MrScorpio
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Tue Jul-15-08 09:30 AM
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I guess the New Yorker can't tell a joke |
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Tue Jul-15-08 09:32 AM
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the New Yorker is unable to convey humor or satire. Perhaps you should work for them so they can get better at it.
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Tue Jul-15-08 09:33 AM
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2. That's good because... |
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...I didn't get it
Think they're selling a lot of issues, selling more adds and getting new republican subscribers?
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Tue Jul-15-08 09:39 AM
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4. A quick glance at the articles in the magazine |
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would stop any rebublican from "donating" to The New Yorker.
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Tue Jul-15-08 09:34 AM
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3. Well the punchline of their so called joke is that |
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the people who don't share their sophisticated world are idiots.
So its a good thing that nobody got their joke or it would have really hurt their campaign.
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Tue Jul-15-08 06:09 PM
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30. I don't think TNY understands irony either |
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Since that worldview is exactly the caricature of "Liberals" that the Right Wing has.
Or are they going to tell us they were satirizing the Right wing by behaving EXACTLY like the RW caricature?
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Tue Jul-15-08 09:42 AM
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5. They can't tell a joke because... |
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they weren't trying to tell one, they are Hillary's friend's who continue to be angry the same as James Carville and Bill...They knew what they were doing...
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Tue Jul-15-08 10:06 AM
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What is an obvious joke the entire rest of the world about freepers gets turned into a secret attempt at world domination by the Clintons.
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Tue Jul-15-08 12:35 PM
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Edited on Tue Jul-15-08 12:35 PM by EstimatedProphet
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sufrommich
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Tue Jul-15-08 10:10 AM
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8. Do you have any shred of evidence to support that? nt |
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Tue Jul-15-08 12:36 PM
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Add to that a number of posts trying to blame the Clintons for an attack on Obama today. If you can't see them then you haven't looked.
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Tue Jul-15-08 12:48 PM
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Apparently there's been a hostile takeover of The New Yorker by The Almighty Clintons.:eyes:
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Tue Jul-15-08 01:01 PM
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Had we killed them with the Sacred Ajanti Daggers when we had the chance we wouldn't be seeing the world under the influence of The Great Satan rtight now...
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Tue Jul-15-08 01:12 PM
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24. Your plan may have worked..... |
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had they been mere mortals.
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Tue Jul-15-08 12:29 PM
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11. Don't you ever get sick of the smell of bullshit? |
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Tue Jul-15-08 12:38 PM
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15. It can get overpowering... |
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Tue Jul-15-08 01:00 PM
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18. It did have something stupid |
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inside the story about Obama should be able to have compassion for Hillary's IWR vote! "Skwmom (1000+ posts) Mon Jul-14-08 09:22 AM
Original message New Yorker: Obama should have more compassion for Clinton's War Vote. Edited on Mon Jul-14-08 09:22 AM by Skwmom
"But there can be little doubt that Obama’s vote—which could not have affected the outcome—was influenced by worry about being branded as soft on terrorism. Unlike FISA, the Iraq war can’t be repealed. But perhaps Obama will now take a more compassionate view of Hillary Clinton’s vote to authorize it."
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2008/07/21/080721...
Wow. So we should be compassionate about Hillary having to vote for the war so she wouldn't be viewed as soft as terrorism? Hmm... a political career vs trillions of dollars (money we are borrowing from China), thousands dead, soldiers committing suicide at a very high rate, thousands physically and mentally scarred, and families destroyed.
I'm so glad that Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker really put it into perspective for me. Silly me, I was reserving my compassion for those destroyed by a war that DID NOT HAVE TO HAPPEN and would not have happened if the politicians in Washington had put doing what is right ahead of worrying about their own political career.
Obama stood up and spoke out against a war when it wasn't the politically smart thing to do. He is being relentlessly attacked on a daily basis by hacks who will do anything they can to further their career and keep the big money rolling in. Anyone who doesn't think that the corporate media does not have a vested interest in electing a pro-corporate President is fooling themselves.
This also puts the New Yorker cover in a whole new light." http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6498103
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Tue Jul-15-08 01:05 PM
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21. ROFL!!! That's hilarious. |
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"They are Hillary's friends" :rofl: I can hardly breathe through all the bullshit today.
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Tue Jul-15-08 01:08 PM
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23. Christ, I swear I read the looniest conspiracy theories around here. |
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Tue Jul-15-08 10:03 AM
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6. Forty-seven covers a year... |
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Edited on Tue Jul-15-08 10:04 AM by LowerManhattanite
..close to 1500 cartoons a year to boot.
It's a game of “Hit and Miss” with those numbers.
They're not all going to be winners.
They're NOT perfect. And this cover wasn't a winner. They get these from time to time.
I “got” it. And a lot of people “got” it.
But people “get” bad jokes all the time—and “getting” 'em it doesn't make 'em “good” jokes.
They got their publicity, they'll sell the extra 30,000 issues.
There will be a “clink” of frosty, celebratory Stellas and and tumblers of Laphroaig all around the bar at the Algonquin. Woo-Hoo.
Next issue's big feature for this bastion of teaching America about its myopic media and opening eyes to hypocrisy?
Probably something on The Unbearable Loneliness of Being Marc Jacobs. Gotta love 'em.
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Tue Jul-15-08 10:10 AM
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9. Or maybe some people can't get a joke. |
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As soon as I saw the over-the-top, outrageous NYer cover, I thought it was making fun of the smears against the Obamas.
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Tue Jul-15-08 12:37 PM
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14. We Deadheads have a good sense of humor. |
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Tue Jul-15-08 04:53 PM
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29. Its funny, where I grew up we wrote aiko aiko on our tapes, but now I see it written mostly iko iko |
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I used to use aiko as my poker screen name and all the dudes thought I was a japanese girl.
hey now.
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Tue Jul-15-08 10:30 AM
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Watch this, the TNY is going to cut _____ off.
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Tue Jul-15-08 12:52 PM
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17. It is NOT supposed to be FUNNY. |
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sat·ire Pronunciation: \ˈsa-ˌtī(-ə)r\ Function: noun Etymology: Middle French or Latin; Middle French, from Latin satura, satira, perhaps from (lanx) satura dish of mixed ingredients, from feminine of satur well-fed; akin to Latin satis enough — more at sad Date: 1501
1 : a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn 2 : trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly
It's not supposed to make you LAUGH. It's supposed to make you WINCE.
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Tue Jul-15-08 01:02 PM
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20. Unfortunately the silly reactions are what make me wince right now |
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Tue Jul-15-08 01:06 PM
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22. "it's not supposed to make you laugh. it's supposed to make you |
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wince." THANK YOU! :thumbsup:
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Tue Jul-15-08 01:16 PM
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25. Hey, if it's not Larry the Cable Guy |
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then why even bother?
:sarcasm: for the dipshits.
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Tue Jul-15-08 01:57 PM
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27. GOD I love you three posters above this one. |
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I'm so fucking depressed.
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Tue Jul-15-08 01:19 PM
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26. Or as buzzflash editor Mark Karlin writes.. |
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"How About a New Yorker Cover with the Editor's Head Up His Ass?"THE BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG Mark Karlin Editor and Publisher July 15, 2008 <SNIPS> "I tried my mightiest not to write about the appalling and inexcusable New Yorker cover that provides a racist, right-wing stereotyping caricature of the Obamas. From our view, knowing a thing or two about public relations, the decision of The New Yorker editor to run the cover probably included the likelihood of massive free publicity: mission accomplished. So I didn't want to help them out."
But I got a call yesterday from a long-time reader (since 2000) who occasionally e-mails us tips and with whom we have grown close in that Internet sort of way. (I won't reveal his name because he is in the media business in Manhattan and his feeding of information to BuzzFlash could cause his professional life a setback, to say the least.) He was distressed by the cover, in fact in pain. He was concerned that, given that there was no context to the so-called parody (The New Yorker could have had Rush Limbaugh popping pills and hallucinating the image of the Obamas with a contented druggy smile on his face, but the Conde Nast empire and its owners, the Newhouse family, probably doesn't want to offend Rush and his backers), and that a display of bigoted images on newsstands around the country (without any indication except inside the heads of the cartoonist and New Yorker editor that they were meant as "parody") could help further incite racism and a fear of Obama.<conclusion snips>.. "Sometimes the insularity of Manhattan can be as confining as small town prejudices. Living and working in the world's most self-important city doesn't give one the right to act irresponsibly.
It just may mean that your head is stuck up your ass -- and you can cause great harm due to your smugness and a desire for some free publicity by creating a gaper's block that can harm the basic civility of our nation."<MORE> http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/editorblog/103
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Tue Jul-15-08 02:43 PM
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28. No, MrScorpio, you're just STUPID |
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Tue Jul-15-08 06:16 PM
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31. It's not the kind of joke where you laugh or where it's funny or where it's a joke |
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or where anybody but the most smartest peoples gets it and everybody who dont get it is dubm and have no sense of humor and got to have it explain to them by the most smartests what parody in satire in irony in liberal foot shooting humor is.
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