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The strip Mallard Fillmore has been going off all week about how evil it was for Jon Stewart to "fake" a Mallard Fillmore strip in the book "America".
Tinsley is apparently SO thick he can't recognize parody. Does he REALLY think that the writers of America were trying to make people think it was a genuine Mallard Fillmore strip? Especially since it was part of a set of pretty blatant parodies of other strips, like Doonesbury and (IIRC, my book is at the office) Peanuts.
What a humorless political hack.
Edit: For completeness, here's the other strips.
1) The original "JOIN, or DIE." snake, the only genuine one in the batch.
2) A buttcrack joke about Lincoln and a "divide in the Union".
3) A Tammany Tiger cartoon in which the tiger is real and eats the gentlemen, parodying Nast.
4) A Peanuts strip where Lucy red-baits Pigpen.
5) A riff on the "talking White House" Doonesbury strips.
6) A fake Mad Magazine folding page.
BTW, there were no signatures on any of the parody strips, but the Mad fold-in was actually done by Al Jaffee, so he signed it.
The credits in the back say who did each piece. R. Sikoryak did the Mallard Fillmore strip, as well as the Doonesbury and Peanuts ones.
Tinsley is apparently SO thick he can't recognize parody. Does he REALLY think that the writers of America were trying to make people think it was a genuine Mallard Fillmore strip? Especially since it was part of a set of pretty blatant parodies of other strips, like Doonesbury and (IIRC, my book is at the office) Peanuts.
What a humorless political hack.
Edit: For completeness, here's the other strips.
1) The original "JOIN, or DIE." snake, the only genuine one in the batch.
2) A buttcrack joke about Lincoln and a "divide in the Union".
3) A Tammany Tiger cartoon in which the tiger is real and eats the gentlemen, parodying Nast.
4) A Peanuts strip where Lucy red-baits Pigpen.
5) A riff on the "talking White House" Doonesbury strips.
6) A fake Mad Magazine folding page.
BTW, there were no signatures on any of the parody strips, but the Mad fold-in was actually done by Al Jaffee, so he signed it.
The credits in the back say who did each piece. R. Sikoryak did the Mallard Fillmore strip, as well as the Doonesbury and Peanuts ones.
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I'm one of the few people who likes "Mallard Fillmore," because heavy-handed as he is he finds an acorn a little more often than the proverbial blind pig.
However, it irritates me that Tinsley believes that -he- can parody people all he likes, but heavens forbid anyone parody -him.-
But then, he's a conservative; hypocrisy is likely second nature.
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I had a similar reaction on Tuesday when he started this sequence. My first thought was "Now he'll know how Dems feel when he puts words in their mouths that have, at best, a tangential relation to anything they've ever actually said." Then I realize the two unwarranted assumptions in that thought:
a) that the prominent Dems he
uses as mouthpieces for his strawman antirepresentation of liberalismlampoons give the proverbial two tugs of a dead dog's tail what he has to say; andb) that he's capable of knowing what a non-"conservative" feels, or indeed of believing that non-"conservative" thought is anything other than a delusion brought on by eating too many Oglanuts.