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June 14, 2006
A Convenient Target
As usual, the Furnace nailed Stantis on Sunday. "He's going to spend a week bashing Al Gore and his movie 'An Inconvenient Truth.'" Good call, my man.
And, as usual, Stantis -- to use an out-of-season sports metaphor, because out-of-season sports are all the rage apparently -- he FUMBLES the ball. On the snap, even.
Of course, we couldn't have Stantis attacking a foe of the Right without Stantis drawing said foe as inexplicably fat.
Oh, but you're attacking the MESSAGE, right, Scott? The MESSAGE. It's the Liberals who attack the person, right, Scott? Isn't that what you harp on in your pointless podcast that hasn't been updated in over two weeks? Liberals attack the person; Conservatives attack the message?
Is that why you drew Al Gore as fat? Is that why you drew Al Gore to look and act like Frankenstein? Is that Al Gore's message, Scott?
Of course not. Al Gore's "message" -- or at least one of them -- is warning of global warming.
Or, in the words of Scott writing on behalf of Al Gore, "You're gonna die! Consumed in a cloak of water and heat!" Maybe I'm missing something, but Al Gore doesn't run around shouting like a hysterical ninny that we're going to die. Instead he presents a well-studied, well-reasoned, SCIENTIFIC argument. I suppose that's his sin, though. Using SCIENCE. God fucking forbid someone use research, observation, testing, study, and experimentation. No, leave them FANCY BUZZWORDS to the liberals and their FANCY book-learning ways, yessireeeScott.
Oh, and a Lock Box joke? That wasn't even funny circa 2000 on SNL let alone six. fucking. years. later. What's next? Internet-inventing jokes? Love canal? Love STORY? If the press wrongfully zinged [zang?] Gore for it six years ago, you can bet Stantis has it written down in a tattered notebook he carries around titled in big, bold, crayon-lettered crazy-man scrawl "I Was So Embittered by Eight Years of Clinton That I'm Going to Spend the Rest of My Working Life Making Fun of Liberals."
Dear Scott: Move on. Dot Org.
Comments
In Stantis's defense (and this will never happen again), Gore has put on a few pounds the past couple of years. But if you've seen An Inconvenient Truth (I did Monday - it's really good) he's no longer the stiff, zombie-like Gore that Stantis draws. And he's not THAT fat. He looks...full.
And yeah let's make fun of the lock box - not that it would have helped save social security or anything. Instead let's crack that box open and throw a party for rich people! Yeah, that's the ticket!
Posted by: The Furnace at June 14, 2006 09:09 AM
Okay...I'm curious...what's "lock box"?
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at June 14, 2006 09:22 AM
CB -
"Lock box" was a term used by Gore in the 2000 presidential campaign. It was intended to gather the young, dumb & full of strum voters who may have been sitting on the fence over to his side, and was a reference to the 1983 Sammy Hagar song "Three Lock Box." Sample lyrics: "Suckers walk, money talks! But it can't touch my three lock box! Uh! Oh, yeah!"
Posted by: Sacki at June 14, 2006 09:27 AM
Thanks.
Oh, and Stantis drew an Gore/Incovinent Truth editorial couple weeks earlier. Here's the link
http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/cartoons/052506_stantis.jpg
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at June 14, 2006 09:34 AM
Actually the lock box was where Gore wanted to put all of the surplus that Clinton had gathered over the last few years of his administration. He wanted to keep that money aside for a rainy day - like saving social security. Bush's first act as President was to open the lock box and give people $300 cash, and huge tax cuts for the wealthy that would last until 2007. He's now trying to make those tax cuts permanent (even though they were sold to the American public as a temporary boost to the economy), while people are still wondering when they'll ever get another 300 bucks while they spend 3 dollars a gallon on gasoline while oil companies get corporate welfare.
Posted by: The Furnace at June 14, 2006 10:16 AM
Thanks alot, Furnace, you have just made me hate Dubya more than ever now.
Can't believe 30% of the American people actually think this guy's awesome.....
Posted by: Charles Brubaker at June 14, 2006 11:10 AM
