On Jul 22, 1:44=A0pm, Marko Amnell <marko_amn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Jul 22, 7:57=A0pm, "*Anarcissie*" <anarcis...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Madness and Shame
>
> > By BOB HERBERT
>
> > Published: July 22, 2008
>
> > You want a scary thought? Imagine a fanatic in the mold of Dick Cheney
> > but without the vice president=92s sense of humor.
>
> More im****tantly, Dick Cheney *is* funny. And he
> is easy to depict in cartoons, with his twisted
> mouth, square gl***** and potato-like head.
> Actually, that twisted mouth led to one of the
> best observations about Cheney I've read:
>
> "Shelley's "Ozymandias," written two years after
> Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo, has been
> used again and again to illustrate the vanity
> and hubris of an empire gone to ruin. A traveler
> speaks of "two vast and trunkless legs of stone"
> standing in the desert, with a "shattered visage"
> lying beside them in the sand.
>
> "They say you get something new from a poem every
> time you read it, and I had not noticed before
> how exactly Shelley described Vice President Dick Cheney:
>
> =A0 =A0A shattered visage whose frown
> =A0 =A0And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
> =A0 =A0Tell that its sculptor well those passions read.
>
> http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/22/opinion/edgreenway.php
>
> Now Obama! there's a tougher nut to crack.
> You can't make fun of the guy. The New Yorker
> tried on its cover this summer and got burned.
> Actually, I think the various jokes comparing
> Obama to Osama, and the various people who've
> mixed up the two names in public, are the best
> attempts so far to find something funny about him.
> Maybe they'll think of something better when
> he's the Prez.
The New Yorker wasn't making fun of Obama, they
were making fun of the dimwits who think he's a
Muslim.
The New Yorker doubtless got a terrific advertising
boost out of the flappola.
The only downside of the whole thing was that it
revealed that many of the pwoggies are as dumb
as the people they think are dumb. And that is
pretty serious dumbness.
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