Comment on this Jordanian political cartoon

[kliljedahl]

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[mopaul]

1. sweet

and biting

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. Pretty darned good summation?

[kliljedahl]

3. That's what I thought

DAMN!! Newsweek :sarcasm:


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[kliljedahl]

7. KICK!!!

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[kliljedahl]

13. Kick again

Because I like it so much.

[getmeouttahere]

4. Sums it up, talk about a picture paints a thousand words!

I always thought these people were creepy looking anyway. And now, they make me think of fundies!

[Squeech]

5. HAHAHAHAHA

I love it! Beautifully conceived, beautifully rendered, subtle but direct, it should be in a museum.

Bad times are actually good for art, because the creative thinkers have such a surfeit of bad vibes to work with. The Spanish Civil War spawned Picasso's Guernica and a zillion songs, WWI sparked Dada and serialism (n.b. not the same as surrealism), and the Bushist Reign of (t)Error looks to me like a similar catastrophic spur.

[kliljedahl]

28. Not in a museum

But it is my new wallpaper


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[gratuitous]

6. Wait, where's the apple barrel?

You know, the one with a few bad ones on top?

[angryinoville]

8. Amazing...

This needs to be on The Countdown and put in every newspaper

[Bozita]

9. Grant Wood's "An American Gothic" with a very timely update

Excellent!

Thanks.

[0007]

10. Absolutely marvelous, the more I study this picture the more

I see. After looking at the farm lady closely I realized that it could be Ms England's mother or even her. The old man could be that senator, Pat Roberts.

Tis a classic, did you do it?

[kliljedahl]

11. I did not

It really is a Jordanian political cartoon by:

Emad Hajjaj, Al-Ghad Newspaper, Amman, Jordan


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[alittlelark]

29. I thought it was Lynndie England right off the bat...

It's definately her.

[DistressedAmerican]

12. Fucking Smoking With Truth! Does That Sum It Up?

KICK AND MONIMATION.

[Swamp Rat]

14. Wow!

Recommended!

:wow:

[kliljedahl]

15. Nice isn't it?

Blew me away when I saw it.



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[seabeyond]

16. wow powerful; the american....with their eyes closed

all there for them to see but turn their back on the ugly to life their "simple" life. interesting

[understandinglife]

17. Nominated. The power of an image, once again demonstrated.

Thank you.


www.missionnotaccomplished.us

[Cleita]

18. Wow.

Looks like they got our number.

[noiretextatique]

19. beautiful...the resolute americans, staringly straight ahead

ignoring all the atrocities that make their "way of life" possible, convinced that it's alll because of their hard work.
classic.

[ooglymoogly]

20. stunning...looks like a jordanian has a better understanding

of this country than we have of them....george and laura with pitchfork...hillarious and mind boggling at the same time...to say the least. kicked and nominated

[FlemingsGhost]

21. It reaffirms my only solace, these days:

The rest of the world is not fooled.

[Spazito]

22. Wow!

That is excellent work!

[IChing]

23. Can you give a link? this is great ....

The underwear guy? what's that about?:headbang: :headbang:

[kliljedahl]

25. Here are some more of his

I really like his work, here's his site: http://www.mahjoob.com/en/earchive/index.php








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[bklyncowgirl]

26. Good stuff nt

[IChing]

27. thanks I like his stuff also

[Terran1212]

24. Pretty good but Churchill's book cover is the best

Check out the cover of On the Justice of Roosting Chickens...

[sweetheart]

30. How would i paint it

I would add a massive stockpile of nuclear weapons in the background,
with some nukes going off in the distance, as the american mythical
puritain farmer these days, is a farmer of weapons, military empire
and death, as much as prisons and torture.

perhaps in jordan, torture and underpants take the stage, but my
american eyes see thousannds of nuclear weapons armed by fearful little
minded men, threatening to kill hundreds of millions... and the nation
state is based on that more than anything else... police state,
torture, killing, destroying all persons, domestic and abroad that
ALL are reduced beneath the combine of hate and repression, lovingly
cloaqued in euphemisms of democracy.

[kliljedahl]

31. I would agree if he were doing it for us

but he's doing it for the ME, & that's what they see. However, we shouldn't let this kind of stuff fall under the radar too.


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[Swamp Rat]

32. Yeah, and my radar has picked up three alien lizard intergalactic cruisers

entering Earth's orbit.... uh, I wouldn't be standing next to an oil rig right now... If you are... RUN!!!