Zeno sent me this:
It certainly encapsulates what I hear when Republicans open their mouths.
Who in their right mind wouldn’t oppose baby-eating monkeys from outer space? Probably those same bastards who hate our troops and want the terrorists to win.
The picture isn’t appearing for me. If anyone else is having the same trouble, its url is: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/upload/2006/11/baby_eating_monkeys.jpg
I, for one, Welcome our new, baby-eating simian overlords …
wait … President Chimpy surely qualifies as a simian overlord … and he has a flight suit … and he’s so deeply ignorant of basic geographical, political, and social realities down here on earth, he must be an alien …
On second thought, I too, oppose simians from outer-space, be they baby-eaters or not.
Hey, that’s nothing… there’s a guy in my area (seemingly a write-in, judging from his spray-paint and plywood signs) whose sole platform seems to be that he is (gasp!) “PRO-FAMILY”. It really makes me curious if he has any bizarro-world anti-family opponents.
The cartoon doesn’t mention the latest three planks in the Republican Party platform:
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH
Haven’t you heard?
– Feminists want women to have equal roles in family leadership and planning. Isn’t that anti-family?
– Gays want to get get married and have families …. isn’t that anti-family?
– Scientists want children learn critical thinking and the basics of how to use the scientific method – isn’t that anti-family?
– Biologists want children to learn evolution, the foundation of much of the science that keeps children out of graveyards – isn’t that anti-family?
That’s the genius of the Republican party propaganda masters – they have managed frame nearly everything their opponents (us!) want to achieve, as harmful to the family. We’re all laughing at that cartoon, but the Republicans have convinced a huge swath of America that the groups I list above really are ‘baby-eating monkeys from outer-space’
I get a chilling reminder of this every time I visit my mother – who is convinced nearly all of those groups are anti-family.
We had a Conservative Party nitwit here in Ontario call Liberal leader Dalton McGuinty an “evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet”. Now, how can you be evil with a Dilton Doily name like Dalton McGuinty? Best part was a short while later when McGuinty was doing a campaign stop photo op at a farm and a kitten started to make its way toward him. The Tories who were shadowing McGuinty tried to shoo the kitten away from him but it evaded them and gave McGuinty the photo op with him holding the kitten and clearly showing no gustatory ambitions.
I just finished reading the paper a few minutes ago, saw this comic and thought “That’s one for PZ’s blog.” Lo and behold, here it is! I think I read this blog too much.
But those are really cute monkeys!
I wrote, “Reptilian kitten-eaters unite!” on the bottom of our sign for the Liberal candidate.
…and clearly showing no gustatory ambitions.
ON CAMERA…
That’s precisely what you’d expect a reptilian kitten-eater to do: be photographed not eating a kitten, to lull all the other kittens into a false sense of security.
Tom The Dancing Bug (a.k.a. Ruben Bolling) tackled the difficult topic of Baby Eating in American Politics first and, I think, more trenchantly, though with a slightly different point.
Maybe some of you will remember the Bloom County parody of the Iran-Contra hearings, wherein aliens who intend to harvest humans for slaves and food are subpoenaed by the Federal Government. The alien ambassador turns out to resemble a highly telegenic puppy (but looks suspiciously like Oliver North) and public opinion quickly shifts his way…
This is too good.
Please let it happen!
Ann Coulter Says She Won’t Cooperate in Voting Probe
Piraro the cartoonist is from Canuckistan; you’re either with us or you’re with the Canuckistani terrorists!
And it turns out the Tories are not above using helpless pets to gloss over their dirty campaign tactics. The Liberals, however, strike back, finally realizing that Ignatieff isn’t cute enough on his own.
I believe the Daily Show recently revealed which Democratic candidate is running on this platform: Dumbf**k McDoesntexist (D-Evilibrul).