August 01, 2005
Sharks Patrol These Waters
Today's Strip
I'll concede Stantis a point on today's strip. The media's fascination with the Horrible and Fantastic -- including but not limited to shark attacks -- is an utter joke. I'm also happy that Stantis included Fox news as part of the media swarm surrounding Winslow.
It's amazing, but even today when the Righties criticize the media -- trotting out ye olde charge "Mainstreame Mediae" or "MSM" -- they fail to acknowledge that Fox News IS the mainstream these days. Fox News is the standard. They set the tone. They lead the charge into shark-infested waters.
And in case you missed it last week...Stantis hates Howard Dean!
He admitted on the recent podcast that the reason he devoted an entire week to Dean is that he absolutely loathes everything about him. That seems a little -- how shall we say -- hypocritical, seeing as Stantis has criticized Michael Moore AND the Democrats for basing their opposition to Bush on nothing more than hate.
Comments
Congrats on the new site!
Posted by: FredN. at August 1, 2005 11:16 AM
Is he going to spend a whole week on the shark attack story? 'Cause I read about that two weeks ago, and it wasn't interesting way back then.
Sitting here and thinking about the strip, Santis' Prickly City rants (and they are just that) seem very short-sighted and shrill. As such is the case, I am not surprised that he would be a little hypocritical.
But I won't criticize him for beating Dean for a week because the man loathes Dean. Afterall, I read Stantis' strip *every day* out of masochism and hatred.
Posted by: d_e at August 1, 2005 11:50 AM
It's too bad Stantis weinered out and went with shark attacks instead of the stories about pretty women who go missing that get all the news time nowadays. They can spend days talking about strands of hair that don't belong to that girl in Aruba, but they barely have the time to admit that the Downing Street Memos actually exist. Maybe if there was some blond hair on the memos...
Posted by: The Furnace at August 1, 2005 12:39 PM
Congrats on the new domain! I was discussing the shark attack hype the other day, so it was interesting to see it in the strip. It’s kind of sad that the word “tragedy” completely outnumbers “breakthrough” on a Google news search.
I was thinking how Stantis could approach this story with the missing women angle. Maybe Carmen goes missing, and Winslow alerts the press. It turns out that Winslow didn’t get a voicemail where Carmen says she just went to visit relatives. She freak out when she finds her face is now on billboards, there’s candle light vigils in Prickly City, and papers read “DNA tests show black hair found in painted desert not that of missing girl.” Wait, that wouldn’t work. Carmen’s not a pretty white woman.
Posted by: JB at August 1, 2005 01:51 PM
The ever insightful "La Cucaracha" was all over the missing child hi-jinks since at least last week, The Furnace. Don't you read "La Cucaracha," Gringo?
Posted by: Sacki at August 1, 2005 01:57 PM
I like the calendar. Sharp!
Posted by: J. Kendall at August 1, 2005 04:30 PM
New design looks good!
Posted by: Gorilla Jones at August 1, 2005 04:44 PM
What's a La Cucaracha?
I don't care much for the absurdist Stantis. I'm sure he thinks it's hysterical that they're in the desert yet reporters flock to him because it's a shark bite. Maybe it would get a chuckle if he said it was a land shark, but then people would be thinking of SNL so it's not really his joke.
Posted by: The Furnace at August 1, 2005 05:46 PM
