. .

K & R!

[ReRe]

33. "Every time hiistory repeats itself....

.... the price goes up." ~Anon

[liberalhistorian]

44. Wow, that is so true!

I'll have to remember that one.

[ReRe]

47. It's so true....

...jot it down and tape it to your computer or lay it there with all that other stuff that's stacked up on your desk. Better yet, add it to your sig line...

[navarth]

49. that really is excellent, may I borrow that too?

"Every time history repeats itself the price goes up." ~Anon

realy quite good.

I'd like to add that to my quote collection. I get some good ones here on DU.

[ReRe]

51. Absolutely!

Have at it. Just put "~Anon" behind it. I think I seen it on a description of what was showing on a FreespeachTV documentary one time and jotted it down.

[bongbong]

3. Not your Grandfather's Mad magazine

It's now very political, and very Liberal.

[MarianJack]

5. I've been reading MAD for almost 50 years and...

...I seem to remember it always having a bit of a liberal flavor. They certainly were opposed to the Vietnam War!

PEACE!

[Brother Buzz]

15. Mad magazine has always been an equal opportunity lampooner

[AlbertCat]

22. Mad magazine has always been an equal opportunity lampooner

Indeed.

It's just conservatives have been setting themselves up for numerous punchlines way more than liberals... since the beginning of time.

[Brother Buzz]

25. Indeed!

GMTA

[alfredo]

53. The political right accused Mad as being Communist.

The more they complained, the more their mag sold.

[jmowreader]

55. It was always a liberal political magazine

Barry Goldwater and Dick Nixon were frequent targets.

[MarianJack]

4. As always,...

...MAD Magazinw NAILS it!

[Surya Gayatri]

6. Alfred E. Newman brilliantly debunks hypocrisy once again!

[quinnox]

7. K&R, spot on

[tilsammans]

8. Spot ON!

Thank you, Usual Gang of Idiots.

[NICO9000]

9. I've been subscribing for years now

I'm 53 and it never fails to tickle my funny bone just like it did when I was a smart-ass kid. Their humor is pretty edgy for a magazine geared towards teens. In fact, were it not for Creem, Mad and National Lampoon in the 70s, I might have actually made something of myself!

[hifiguy]

13. MAD prepared us boomers for the NatLamp and

Creem. MAD wised up generations of kids to hypocrisy and stupidity in the adult world.

[malaise]

23. Always loved MAD

[Brother Buzz]

36. It was a very smooth segue from Mad to National Lampoon

I was the perfect age when National Lampoon splashed. Odd, I never followed CREEM.

[hifiguy]

37. Me too. I picked up my first MAD at 8 or 9 in the mid 1960s

and my first Lampoon at 15 or 16 in the very early 1970s. Even read them both for a while.

[Brother Buzz]

43. A couple of years ago I purchased a copy of Mad AND a National Enquirer for a camping trip

I'd never read past the front cover of a National Enquirer at the market. Boy, was I was entertained for hours!

Now, Mad was also fun, and basically the same as I remembered it from my childhood because they were using the same template from decades ago, just updated a bit; the more things change, the more they stay the same.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. And if you fold that length-wise just right it says

The Nation's
gun and ammo
sales are up
and that makes
us very happy
Keep shooting
and killing folks.
Happiness is a
w a r m g u n.

[annabanana]

29. HA!

good one

[hifiguy]

12. MAD Magazine - Exposing hypocrisy and debunking

idiocy for 60 years. Long may they run.

[kimbutgar]

14. I love Mad Magazine

It was one of the first magazines I ever read as an early reader. I picked it up several years ago to get my son to read and I got hooked again. Now my son, husband, my sister and myself read it. It is so right on and truthful in their satire. This is another example of their brilliance in cutting though the NRA crap announcement and adding the real intention.

[Freddie]

35. My love of reading is due to Mad magazine

When I was 5 (a very long time ago) and couldn't read yet my teenage cousin gave me a huge box of back issues. I spent hours laughing at the funny pictures and couldn't wait to learn how to read so I could "get" what the pictures were about. One of my best childhood memories was of my Dad stopping at the newsstand to get me each month's issue when it first came out.

[liberalhistorian]

16. Oh, wow, that is perfect!

I gotta figure out how to share that on FB, lol.

[nadinbrzezinski]

41. Save it to file

It's a JPEG, and upload as normal.

[triplepoint]

17. I'm MAD as Hell & I'm Not Going to Take It Anymore!

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[russspeakeasy]

21. This deserves bookmarking.

[gtar100]

24. They are reading between the lines based on exactly how the NRA has been acting all along.

It's funny except for the fact that everything they've added to that NRA statement can all be sourced back to the NRA itself. They aren't stretching the truth one bit, merely inserting it.

The only thing the NRA could say *and do* on the 21st that would make any real difference is if they pledged to stop all lobbying efforts on behalf of weapons manufacturers and limited all activity to gun safety classes.

Still wouldn't be enough to wipe the blood of their hands, though.

[annabanana]

26. Glad to see that M(ind) MAD still has some

moxie. I seem to remember that they had gone soft for a coupla years.

[Dawson Leery]

27. kick

[TheBlackAdder]

28. Yes, they are prepared to offer meaningful contributions... to stall for time...

Then, when this topic simmers down in a few weeks, like the other mass shootings... they won't offer anything.

[Enrique]

30. instant classic

[ReRe]

34. Go MAD

K&R

[toby jo]

38. Young minds read this stuff - like that a lot

[nadinbrzezinski]

39. A keeper

[Initech]

40. Correction: On December 21st four days before Christmas....

So we can weasel out of this by scaring the shit out of people who will be more afraid about their "guns being taken away" than they will see the big picture here and gun sales will shoot through the roof (no pun intended).

[REP]

42. It's crackers to slip a rozzer the dropsy in snide: who knew MAD was still relevant?

[mikelewis]

45. NRA's slogan: "You can have my gun when you pry it out of the cold dead hands of our children."

Fucking demons...

[madinmaryland]

46. So True. FUCK THE NRA!

[Historic NY]

48. Mad, always been great. Happy to say I knew a few of the old guys there...

Patriots all with pen & ink come crunch time.

[klook]

50. Bill Gaines would be proud.

Brilliant. Thanks, MAD.

[NBachers]

52. Humor in a Jugular Vein

[Iwillnevergiveup]

56. Uh oh

I've missed a lot over the years - time to resubscribe.

K&R

[Javaman]

57. NRA schedules a news conference for the 21st on the hope that the Mayans were correct. nt

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[jonthebru]

58. The only term I would add somewhere here is:

"Wack-a-doodle dumb fucks!"