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Wrong! One right wing publication has already called the cartoon "perceptive". You people on the coasts have no idea how stupid people out here in fly over country actually are. For God sakes, they built a creation museum with humans walking around with dinosaurs! That should have been your first clue! Fox News called the fist bump incident a "terrorist" fist bump knowing that their audience was so stupid that they would believe anything with the word terrorist in front of it. Before you start poo pooing this, you should really get to know who you are dealing with here. For all those who say "Oh, nobodies that stupid": YES THEY ARE!
You just don't get the mentality you are dealing with here. Cartoons like this are the bread and butter for the right. I bet if I turn on Limbuagh rihgt now he will be talking about how there may be some truth in it. Please don't give the right wing credit for being able to figure this stuff out, if they could do that, Gore would be president now. Or at the very least, McCain would have gotten the nomination.
Conservaitves simply aren't intelligent enough to understand that the Obama cover was just satire. That is the real problem here. They think it's legit. Simply showing a McCain version doesn't address this problem. As satire goes it was still funny but misses the mark as far as the problem is concerned.
is an accurate representation of all the disgruntled Hillary suporters on this site.
If the problem is the media won't give you the time of day, then maybe they should be your real targets. The real reason they don't listen to you is the same reason they didn't bother to ask any questions in the first place, fear of money losses. A few rocks through NBC's windows may change their minds. Is it dramatic? Yes. But if the networks become news themselves, it is in their best interest to give you an interview. That way they can at least keep the story going. Or their competitors will. Networks love kicking each other when their down.
Yes, we get it! Your soooooo sophisticated because you can dump on a commercially successful franchise, good for you. Now why don't you go back to your art house movies that some film student made with his weed money that no one outside of Greenich Village will ever see and let the rest of us enjoy our tights and flights.
I don't understand why people can't just leave something alone if it's not for them, why do they have to be trolls as if the rest of us care about their high and mighty opinion. Popular movies may be crap, but at least superheroes are successful crap. Right now, their about the only thing keeping the film industry in business. All those fancy independant movies you "mature" readers love so much? They wouldn't have anywhere to go without stuff like Batman and Superman propping up the studios in the first place.
Here's a little assignment for all those who think they're above comicbook movies, why don't you point to a romance movie that doesn't end with either the couple ending up together at the last minute or one of them dying. Now which genre is too predictable? I guarantee that the more "mature" movies aren't any less predictable.
were the ones demanding it in this case! The governments not good enough to protect your water supply from polluters but it's somehow good enough to protect your children from a half second nipple shot?
And I suppose pointing out to these people that republicans are the ones who use villifying minorities for political gain (gays, mexicans, war protesters) would be a waste of time. It doesn't surprise me that this is the same woman that created the "Murphy Brown" non-issue. Republicans thrive off the politics of distraction. Hence the coffee non-issue this time around. And of course the stupid hicks in Jesusland who can't even afford their own healthcare are going to fall for it again.
Superheroes are vigilantes. that means their SUPPOSED to operate outside the law! The fact that Bush just so happens to do the same doesn't make him a superhero, It just means he's abusing his power. And unlike Bush, Batman isn't working to fill his own coffers and those of his friends.
Y'know, I heard the same "examination" was given to "300" when it first came out. Even though it was written at least three years before Bush even took office. The only movie I would say was any kind of an allegory for modern times would be "V for Vendetta" and even the original version was an allegory for the Thatcher administration so it wasn't even intended to be relevant by now anyway.
I'm sick of every superhero movie having some other meaning to it besides what is there. How many conservative groups called Superman a deadbeat dad after "Returns" came out? If you can't enjoy it for what it is then go away! Bush's failers have been well documented, if our fellow citizens don't want to take the time to look at the record for themselves, an allegory their too stupid to get isn't going to change their minds. Allegories only work if your smart enough to undertand them and after the past eight years, I don't give the American people enough credit for that anymore.
he wasn't choosen based on his education. Naturally he would have a dumbed down vocabulary. In a just world, he would be living ina double wide right now, but because he's not, "awesome" has become a presidential phrase. And the collapse of western civilization continues uninterrupted.