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Oh I get it. Notice how Cindy doesn't look like her usual hot tranny mess.
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I get it, that's funny.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/07/...
Four members of Congress met in secret for a first look at a unique CIA program designed to wring vital information from reticent terrorism suspects in U.S. custody. For more than an hour, the bipartisan group, which included current House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), was given a virtual tour of the CIA's overseas detention sites and the harsh techniques interrogators had devised to try to make their prisoners talk.
Among the techniques described, said two officials present, was waterboarding, a practice that years later would be condemned as torture by Democrats and some Republicans on Capitol Hill. But on that day, no objections were raised. Instead, at least two lawmakers in the room asked the CIA to push harder, two U.S. officials said.
Identically, numerous key Democrats in Congress -- including Rockefeller and Harman -- were told that Bush had ordered the NSA to spy on American without warrants and outside of FISA. None of them did anything to stop it. In fact, while Rockefeller wrote a sad, hostage-like, handwritten letter to Dick Cheney in 2003 (which he sent to nobody else) -- assuring Cheney that he would keep the letter locked away "to ensure that I have a record of this communication" -- Harman was a vocal supporter of the illegal NSA program. Here's what she told Time in January, 2006 in the wake of the NYT article revealing the NSA program:
Some key Democrats even defend it. Says California's Jane Harman, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee: "I believe the program is essential to U.S. national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities."
So now we have a government which breaks the law, finds out they did something illegal and then pass a bill to protect themselves. I like it. I guess this also falls under satire.
what pisses me off is... weren't they paying attention? why didn't anyone scream about the program at the time they were informed?
If you know someone comitted a crime (a HUGE crime), and you let them get away with it later... you're abetting.
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Then, so is Fox News on a daily basis.
Limbaugh, Hannity, Ingram, Coulter, are all porn stars.
I weep for the future of this country until we reward our teachers, and enlighten our kids.
All those things in Horsey's cartoon are, you know, exaggerations, lies, stereotypes as they might be painted by an enemy? Just like the New Yorker cartoon? Get it?
The most interesting thing about Horsey's cartoon is what he's saying about the difference between the liberal media and the conservative media. It's inconceivable that the National Review would attack its own horse, but leave it to the self-flaggelating liberals at the New Yorker to shoot their own horse.
all the mccain stuff is true. His wife was (is?) a pill popper, his policies will essentially burn the Constitution, he's old, and he made the joke about 'bomb, bomb, bomb Iran'...
the only thing wrong with that cover is that it should be a picture of bush over the fireplace, not cheney... and maybe joe lieberman should be licking his toes.
what the fuck difference does it make if he's christian, Muslim, Jew, Buddist, Athiest or whatever?!!?
those 13% are the ones that voted against integration... or their parents did, and they learned to fear/hate from them.
I suppose that some of us always need someone (or some group) to hate.
I imagine if the GOP disappears... we'd have to find someone to vent our anger at as well. although, there will always be organized (read: powerhungry) religion to fear/hate.
by what he is and the fact remains he is not a Muslim. If someone has a
problem with Senator Obama because he is from African decent that would
be unfortunate but it is true fact about Senator Obama. If someone has
a problem with Obama because he is a Muslim is also unfortunate but this
is also an incorrect assessment of him.
Subject: [Disqus] Re: It's satire, get it?
http://www.creators.com/editorial_cartoons/2/42...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=7YiNw5AMshg
The Democrat would be calm, cool & collected and make the points why it is wrong. The main reason, being is that they are lies.
Of course "those" fake TV people will continue to argue the opposite.
The Democrat would say it is wrong because there are lies. And a better comic would be one with the truth.
Then out of nowhere, the Democrat will take the National Review cover and point the truth of every piece on it.
Now THAT would be brilliant!
The Obama one, none of it is true!
Cindy McCain was actually a drug addict. John McCain is actually an old guy who supports the policies of Dick Cheney.
This is the only counter-satire I've seen that gets close to what the New Yorker published: http://img185.imageshack.us/img185/5443/nymccai...
That would have helped to include the additional theme that Sin-Deed Stepford-McCane is one classy effing bitch...
After all, not every multi-millionaire with a bad dope habit would have been crafty enough to get their smack on for free by using their position with a charity to steal medications intended to obviate the bodily sufferings of the poor.
HOWEVER the difference is the Obama's cover DID NOT have ANY TRUTH. Barack is NOT a Muslim, neither of them are or have ever been
terrorists. There is NO connection to Osama Bin Laden. They both are patriotic NOT flag burners.
NO satire (since NO truth), offensive sterotyping (most Muslims are not terrorists) AND re-playing the lies and smears that they have been forced OVER and OVER again to combat. NOW they have to do it AGAIN OVER AND OVER AGAIN since it was regurgitated.
The fake National Review cover is only exaggeration and, while it may be amusing, doesn't qualify as satire. Everything depicted in the NR cover is based on fact and can be stretched to a point that may be funny, but it will never be satire.
For the New Yorker to do a satirical cover on McCain they would have to portray him as something he isn't - a rabidly drugged-out, hippy peacenik still living in the '60 (still living in the '60's may be partially true) say, and giving the Black Power salute during his Inaugeration Parade. Or, better yet, show a cow with McCain's face in a corral. The cow is looking at a cowboy (GWB) who has branded it (mavericks are unbranded cattle). That might qualify as satire since McCain has spent his entire career pretending to be a political maverick while he never has been. Not certain, though.
But to be an "exact" counterpart of the Obama cover, it would have to be based on the FALSE images the left is trying to spread to convince voters that McCain isn't what he says he is. The left isn't doing that; it's operating on the presumption that simply telling the TRUTH about McCain will convince voters he isn't what he says he is.
As for the NYer cover reinforcing beliefs held by some people about the Obamas; most of those people would be digging frantically to find something else anti-Obama if the right weren't so accomodating.