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PoliGAF 2013 |OT1| Never mind, Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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B-Dubs

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Oblivion said:
That artist has a history of being really bad with metaphors:

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I don't entirely understand this. Is he saying we're hitting the big and unimportant things in the aftermath instead of the small and important one?
 
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Oblivion

Fetishing muscular manly men in skintight hosery
B-Dubs said:
I don't entirely understand this. Is he saying we're hitting the big and unimportant things in the aftermath instead of the small and important one?
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It's based off of a painting called The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell and....that's about as far as I can go trying to make sense of this moronic cartoon.

The point of the original Rockwell painting, was to show how a young black child needed to be escorted to (an all White) school by U.S. Marshalls because of the prevalent racism against black people at the time. And this is why I'm sort of at a loss as to what Lester's trying to get at. Taken in the same context as the Rockwell paining, Limbaugh is apparently in need of protection from the evil liberal critics (who are supposed to represent the KKK, I'd imagine. Also, note the word "conservative" written on the wall, presumably supposed to be an equivalent slur as "nigger" in the Rockwell painting. Awesome work, Mike!).

Now, if that WAS what Lester was going for, that'd be one thing. Yes, it would still ultimately be fucking retarded and offensive, but at least I'd understand his point. The problem though, is that the marshalls are labeled "NFL", "Lib Media", and "True Racism". Is Lester trying to say that Rush is being protected by the NFL, Lib Media, and True Racism? That can't be it. Is it that those things are somehow part of the government? The latter two I could understand from the prism of a right wing twit, but where does the NFL fit in? And even if the NFL was part of the government, THAT STILL WOULDN'T MAKE ANY GODDAMNED SENSE!
 
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Dan

No longer boycotting the Wolfenstein franchise
Holidays with the relatives... who knew that America was so close to perfecting its experiment before Obama came and destroyed everything in just a few years?

B-Dubs said:
That comment from the article is incredibly racist and yet she doesn't realize it...I'm not sure which is worse...
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I'd say that's far more common that racist people being in any way conscious of their every racist thought/action.
 
CHEEZMO™

CHEEZMO™

Obsidian fan
Oblivion said:
It's based off of a painting called The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell and....that's about as far as I can go trying to make sense of this moronic cartoon.

The point of the original Rockwell painting, was to show how a young black child needed to be escorted to (an all White) school by U.S. Marshalls because of the prevalent racism against black people at the time. And this is why I'm sort of at a loss as to what Lester's trying to get at. Taken in the same context as the Rockwell paining, Limbaugh is apparently in need of protection from the evil liberal critics (who are supposed to represent the KKK, I'd imagine. Also, note the word "conservative" written on the wall, presumably supposed to be an equivalent slur as "nigger" in the Rockwell painting. Awesome work, Mike!).

Now, if that WAS what Lester was going for, that'd be one thing. Yes, it would still ultimately be fucking retarded and offensive, but at least I'd understand his point. The problem though, is that the marshalls are labeled "NFL", "Lib Media", and "True Racism". Is Lester trying to say that Rush is being protected by the NFL, Lib Media, and True Racism? That can't be it. Is it that those things are somehow part of the government? The latter two I could understand from the prism of a right wing twit, but where does the NFL fit in? And even if the NFL was part of the government, THAT STILL WOULDN'T MAKE ANY GODDAMNED SENSE!
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You are now imagining a Muir-Lester hybrid.

Welcome to the desert of the real.
 
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sharbhund

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Oblivion said:
It's based off of a painting called The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell and....that's about as far as I can go trying to make sense of this moronic cartoon.

The point of the original Rockwell painting, was to show how a young black child needed to be escorted to (an all White) school by U.S. Marshalls because of the prevalent racism against black people at the time. And this is why I'm sort of at a loss as to what Lester's trying to get at. Taken in the same context as the Rockwell paining, Limbaugh is apparently in need of protection from the evil liberal critics (who are supposed to represent the KKK, I'd imagine. Also, note the word "conservative" written on the wall, presumably supposed to be an equivalent slur as "nigger" in the Rockwell painting. Awesome work, Mike!).

Now, if that WAS what Lester was going for, that'd be one thing. Yes, it would still ultimately be fucking retarded and offensive, but at least I'd understand his point. The problem though, is that the marshalls are labeled "NFL", "Lib Media", and "True Racism". Is Lester trying to say that Rush is being protected by the NFL, Lib Media, and True Racism? That can't be it. Is it that those things are somehow part of the government? The latter two I could understand from the prism of a right wing twit, but where does the NFL fit in? And even if the NFL was part of the government, THAT STILL WOULDN'T MAKE ANY GODDAMNED SENSE!
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Rush was fired as an NFL commentator on ESPN in 2003 for making some racist comments about Donovan McNabb. Of course, that also doesn't make sense, since this strip has a copyright of 2009.
 
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Oblivion

Fetishing muscular manly men in skintight hosery
Oh by the way, since I was absent for the week, I'm not aware of the reference in the new thread title. Someone wanna fill me in?

sharbhund said:
Rush was fired as an NFL commentator on ESPN in 2003 for making some racist comments about Donovan McNabb. Of course, that also doesn't make sense, since this strip has a copyright of 2009.
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Yeah I'm aware of that NFL thing from 03', but even if this were made in that year, it STILL wouldn't make sense.
 
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makingmusic476

Member
Oblivion said:
Oh by the way, since I was absent for the week, I'm not aware of the reference in the new thread title. Someone wanna fill me in?



Yeah I'm aware of that NFL thing from 03', but even if this were made in that year, it STILL wouldn't make sense.
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I think it's to signify happily jumping over the cliff.

Wheeeeeeeeeeee!
 
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el retorno

Member
So there seems to have been a literal armed coup at freedom works

http://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...095b68-4545-11e2-8061-253bccfc7532_print.html

The day after Labor Day, just as campaign season was entering its final frenzy, FreedomWorks, the Washington-based tea party organization, went into free fall.

Richard K. Armey, the group’s chairman and a former House majority leader, walked into the group’s Capitol Hill offices with his wife, Susan, and an aide holstering a handgun at his waist. The aim was to seize control of the group and expel Armey’s enemies: The gun-wielding assistant escorted FreedomWorks’ top two employees off the premises, while Armey suspended several others who broke down in sobs at the news.


The coup lasted all of six days. By Sept. 10, Armey was gone — with a promise of $8 million — and the five ousted employees were back. The force behind their return was Richard J. Stephenson, a reclusive Illinois millionaire who has exerted increasing control over one of Washington’s most influential conservative grass-roots organizations.
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WTF?
There is a lot more at the link are we back in the 1800s?

Sorry if this was posted already
 
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Rocket Scientist

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Oblivion said:
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Thequietone said:
The cartoonist wasn't serious with this right? A carrot you'll never get as the American dream for most Americans does seem about right.
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FyreWulff said:
The rich leading the poor along while riding on their backs.
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LOL! The artist is such an idiot. Someone with a carrot to spare riding on the back of someone without a carrot, who will never get the carrot, is the perfect representation of the current situation in America. The rich have indeed been holding a carrot in front the poor. God this is so sad when you don't even have to work to switch a Republican cartoon back around on them. Are these people really that stupid?!
Averon said:
This is the phantom Obama conservatives and the GOP's been running against since 2008. Clint Eastwood and the empty chair at the RNC perfectly encapsulates this phenomenon.
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YES.
 
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Synth_floyd

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Someone needs to edit that cartoon. The donkey is labeled "the 99%," the guy riding him is the 1%, the carrot is the "American Dream," the check he receives is something that I haven't decided yet (economic reform? revolution?) and the caption at the top is "The way forward"
 
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Hitokage

Setec Astronomer
Oblivion said:
That artist has a history of being really bad with metaphors:

ruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuush.jpg
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Ok, the reason all of you aren't getting it is because you're still thinking with a reality-based vocabulary. "True racism" doesn't mean the KKK or anything like that, but supporters of affirmative action and black history month. "True racists" are those who refuse to acknowledge our colorblind utopia.

I can only assume other remaining issues relate to a misunderstanding or vile interpretation of the original work.
 
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airmangataosenai

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Hitokage said:
Ok, the reason all of you aren't getting it is because you're still thinking with a reality-based vocabulary. "True racism" doesn't mean the KKK or anything like that, but supporters of affirmative action and black history month. "True racists" are those who refuse to acknowledge our colorblind utopia.
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There are a lot of issues with the image, but the one that really bugs me is how in his parody, he makes the US Marshalls protecting the little girl into villains.
 
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sonicmj1

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Hitokage said:
That assumes support for integration.
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No it doesn't.

The only way I can read the cartoon that is "internally consistent" is that integration is bad; an example of a liberal Supreme Court stepping on the freedoms of others. Thus, as in the Normal Rockwell painting, the US marshals are villains who police the ideas of others in the name of "political correctness" (which the author sees as racism). The marshals of "The NFL" (firing him about comments he made), the liberal media who criticize him, and, of course, the malicious racism of those who favor minorities, force Rush to go to the integrated school of liberal PC ideology, as these liberals throw tomatoes at him. To those hecklers, "conservative" is seen as a slur as hateful as the original graffiti in Rockwell's work, "nigger".

Of course, that is... a pretty horrifying reflection of the artist's reality.
 
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kehs

Banned
Oblivion, I tried to send you a pm the other day but I couldn't, just wanted to say thanks for posting about The New New Deal book, awesome read.
 
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MThanded

I Was There! Official L Receiver 2/12/2016
Dick Armey armed coup. Dat ish cray.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2012/12/dick-armey-gun-coup-freedomworks.html

Richard K. Armey, the group’s chairman and a former House majority leader, walked into the group’s Capitol Hill offices with his wife, Susan, and an aide holstering a handgun at his waist. The aim was to seize control of the group and expel Armey’s enemies: The gun-wielding assistant escorted FreedomWorks’ top two employees off the premises, while Armey suspended several others who broke down in sobs at the news.
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I mean seriously. Damn...
 
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