Belle Waring raises the good question of whether or not this is supposed to me be in the third panel of this Chris Muir cartoon. It definitely looks like me, although it's always bothered me that I can't do that "raise one eyebrow" thing.
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A Debut?
06 Aug 2007 12:50 pm
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Wait, so he published a story about bad behavior by US troops to further himself personally? Even though he published it under a pseudonym? He probably wanted them to start a witch hunt to out him, that clever SOB.
Well, we all know you just love Marty Peretz, so it must be you.
That cartoon is awful.
Dude, I think this means that you're the Official Very Face of the Left!!! Congratulations.
Far more puzzling than whether that's you is what, precisely, the joke is here.
Also, using a pseudonym because you're so desperate for fame... genius.
so is TNR supposed to be anti-war-porn ?
"That cartoon is awful."
"Far more puzzling than whether that's you is what, precisely, the joke is here. "
Welcome to the wonderful world of Chris Muir, the comic strip writer who doesn't understand how comic strips work.
Also why is Matt's copy of the magazine talking?
Also why is Matt's copy of the magazine talking?
Kantian nihilism.
so is TNR supposed to be anti-war-porn ?
I suppose the point (assuming there is one) would be that us lefties ordinarily disapprove of TNR, but are secretly reading it now for Beauchamp's articles.
I can't quite understand why so many righties seem to think that hurting dogs is okay if you do it to facilitate your vacation trip, or to sell medical supplies to doctors, but when Beauchamp writes about it happening in Iraq, it's a war crime . . .
i like muir's stuff because it looks so hip!
I suppose the point (assuming there is one) would be that us lefties ordinarily disapprove of TNR, but are secretly reading it now for Beauchamp's articles.
i guess.
though, i would never have even known about Beauchamp or his article (which i still haven't read) if it wasn't for the nutweb's hysterical freakout. and i don't think i'm alone.
isn't it frank foer?
I'm just confused by the anatomy of the woman in the first panel. Is she some kind of snake-human hybrid?
I've read the strip about 10 times now. I can't figure out for the life of me what the punchline is supposed to mean. I know Chris Muir sucks, but plenty of comics suck, and usually I can figure out what they're gettin at. This is just baffling.
I think Muir needs to resort to the editorial cartoonist's trick of labeling all the elements in the panel with their allegorical counterparts. Or maybe he should just hang it up.
I think Muir needs to resort to the editorial cartoonist's trick of labeling all the elements in the panel with their allegorical counterparts. Or maybe he should just hang it up.
The second one. Definitely.
Just noticed: the disembodied voice in the third panel (which I assume is supposed to represent Ezra Klein) refers to the magazine as not TNR but T N' R, which maybe is supposed to evoke T & A except that then the apostrophe should be before the N.
If the elitist Harvard grad spelling challendged Matt is the face of the left, we are all doomd.
"Oops, I forgot to tell a joke!"
That's the last panel in the "America: The Book" parody of Mallard Fillmore. It applies to this series of drawings, too.
refers to the magazine as not TNR but T N' R, which maybe is supposed to evoke T & A except that then the apostrophe should be before the N.
Maybe "Tennessee's Republicans"? Let's not avoid the real issue, though: there needs to be a cage match between MY and norbizness to sort out who is The Left.
Not being able to raise one eyebrow has always bothered me, too. That and not being able to grow a full beard.
I suspect that the cartoon isn't supposed to be you, particularly, but is the artist's conception of the generic young, liberal intellectual. Might be disturbing to be a living stereotype. Then again, you are tall, which doesn't fit the GYLI stereotype.
Ostensible Cartoon MY looks like a younger, less narcissistic Eric Alterman. **SHUDDER** Don't do it, Matt. Resist the Dork Side of the Farce!
Not that I don't read and respect what Alterman has to say, it's just the "man" part that really fries my beggin' strips! Or the goatee. Guys with goatees suck. And this is coming from a guy with a handlebar mustache.
Adam, you need to understand fact no 1 about Chris Muir - his strips aren't bad humour - they are orthogonal to humour.
Gabriel, you need to understand fact no 2 - his grasp of female anatomy is tenuous at best.
And beady eyes, Gregorio. Don't forget the beady eyes. Yeah, I guy's the joke is an attempt to cash out the TNR sounds like TNA gag. I am sure many an illiterate conservative, not getting the joke, will laugh half heartedly at it anyway, because they know they're supposed to support all criticisms of The New Republic, no matter how spastic the joke is.
Having gotten onto a round-robin e-mail list with some rightwingers, I have learned that what they say doesn't need to make any sense- in fact, it would be a waste of perfectly good reasoning if it did because they simply can't think. Actual humor is totally lost on them- they just stare at you blankly.
What works for the rightwinger is what you see in the 'cartoon'- a picture of a woman's crotch, and a string of invective and slander. This they consider to be absolutely killer stuff. When a mentally healthy person responds with total bafflement to a meaningless slander like this cartoon, the rightwinger thinks it means they are really smart and understand something the normal person just can't comprehend.
These are the people who have infiltrated every level of our government.
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Heads in the Sand
It does look like you, Matt, but I suspect it is the early morning error he fesses up to with the correction. It was supposed to be the doughy pantload Jonah.
Posted by JimPortlandOR | August 6, 2007 1:01 PM