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Cowards
This reeks of the South Park controversy. We just need a comic to come out with Jesus shitting everywhere and we’ll be good.
Where are the free speech liberals on this one? Oh…that’s right…it isn’t the free speech they like (shhhh shhhhhhhh).
The asininity of the whole thing is that Breathed accurately represents the theology / politics of three groups of people. Fundamentalist muslims, while you might disagree with them, aren’t necessarily a threat, any more than a no drinkin’, no dancin’, no kissin’ before marriage Baptist is. Not saying I’d want to grow up in that household, but not necessarily a suicide quilting bee threat either. Note the distinction between the fundamentalists, and Lola’s new sect, radical Islamists – or violent Islamic extremists if you prefer that. The difference is violence, pretty simple. Fundamentalist Muslims vs. radical Islamists – pretty clear dichotomy, yes? I think Breathed nails that in a manner that isn’t offensive. Well, unless your name is Mr. I. Slamic Rageboy.
The third group implicated – the one that the Post and other libtards really don’t want to offend – is the radical chic leftists. Embracing violent politicized Islam is just another one of the left’s passing fancies. More than violent Islamic extremism, that is what Breathed is mocking here. Honestly, who comes off worse, the ultra-‘traditional’ Muslims of any stripe, or Steve’s dumbass left wing girlfriend?
Such impertinence, such blasphemy against religion (progressivism) cannot go unanswered. So naturally the Post and other PC outlets issued a fatwa against Opus.
Well that, and on the off chance violent Islamic extremists noticed it, the Post might be subjected to, y’know, protests that are a little more kinetic than they are comfortable with.
A tetchy lot. (from LGF)
Opus is only offensive to Muslims who can’t use the Internet?.
This is just crap. It’s not ridiculing Muslims, it’s not ridiculing Muslim Americans, it’s just ridiculing idiots. This isn’t a political test, it’s a sense of humor test. Don’t get caught on the wrong side.
I took the initiative in the inspiration of this headline.
Mr. Breathed takes his jabs at both sides of the policital aisle, but tends to jab at the righties a bit more these days. I wonder if he’ll fall out of favor by straying off of the Political Left Plantation by poking fun at the left’s “boutique multiculturalism”, so brilliantly described by Mr. Goldstein on numerous occasions.
Geez, Lola Granola used to just wear Styx shirts back in the day.
It wasn’t enough that those newspapers took the cowardly/tolerancy/boot licking way out by not running the cartoons in their regular editions. They had to then make themselves look like complete hypocrites and functional idiots by running the cartoons on their websites? Does teh intertubes lessen the impact of the uncomforableness and tsk tsking assocoaited with the critical depictions of the Religion of the Perpetually Outraged?
If this weren’t so infuriating the overwhelming goofiness would have me giggling like a Japanese school girl.
Geez, now they’re blaming censorship on global warming?
But seriously, I pray every day that I don’t wind up wherever Jerry Falwell went. God couldn’t be that cruel, could he?
When putting provocative material on display, the WaPo follows the southpaw tradition: Never offend anyone who can actually be provoked. It also helps to be a group closely allied politically or socially with left-wing causes, too.
Yet Fox News, instead of printing the whole cartoon, used up valuable column space to describe it. Cowards.
My newspaper had the whole thing. Good on them.
The ironic part of the thing is that Breathed is nothing more than a much more radical version of Garry Trudeau. He isn’t really that funny. The only plotline I found vaguely amusing was the old Bloom County part where Cutter John and Opus took a voyage by strapping balloons to John’s wheelchair.
Get used to it, Libs, because your association with and pandering to the Islamic Extremists is not going to get you more tolerance, but less.
I wonder if the Post runs comics past any Christians on staff to see if they are offensive.
Uh – it just occurred to me that they probably do and hope Christians are offended…
I kind of welcome the WAPO’s decision. It just creates the desire to actually research and find this “offensive cartoon”. I think more people will see it now then if the paper ran it.. Fng muzzies to hell with them all……
“The ironic part of the thing is that Breathed is nothing more than a much more radical version of Garry Trudeau. He isn’t really that funny'”
Are you even close to being serious?
sure, let me explain how MSM works, since I’m in it.
WaPo had two options with respect to their decisions to run the Falwell (a lazy proxy for all vocally conservative or literal Christians) and Radical Islamist cartoons.
The Falwell cartoon ran because they knew they might face up to a handful of angry e-mails from correspondants bearing addresses like Demssuck08@aol.com.
The Radical Islamist cartoon did not run because they would face a bomb threat, successful ad boycott, and in all likelihood, several pointed letters (arriving very, very quietly by hand) from the local Liberal political elite, questioning their commitment to pluralism and cultural sensitivities.
macgruder,
nice stretch…….
How to make sure your crap gets published–make sure it’s “art.” All Breathed needed to do was add a little more back drop, say a Koran smeared with elephant shit or soaking in a frothy jar of piss. Very nuanced.
Has the Librarian at the Unseen University been contacted for a comment on this?
I just spoke to him. All he had to say was, “Ook!”
Ahhh.. My thoughts exactly..
It’s Ack ! fer crying out loud Rob . Oop Ack! works as well .
WOW! I didn’t even know about that strip. I liked Bloom County (not in a rolling on the floor funny, but in a ‘damn, that was clever AND ironic’ kind of chuckle, chuckle way, the same kinda humour that keeps me reading PW), but I thought it was gone.
Cool.
My local liberal rag of paper (Fresno Bee) never ran it in the first place, bastards.
” It appears on the surface to be a double standard,” Burford said, “but at the same time, the climate of the world probably informs their decision with how to go forward with it.” ”
To be fair, the Editors lack of spine (or masculinity) is probably due to the fear of litigation as much or more than fear of exploding turbans.
We really do need serious tort reform.
The old, early ‘Bloom County’ was funny like South Park is funny; all sacred cows were on the menu. When Breathed went politically correct, ‘teh funi*’ left ‘Bloom County’. With ‘Opus’ he has stretched back into that old zone of irreverence. Too bad the papers have shown themselves fair-weather friends to that.
*my imitation of net-speak. For the funny.
Where do I begin?
Things pretty much tanked when Breathed shut down Bloom County and began Outland.
I don’t see how a sex joke can be the objection here, knowing that Steve Dallas has teh ghey, and Lola is just a door for his closet.
I wonder if there are any Christians on staff there. After all, nobody’s cultural diversity experience would be enriched by having any of them around, would it?
“It appears on the surface to be a multiply shot dead filmmaker with his throat slit and a note knifed in his chest. But…” And after the ampersand came moral blindness