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They will in all honestly probably call him former President Clinton or something. He's kind of a weird special case. I'm sure we'll get some First Gentleman or other quips, but we already know Bill Clinton so it may not stick
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Apple Pie Hubbub posted:
No, it was the slowest recovery ever, remember? I gotta wonder if that incredibly transparent longrunning "GOOD THING ACTUALLY BAD THING" attempt fooled anybody who wasn't already fooled.
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Cloud Potato posted:Times: Who is Hitler-Gromit supposed to be?
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Schizotek posted:Who is Hitler-Gromit supposed to be? Ed Balls, shadow chancellor.
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Sorry, it's more Hebdo / Trudeau kerfuffle. I'm convinced this is where I should post it; feel free to scroll past if you're (understandably) sick of the whole thing. So, a few journalists are as pissed off at Garry Trudeau as I am, but most of them are right-wingers happy to attach Trudeau's words to their usual liberal strawman. No comfort there. One guy at the Weekly Standard is having a dust-up with the guy who runs the Polk awards, so that's kind of entertaining: https://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/george-polk-journalism-awards-undermine-free-speech_918074.html?page=1 edit: The guy who runs the Polk awards is John Darnton, a former editor of the New York Times. About the best recent article agreeing with my position is from Al Jazeera (!). It probably could've mentioned Trudeau, but doesn't: http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2015/4/satire-doesnt-need-a-political-litmus-test.html * * * Okay now: The Polk awards were established almost immediately after journalist George Polk was murdered while covering the Greek civil war. He gave his life for journalism. So a “Polk Lifetime Achievement Award” means a lot more than it might. In addition to any of the actual journalists killed this year, the Polk lifetime achievement award could have gone to a lot of other people – for example, either of the atheist bloggers who were hacked to death in Bangladesh this year (in two separate incidents – go back a few years and you'll find three more). If a cartoonist is going to get a George Polk lifetime achievement award, the obvious choice right now would be the four murdered cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo. The Polk committee must know this, and Trudeau does too. His acceptance speech, then, could be read as, “This is why I deserve this award and Charlie Hebdo does not.” And of course, dead people are easy and fun to criticize because they can't respond. When the New York Times jumps on this bandwagon funny things happen. While the NYT was covering this story they wouldn't print the cartoons. Were they just being cowardly? No; according to Trudeau, they did the right thing by not reprinting “hate speech.” The definitive book on the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy, published by Yale University Press, does not contain any actual cartoons. I'd bet Yale would be pretty honest about why they didn't print them – they're afraid of AQ or ISIS assassins coming after them, and rightly so. The New York Times is afraid too, but they won't admit it because journalists are supposed to be brave. “We're not afraid of journalism; we're just being responsible!” You can fill in the area between these two positions with a chickenshit-colored crayon. One would need many such crayons. edit: Okay, so the Polks only honor American journalists. Atheist blogger Avijit Roy then. bitey fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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tacodaemon posted:Ah, yes. It was on their show "Black & White", which they always described as a "podcast", even though it was somehow also a live call-in show and you could watch them on a webcam during it. It's depressing how much worse Muir has gotten. This strip was at least kind of drawn by him, has totally readable dialogue, and has actual jokes. Plus the liberal woman gets to throw a burn back at the guy instead of just being there to be a punching bag.
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Taciturn Tactician posted:It's depressing how much worse Muir has gotten. This strip was at least kind of drawn by him, has totally readable dialogue, and has actual jokes. Plus the liberal woman gets to throw a burn back at the guy instead of just being there to be a punching bag.
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rydiafan posted:Did you miss the part where she has a vagina? It's like you're not even paying attention. Sloppiness like that is how we wound up with a black in charge. Around Barack, we relaxed 
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Internet Webguy posted:
The Rallvolution is here? Where is the nearest Rall statue for me to fellate?
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Darkman Fanpage posted:Hillary did 9/11 So THAT is what was in those e-mails?
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Mr. Squishy posted:Has this been mentioned yet in logo-chat? loving DAMNIT. I literally was just coming here to make a 9/11 joke!
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Cloud Potato posted:Ed Balls, shadow chancellor. I cannot believe Shadow Lord Chancellor is a real position in real life, and not the title of a Forgotten Realms villain. And then the guy's name totally fucks it up.
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i is the 9th letter of the alphabet so if you think about it her name is H911ary
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Darkman Fanpage posted:It looks like a butt. Feels like I'm running for nothin' at all
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Taciturn Tactician posted:It's depressing how much worse Muir has gotten. This strip was at least kind of drawn by him, has totally readable dialogue, and has actual jokes. Plus the liberal woman gets to throw a burn back at the guy instead of just being there to be a punching bag.
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bitey posted:edit: Okay, so the Polks only honor American journalists. Atheist blogger Avijit Roy then.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:I don't understand why you think they're obliged to give it to a dead person. It seems reasonable to me. When an author I like dies I think "Oh good, now I can read the collected works!" Well... Polk is not obliged to, clearly. But given the spirit of the George Polk award -- named as it was for a murdered journalist -- I'd think the "lifetime" or "career" award would be reserved for those whose lives or careers were over. Maybe it's just not a very good scope for the award, implying as it does that it involves an entire corpus.
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Rorus Raz posted:The problem that is her "burn" just exists to prove his point. Only if you inherently think women enjoying sex is bad. Otherwise it's "he's so conservative and traditional he only knows one position, haha he is bad at The Sex despite talking about how he married me to have The Sex"
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bitey posted:But given the spirit of the George Polk award -- named as it was for a murdered journalist -- I'd think the "lifetime" or "career" award would be reserved for those whose lives or careers were over.
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Irony Be My Shield posted:You'd be wrong then Evidently so. poo poo, they're just handing them out.
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The correct answer to the Polk award thing is "please stop pretending like editorial cartoons matter"
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Post 9-11 User posted:Some police get practically no training at all before they get a badge and a gun, the comic is implying that they're trained to murder black people. Which they do on a regular basis. Yeah.. thus my second post taking it all back. I realize I was wrong, I thought it was a different author so I thought it was saying something else entirely. This poo poo is why I don't post often.
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No! I cleaned the bathrooms at a five-star resturaunt. I was the chef on the SS Diarhea.
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Internet Webguy posted:
This is really dumb. Jeb Bush was rightly criticized for releasing too much information, some of the emails included the social security numbers, birthdates and names of constituents. Obviously you can't put every single thing out in public view regardless of sensitivity..
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"Black Quinoa Butter" is a nonsense phrase. Unless the Israeli chick made a compound butter with a grain, which is batshit insane. Maybe he meant black truffle butter, which is slightly more lucid. GhostofJohnMuir fucked around with this message at 03:52 on Apr 14, 2015 |
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