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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
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after all, the christian right in this country would do the exact same thing!
Well, you see, all them youngsters are listening to all this devil music that wasn't around when I was young and wearing those baggy clothes that we didn't have and we have to restore the old values you see and they cuss and get tattoos and their different and that's bad and if their parents would just drag them to church then they would learn the proper ways of the Lord like trickle down tax cuts and that deficits don't matter and pull yourselves up by your boot straps and abolishing Social Security and sure I can't afford my own medication but we have to stop all them homos from getting hitched to preserve tradition and girls dress too slutty today and all those violent video games and did I mention the bad music and...and...oh, it's 8:00, time for my Lawrence Welk reruns!
So he figured out rednecks hate gays, I figured that out long before I ever heard of either Karl Rove or "dubya", where's MY Newsweek column? So he tells the republicans to be "authentic" (the exact opposite of what he told Bush), gee, I wonder when we're going to get a campaign advisor that's going to go before the voters and say "Yeah, my guy is a total phony". Is this what qualifies this guy as a genius? Seriously, I want to know. Maybe next he can host his own kiddie show where he tells kids to "be themsleves", that'd be original.
As for the "ryhmes with witch" remark, well, he can't offend the moral sensibilities of those oh so virtious republican voters. They have high moral standards for their people. Like running not one, not two, but at least THREE vietnam vets names through the mud so a trust fund frat boy who never made a dollar without someone else to carry him can be president and have all the power he wants. (Those vets names in order are John McCain, John Kerry, and Max Cleland)
Those kind of high standards.
For one thing, we actually had a president that wanted to do something about our negative perception in the middle east by tackling the root of the problem: the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Now we get a numbnuts who just says "they hate us for our freedom".
At least then congress wasn't afraid to impeach a president (granted it was for something stupid and pointless and didn't affect anyone).
Every year about this time, I look for another book of equal caliber and every year I get disappointed. Don't get me wrong, I don't like everything Moore has done, his run on "Swamp Thing" did nothing for me, but the guy has to be given credit for finally giving comics a REAL adult look. Unlike Stan Lee, he didn't just assume that his audience were minors and in most cases, counted on the idea that they weren't.
Any guy who worships ancient Egyptian gods is going to be considered eccentric in this day and age, and his falling out with BOTH major comics companies in America is well known (I still thinl it was a mistake to take his name off the "V" movie and the upcoming "Watchmen"), but the man was the first to truly realize that you didn't need to talk down to your audience to get them to buy stories about grown men who wear masks and wear their underwear on the outside of their circus outfit (is there any dispute that "For the Man Who Has Everything" is the best Superman story ever?). An argument I have heard more then once is that Moores run on "Supreme" (the only thing Rob Liefeld ever did that is of any value, and he just owned the damn thing!) is largely responsible for the new Silver Age style direction DC is now taking Superman these days.
I think for that alone we should all be greatful for his work and his, albeit mixed, legacy. Thank You Mr. Moore for finally guiding comics into adulthood and if I ever find another comic that compares to "Watchmen" in mere scope and complete scope, I'll let you know.
It's sad that even on a story about a comic, we still can't get away from the right wing trolls...
Of course the people who have a problem with Dumbledoors "sodomite lifestyle" must have not been listening when their pastor also told them to keep their children away from "Harry Potter" for it's "promotion of witchcraft" if they are worried about their children being exposed to "ungodly" influences.
What part of "they molested children" do these people not understand? This story was not "catholic bashing" as one poster suggested. If that is what happened then that is what happened. As far as I know, Bill Donahoe didn't get nearly as upset about those incidents as he did about that "Golden Compass" movie.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
