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February 08, 2006
Bittersweet Symphony vs. Right Here, Right Now
You've just got to love the two-weeks-ahead deadline for a purportedly topical strip.
On January 25th Stantis published his Joe Paterno/Clinton was a Rapist/National Organization of [sic] Women/Hypocrisy strip. He immediately received a letter from NOW (which he read on the following week's podcast) which corrected two mistakes he had made:
1. It's National Organization FOR Women,
2. NOW never endorsed Bill Clinton for president.
The letter was polite, though it did chide Stantis for not spending a couple of minutes verifying both items, easily done by clicking through the NOW website.
The letter must have enraged Stantis so much that he immediately dropped whatever engaging PC storyline he was working on (ha!) and started to sketch out his revenge.
By the magic of syndication, we didn't see the results until yesterday when he made reference to the l'il brouhaha with his bizarre and ridiculous blaming of Winslow for his errors. And today he decides that since he's talking about NOW, he might as well bloody a woman's nose or two while he's at it.
He takes us through a little history lesson of NOW, letting us know it was founded to "allow GIRLS to be free to think and speak for themselves." Which makes me think Scott is getting his history from reading the liner notes of Free to Be You and Me.
He then goes on to say that NOW (after such lofty ideals as allowing GIRLS to be free) is just an arm of the Democratic Party.
Seemingly just a few more seconds on the NOW website, Scott, and you would have found FAQ question seven:
7. Is NOW affiliated with any one political party?No, NOW is a non-partisan organization. Candidates of all political parties are eligible for endorsement by NOW/PAC and by state and local NOW Political Action Committee.
Then he connects the dots for us: NOW is an arm of the Democratic Party, therefore any GIRLS in NOW are LOOPY, because -- it logically follows -- Democrats are LOOPY.
(Though, frankly, this is all pretty tame considering the last time he tackled NOW, he called all the members heathen sluts who hug aborted fetuses.)
At any rate, two weeks ago when he was sketching out his revenge on the GIRL at NOW who dared correct him, laughing maniacally and swinging his fists in rage, he had no idea that a few days before his strips would hit the papers Betty Friedan would die.
So NOW Stantis looks like a major-league asshole.
Yeah, big-time.
And somewhere Betty Friedan is weeping. FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE.
Comments
I am sooooo happy CJo is back. You're the man.
Posted by: The Furnace at February 8, 2006 09:32 AM
The letter must have enraged Stantis so much that he immediately dropped whatever engaging PC storyline he was working on (ha!) and started to sketch out his revenge.
Stantis seems to have taken the neo-con "they dared correct me, now I must mock/marginalize them" party line. Why is it that the neo-cons are so fact adverse?
Posted by: counter-coulter at February 8, 2006 11:55 AM
Awesome post, CJo!
Posted by: FredN. at February 8, 2006 12:22 PM
Carmen never would have joined NOW, which always was a lefty group anyway. She would have been with Phyllis Schafly, arguing that being a girl gave her special privileges and protected her from the dirty goings-on of politics and the workplace.
But now that someone else has fought for her rights, Carmen has decided that she likes them, she just doesn't want to be part of the fight. In other words, she's a typical neo-con weasel.
Just like the kind of weasel who would keep fighting Bill Clinton rather than admit that his party, controlling the government, was doing a lousy job.
Posted by: Annie at February 8, 2006 12:34 PM
N.O.W. was founded to allow girls to be free and think for themselves. Prickly City was founded to allow middle-aged white men in bow-ties to think for eight year old Hispanic girls.
Oh, loopy N.O.W.!
Posted by: Marc Heiden at February 8, 2006 02:03 PM
Dude ... I am SO using that "Free to Be You and Me" line the next time somebody talks shit about NOW.
Posted by: vesti at February 8, 2006 02:36 PM
