On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:10:15 -0700 (PDT), animaminima@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>On Jul 22, 1:44 pm, Marko Amnell <marko_amn...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> On Jul 22, 7:57 pm, "*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’s 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:
>>
>> A shattered visage whose frown
>> And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
>> Tell 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.
Unfortunately, that's quite true. Even among the Lying Socialist
Weasels, a group that dotes on political satire, there were a few
outraged howls at first.
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