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

More of the usual from Chip Bok, i guess:

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http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/ca0529dd.jpg

The "using the firehoses on people" is a bit...uhm

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Wait, am I being called gullible for believing that Lindsay Lohan does too much coke and Paris Hilton is really rich and drives without a license?

lies vicious lies

guys i'm sort of inclined to let these dudes say whatever the fuck they want about john edwards. guy really is sort of a two-faced douchebag.

I don't get his appeal, but the "attacks" the right tends to level at him are of the subliterate "Al Gore is fat/invented the internet haw haw" variety

true. still, dude is at least partly responsible for putting the american flu vaccine manufacturers out of business. way to go, brody.

oops, i've been had!

pwned

whatever, i still don't like him.

i like how the impulse to take to the woods stripped to your boxer shorts is carter's fault too.

God, don't you remember the 70's, when everyone lost everything and millions of filthy, half-naked Joad families took to bare subsistence living or starved to death? DON'T YOU REMEMBER???!

true. still, dude is at least partly responsible for putting the american flu vaccine manufacturers out of business. way to go, brody.

-- river wolf, Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:29 PM (34 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

river wolf, who I like and respect, is a very smart dude, and yet this flase information got in around his filters. These bullshit astroturf stories can be insidiously effective.

i know! i was had! i hadn't heard the story, actually, until the other day when i was discussing various candidates' views on healthcare with a fellow pre-med student who is otherwise very well informed. i didn't do my homework: busted.

i wish i could change my name to "HOLY WAR POWDER KEG"

Holy War Powder Keg, Batman! Priest Gargamel totally looks like he was drawn by that one MAD magazine dude.

Yeah, he's got the Don Martin eyes.

http://www.artlex.com/ArtLex/a/images/amer.gothic_dmartin.lg.jpg

Coupla things with this one:

http://www.caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7B21B49B61-A25E-4C41-A95F-5025AB56C20A%7D.gif

1) It's another standard "media pays attention to the wrong things" riff, which I guess is still somewhat positive that even the most authoritarian followers still have an idea that having a media is a good thing, but

2) complaining about them covering pointless shit and not, say, U.S. troop deaths when they've spent _years_ vociferously supporting the assholes who've completely prohibited coverage of returning coffins, who go out of their way on a pretty much weekly to downplay loss of life("why, we lost FAR more in WWII, what are these DFH complaining about?!") and overall sacrifice that a very few american citizens are having to make b/c of all this, and who deliberately want a Murdoch-style bullshit tabloid media where entertainment is now information, etc.

but yeah, compartmentalized thinking, lack of self-awareness, simplistic causation, etc etc etc

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THE ISLAMOFASCISTS HAS TAKEN OVER OH NOES WE MUST ALL GO HIDE WITH THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE!!11

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HEY YOU STUPID FUCK, remember that troop pay increase that's being blocked? well guess who the fuck's blocking it, and who the fuck's supporting it. and NICE USE of the lazy-ass "probably" here jesus christ FUCK these guys even try my patience for this shit sometimes.

And a correction: the batshittery attributed by me to Chip Bok a few posts up is in fact by Chuck Asay, the Colorado Springs-residing dingus who made these last two.

oh wow oh wow that last one
oh my god
so fucking angry

chuck asay huh

i mean, COME ON

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bit of wishful thinking on the duck's part

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/strips/mallard/2000/MFT20070601.jpg

home-schooling is all about the classics, donchaknow, tho the SHEER DIFFICULTY of finding the area of an octagon, why, that'd take publicly educated me a whole day to figure out!

xp, yeah this guy: http://www.townhall.com/funnies/cartoonist/ChuckAsay/2007/05

oh i see that his former tenure at the CS gazette was already garnering him enough f-u mail from veterans etc. so I guess I can rest knowing he's probably living off social security and our clickthrough counts from this page now

HA, I just remembered this bit -- this asshole is the same guy who gave us the actual crying Liberty:

http://media.townhall.com/Townhall/Car/b/ca0510ad.jpg

Not batshit per se, but revealing:

http://www.patriotart.com/images/06_04_07/Thompson450.jpg

Able to defeat small liberals in a single bound.

So, like, he could take on Kucinich in a general election?

having seen kucinich's wife i'm chalking all right wing abuse of him to pure, bitter player hating.

in the last debate, Gravel was making Kuc seem totally reasonable

I'm actually beginning to think these people are like those skinnerboxed raised-by-wolves/locked-in-the-basement kids who can learn vocabulary but can only barely use grammar patterns, there's some part of their childhood development that left them unable to process anything besides the authoritarian-believer mindset that kingfish keeps alluding to

The fact that some of them run for local office just makes it all the more entertaining/horrifying.

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Uninsured (in millions) - Census Bureau
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The Obama one is fun, since it conflates the boogeyman of universal healthcare AND tort reform. Market idolatry is so ingrained with these guys that anything which could possibly affect the success of the successful(incl. people suing when they get fucked over by sucessful cretins) must be commie-nism and therefore destroyed.

Oh yeah, and all trial lawyers are hairy white dudes.

In gay mixed race relationships apparently.

But I keep talking about the mindset b/c I think it deserves more attention, both as pointing out how the many of the power holders in america are pretty much the LGF comment section writ large, as well as drawing more attention to a less-articulated & more traditonally American progressive view of things(e.g. that we the people can fashion a public service that examines the kind of shit that going into food and pharmaceuticals, a service not entirely staffed by clueless apparatchiks loyal only to the Party).

And also that the problem isn't so much just dubya/cheney/etc, they're out office in 18 months or so. The problem is the mindset of modern american conservatism itself, with all of its simplistic, xenophobic, empiricism-rejecting and authoritarian aspects.

thing is guys, though, we need tort reform

check this out kingfish, if you agree with most of what lindsey's saying about the economic and demographic roots of our current clusterfuck, we might not have these problems for much longer; also, we'll all be poor, but hey.

http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=9230588

^ link meant to be appended to the above

gucci little piggy?

if you agree with most of what lindsey's saying about the economic and demographic roots of our current clusterfuck

certainly sounds convincing

I have a personal bias bcz I just really enjoy blaming the baby boomers for absolutely everything currently shitty about America

that is because they are to blam,e not just in america but all over the west and they won't fucking let go, they have their death grip around, society culture and politics so hard and they are pulling us down into their macabre zombie dance.

I'll check the Econ piece in a bit, but I think we're going to be plenty fucked for a good while. It's one of those things that I was talking about on another thread; that in America, we have to go thru intense shit once a generation(or every so often) before we give a fuck about our culture & politics. then we spent years of blood and sweat and warface to finally boost everything up again, before our kids come along and ruin it all somewhere down the line, and their kids have to fix it one more.

Still, it'll be interesting to see what happens when a significant enough portion of the populace realize they're now "working poor" as opposed to "middle class". I think the howling angst will generate such a loud thrashing to make the most rightwing batshit cartoon in this thread look like a Buckley column.

xp

okay, i agree. it's like, jesus christ, grandpa and grandma had to go thru all this shit, make it so that we had GI bills, unions, and whatnot just for my dad to come along, attend a public university on a GI bill and a living wage, join a teachers union when he got out, and then vote repub for the rest of his life(barring the Perot vote).

Has anyone else noticed that the cartoon at the start of this thread appears to have been changed somewhat?

read upthread a little bit

Bah. Plz to ignore the massive spelling & editing errors in me posts.

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Oh yeah, that canadian guy? the kid who was 15 years old when they picked him up and he's been tortured and rotting in gitmo in 5 years, he was TOTALLY guilty, and by the fact that all charges were dropped against him means that the nanny state is coddling evildoers again by making them wait five years for their trial.

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I wonder what kind of waiting room is being frequented by both Mr. Terrorist and Lady Justice there...?

Clearly, justice has been aborted.

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Atheists and Islamic Fundamentalist Gamblers: BFF FOR LYFE.

they are casting lots to see who gets to strip the pubescent boy, see