Posted on 12/30/2004 6:56:36 AM PST by Liz
Hmmmmm. That's a toughie. Maybe it was picking candidates based solely on their willingness to legislate new ways to get rid of unwanted pregancies?
legions of self-doubting highbrows are asking themselves how this decline into decadence occurred. Because of what enfeebling bad habit did the proud and potent thinking class that gave us F.D.R. and J.F.K. fade into a cynical, ironic, smirking bunch of spiritual weaklings headed up by Al Franken and Michael Moore?
A combination things. Although I seem to recall Ronald Reagan taking them to the cleaners back in the '80s. Gee, remember that? 1980-1988 A.D.
Maybe it was the bizarro Clinton years which were the fluke.
They should really be more ashamed of their role in aiding Clinton's eight-year fart-lighting party in the White House than of the banality and mediocrity of Al Franken and Michael Moore.
LOL. One of the more recent ones, eh?
What a New Yorker cartoon Clinton would have made........in the double-wide, and all.
As the years roll on, more and more liberals are aborted, there will be fewer and fewer liberals available to vote. At the same time millions of conservative children will reach voting age and will of course vote for the right.
Liberals are aborting themselves into an a minority party with fewer and fewer members.
Good article.
The best take on The New Yorker cartoons was by Elaine on Seinfeld, who confronted the magazine's editor (played by the guy who played Bentley on The Jeffersons) on the meaning of a particular cartoon, and the editor had to admit that he had no idea what the cartoon meant or why it was supposed to be funny. Elaine goes on to draw her own cartoon on The New Yorker (it was of a pig going to a Complaint Department and saying "I wish I wasn't so short"), only for her boss, J. Peterman, to discover that she had ripped off the idea from an old Ziggy cartoon.
That is an excellent montage, thank you.
Wealth will have its privileges......smugness is one of them.
There are two kinds of people in New York City--the hoi polloi, and those with enough money to insulate themselves from the hoi polloi. The New Yorker cartoons gently poked fun at the snobs. But that particular New York brand of enlightened patrician died out many years ago.
That'd be the world's largest collection of feeble humor.
Good one from the NY Times.
.................thanks to liberals......
If liberalism is about anything at all, it's about demolishing the "establishment" with all of its conventions and constrictions.
Unfortunately, the libs threw out the baby with the bathwater.
Nice photoshopping.
They all work together.
Brilliant!
I take the New Yorker, and although it is unfailingly liberal, I still like it for its occasionally great articles and occasionally funny cartoons.
There was one that showed a present-day mom and dad saying goodbye to their college-bound son as he is about to back his heavily-loaded car out of the driveway. Dad is saying "Don't forget to click 'send'". Another depicted a psychiatrists office, but doctor and patient have switched places: the bearded and bespectacled shrink is lying on the couch, staring at the ceiling, and his patient is sitting in the chair. And the patient is saying, "I think this may be a real breakthrough, Dr. Finkelstein."
(steely)
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