MAD Magazine Weighs In On NSA

[kpete]

http://www.madmagazine.com/blog/2013/08/08/mads-war-on-privacy-cover

[malaise]

1. It's spy versus spy for real

I should charge them - we had their spies all over DU

[NYC_SKP]

3. Oh you!

Of course our fabulous MIRT team has banished them all.

They/we do a fabulous job!

[malaise]

4. LOL

[PoliticAverse]

2. I can't believe it...

$5.99 an issue ?!

[malaise]

5. My old copies cost less than 50 cents

[Octafish]

9. Cheap.

[PoliticAverse]

15. For me Don Martin was Mad Magazine... n/t

[longship]

18. "Thoof-Foing!" Love the Don Martin noises.

Bester Festertester and Karbunkle.
(Did I get that right?)

[PowerToThePeople]

6. Spy V Spy

would anyone under the age of.... I don't know, 35, have any idea who those two characters are? Or have there been more recent games that I am not aware of.

Edit - nm, they are mad magazine chars =) I read Cracked magazine when I was a kid...

[SomethingFishy]

7. Mad is as popular as ever..

My kids all read every issue. As do I . There is also an animated TV show.

They are also more political than ever. The shredding they laid on McCain and WolfBarbie was a wonder to behold...

[Th1onein]

8. WolfBarbie? Whahahahahaha!

I almost ruined my freaking keyboard!

[malaise]

10. I used to read MAD from cover to cover

Love it - haven't read one in ages.

[SomethingFishy]

11. When my kids were old enough to "get it" I started buying it for them

And now I don't miss an issue. Still hilarious after all these years.

[BumRushDaShow]

14. I stumbled upon their show

when visiting my Mom (who had the Cartoon network on for a niece) and I tried to explain to her what it was (and it was interesting how they did it as "shorts" just like their strips)...

[TheMightyFavog]

19. IIRC, another artist picked up the cartoon after Prohais died.

I forget who it was, but they kept Spy vs Spy rolling.

[Safetykitten]

12. Very good. Mad Magazine really has been calling out things for many years...

[BumRushDaShow]

13. MAD magazine has always been

the Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and Dr. Demento of the magazine world. "All the news that fits we print". It always cut to the chase in a manner that kids could understand, with enough double entendres for the adults, when other current events reporting got lost column inches of adjectives.

And yeah, I used to remember when it was 50 cents.

[tuvor]

16. A bit odd, considering they think Snowden should be "appropriately punished for his crimes"...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023387874

[randome]

17. Satire respects no boundaries! Nor should it!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[yurbud]

20. LBJ said, "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost America." If you've lost Mad Magazine...

the same is probably true.

Obama will survive and the Democratic Party will too because the GOP has gone so much further off the rails, but this is certainly a black eye for the president, our party, and our democracy.