No wonder conservatives idolize penquins...

[Crankie Avalon]

Sept. 15, 2005 | Morning Briefing:
Penguin family values: Were the conservative pundits quoted in the New York Times piece on "March of the Penguins" (see Wednesday's Fix) really aware of how the moral role models they were endorsing actually live? Several readers hastened to point out that the movie's stars, emperor penguins, are hardly examples of committed monogamists: "Neither the Times nor your Fix column noted that the 'March of the Penguins' movie clearly says the penguins are only devoted to each other for a year and then do the whole thing over with different partner. That's the monogamy and devotion the conservatives are celebrating?" Indeed, a 1999 article in the Auk, the journal of the American Ornithologists' Union, points out that emperor penguins (A. forsteri) "have much lower mate fidelity than do smaller species of penguins, despite their high rates of survival." It gets even trickier: Penguins can be gay, too. There have been a number of high-profile gay penguins over the past couple of years (Humboldt penguins, as opposed to the movie's emperors), from Coney Island's cute male couple, Wendell and Cass, to the poor guys at Germany's Bremerhaven Zoo -- after discovering three of the zoo's five penguin couples were gay, zookeepers imported Swedish babe penguins to try to make the boys go straight (fourth item). Some penguins have even proved to be real flip-floppers: The first famous gay penguin couple, Roy and Silo of the New York Central Park Zoo, have apparently broken up after Silo went hetero. "They split up, although there are a few other same-sex groupings," confirms Rob Gramzay, the zoo's senior penguin keeper. These must have been the norms conservative talk-radio host Michael Medved meant when he said the movie "most passionately affirms traditional norms like monogamy, sacrifice and child rearing." (New York Times, the Guardian, Der Spiegel, Columbia News Service, FindArticles)

http://www.salon.com/ent/col/fix/2005/09/15/thur/
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One year of monogamy and then they start all over with someone else? Where have we heard that before? Giuliani, Limbaugh, Gingrich, and all the other multiply-married conservatives...no wonder they're idolizing penquins!

[Helga Scow Stern]

1. Good one.

[mntleo2]

2. They All Look Alike Too

I am actually enjoying this love of penguins the Repigs are hooking upon. This has got to be one of the best unintentionally hilarious mascots that have been chosen. Nothing like a bunch of people who walk, talk, dress and think exactly alike ~ and who cannot take big steps either. Aside from being a bunch of unoriginal, mean sprited elitist hypocrites, how boring can you get?

Cat In Seattle <----thinking of a penguin costume for Halloween, dressed in a tux with big duck feet and a yellow "W" in the shape of an upside down elephant on the bib...they are too dumb to get it anyway, LOL!

[zbdent]

3. Leave it to the neocons to praise a film wholeheartedly

without researching it, and realizing that it was originally done by the French . . .

Edited to add:

And to base their entire argument (of eternity) on one year of research - not a long time to really study patterns . . . Of course, the world is only a few thousand years old, in their minds . . .