batshit rightwing cartoonists 2010

from the apology page:

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We want to apologize for the offensive, distasteful and completely humorless joke that was made and acknowledge the grave error in its production. We cannot begin to express how apologetic we are for everyone who has been hurt by our comic and its implied message.
We do, however, believe that something positive can come from this ugly mistake and hope that we, as members of the Notre Dame community, can take this as an opportunity to readdress the complex issues surrounding homosexuality and its treatment on our campus. Intolerance of homosexuality is a major problem on Notre Dame's campus. We tried to address it in our comics — using the tool characters to emphasize a mindset that we simply find ridiculous. In our last comic, we had the human character, our voice of reason, not understand the joke because of its absurd nature. Reasons, however, are not excuses. We consistently try to write comics that rely on shock value and now that we have gone too far, we realize that we have abused the privilege and responsibility of contributing to the Observer, and therefore, the Notre Dame community as a whole. This is not a joke that should have been made either in private or public. Poking fun at someone's identity in such a discriminatory manner is not funny. We wholeheartedly apologize for our comic and are aware of and truly sorry for the hurt that it has caused.

Colin Hofman, Lauren Rosemeyer and Jay Wade
seniors
“The Mobile Party”
Jan. 15

Yeah, that "defense" is even more batshit. They should have gone with "we intentionally made the character who made the comment a literal tool" instead.

"we had the human character, our voice of reason, double-fisting colt 45 bottles" ?

"also, some of our best friends are gay and they're not that mad"

I don't even understand that bolded sentence. If you didn't understand why not ask the people who wrote it? I wonder how much shit you could get in their paper just by having retards as editor?

Intolerance of homosexuality is a major problem on Notre Dame's campus. We tried to address it in our comics

thanx 4 addressing that major problem

They might have been able to get away with that joke had the human character said "you're a tool" and the saw said "well DUH"

oh who am I kidding, totally indefensible on every level; this is the most hamfisted, idiotic thing I've seen on a college campus in a good long while

I don't even understand that bolded sentence. If you didn't understand why not ask the people who wrote it?

not sure if you're aware that that sentence was written by the ppl who wrote the comic

i wish there was an internet archive of offensive college newspaper cartoons. We seem to have a new one every four months for the last 6 or 7 years

Ha, sorry I thought that was from the editor not the

hi dere is disturbingly skilled at coming up with escape tactics

this is an unfortunate side-effect of learning at an early age how to say whatever offensive thing pops into your head without getting into too much trouble

also I think I see what it was they thought they were doing, but the gulf between concept and execution is so staggeringly huge that it's sort of amazing in and of itself

more likely the gulf is there because it wasn't actually what they thought they were doing

If they weren't attempting to lampoon or deflate that stance, why is the character saying it a tool?

likes to fix things

hahaha

i just noticed its got a popped collar

Is the tool drinking straight out of a bottle of Malibu?

If they weren't attempting to lampoon or deflate that stance, why is the character saying it a tool?

― Vajazzle My Nazzle (HI DERE), Wednesday, January 20, 2010 3:02 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

because its "hilarious and wacky" to have "inanimate objects" "acting like people" just like on "adult swim" or whatever other "not that funny internet cartoon" these "college kids" are "watching"

"speech" marks

In our last comic, we had the human character, our voice of reason, not understand the joke because of its absurd nature.

no. morelike, the human character says "no idea" because that's how your supposed to respond to a joke. the joke teller gives the set-up in the form of a question. the straight man expresses his (real or feigned) ignorance by saying something like "I don't know, what?" or "I give up". then comes the punchline. calling the human character the "voice of reason" is obtuse as saying the true meaning of a knock knock lies in the line "who's there?".

(the true meaning of a knock knock joke, that is)

knock knock
who's there?
EXACTLY

if the point was to see the human reaction it would help if the human's reaction was shown

lol HI DERE

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lol kudos!

why would the voice of reason be confused?

EXACTLY

Confused as to why the Observer Staff guy is confused?

http://www.creators.com/editorial_cartoons/5/13511_thumb.jpg
THIS FUCKIN GUY

http://www.creators.com/editorial_cartoons/5/13512_thumb.gif
THIS FUCKIN GUY

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LIFE

I like the life sign considering that Brown is pro RvW.

LIFE

tsk tsk how soon we forget the death panels, mordy.

Brown should propose LIFE panels.

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Oopsie! I forgot to tell a joke!

i don't even understand why the right wing has such a problem with global warming, like even if the stats are made up, why is helping the earth bad?

because rightwingers have been running on denialism and oppositional politics for decades now. If the dirty fucking hippies are fer it, they're agin' it.

Also, because much of them can't or won't think in systematic ways. Plus, they think that much of it is just scare-mongering by hippies and libruls who hate america and successful american businesses.

It's completely about narrative, and jack-shit about actual science. And there's dozens of more reasons why.

"Find out why helping the earth is taking money out of YOUR wallet, after this commercial break"

Also I don't think man-made global warming has been proved. And I've seen a lot of people post things like "should we all hold our breath to prevent global warming?" and they always talk about how we are having colder temperatures over the past couple years.

As idiotic as these things are, they still have an argument to cling to (unfortunately).

i don't even understand why the right wing has such a problem with global warming, like even if the stats are made up, why is helping the earth bad?

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, January 22, 2010 7:40 PM (58 minutes ago) Bookmark

The truth is by politics as pro- or con- 'global warming', they have successfully derailed what should be a conversation about pollution's longterm affects on the human race. Instead of seeing studies on how corporate pollution are causing cancers every day and killing millions in the name of profit, we read about saving this or that rare animal, which really doesn't matter to most people.

The important thing is that we don't consider further regulation of businesses. By making it not about human safety but animals/Earth/gaia they have maintained control of the debate for decades, and with the full cooperation of environmentalists.

should be "The truth is by polarizing politics into pro- or con-"

^^^^

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lol asay.

Pickup owners unite
ugh

I like that Asay apparently thinks his audience has a really strong identification with guys labeled CORP.

Captured evil look on Roberts' face perfectly. He has that Palpatine crouch also. Nice touch.

"MORE JUNK SCIENCE EXPOSED"

yeah, that's exactly how the article I read explained it.

or maybe that's the worldnetdaily's new paper edition.

Isn't CORP just adorable? More than ever, that's how I think of big business - dumpy and amiable.

I like that Asay apparently thinks his audience has a really strong identification with guys labeled CORP.

And the Yeti!

remember when all these cartoons were about Muslims?