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Apr '11
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
Todd Prouty
SNL will focus on Romney as a bully (pinning Obama and cutting his hair?) or Silent Jim Lehrer as getting walked all over, but neither could be as funny as this. · 3 hours ago
Thanks to you I wasted 51 seconds of my life.....but it was sweet!
Oct '10
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
AGREED!!! Let's hear it for Clint.
Dec '10
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
dogsbody, the schedule of debates and the identities of the moderators have been public knowledge for weeks. The artist didn't have to wait until Wednesday to know that Jim Lehrer would moderate the first debate.
Apr '11
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
That's not what the guy who drew it says.
Set against that, if you read the magazine, it hasn't turned against Obama; like also loyal MSNBC, they thought he debated poorly this time.
May '10
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
But Stuart, how did they know the exact style and color of the podiums, the camera positioning, the moderator's exact desk, which side Romney would stand on, etc.?
This is the real deal: Elite lefties are mocking their saint.
May '10
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
Beat me to it, James.
Oct '10
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
Scott [roy-sir]
This is the real deal: Elite lefties are mocking their saint.
Yes; it’s the ‘permission to ridicule’ threshold. Once that gets into the psyche of the cultural elite, they start pulling punches, avoiding contact, imagining a future without the Blessed One at the helm. Suddenly the prospect of Romney/Ryan isn’t as cataclysmic as they once pretended it to be.
Victory begins in the brain of your opponent. That’s why totalitarians put people to death for telling jokes and drawing cartoons. Since the debate we’ve heard Lefties decry ‘disrespect to the President’, which they unsubtly wrap around the ever-present racism meme. This from Lefties who called Bush 43 a war criminal and torturer, and said Dick Cheney sacrificed the blood of innocents for Halliburton’s profits. Progressives are just fascists harboring intellectual pretensions, who make themselves useful by spewing the hatreds of intellectual elites.
Apr '11
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
Scott [roy-sir]
Funny, but you know what? This is actuallywaymore insulting and personal to Obama than somePeople Magmiddle-America insult. This is his crowd -- America's betters -- the only crowd he cares about. This sucker sits on coffee tables in the White House.
Oh baby, this is nice.
Oh yeah, Barry's going to be mighty peeved when this issue shows up at 1600.
Obama [waving The New Yorker]: "You see what arrive in my home?"
Axlrod: "Mr. President, I almost died myself. It was all so...
Obama: "IN MY HOME! ON MY COFFEE TABLE! NEXT TO WHERE MICHELLE MAKES ME SLEEP! Where Sasha and Malia come and play with their Big Bird toys. In my HOME!"
May '12
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
If Obama's lost The New Yorker, he's lost midtown Manhattan.
There, I've fixed it for you.
Mar '11
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
Severely Ltd.
Scott [roy-sir]
Funny, but you know what? This is actuallywaymore insulting and personal to Obama than somePeople Magmiddle-America insult. This is his crowd -- America's betters -- the only crowd he cares about. This sucker sits on coffee tables in the White House.
Oh baby, this is nice. · 18 minutes ago
They might see this as a painful but necessary warning shot over the bow. "When you look stupid, Barack, your supporters look stupid. Don't make us look stupid." Because in their world self-regard and sneering at Republicans is part of living well. · 7 hours ago
Let the word go forth from this time and place: "Two-time Obama voter" is the new "moron."
Mar '11
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
I look forward to debate number two, when Jim Messina writes all the answers in bullet point format on his hands, and sits in the front row.....
Aug '10
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
Percival
Severely Ltd.
Scott [roy-sir]
Funny, but you know what? This is actuallywaymore insulting and personal to Obama than somePeople Magmiddle-America insult. This is his crowd -- America's betters -- the only crowd he cares about. This sucker sits on coffee tables in the White House.
Oh baby, this is nice. · 18 minutes ago
They might see this as a painful but necessary warning shot over the bow. "When you look stupid, Barack, your supporters look stupid. Don't make us look stupid." Because in their world self-regard and sneering at Republicans is part of living well. · 7 hours ago
Let the word go forth from this time and place: "Two-time Obama voter" is the new "moron."
I thought it was the new "Bigfoot" or "Loch Ness Monster".
Oct '10
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
Fool me once, I'm a naif. Fool me twice, I'm a moron.
Oct '10
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
Misthiocracy
I thought it was the new "Bigfoot" or "Loch Ness Monster". · 19 minutes ago
Say, I've got an idea for a reality show...
Dec '10
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
Scott, James and dogsbody: You've convinced me I was wrong and you are right. Scott pointed out the style of the podiums - something the artist wouldn't have known until, at the earliest, the day before the debate. That puts the context on the comment James quoted that makes it clear he drew this after the debate, not before.
Clearly the liberal rage at Obama's poor performance is all-consuming.
Oct '10
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
Stuart, I'd like to be the first to congratulate you for being the first person on the internet to put those seven words together in that particular order. You'd think with the billions upon billions of comments monthly that at some point pure chance would have brought it about, but, no, it fell to you to accomplish it. Wow.
Sep '12
Re: Pauline Kael's "New Yorker"
dash: If Obama's lost The New Yorker, he's lost midtown Manhattan.
There, I've fixed it for you. · Oct 6 at 3:11am
Thanks!