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thabet
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thabet
What kind of change will Barack Hussein Obama really bring?
Watch and find out.
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thabet
Want to purchase something from America the Gift Shop?
I quite like Ibrahim the Eviscerated and Abdul the Amputee:
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thabet
It’s great Americans have discovered political satire through The Daily Show, but Jon Stewart has a long way to before he can come close to Armando Iannucci.
An no. The Colbert Report is not funny. At all.
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thabet
I wonder if European newspapers will rush to reproduce these cartoons?
The New York Times also covers France’s very own ‘cartoon crisis’ (thankfully, this one does not involve any Muslims), as does Jason Burke in the Observer. The Independent, though, covered the story a little earlier.
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aasem
The brain, Blitt would be advised to understand, is a complex machine whose operating principles we know something about. When presented with A and B in close spatial or temporal proximity, the mind naturally and effortlessly associates the two. Obama=Osama is an easy association to produce via simple transmogrification. Flag burning=unpatriotic=un-American=un-Christian=Muslim is child’s play for the cortex. Learning by association is so basic a mechanism that living beings are jam-packed with it — ask any dog the next time you see it salivating to a tone of a bell. There is no getting around the fact that the very association Blitt helplessly confessed he didn’t intend to create was made indelibly for us, by him.
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Mr Moo
Mark Steel in the Independent on the made-up-stories-about-Muslims
Maybe Muslim newspapers should retaliate by publishing their own made-up stories. So it will be reported that “Barmy PC teachers in Leicester have banned children from playing Noughts and Crosses, claiming the cross reminds Church of England kiddies of the suffering undertaken by Lord Jesus. A spokesman for the Board of Education said, ‘We have to be sensitive. Which is why we’ve replaced the game with ‘Noughts and Hexagons’. We did look into calling it ‘Noughts and Crowns of Thorns’ but decided Hexagons was more appropriate.
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