Comments on: Leave Kansas out of Obama cover controversy

By: beber

beber — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:33:08 +0000

“Like I said. Stupid and arrogant to think you are the only subscriber in Kansas.”

Satire is lost on you Stinky. Of course there are other subscribers in Kansas. Some libraries take the magazine.

By: Phantom

Phantom — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:44:15 +0000

How about McCain in a bird cage! Naw, again too close to reality.

By: Phantom

Phantom — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:42:17 +0000

Well, Rhonda, your righteous indignation has been noted. Now just get out of your office a little more often!

By: Rage

Rage — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:57:04 +0000

Would a New Yorker cover showing McSame humpin’ his current on a hospital bed, right next to his ex undergoing surgery to repair her accident damage, be considered satire?

Yeah, but since it’s very close to reality, it wouldn’t be partioularly funny.

What makes the cartoon funny is that it compounds the ridiculous upon the ridiculous in an exponential fashion. At least, that was my reaction.

I’m not surprised (btw) that Mary “got” it. I’m very surprised that you seem to have gotten a very different meaning from it.

Oh well.

By: Rage

Rage — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:50:47 +0000

Please share your delight with (Fernando’s) excellent post by using a junk email address, and sending large attachments to:

postmaster@berlinshotel.com

Thanks!

By: ksfarmgrrl

ksfarmgrrl — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:31:28 +0000

OMG, I’m waiting for beber to say

“Oh yeah, well.. uh… yer ugly and yer mama dresses you funny”.

Or how about

“My daddy can beat up your mama”

Like I said. Stupid and arrogant to think you are the only subscriber in Kansas.

By: beber

beber — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:20:18 +0000

“Wow, the level of put down on this thread is something only a five year old could aspire to reach.”

Conceded Stinky, beginning with yours.

By: ksfarmgrrl

ksfarmgrrl — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:15:10 +0000

And I see you are missing a couple of nics today. RFL? Boxlicker?

Too lazy to type for ALL of them?

By: ksfarmgrrl

ksfarmgrrl — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 01:14:21 +0000

Wow, the level of put down on this thread is something only a five year old could aspire to reach.

Big eye roll.

Sorry to all five year olds…

By: JMWalker

JMWalker — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:49:52 +0000

Would a New Yorker cover showing McSame humpin’ his current on a hospital bed, right next to his ex undergoing surgery to repair her accident damage, be considered satire?

By: Fernando Bowman

Fernando Bowman — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:58:07 +0000

How remarkable!!

By: Phantom

Phantom — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:58:30 +0000

Kansans will gawk at the cover in line for the check out, and smugly say “See, I told you so!”

By: ANTI

ANTI — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:25:12 +0000

Stupid and arrogant. A two-fer in the finest tradition of kansas.

——

KFG, do you have sand in your vag, or are you normally this cranky?

By: ANTI

ANTI — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:46:45 +0000

KFG,

CHIME

By: beber

beber — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:41:20 +0000

So you’re the other subscriber, Stinky?

By: ksfarmgrrl

ksfarmgrrl — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:06:54 +0000

(how long will it take for anti,rfl,boxlicker to chime in?)

Poodle dancing.

By: ksfarmgrrl

ksfarmgrrl — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 18:05:57 +0000

beber says:

“As the only subscriber to the New Yorker on this blog and perhaps in Kansas”

As Mary would say, “Oh PUL-EEEZE!”

Stupid and arrogant. A two-fer in the finest tradition of kansas.

By: kelly12

kelly12 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:04:07 +0000

well uh im from kansas,,,,,,,,, and i just DONT UNDERSTAND

By: donjohnson

donjohnson — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:35:29 +0000

The only unthruth in the cover is mrs odamnUSA”s hairdoo….

By: Mary_Caruso

Mary_Caruso — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:16:28 +0000

I think the cover was funny…and so true of politics today.

By: Rage

Rage — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:13:06 +0000

From Linda’s link:
Barack Obama used to be funny.

Who can forget his comment about smoking and inhaling dope: “Of course I inhaled. I thought that was the point!”

When he introduced himself to the American public he used to start most of his speeches with a quip about how his wife was really the boss and would not let him run for office unless he quit smoking.

This was funny because it jelled with Michelle’s feisty image.

Nowadays Barack Obama is boxed in by a pincer movement of political correctness: his race on one flank, his squeaky-clean image as the torch-bearer of hope and change on the other.

The guardians of Mr Obama’s saintly image do not tolerate satire of any sort and the New Yorker cover has merely reinforced those limits.

Joke about Barack Hussein Obama at your peril!

By: lindainks55

lindainks55 — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:04:28 +0000

Remarks from a correspondent in Washington for BBC News on Americans, humor, satire, whether Obama has a sense of humor (THIS is the latest criticism of him!). I found it interesting.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7508679.stm

Kansans do see the world and politics from a different perspective. I choose to live here but welcome keeping informed of what others around the world are thinking, what is driving their opinions and in which directions. I believe strongly in the “No Man Is An Island” way of thinking.

I love to go back east, visit, listen and participate in conversations that just don’t happen here as often without someone feeling (or feigning) outrage. I think in Kansas our acceptance meters are set lower and maybe that keeps us more naive and less worldly. There is a certain politeness about Kansans that may be less than sincere but exists. We also don’t seem able to laugh at ourselves as easily.

By: Rage

Rage — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:59:24 +0000

What’s laughably funny about this, is the more Osama Obama supporters complain about it, the more the magazine cover becomes self-defeating and a double entendre spinning on it’s own axis of hidden meaning.

Gratuitous epithet notwithstanding, this is (unfortunately) quite correct.

By: Regular

Regular — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:51:23 +0000

Leave it to Libs to shoot themselves in the foot.

heh

By: Rage

Rage — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:26:36 +0000

P.S. Besides, at least one publication is saying the people of Kansas get it.