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Michael Ramirez Cartoon: iPhone Hype Across The Globe
IBD Editorials ^ | 29 June 2007 | Michael Ramirez

Posted on 06/29/2007 7:19:15 AM PDT by Kitten Festival

Is there anything worse than crass, big-budget hype over a little gadget for the rich? Michael Ramirez has his own ideas about this here.

(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: cartoon; hype; iphone; michaelramirez
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1 posted on 06/29/2007 7:19:17 AM PDT by Kitten Festival
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To: Kitten Festival

Great visual.


2 posted on 06/29/2007 7:20:16 AM PDT by tioga (Fred Thompson for President.)
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To: Kitten Festival

Hahahahaha! That’s great

Just upsets me a little to see a skeleton covered by skin. They look like aliens.


3 posted on 06/29/2007 7:20:52 AM PDT by wastedyears (Cloture? Nuts.)
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To: Kitten Festival
Is there anything worse than crass, big-budget hype over a little gadget for the rich?

Yes. Someone using images of famine and inhumanity in Africa to try to make people feel guilty for the innovations and niceties spawned by the free market.

4 posted on 06/29/2007 7:24:04 AM PDT by Huck (Soylent Green is People.)
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To: Kitten Festival; Vermonter; HAL9000; Swordmaker; All
Can you eat it?

Oui!

5 posted on 06/29/2007 7:25:16 AM PDT by dighton
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To: Kitten Festival

I like cool gadgets as much as the next geek, but I’ll be damned if I’ll pay $500-$600 plus $100 a month service for some damn phone.


6 posted on 06/29/2007 7:27:55 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic (Bush has replaced the Liberty Bell with the Taco Bell!)
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To: tioga

Did you see the picture of the iLoser waiting in line since Monday to be the first person to buy one?
Maybe I will wait til the 2nd generation comes out or the Samsung knockoff comes out.
What a dope!


7 posted on 06/29/2007 7:27:56 AM PDT by Holicheese (Zap Razdowler Rules!)
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To: Huck

Especially when that famine and inhumanity is a direct result of the lack of freedom in those places. Zimbabwe used to be the bread basket of Africa, and now it’s on food aid, all thanks to the wonders of communism.


8 posted on 06/29/2007 7:31:24 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: Kitten Festival
(1) Because of technology and innovation a smaller percentage of the earth's population are starving than at any time in history.

(2) The iPhone is an incredible accomplishment and will transform communications in the USA in significant ways. It is science fiction come to life in a number of ways and is as different from a typical cellphone as a PC was from a mainframe.

(3) And no, I do not work for Apple or sell their products and I am not waiting on line for an iPhone and I will probably not get around to purchasing one for at least a year.

But I am a geek.

9 posted on 06/29/2007 7:32:08 AM PDT by wideawake ("Pearl Harbor is America's fault, right, Mommy?" - Ron Paul, age 6, 12/7/1941)
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To: Holicheese
Maybe I will wait til ... the Samsung knockoff comes out.

You don't have to wait ;)

10 posted on 06/29/2007 7:32:14 AM PDT by pnh102
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To: Huck
I thought it was a great comment on Paris Hilton.
There is a world full of trouble out there, and we are being spoon-fed garbage by the MSM who lights fires under fads. I don’t know much about Iphone, but that’s not something I’d be interested in anyway. If you are, that’s fine.

Ramirez always has a fresh take on things, IMHO, and the examples of his work are very provocative.

11 posted on 06/29/2007 7:34:21 AM PDT by ishabibble (ALL-AMERICAN INFIDEL)
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To: Kitten Festival
OT, here is a link to another funny Ramirez cartoon in re immigration:

http://www.ibdeditorials.com/cartoons.aspx#cartoon267222824930761

12 posted on 06/29/2007 7:34:21 AM PDT by bt_dooftlook (Democrats - the "No Child/Left/Behind" Party)
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To: Kitten Festival

I LOVE him! The best.


13 posted on 06/29/2007 7:34:22 AM PDT by RDTF (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, but Democrats believe every day is April 15th. - Reagan)
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To: pnh102

Timmy like the Samsung knockoff.


14 posted on 06/29/2007 7:34:58 AM PDT by Holicheese (Zap Razdowler Rules!)
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To: Kitten Festival

Ouch! Puts things into prespective, doesn’t it?


15 posted on 06/29/2007 7:35:35 AM PDT by OB1kNOb (WHERE'S THE FENCE ? THE BILL IS DEAD !! Vote Conservative. Vote Duncan Hunter - 2008)
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To: ishabibble

Liberal white guilt is a fresh take? I had to check and make sure a) this was really being posted on FR and b) it really came from Investor’s Business Daily. I don’t get how that happened. The cartoon’s retarded. The internet/mobile technology is a bit more than a fad. It’s up there with the printing press, radio, television. And I really don’t get what that has to do with Paris Hilton.


16 posted on 06/29/2007 7:42:04 AM PDT by Huck (Soylent Green is People.)
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To: reagan_fanatic
I like cool gadgets as much as the next geek, but I’ll be damned if I’ll pay $500-$600 plus $100 a month service for some damn phone.

That's one way in which the free market lets the wealthy fund innovation. Just like with big screen tvs, or any other new technology, when it first comes up, it's super expensive, so only rich ppl buy it. But in a few years, it becomes affordable, and usually with some of the initial glitches already worked out.

17 posted on 06/29/2007 7:43:40 AM PDT by Huck (Soylent Green is People.)
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To: Kitten Festival

What is this $1000 gizmo but a way to be really hip and lighten the bank account of the petit bourgeois soon to be begging for lunch money?


18 posted on 06/29/2007 7:44:42 AM PDT by RightWhale (It's Brecht's donkey, not mine)
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To: Huck
"Yes. Someone using images of famine and inhumanity in Africa to try to make people feel guilty for the innovations and niceties spawned by the free market."

Perfect timing on your comment. I received an email from my ultra-liberal sister-in-law which used the exact images you described. Quote from the email "Let's try not to feed this endless cycle of consumerism and immorality in which this "modern and advanced" society forgets and ignores the other two thirds of our brothers and sisters."

A little off topic, but thanks for letting me vent. :)

19 posted on 06/29/2007 7:46:01 AM PDT by RoseyT
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20 posted on 06/29/2007 7:47:06 AM PDT by theFIRMbss
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