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August 09, 2008
Bold Political Commentary From Scott Stantis (about China)
Poor Carmen. She went from being an afterthought in this Olympic storyline to carrying Prickly City's thong flag and dressing like a clown (well at least I think it was supposed to be a clown - I'm still not really sure what she was supposed to be yesterday). And now she's a political prisoner. How could this have happened?
I think I know. Carmen was probably following the lead of her idol Senator Sam Brownback (R-KS), who went on CNN a week or so ago to complain that China could be spying on people inside the country:
BROWNBACK: This is the public security bureau in China requiring the installation of hardware that they can listen to anybody and everybody’s and their communications and their recordings that are sent over the internet in a real-time purpose or over long-term. That’s spying, John. […] Your internet communications can all be monitored in a real time basis by the public security bureau of the Chinese government. I think they’re clearly intent upon spying. they’re going to be spying.
Yes, how dare those Chinese illegally spy on people inside their country without warrants! Don't they have a Congress like we do that will retroactively grant them immunity for breaking the law?? Barbarians.
Pretty odd that Stantis would reference Tiananmen Square. Weren't those pretty much where people protested in favor of democracy and against authoritarianism? Sure doesn't sound like the Carmen we know - she's all in favor of an imperial president who can spy on anybody and lie us into war.
What's that? The president forged documents tying Saddam to 9/11? Um, John Edwards had an affair! That's REAL news! Don't worry about that fake letter attempting to justify an invasion of a country that wasn't a threat - John Edwards had sex with a woman he wasn't married to! AND he may have fathered her child! That's the kind of news Americans want to hear!!!
Ahem. Quick question: what if it was Mike Huckabee instead of John Edwards? Would any of this be news? I'm thinking not so much.
Anyway, back to Prickly City. So Carmen is a political prisoner because she - oh who cares. None of this storyline makes any sense, and it's all just slapped together at the last minute. Kind of like cable news. Who cares if it makes any sense - run with it and see if it sticks. Blah.
Comments
Well, let's see, I had written my parallel-universe strip with Winslow at home and Carmen going to China, so maybe I can go with that. Picture Winslow back in PC, watching the TV, maybe with Vaughn at his side.
Frame one:
Winslow: Vaughn, come here, Carmen's on TV!
Vaughn: Huh?
Frame two:
TV announcer's voice: A seven-year-old American child was arrested in China today on charges of spying.
Winslow: Oh, I'm worried.
Vaughn: Who do we need to call to get her out?
Frame three:
TV announcer's voice: She is accused of studying China's Internet blocking system in order to bring those secrets to the U.S.
Winslow: I told her to stop hanging around with Michelle Malkin.
Vaughn: It's hopeless.
Frame four:
TV announcer's voice: The tricky tween says that she wanted to block Web sites that coarsened the culture.
Winslow: I dunno, she was happy to spend all afternoon on JonasBrothers.com
Vaughn: That has nothing to do with culture, Winslow.
Hmmmm. It's a bid wordy.
Posted by: Annie at August 9, 2008 11:53 AM
