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eggplant Donating Member (238 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sat Oct-13-07 07:10 PM
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Bizarre Press Release on the Republican House Site
http://republicans.energycommerce.house.gov/News/PRArti...

Wow. I'm speechless.
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   Republicans should never try to be funny  DavidD   Oct-13-07 07:13 PM   #1 
   It reads like a Bartcop joke. Only it isn't.  ozymandius   Oct-13-07 07:14 PM   #2 
   What the heck?  TomInTib   Oct-13-07 07:15 PM   #3 
   They do things  spag68   Oct-13-07 07:23 PM   #4 
   As funny as Mallard Fillmore  Steve_DeShazer   Oct-13-07 07:32 PM   #5 
   I wonder if they have Matt Groening's permission to use his copyrighted characters.  Fridays Child   Oct-13-07 07:38 PM   #6 
   I doubt they have permission. And I get the funny feeling MG  kestrel91316   Oct-13-07 09:12 PM   #11 
      The courts are rigged...  iaviate1   Oct-14-07 01:16 AM   #14 
   Boy this may be award winning stuff  Bluzmann57   Oct-13-07 07:43 PM   #7 
   And, of course these people are Pro-Choice!!!!!!  Bobbieo   Oct-13-07 07:50 PM   #8 
   Good satire arises from the powerless mocking the powerful  Cirque du So-What   Oct-13-07 08:15 PM   #9 
   I just posted this in a forum I moderate  Cirque du So-What   Oct-13-07 08:46 PM   #10 
   Good. Re my post above, he needs to SUE THEIR ASSES and make  kestrel91316   Oct-13-07 09:13 PM   #12 
   What a splendid demonstration of Republican dishonesty, immaturity, and bile  struggle4progress   Oct-13-07 11:49 PM   #13 
      as well as their complete lack of creativity, originallity, talent and writing skills  ixion   Oct-14-07 07:37 AM   #15 
 
DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Oct-13-07 07:13 PM
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1. Republicans should never try to be funny
Or satirical or sarcastic. It just ends up exposing their nastiness.
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ozymandius Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Donate to DU! Sat Oct-13-07 07:14 PM
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2. It reads like a Bartcop joke. Only it isn't.
Something is really, really wrong with a whole group of people to put this into the public domain. It's like Paul Krugman wrote recently - they really seem to delight in ridiculing other people's suffering.
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Oct-13-07 07:15 PM
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3. What the heck?
Goodness, is that really Barton's site?

Why in the hell would his staffers post something such as that?
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spag68 (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Oct-13-07 07:23 PM
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4. They do things
like that because they really are that inhuman.
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stevedeshazer Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Oct-13-07 07:32 PM
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5. As funny as Mallard Fillmore


Har Har Har, isn't that funny?
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Oct-13-07 07:38 PM
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6. I wonder if they have Matt Groening's permission to use his copyrighted characters.
Edited on Sat Oct-13-07 08:02 PM by Fridays Child
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Oct-13-07 09:12 PM
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11. I doubt they have permission. And I get the funny feeling MG
would NOT approve of this misuse of his intellectual property.

Weird. I thought Repukes were really INTO property rights.....

Somebody more clever than me needs to get word to Matt Groening about this so he can SUE THEIR ASSES.
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iaviate1 (289 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Oct-14-07 01:16 AM
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14. The courts are rigged...
so the repuke cause always wins. There is no justice anymore.
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Bluzmann57 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Oct-13-07 07:43 PM
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7. Boy this may be award winning stuff
Like Top Ten idiots list or worst person in the world. Or the grand prize for completely fucked up "humor". Sickening.
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Bobbieo (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Oct-13-07 07:50 PM
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8. And, of course these people are Pro-Choice!!!!!!
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Cirque du So-What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Oct-13-07 08:15 PM
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9. Good satire arises from the powerless mocking the powerful
When the powerful mock the powerless, it's cruelty. This is further proof that Republican brains are wired differently from the norm.
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Cirque du So-What Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Oct-13-07 08:46 PM
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10. I just posted this in a forum I moderate
Another member sent me a message saying that Matt Groening used to be her neighbor. She's sending him an e-mail informing him that characters from The Simpsons are being used without his permission :woohoo:
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Oct-13-07 09:13 PM
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12. Good. Re my post above, he needs to SUE THEIR ASSES and make
a HUGE public stink about this.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sat Oct-13-07 11:49 PM
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13. What a splendid demonstration of Republican dishonesty, immaturity, and bile
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list Sun Oct-14-07 07:37 AM
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15. as well as their complete lack of creativity, originallity, talent and writing skills
One of the most poorly written pieces of satire I believe I've ever seen.
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