mmonk
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:11 PM
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Why would a cartoonist think the shooting by police of the chimpanzee that |
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Edited on Fri Feb-20-09 04:12 PM by mmonk
was on a rampage would make a good analogy in any way of the stimulus bill and how would the idea even come to the person's mind?
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Cant trust em
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:14 PM
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1. Seriously. If this is commentary, then what's the comment? |
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I don't see any point being made here.
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:16 PM
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:16 PM
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2. A convenient excuse to put their racial bullshit into print..... |
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no other reason in my mind.
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:16 PM
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Reference some of the guy's other work. It's some pretty ugly-spirited stuff.
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:16 PM
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5. Hey! That's what I've been sayin' |
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You're part of that Bush spyin' on my computer thingie aren't you! x(
:rofl:
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mmonk
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:19 PM
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:17 PM
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6. honestly, I am as stumped by this silly lame way to try to excuse |
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the inexcusable as you are. I was enraged all of yesterday about this, and today that damn paper is still in business. Go figure.
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:18 PM
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7. He also tied the stimulus bill to octomom and A-Rod. |
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We're not dealing with some sort of intellectual luminary here, but his gimmickry has been fairly consistent.
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:21 PM
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9. why would he think that Octomom would make a good analogy? IT'S HIS SCHTICK |
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Edited on Fri Feb-20-09 04:23 PM by KittyWampus
he's a hack with an old, outworn formula.
Take whatever sensational story is getting play and use that as a framework for whatever political story you're supposedly skewering.
This has been explained MULTIPLE times and his archives freaking prove it.
Plus, there's the cultural image of an infinite number of monkeys would eventually type a stimulus bill...
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:26 PM
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13. It takes a really strange mind to tie it together. |
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It's not something that occurs which one can say "wow, what a great analogy" when they hear of the incident.
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:30 PM
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14. it's not a meaningful analogy. It's just shitty comic writing. ZERO creativity. It's completely |
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Edited on Fri Feb-20-09 04:35 PM by KittyWampus
formulaic. Add water and mix.
You could probably write a computer program to generate his cartoons they are so predictable.
A DU'er could probably write a computer program that would generate BETTER cartoons using even more sophisticated parameters.
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:23 PM
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10. Looked like he was saying a (crazed) monkey must have wrote the stimulus bill?... |
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Edited on Fri Feb-20-09 04:24 PM by jmg257
Seemed to be comparing intelligence levels.
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:24 PM
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11. I don't get that either. It stumped me. |
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:25 PM
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12. The cartoon isn't even funny and it doesn't make sense, kind of like... |
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...this classic from THE ONION (2004) http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39320Be sure to enlarge the photo - hilarious!
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Fri Feb-20-09 04:40 PM
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15. That has been the $64 question for me since the beginning. |
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Edited on Fri Feb-20-09 04:42 PM by Seeking Serenity
I'll admit, I didn't see any racism in the cartoon when I first saw it, unlike many others, but I was struck by the banality and the ueber-tangential connection between these two admittedly recent but altogether unrelated events.
My thought was that the cartoonist, of whom I was unaware until this brou-ha-ha, was trying to make the the rather stupid argument that the stimulus bill was so bad that it could only have written by an order of lower primates. Epic. Fail.
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