Come with me, come to the land of batshit rightwing cartoonists

shit, we're missing the first cartoon:

http://www.patriotart.com/images/08_06_07/EightPM450.jpg

or the current art on http://www.patriotart.com right now

whoah

why is tommy thompson walking martin scorsese? that's so abstract.

dada rightwing cartoonists

Isn't Olb getting like the second-highest ratings on prime-time cable news?

appears not

FOX___ THE OREILLY FACTOR________________ 375
FOX___ HANNITY & COLMES__________________ 362
FOX___ ON THE RECORD W/GRETA_____________ 351
FOX___ FOX AND FRIENDS___________________ 318
FOX___ THE OREILLY FACTOR (RPT)__________ 303
FOX___ THE FOX REPORT W/S.SMITH__________ 292
FOX___ AMERICAS NEWSROOM_________________ 279
FOX___ SPECIAL REPORTW/BRIT HUME_________ 263
CNN___ LARRY KING LIVE___________________ 252
FOX___ LIVE DESK W/M.MACCALLUM___________ 235
FOX___ FOX NEWS LIVE_____________________ 224
FOX___ FOX & FRIENDS FIRST_______________ 223
MSNBC_ MSNBC INVESTIGATES (RPT)__________ 215
FOX___ STUDIO B W/S.SMITH________________ 209
MSNBC_ MSNBC REPORTS (RPT)_______________ 207
CNN___ ANDERSON COOPER 360_______________ 205
FOX___ THE BIG STORY W/J GIBSON__________ 204
CNN___ LOU DOBBS TONIGHT_________________ 203
FOX___ YOUR WORLD W/NEIL CAVUTO__________ 198
MSNBC_ COUNTDOWN W/ K. OLBERMANN_________ 185

avgs for july

CABLE NEWS: RELEVANT

durrr

this stems from old news, olbermann put o'reilly on the "worst person in the world" list about 500 separate times for being a liar and a shill, and o'reilly's only response, ever, has been to 1. threaten some radio call-in dork with criminal charges and police action for SAYING "KEITH OLBERMANN" on o'reilly's show; 2. talk about how much better his ratings are than olbermann's.

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haha, rich media newsreaders are happy when their 401Ks tank. All libruls are!

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Uh, doesn't the NYT keep publishing Michael Gordon's "My super secret sources in the military tell me that Iran has cooties..." pieces on the front page?

yup. not to mention a coupla years of Judith miller, or the folks on the op-ed pages.

didn't the NYT basically con everyone into believing the 'intelligence' on iraq and get us into that fucking war? isn't the NYT the paper than recently ran that brookings instution shite-piece ("a war we just might win") about how we just another six months/year/six years/century in iraw to make it work?

soooooooo fuckin liberal.

iraw, iraq, if it starts with ira- we'll bomb it.

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Oh no, not sean penn! also, haw haws to hammer & sickle bedcover

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what, couldn't run the "fishing expedition" strip again?

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jesus fucking christ

"can't government engineers and bureaucrats do anything right do their jobs for free?"

What the fuck. As if it isn't within the government's purview to upkeep roads. Yes, let's privatize road building and upkeep. That will certainly go very smoothly.

dood didn't you hear those privately run schools and prisons are kicking ass

aha, if I go back a couple of days that earlier one makes complete sense - clearly we need Iraqi tort reform.

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PLEASE MOVE UR ASS AWAY FROM THE CAMERA

i stepped away from this thread for two weeks and am just agog at the cavalcades of LAFFS

Jesus, the first panel of that Obama one, with the gun in the holster labeled IRAQ . . . I mean, you need a team of PhDs just to unpack the bullshit in these peoples' worldview.

Hey, Chuck Asay, here's a big fuck you from Minneapolis.

Even in androgynous body army, still shines through the Mad Ass For Days.

Chuck Asay is easily the worst of this lot.

when the history of this age is written, I hope that attention is paid to the tribal epistemology and completely unconscious adoption of postmodern relativism by those who spent decades decrying it.

pls to explain what this means

what i mean is that modern american politics is tribal(blue state/red state bullshit, for example), and there are plenty of people who have had the "media is biased, and therefore untrustworthy and to be discarded" thing drilled into their heads that they can only believe certain media outlets that agree with what the Party is putting out.

the postmodern relativism bit refers to people only believing in things in certain people report them. Stephen Colbert understands this better than almost everybody else nowadays(check his interview with the Onion). It's the attack of "objective media" by people who would happily replace fact with opinion, which, as guys like Chris Hedges write, is a big step towards American Fascism.

But more later, when i've sobered up.

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I think you're pretty articulate drunk actually.

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haha, don't you see?! all it takes for one of those bleeding-heart terrorsymp whore/media-type to come around to the 28% way of thinking is to actually go there and see all the schools we're painting! It's as plain as day! And we must viciously attack anyone who says otherwise, be they a soldier or not.

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OMG I would so hang that portrait in my house.

I would want the word bubble protruding over the frame & everything. It's fantastic.

I love the hair through the halo

re: Postmodernism in Batshitistan. Where I see this is when radio/tv hosts keep pushing a discredited meme with the knowledge that their audience is unlikely to know or care that it has been discredited. Hannity is particularly bad.

Also, there's a strange focusing on one particular irrelevant detail to represent the whole--Global Warming can't be true because Al Gore has a high electricity bill. The O'Reilly campaign against YearlyKos is an example of this: pulling a few comments from a site with hundreds of thousands of contributers to tarnish the entire net roots.

I think a lot of the consumers of this stuff realize that the tactics used are underhanded, but believe that since their perspective is more morally pristine than the enemy's, it's okay to get their hands dirty. Hence them going insane over Dan Rather and not giving a flying f about Jeff Gannon (or Abu Ghraib--which was just a frat party!)

I figured that the batshitters knew that they were using a form of postmodernism - in fact, that they did it on purpose. If you can see a weakness in your "enemy", then you can exploit it, and the conflation of certain sorts of academia/media/leftism can give you a lot of extra leeway.

Part of the pomo bit i'm talking about is best described by Stephen Colbert, and perfectly encaptured by "truthiness":

...We weren't thrilled with Bush because we thought he was a good guy at that point, we were thrilled with him because we thought that he probably had hired people who would fuck up our enemies, regardless of how they had to do it. That was for us a very good thing, and I can't argue with the validity of that feeling.

But that has been extended to the idea that authoritarian is better than authority. Because authoritarian means there's only one authority, and that authority has got to be the President, has got to be the government, and has got to be his allies. What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press. They call the press "liberal," they call the press "biased," not necessarily because it is or because they have problems with the facts of the left—or even because of the bias for the left, because it's hard not to be biased in some way, everyone is always going to enter their editorial opinion—but because a press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you question the authority of the government—it's like the existence of another authority. So that's another part of truthiness. Truthiness is "What I say is right, and nothing anyone else says could possibly be true." It's not only that I feel it to be true, but that I feel it to be true. There's not only an emotional quality, but there's a selfish quality.

It's the authoritarian aspect I'm talking about, where one of the side effects is to dispute the authoritative. In other words, if you know your shit, you can call others on their's. And rightwing authoritarian types can't have that. Because your mindset is completely dependent on the big tough daddy who sets the rules and knows best, and NOTHING can question that, because it is in the questioning that the possibility of error or that daddy might not be completely right, and the RWA mindset is (deliberately) stunted enough not to be able to handle that variance, or any shading.

So b/c the RWA thing so needs the unquestioned authority, it will attack anyone or anything that could possibly have a valid standing. You attack those climate scientists who are disagreeing with what daddy and his Party had decried, and then you attack science itself. You try to weaken science by bringing in religion, and teaching not-science along with science. That's one of the problems of the home-school/creationist/ID thing, a deliberate attempt(read "The Wedge Document", this shit really is planned out) to attack any authority that can contest Daddy.

Three people who really understand what's going on, but who really need to meet and talk this shit over, is Stephen Colbert, Bob Altenmeyer(free book is online), and Chris Hedges. I've repped for the last two on several threads.

Here's a good bit of Hedges' writing, about stuff like the Creationism Museum and how totalitarian movements begin with the deliberate confusing of fact w/ opinion. Because once you destroy objective fact, everything becomes opinion, and any unpopular or unusable opinions can just be brushed away.

What Colbert is talking about seems to predate pomo--come from the same primordial sludge that created Fascism, Nazism. Of course it also sounds like how nearly every religion functions--ignore contrary data!

Actually, Fascism predates Nazism by a coupla thousand years, but yeah, he's definitely talking about a deliberate pre-Enlightenment mindset, where the church was the only Authority and the despot ruled by Divine Hand. In other words, the natural order is the Moral Order(George Lakhoff talks about this a lot in _Moral Politics_). E.g. Men are stronger than women, and God made everything the way they are, so men rule over women because God says so, and questioning that is questioning God. (etc etc etc)

Also, this is where the power of the claim of "biblical literalism" comes in(despite the fact that such a thing is impossible). If i convince myself and stamp my feet angrily to demand that my reading of the Bible(a n inerrant, perfect book written by God) is the only one possible and that all my political standings come from this bible(despite oddly focusing on Mosaic law and not Christian), then I am true and valid and it's in the book! If your upbringing was deliberately stunted and damaged to where questioning authority figures(dad, cops, the general, the president) is beaten out of you and, as a result, you're so insecure you can't handle any ambiguity at all, you have to delude yourself into something you believe to be true and unchanging. Why, marriage has ALWAYS been about romantic love between a man and a woman!

Did we just get a new new Faithmouse header? I hope someone is saving these!

Thanks, Dan Lacey!

This thread needs now is a boob joke from Muir:

http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/081007.jpg

I don't get it

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/MFT20070810.jpg

Sometimes I wonder if hackiness is part of the water supply, or just the lazy swiping of joeks from other idiots months ago, or what.

http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7B4EC78B79-ED2A-49FE-A026-81CD994F5889%7D.gif

This is kinda neat. We're now seeing the evolution of portraying people interacting with information. Instead of the classic "guy sitting on an easy chair watching tv or reading the paper" as a bit of shorthand to denote commentary on recent events, we finally have people being shown reading newspapers online(which is what most of us actually do now).

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/20070810RZ1AP-TancredoObama.jpg

look out for the tancredo penis-nose!

the redhead is preggers with twin neo-cons, and it's making a pun on "twins" referring to actual twin fetuses and to her bazoombas.

listen, the true reason why the rightwing batshitters oppose sex education and abortion is that they all have a fetish for painful, distended pregger-tits

xpost

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haha, hillary got a big ol' ass, and even the john edwards simulacrum has a purse, 'coz he's a cross-dressing faggit, apparently

The duck's "compact fluorescent bulb" looks suspiciously like a polished turd. Apt!

if Dan Lacey drinks, I'm buying him a beer.

holy shit