May 17, 2008
More Insightful, Hard-Hitting Political Commentary From Scott Stantis
Friday: Scott Stantis has Carmen ranting and raving about how shameful it is that the President admitted we torture people. Stantis then attacks the media and the American public for not talking about the issue.
Saturday: Instead of talking about the torture issue and attacking the President for authorizing it, instead Scott Stantis bitches and moans that people don't talk enough. Because, of course, the real issue isn't that the President authorized torture, but that people don't talk about it enough.
When it comes to political commentary, Scott Stantis' grade?
May 16, 2008
Yet Another Friday Visit from Weird Al Yankovic
'Song for Scott Stantis'
(To the Tune of "[B]eat It")
You worked for years and years to defend George Bush
Your comic scribblings were like what comes out of your tush
And now you're feeling bad, your soul needs a push
So eat it, just eat it
Your conscience crisis is too little too late
To make up for all your lies and your bilious hate
So open up here comes the crow it's gonna taste great
So eat it, and don't tell me you're full
Just eat it, eat it , eat it, eat it
Open up your maw and eat it
I don't care if you choke
You're a silly, piddling joke
Just eat it
May 15, 2008
The 2013 Year Old Man
McCain is hitting all his cues today, coming out with his Conan O'Brien-inspired speech, "In The Year 2013," on the same day Stantis is yelping his little conservative white man yelp of 'remember us?'
Poor little Scott Stantis and his brethren whimpering in sadness and disgust that John McCain doesn't share their same interest in pederasty and blood sucking (or whatever it is whackjob conservatives believe in).
THIS, my friends, my friends, is your legacy. THIS, my friends, is what you deserve. Lump it or leave it, mis amigos.
Not that I or 85% of the country think there's a whit of difference between McCain or This Current Administration Stantis Has Worked So Hard to Defend. But that's not my problem.
Posted by CJo at 01:14 PM | Comments (3)May 14, 2008
A Read Hearing
I really don't have anything to add to the discussion about today's strip. These are the same jokes being told since 1898 about Jacky Boy, as he was then known, who had been imprisoned by the enemies in a POW camp in Manila, which is why he still refers to Filipinos as his "little brown brothers." I remember seeing the moving pictures from the vaudeville performance captured on the praxinoscope shortly thereafter. (A young Jimmy Durante played the part of "The Mick", with Al Jolson in heavy facepaint as his captor. There was much pie-throwing and frantic running, all set to the tune of the "Maple Leaf Rag.")
While amusing, entertaining, cathartic, &c., there's really no point in shouting into the echo chamber that is Shrubville about what a terrible horrible no good very bad president John Sidney McCain would make. Which is why I'm constantly picking on B'Iraq Mohammed Hussein Obomba. Until he gets assassinated at least. Then it'll be sadness and tears and unfulfilled scandals and wildly imaginative hypothetical scenarios in which he wouldn't have become a disappointment to his starry-eyed followers. Then, after an appropriate amount of time had passed, we'd be back here at Shrubville complaining about how Scotty Boy is picking on President Clinton and her first laddy.
Posted by Sacki at 11:11 AM | Comments (7)May 13, 2008
When McSame Attacks
Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”
– Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998 (Chelsea was a teenager at the time).
I'll say it: Scott Stantis is funnier than John McCain. Probably a better choice to be president too.
Posted by The Furnace at 10:44 AM | Comments (3)May 12, 2008
I Dunk Now
We always give Stantis a hard time for his aversion to technology, but he has absolutely nailed it today. Just like Chester Gould was a visionary for imagining a world where detectives have video-conferencing capabilities on their wrists in Dick Tracy, now Scott Stantis sees a world where Coyotes carry handheld Timex Sinclair 1000's, which can get the latest news feeds via CB radio technology.
Make sure to enter this in first, Winslow:
10 INPUT "Election News", U$
20 PRINT "Democrats"; U$
30 INPUT "CB Radio Feed: ", N
40 S$ = ""
50 FOR I = 1 TO N
60 S$ = S$ + "*"
70 NEXT I
May 11, 2008
How Scott Stantis Celebrates Mother's Day
Ugh. Stantis trots out the whole "let's agree to disagree" strip that he goes with when he doesn't want to deal with real issues or Winslow trying to fly.
The interesting part for me is that first panel. Winslow says "it's all good" while Carmen says "it's no good," but then the two seem to flip perspectives as it becomes more clear that they seem to be arguing about Iraq (Carmen even says to "stay the course" - didn't Stantis get the memo that Republicans aren't supposed to say that anymore?). Why is the liberal Winslow saying everything's good? Stantis does get in his weasel-y "fight vs. flight" argument, as if those of us who don't want us to be in Iraq anymore are running away - very Rush of you, Scott.
But ultimately at the end, Carmen and Winslow throw their arms around each other and happily walk of into the sunset together. If only that were true in real life, that Republicans and Democrats could come together after bickering all day long. Instead, we get the Republicans in Congress voting AGAINST Mother's Day. I think we can all agree that makes Republicans look like dicks.
Happy Mother's Day from the folks at Shrubville, where we love our mothers!
May 10, 2008
Hard-Hitting Political Commentary, Courtesy of Scott Stantis
Why do I get the feeling I've seen this strip before? I dunno, maybe it's just really unoriginal. But someone doing a cannonball into an empty pool or whatever and then saying that there aren't any warning signs on the road less traveled feels like it's been done plenty of times in the past.
But I guess it's better than yet another hypocritical post saying how dumb it is that our media focuses on stupid little things when all Scott Stantis ever does is make a big deal out of stupid little things.
