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| 2008-07-14 |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #52 Hey I protest... /me...stomps on the floor like a kid having a tantrum! Because I worked all day I missed kicking the the ASSHAT in the head~! [or ass... same difference! /Heh..Let's take up a collection and send Aris to Git-Mo for the duration. |
| Posted by: Red Dawg 2008-07-14 23:53 |
| #51 What I find amusing is that we have had 8 years of "Bush as a Chimp" cartoons in the same magazine, and "Full Metal McCain" last month. Yet Obama-messiah generates screams of outrage from the left when he is caricatured in a similar fashion. Assholes. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2008-07-14 23:52 |
| #50 "I'm not as educated as you are, I'm quite sure" I'm quite sure you're not either...& I could care less about your use of language, syntax or whatever else & I make more then my share of typos (PIMF). Bottomline: you do the same high & mighty grab, twist & pull disingenuous bullshit arguing everytime - and when someone calls you on it you divert to some other tangent - a one trick pony - it's tedious & tiring which is why you are probably poop listed. |
| Posted by: Deadeye Choluck2323 aka Broadhead6 2008-07-14 23:51 |
| #49 Don't go away mad, Air-ass - just go away. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-07-14 22:34 |
| #48 damn.... I took the bait. Well a final "Fuck You and Adieu", Ar*s |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-07-14 22:10 |
| #47 I only objected to an marginlly-educated smarmy cyber-tourist using it, because they saw Yul Brynner in Westworld, and thought it was cooool. You are unwanted here, yet you continue to pathetically try and inject your vacuous stupidity. "Go away".... but you've heard that before, haven't you? You're like a pathetic wanna-be cyber-stalker, but you have no influence, no power, and a real ego-need. Your boyfriend leave you? Buh-bye |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-07-14 22:03 |
| #46 Frank, I love to be lectured on language by Americans who claim that we should only be using the King's English. I never understood why you felt so offended by my usage of "y'all". I never used it to mock, only to distinguish between plural and singular. I even told you where I'd picked it up from - from an American friend of mine from Georgia. Deadeye -- never seen "Good Will Hunting", and never read dissertations on Nietze. I'm not as educated as you are, I'm quite sure: After all I'm regularly bashed for my English not being exactly up to Frank G's Oxfordian standards, since I tend to prefer clarity and accuracy instead of using only the Queen's English (as a lower-r republican, I don't think English belong to the Queen after all). |
| Posted by: Ari s 2008-07-14 21:50 |
| #45 Y'all are taking unfair advantage by being offensive toward the pooplisted. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2008-07-14 21:31 |
| #44 I love to be hectored and lectured on American politics by a Greek swish who thinks we all say "y'all". |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-07-14 21:20 |
| #43 nmu nailed it. I think obama's a double-standard empty suited socialist based on his words and actions..as most of us on the right (generally speaking) tend to view him. I think his recent comments about "merci beaucoup (sp)" just scratch the surface of his naevity/elitism and out of step view of or w/the truly average American. The fact that his shrew of a wife wasn't proud of her country until he got in the primaries only furthers my disdain for these two chumpstains. Obama = chump (or loose) change we can believe in. Aris, stick to blogging about shitty movies like troy or whatever it is you do, you're like the nerdy knob jockey that spouts off shit from the some esoteric collection of the latest disotations on nietche - trying to impress the rest of the high school philosophy class because you can't get laid... reminds me of the dude matt damon's character in good will hunting verbally bitch slaps for trying the same crap to get a date. Folks think you're a transparent douchebag...I say welcome to Douchebagistan. |
| Posted by: Deadeye Choluck2323 aka Broadhead6 2008-07-14 20:48 |
| #42 I see that it's clearly the same old |
| Posted by: Deadeye Choluck2323 aka Broadhead6 2008-07-14 20:30 |
| #41 But Ted Rall was just being funny, to the Libs....but I guess some skin is thinner...and being PC is a one way street. |
| Posted by: Muggsy Glink 2008-07-14 18:46 |
| #40 He shouldn't be pissed about the cover. He should be pissed about the article inside. |
| Posted by: Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-07-14 17:53 |
| #39 You've got to admit the cover is pretty funny. Political satire is an as American as apple pie. What's not to like about apple pie? |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-07-14 17:42 |
| #38 I took TW's advice (ALWAYS do that!) and found out why he's so famous. Go here to see what valuable contributions he has made to society. Looks like he had too much time on his hands. University type? |
| Posted by: Bobby 2008-07-14 17:37 |
| #37 The Mrs. Obama-as-Angela-Davis was pretty funny, in my view. (Did anyone pitch a fit when The Family Guy portrayed Condoleeza Rice in that fashion during her days at the University of Denver? Didn't think so.) |
| Posted by: Grenter, Protector of the Geats 2008-07-14 17:31 |
| #36 Obama's really pissed off? Yes sir, he is? Oh, dear, I idolize the man. Should I tell him that next week McCain's on the cover as the Manchurian Candidate? Would that smooth things over do you think? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-07-14 14:56 |
| #35 That cover will be on Saturday Night Live soon. It can be with The Obamessiah playing himself with us laughing with him or with their Obamessiah take off with us laughing at him. His choice. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-07-14 14:22 |
| #34 First rule for any Socialist Republic (or Islamic Republic at also) No Funny Kartoons Allowed! Ya think the Mooslims are sensitive, ya haven't seen, (how do that say it outside of Chicago?) NUTIN NYET! After the elektion we are going to teach you a lesson. As soon as we bring the troops home from Irak, we will immediately put them to work on bugging every ash tray in Amerika! Kapish!?! |
| Posted by: KGB 2008-07-14 14:02 |
| #33 If democratic candidate Obama and his Mrs. are angry and can't brush that one off, how on earth does he plan to handle what will be a DAILY barrage of presidential satire if he is elected? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2008-07-14 13:44 |
| #32 "Google Aris Katsaris." Thanks, tw, but I'd rather use my time for more productive endeavors. Watching oil paint dry comes to mind.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-07-14 12:25 |
| #31 He does, although once he got a real job entries naturally dwindled. Google Aris Katsaris. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-07-14 12:20 |
| #30 I understand he has a livejournal or blog. |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2008-07-14 12:12 |
| #29 Aris has been pooplisted But he just got in! I need Aris once every 6 months! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-07-14 11:53 |
| #28 "thinks any non-liberal is an irrational science-hating warmongering evangelical Christian who would mandate creationism in schools" Lifted from the comments section on an LGF thread. Sums up Aris. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2008-07-14 11:17 |
| #27 [Aris has been pooplisted.] |
| Posted by: Aris 2008-07-14 11:16 |
| #26 Aris snuck back in but he will not be allowed to comment at the Burg. We've had too many problems with him in the past and we're not going to allow him to stir up problems in the future. Should you read this, Aris, understand that you are not welcome to comment at the Burg. AoS |
| Posted by: Steve White 2008-07-14 11:06 |
| #25 "You can't both be using words like "terrorist fist-jab", and at the same say that we're being arrogant elitist leftists when we're saying you are trying to present Obama as a terrorist" Why not? If the fist jab is, in fact, a known gesture used by terrorists? And if one of your philosophical own presents a cartoon, yet again, conveying your cherished foundational notion in life, which is that everyone whose politics isn't left of center is a Nazi, KKK member and the embodiment of evil? |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2008-07-14 11:01 |
| #24 How many others are worthy of one published autobiography after a lifetime of achievement, let alone two before he finished his first term in the U.S. Senate? I think Shatner's up to four now. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2008-07-14 11:00 |
| #23 I thought that being prejudiced against the poor was considered a conservative virtue? I take that as evidence that you don't think. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-07-14 10:59 |
| #22 "I thought that being prejudiced against the poor was considered a conservative virtue" Please produce verifiable, statistically meaningful data to support this statement. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2008-07-14 10:56 |
| #21 Why does the wiley coyote vs. road runner catapult skit come to mind? |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2008-07-14 10:53 |
| #20 He is, as well, a supercilious elitist of the first water TW, I think that is precisely the point Ryan Lizza is making in the article to which the cartoon refers. |
| Posted by: tipper 2008-07-14 10:44 |
| #19 If the curly toed slipper fits... |
| Posted by: Excalibur 2008-07-14 10:04 |
| #18 Oh boy, Aris figured out what a TOR connection is. |
| Posted by: bigjim-ky 2008-07-14 09:59 |
| #17 Although now that I think about it, I find myself wondering _why_ Aris thinks there's a contradiction in an empty-shirt idealist being a front man for the Chicago machine? |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2008-07-14 09:49 |
| #16 guess it's just part of the New Cruelty policy here. Reminds me a lot of the Old Cruelty. I call 53. |
| Posted by: .5MT 2008-07-14 09:45 |
| #15 On the contrary, I think "leftist elitist," "angry black man," and "secret Muslim terrorist" mix very well with each other. |
| Posted by: eltoroverde 2008-07-14 09:42 |
| #14 Aris is back? I guess it's just part of the New Cruelty policy here. |
| Posted by: Abdominal Snowman 2008-07-14 09:37 |
| #13 Aris is back? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2008-07-14 09:27 |
| #12 "Aris, there's no question Candidate Obama is highly intelligent and hard-working." There's no question for me that he's intelligent and hardworking -- but Rove had called him "lazy" and a Clinton surrogate had said Obama was trying to "shuck and jive" his way into the presidency. So this is another of one of those occasions, where people attack him in contradictory ways. "prejudiced against those whose life experiences were less privileged than his" I thought that being prejudiced against the poor was considered a conservative virtue? Are you praising him or condemning him for this attitude? On my part I've never seen a privileged person that doesn't believe he deserves his place in life, so I certainly have no doubt that what you're saying about Obama's prejudice is true -- same as it's been true for every other politician ever, in the history of the universe. As for his beliefs regarding "people of pallor" I'm honestly not worried about black racism taking control in America -- even if Obama had been another version of Mugabe (which he's not), America isn't Zimbabwe. "In the eyes of every Obama supporter, this cover supposedly depicts how literally everyone not part of the "in, lefty, cool-kid, I'm so very smart" crowd looks at the Obamas." You can't have it both ways, kid. You can't both be using words like "terrorist fist-jab", and at the same say that we're being arrogant elitist leftists when we're saying you are trying to present Obama as a terrorist. Fact is you have been trying to do that: far before the "leftist elitist" meme you're now trying to push, there was the "angry black man" meme and even earlier, there was the "secret Muslim terrorist" meme. Those of us with recollective ability of more than 2 minutes remember these quite well -- even though they don't mix very well with each other and your own memories are forced to eject each earlier attack meme before you reproduce the current one. |
| Posted by: Aris 2008-07-14 09:15 |
| #11 Yes no mo. The art in the New Yorker tells us much about the artists; but not much about the subject of the art. |
| Posted by: mhw 2008-07-14 09:08 |
| #10 TW, how dare you upset Ar*s's strawman? |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-07-14 08:41 |
| #9 It's simple, Aris. The cover allows us to see into the minds of the cultural elite leftists who are Obama supporters. In the eyes of every Obama supporter, this cover supposedly depicts how literally everyone not part of the "in, lefty, cool-kid, I'm so very smart" crowd looks at the Obamas. In their mind (and yours, based on your comment), everyone who has politics from the center to the right is, in fact, a Nazi, a member of the KKK, has beaten 50 or more gay men to death with a baseball bat, wants women to lose the plebiscite, wants to force everyone to go to church on Sundays, etc. Sad, really. The fact that you believe all these things about moderates and conservatives is further proof that your intelligence exists merely on a subhuman level, your decency even less so. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2008-07-14 08:41 |
| #8 They have a long way to go to make up for all the viscous racists charactures Secty Rice has been the focus of by the left for these years. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-07-14 08:27 |
| #7 Aris, there's no question Candidate Obama is highly intelligent and hard-working. Nobody gets through Harvard Law without those attributes, however much his entry might have been facilitated by the slickness of his tongue and the colour of his skin. He is, as well, a supercilious elitist of the first water, prejudiced against those whose life experiences were less privileged than his -- a dangerous belief for one attempting to persuade such people, the vast majority of the population, to give him their vote for the highest office in the land. Let's not even go into his opinions about people of pallor, openly stated in the two autobiographies published before the age of fifty -- a mark of arrogance in itself. How many others are worthy of one published autobiography after a lifetime of achievement, let alone two before he finished his first term in the U.S. Senate? |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2008-07-14 08:23 |
| #6 As they say: "Well, it's out there now..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2008-07-14 08:19 |
| #5 The comments section is most telling: how dare you make fun of the Obamessiah! |
| Posted by: Spot 2008-07-14 08:10 |
| #4 Yeah, Obama's a latte-sipping elitist Black Panther -- he's also a naive inexperienced idealist who has mastered the dirty Chicago machine, and in addition he's an Islamofascist who's a fanatical abortionist. |
| Posted by: Aris 2008-07-14 08:03 |
| #3 it's supposed to satirize the "Right's mischaracterizations" of Mr. and Mrs. Messiah. The fact they're squealing is because it hits too close to home. Empty suit and Mrs. angry racist marxist |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-07-14 07:55 |
| #2 Actually I think the lefties see the righties seeing them like that -- and they're obviously correct in their perception (of the righties, not of Obama). |
| Posted by: Aris 2008-07-14 07:53 |
| #1 Wow. So even the lefties see them like that too? |
| Posted by: Lumpy Cheack3231 2008-07-14 06:35 |