Salon runs comic calling assassination of Bush desirable and humorous

Salon ^ | December 11, 2001 | Carol Lay

[Senator Pardek]

I'd be a hypocrite if I put this down, because I think it's funny that Salon.com has been assasinated by investors.

[Drango]

Salon is about to fold...maybe we can help 'em.

PetalExpress is advertising on their site. Here is their Toll free number

1-888-470-GIFT

I just called and demanded that the CEO call me back and explain why they are running an ad on Salon that "jokes" about shooting the president. FREEP ON.

[The Drowning Witch]

"The Boondocks"

[Moonman62]

The obligatory chart. Down 14% to 12 cents today.

[Gritty]

This is a stupid, self-congratulating cartoon of no merit and even less sense! And even worse, it's not FUNNY!

[mbb bill]

Put salon editors in a detention camp for a couple years and then ask them what this means.

[Senator Pardek]

Hey, it's only down about 99.2% from its mid '99 high.

[NativeNewYorker]

I remember no such "humor" at x42's expense.

[NC_Libertarian]

I think that's actually against the law.

[Jesse]

The obligatory chart. Down 14% to 12 cents today

12 cents? Probably costs more in electricity to keep this chart up on the internet every day than what the whole company is worth.

If you are bored the editor in chief...David Talbot, at dtalbot@salon.com will happily hurl profane insults back at you if you politely ask him, for example, what date Salon.com officially becomes Salon.bomb and dies its much-deserved internet death. I plan to ask him if the assets are going to be auctioned off on ebay or if the creditors are just going to repossess his desk and computer and donate it to Goodwill.

[Drango]

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[garyhope]

I think you mean "Boondocks". Then there's always Ted Rall, another anti-American, commie-socialist-fascist hate monger.

[ChemistCat]

I am not saying it's a good strip anymore (I used to think it was interesting) and it has changed considerably since 9/11. However, I don't read this the same way you did. I see the author as saying the dream started well BEFORE the guns went off--when the President was saying asinine things about not drilling for oil in Alaska. The guns went off because the zombie President the liberals think we have went off of his script so had to be destroyed by his handlers. Frankly, I think it's pretty clear that Lay didn't intend to say that assassination was something to be celebrated, and I don't believe that this cartoonist has had her heart in being funny for the last three months. Yes, she's liberal. But 9/11 affected her profoundly all the same. It's a pity she didn't draw the correct conclusions from what happened, but I do not believe she wants violence against our elected government. She is just commenting, as her main point in this strip, that the government is repressing us as a result of 9/11, and you'll find many, many FReepers who would be happy to agree with her there. (I personally think we could maybe use a little more repression here and there, mainly on Salon....)

[Croooow]

My official commentary for my blog:

Talk about your self-fulfilling prophecies. Hack cartoonist Carol Lay depicts the gunning down of the president and says "I like how it (her dream depicting Bush saying we should stop our dependence on foreign oil, then being shot) started." Her unmistakable hatred of the Bush administration has blinded her to the fact that maybe she should be clear as to what part of "it" she liked, or she might very well get a visit from the Secret Service (she could ask Craig Kilborn about that). Just as sloppy and ill-advised as Bill Clinton's Georgetown speech, as careless as Garry Trudeau, as idiotic as Aaron McGruder. But her paranoid demagoguery raises a different point: saying that Bush will throw you in jail if you criticize him (and that he will be murdered if he doesn't "stick to the script") is mere "criticism." But if I criticize her or others like her, they will cry "censorship." Nice double standard.

[AmishDude]

Ted cut the cheese?

[ChemistCat]

If President Bush started talking the way he does in the first two panels, Carol Lay and other liberals would rejoice and embrace him--Barbra Streisand would probably do FUND RAISING for him--and they'd definitely be sorry to see him shot. OTOH Jim Robinson's elite guard would have to be VERY busy deleting posts on FR (to prevent the same official attention) if GWB turned that liberal, and you know that is true.

[VMI70]

LOL good answer, but seriously, no. A moose bit her.

[ChemistCat]

Do you see this the way I do, or the way the poster of the thread does? I could be wrong. I imagine by now the Secret Service has the straight story.

[AmishDude]

Wouldn't the moose have bitten the cheese?