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March 03, 2007
An Inconvenient Lack Of Jokes
An example of conservative humor.
What do you do if you're a conservative and you want to make fun of anyone who doesn't agree with you, but the facts don't back up what you're saying? You just tell your "jokes" anyway, of course - because the only people who'll find them funny are other conservatives just like you who don't have a good sense of humor in the first place.
Where exactly is this bizarro world where conservatives like Stantis live? He's not alone there - check out Mormon Mitt Romney at the Conservative Political Action Conference yesterday. In his world Massachusetts is evil (even though he was governor there), the "liberal" media is evil (despite their non-reporting of his best bud forever Ann Coulter calling John Edwards a faggot), and of course Nancy Pelosi is the most evil person in the world because she's from *gasp* San Francisco. As one blogger opined this morning: if Mitt is going to spend the entire election trashing his home state, is he going to do the same thing about America when he travels the world?
Conservatives are apparently the ultimate victims. Everyone is against them. The big bad liberal media is out to get them, despite the fact that John McCain and Barack Obama can say that American lives have been wasted in Iraq yet McCain gets a pass while Obama was History's Greatest Monster. In their world George W. Bush was the Best President Ever - until it wasn't popular anymore. Iraq is going exactly as planned in their twisted minds, and it's because liberals talk about doing something other than the same thing over and over that we *might* not be winning (but victory - whatever that is - is our only option).
Honestly, it hurts my head if I think about it too much. But maybe that's because I have a mind of my own and I don't rely on Rush and O'Reilly to tell me what to think.
This whole week of Prickly City strips has been Stantis wanting things to be the way he sees them when they're not. In his world HE'S the one who wants to "Think Globally, Act Locally" - not Al Gore, who made a whole freakin' movie with that as the main point. Stantis would know that if he actually saw "An Inconvenient Truth," but I'm betting he didn't. Then Stantis refers to the carbon footprint, another key point in the movie and the movement, for today's "punchline." See what I meant about it making your head hurt? If Carmen is the one who wants to think globally and act locally, why is Winslow the one talking about the reducing your carbon footprint, which is the epitome of acting locally?
I would love to see Stantis's evidence that man has nothing to do with global warming. Instead of warmed over rhetoric from warming deniers, lets see your facts and figures. Oh, wait - you could care less about facts. They have a liberal bias.
I'm really sorry that I spent a good chunk of the last few months of 2006 complaining that Stantis wasn't spending enough time on one storyline each week. Now that he's doing that it's far more painful than one-offs about Britney's cooch. Stantis actually thinks he's making cogent political points now, when he's not. And heaven help him he still thinks he's funny.
There should be a poll of Prickly City readers who actually think it's a good comic strip. I have a feeling the number would be around 29%.
Comments
Um, I think you could reduce your carbon footprint very quickly if you were dead. And, um, if greenhouse gases aren't caused by human beings, what are they caused by?
Oh, oh, oh. My head hurts. My heart aches for Darrin Bell, dumped from the Tribune so that those crazy Tribune-company conservatives could dump Prickly City.
In two weeks: a whole series of strips on how the liberal sorority has kicked out Carmen because she's "of color" and of average size. Because we all know that the Greek system is a bastion of liberalism, and only liberals can behave badly.
Posted by: Annie at March 3, 2007 10:13 AM
The perfect comic strip for Stantis today:
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2007/02/26/tomo/index1.html
Posted by: The Furnace at March 3, 2007 01:23 PM
