[Fintan]

There is so much I could do (and want to) with the title of this post...

[patj]

And to think that someone actually got paid to write this tripe. Add this to the shredder, along with all the other whiny, just-don't-get-it, claptrap.

[kittymyrib]

LOL...no need for the Republicans to "attack Kerry's masculinity". All those pitiful pictures of JF'nK trying to play any kind of ball did a great job of that!
But now I have to go see "The Incredibles."

[blackie]

So ~ that's how it is, eh? :):)

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

Thanos:

GAAARRRGGHHH!!! THEIR INSOLENCE RILES ME TO ACTION! Thanos will crush this insipid villain called "Empathy Man" and his homosexual lover, Ted Rall!

(Thanos annihilates "Empathy man." Squeezes Ted Rall's head until it explodes.)

[Fedora]

"Mr. Kidd may be partisan, but he’s not wrong in the sense that it’s almost impossible to image Superman as a Republican in the 1930’s or 1940’s. Superman was definitely a Roosevelt man."

Only in the sense that he fought on our side during World War II. But he also fought on our side during the Cold War, which Mr. Kidd seems to be blissfully ignorant of. Clark Kent was raised on a farm in the rural America which Kidd so despises.

[Libloather]

In turn, the election has also been responsible for everything that’s happened since — marital spats, low productivity at work, a bicoastal crash in self-esteem amongst liberal power brokers, P. Diddy’s newfound modesty and, if you listen to the executives at Paramount Pictures, the bad box office for Alfie.

Not married, productivity at work has gone up, not important, not important, and REALLY not important. (Say, what is the opinion of the executives at Paramount Pictures on the war on terror?)

NEXT!

[Fiddlstix]

[KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle]

"And what is The Incredibles?" said Richard Goldstein, author of The Attack Queers: Liberal Society and the Gay Right.

Oh, yeah. There's a source I'd instinctively turn towards, when all else fails. :)

[TheMole]

I thoroughly enjoyed that article. It seems to have been written by a closet conservative who has to survive in Manhattan. The descriptions of Goldstein and Rall through apposition of their ridiculously-titled books was an especially good touch.

[Once-Ler]

According to Chip Kidd, the co-author of The Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days, Superman—created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1938, during the Great Depression—was a liberal hero in his original incarnation, shy about his abilities and eager to do social good during the New Deal, when the general ethic sought a strong man willing to protect the weak, not so much to show off his powers as to serve the general welfare.

In Superman's first comic he saves an innocent man from the electric chair, but in the 1940s Superheroes like Superman and Captain America were all American heroes who supported America and supported American GIs. The first Captain America comic had the Captain fighting Hitler on the cover in March 1941, nine months before Pearl Harbor.

Liberals used to be patriotic. My Grandfather was a veteran of WW2. He was a liberal and a patriot until the day he died. I'm not sure he would recognize the rat party today. They hate America.

[x]

It's hard to find a point in this, though it might make people want to see "The Incredibles."

Liberal and conservative superheroes? Surely a writer comes up with a hero or plot and sees what that hero will do or how the story develops. There can't be much point in writing stories -- even comic book stories -- to fit a preestablished political template.