Cidu Bill on Feb 28th 2010
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Cidu Bill on Feb 21st 2010
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Cidu Bill on Feb 14th 2010
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Cidu Bill on Feb 1st 2010
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Cidu Bill on Jan 18th 2010
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Cidu Bill on Oct 27th 2009
Baseball fans hold up “K” cards for each of their pitcher’s stikeouts during a game, so that presumably has something to do with what’s going on here…
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Cidu Bill on Oct 21st 2009
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Cidu Bill on Oct 19th 2009
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Cidu Bill on May 10th 2009
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Cidu Bill on Mar 10th 2009
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Cidu Bill on Jan 28th 2009
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Cidu Bill on Jan 16th 2009
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Cidu Bill on Dec 1st 2008
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Cidu Bill on Nov 18th 2008
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Cidu Bill on Jul 18th 2008
The NAACP and David Paterson (New York’s first black governor) have entered the Condemn the New Yorker Cover Derby: The NAACP is calling it “tasteless, Islam-a-phobic, mean spirited and racially offensive” while Governor Paterson, not to be outdone, called it “one of the most malignant, vicious covers of a magazine I have ever seen.”
Out of, you know, all the very many malignant, vicious magazine covers he’s seen.
Now here’s the amazing thing about this story that’s garnered worldwide attention:
And right here I’m warning anybody who’s easily offended to stop reading
Last week, Jesse Jackson told a fellow guest on a television program — when he thought the microphone was off — that he doesn’t like the way Barack Obama “talks down” to black people and that he’d like to “cut his nuts off.”
This week, the network confirmed that he also referred to Obama as a nigger (I refuse to say “the n word,” because I’m not 8 years old).
At the risk of putting things in perspective, shouldn’t this have been a bigger story? Sure, it was reported, but it’s been completely overshadowed by a cartoon which nobody seriously believes was intended to denigrate Obama.
A leader in the black community calls a black presidential candidate a nigger… and a drawing.
I am not seeing worldwide condemnation. I am not seeing the outrage. I am not seeing Governor Paterson and the NAACP making speeches and releasing press statements.
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Cidu Bill on Jul 16th 2008
Tonight, in what appears to be an obsessive desire to keep the “New Yorker magazine cover” story alive, you told Larry King that you personally weren’t offended by it, but it was insulting toward Muslim-Americans.
I’d like to offer you the advice that your advisers should have offered Monday morning: Shut up. And when you’re done with that, shut up.
Seriously, Senator, you are turning a non-issue into something that makes you look more foolish every time you open your mouth. First you let your “people” release a statement kinda sorta calling the cover tasteless and offensive, and then you go on national tv to be offended on behalf of the Muslim-American community (who are perfectly capable of speaking for themselves, by the way).
This cartoon was published on the cover of a magazine with a circulation of maybe three people outside of New Yorkers and New York expatriates. A magazine that supports you, by the way. And surely you understand that the cartoon wasn’t intended as a criticism of you, your wife, or the Muslim-American community.
You’re going to encounter some genuine slurs over the course of this campaign, and it doesn’t bode well for you if this cartoon can, to use a technical term, put your panties in a twist.
If you really felt the need to criticize the cartoon, you could have simply said, “Eh, I guess they thought they were being funny,” and left it at that. The situation would have been diffused — this never should have been allowed to become a “situation” — and you would have (as my son would say) burned the New Yorker: They can defend their intentions, they can put you on the defensive by suggesting you should have been savvy enough to recognize satire, but there’s no defense against being told “you’re just not as funny as you think you are.”
July 14: Okay, looking at this week’s New Yorker cover… Isn’t it clear that this satirizes the various rumors circulating about Obama? Even if you’d never seen a New Yorker cover before: a few months ago they ran a cover showing Obama and Hillary Clinton in bed together, both waking up as a phone rang at 3am; everybody seemed to understand that the New Yorker wasn’t suggesting that the two candidates were having an affair.
Apparently this wasn’t obvious to either the Obama or McCain campaigns: “The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create … But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree,” said Obama’s people neatly sidestepping the matter of what they actually believed.
McCain’s people echoed the phrase “tasteless and offensive.”
So sue me. I thought it was pretty clever.
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Cidu Bill on Jun 2nd 2008
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