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So, in this incomprehensible Chris Muir cartoon, is that TNR-lovin', troops-hatin' dude supposed to be Yglesias? There's no point in asking whether it's supposed to be funny.
Relatedly, I see Matt beat me to blogging about Romney's ludicrous "has he forgotten about 9/11" non-sequitur, even though I could have done it earlier today when it was the middle of the night in the States. I guess hating America gives you extra energy.
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I later originated that idea as well...
Posted by: Scott Lemieux | August 07, 2007 at 01:23 AM
I was wondering about that (is the comic-strip guy Yggles) myself.
Posted by: LizardBreath | August 07, 2007 at 01:30 AM
I presume the "funny" part is some kind of lame connection between the name "T 'n R" and "T and A"--hence the "don't tell mom" thing going on. But if nothing else--and it is of course nothing else--Chris muir like Mallard Filmore is good for understanding just how little distance there is between GOP talking points and cartoon imagery.
aimai
Posted by: aimai | August 07, 2007 at 02:29 AM
So everyone's reading Chris Muir all the time why?
Posted by: Armsmasher | August 07, 2007 at 04:18 AM
Armsmasher: It's for the exact same reason they slow down to look at car wrecks.
Posted by: MFA | August 07, 2007 at 04:23 AM
So everyone's reading Chris Muir all the time why?
Because he's too funny to be relegated to the Lewiston (Nebraska) Sun Journal?
Posted by: agum | August 07, 2007 at 04:27 AM
Instapundit told me it was funny. Was he wrong?
Posted by: alwsdad | August 07, 2007 at 04:33 AM
So everyone's reading Chris Muir all the time why?
I'm kind of fascinated by what goes on in the minds of people with that sort of political beliefs, and it's a quick snapshot of what's so obviously true to them that it can be the basis of a joke -- here, that snotnosed liberal kids get a pruriently pornographic pleasure out of journalism that 'harms the troops'.
Posted by: LizardBreath | August 07, 2007 at 05:22 AM
Kantian nihilism.
Posted by: Kieran | August 07, 2007 at 05:24 AM
'smasher, I only happened to read this strip because I was reading a captain ed post. I realize this just raises another question...
Posted by: belle waring | August 07, 2007 at 11:02 AM
That's obviously supposed to be Yglesias. The resemblance is too close to be a coincidence.
Posted by: teofilo | August 07, 2007 at 11:20 AM
This strip reminded me of that incomprehensible anecdote about William Buckley that John posted at CT the other day. Why does a liberal have to hide his copy of TNR? Why does a Spaniard have to hide the fact that he likes the dictator?
Conservative humour is so baffling sometimes.
Posted by: monkey.dave | August 08, 2007 at 04:35 AM