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October 03, 2006
Prickly City: On the Cutting Edge (of two weeks ago)
Bravo, Mr. Stantis. In two short days you summed up everything that sucks so much about Prickly City. Yesterday, as CJo pointed out, you fell back on your lazy azz approach to your own characters - you don't know what they stand for anymore, and if something bad has to happen it's going to be Winslow since he's supposedly a stupid stinky smell liberal.
Today is a textbook example of the other major flaw with this waste of comic page space: Stantis insistence that he tackle "topical" stories, even though the nature of comics means he's always going to be a week or two behind the times. Now if this were a huge story arc it could be forgiven. If he was doing something on the war in Iraq, he wouldn't have to deal in specifics - there's always something bad happening there that he can try to blame on Democrats.
But with Stantis's "What's in the news today that I can slap together into a strip" mentality, we get beauties like today's strip. According to Carmen, Air America Radio is going bankrupt. Winslow asks if it's financially, and she oh-so-cleverly responds, "that too." Because, you see, as a dirty stinky liberal radio station they're all kinds of bankrupt, not like Rush Limbaugh and his four marriages and viagra trips to visit prostitutes and illegal prescriptions.
Stantis got the idea that Air America was going bankrupt from this "news" story. Originally it was reported on the liberal Huffington Post website, but it was soon trumpeted all over conservative radio and websites with glee.
The problem? It didn't happen. Air America is alive and well and still on the air. I actually heard the opening to Al Franken's show where that Friday where his first line was, "We're still here." Was it bad reporting? A rumor gone wrong? A planted story to get conservatives to cream themselves without fact checking the story on their own with they're want to do?
Doesn't matter. Stantis didn't even wait until the Friday of that week to confirm the story - he just threw it together, turned it into his editors, and for some bizarre reason they ran it today anyway knowing that Air America didn't declare bankruptcy. I suppose they could argue that Air America *might* declare bankruptcy *someday*, but I doubt they let a strip go where Winslow says, "President Bush is getting impeached."
My question: how exactly is Air America Radio bankrupt other than financially? And isn't that sort of the pot calling the kettle black considering it's coming from neocon tot Carmen? Why don't we take a look at just a few of the headlines of the past week, and let's decide if it's really the Republican party that's bankrupt in all sorts of ways:
- We found out Republican Congressman Mark Foley is a sexual predator whose prey was teenage boys. If you haven't seen his instant messages where he asks the teens to measure their dicks and talks about them "spirting," they're hysterical in a sick, demented way.
- Now we're hearing that the Republican leadership in Congress knew about Mark Foley, knew about his perverted emails and instant messages, and did nothing except try to cover it up. That's right: they KNEW there was a sexual deviant preying on teenage boys, and they were more worried about staying in power and getting re-elected than protecting them. Oh and their big moral concern now: finding out who leaked the emails. Yeah, because the leakers are the real guilty ones here.
- We discovered that George Tenet warned Conde Rice in JULY of 2001 that Osama wanted to attack us, and she ignored it.
- Republican Congressman Bob Ney pled guilty to criminal corruption charges, but decided he's not going to step down.
- Congress didn't do anything about the budget before going on recess, meaning our government is dangerously close to actually being financially bankrupt.
- Iraq was a clusterfuck from the beginning. Even Bush's wife was calling for Rumsfeld to get canned. Bush knowingly ignored that violence was getting worse over there, and they've been covering it up. They knew they didn't have enough troops going in and didn't do a damn thing about it.
- Oh, and that little thing about George Bush now getting to decide what's torture. Not to mention being allowed to arrest anybody he wants and throwing him into prison forever without charges.
And that's all in just the past TWO WEEKS. So who's really the morally and financially bankrupt party, Scott? I'll give you a hint: the ones with the perverts and criminals and liars probably has a leg up on Al Franken.
Comments
Scotty is all about tautology. Republicans = Carmen = Good; Democrats = Winslow = Bad. There is no deviation from the script. It would be easier for Scotty to change the definition of "good" than to admit that the Republicans and hence Carmen were not.
So, in his world, torture, sexual predation, corruption, 3000 American deaths, all must somehow or another be good, because otherwise the Republicans would not be in favor of them.
It must be nice to get paid for being such a simpleton.
Posted by: Annie at October 3, 2006 08:53 AM
