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		<title>That must be spidy meeting Obama outside a CBC meeting where Obama found proof positive the AIDS virus was invented by GW</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:53:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hard to pass up the comments on the web-version of a newspaper, USA Today, that so embodies &#8220;lowest common denominator&#8221; that its print version is delivered daily to hotel room doors around the country. But when that article is about President-Elect Obama being featured in a Spider-Man comic, the comments are just too hilarious [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s hard to pass up the comments on the web-version of a newspaper, USA Today, that so embodies &#8220;lowest common denominator&#8221; that its print version is delivered daily to hotel room doors around the country.  But when <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/community/comments.aspx?id=33782072.story&amp;p=1">that article is about President-Elect Obama being featured in a Spider-Man comic</a>, the comments are just too hilarious to pass up.</p>
<p>Comments seem to fall into a few different categories: Bush-bashing, reverse Bush-bashing/liberal baiting, pedantry, and insanity.  But as you&#8217;ll see, there are quite a few that fit into the other categories that also fit into insanity.</p>
<p><strong>Bush Bashing</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>I&#8217;m hoping they print it in a large format, so the people who are currently losing their jobs and homes as this little feel-good farce of a presidency gets underway will have something comfy to sleep on &#8230;<br />
Maybe they&#8217;ll do a George W. Bush retrospective and show how the jobs and home losses came to be.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Hey what do you know, another article that bitter people can trash Obama on for no other reason than retribution for the persecution of their last president’s blundering administration.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Reverse Bush-Bashing/Liberal Baiting</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>That must be spidy meeting Obama outside a CBC meeting where Obama found proof positive the AIDS virus was invented by GW.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Who new Obama was a cartoon character? Everyone else told me he was the &#8220;messiah&#8221;!! Now I&#8217;m really confused.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>It totally works &#8211; they&#8217;re both fictional superheros.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>what do you expect. a liberal commie indoctrinating kids thru childrens books and comics.<br />
everywhere you go,you see this studdering buffoon.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Pedantry</strong></p>
<p>(these first three appear to be a conversation)</p>
<blockquote><p>This from the guy whose company put out an issue with the Punisher threatening to kill a drunken, evil Bush 43. Liar.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Cite, please.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Late 2001, Punisher series vol.4. I want to say issue #5, but don&#8217;t have the comic here to verify.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve got no problem with Marvel capitalizing on the the new President to sell some comics. I do have a problem that they purposely short-printed the comic to reward the hoarders and scalpers.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Of course, if you hadn&#8217;t told me that was Obama in the picture, I never would have guessed. It looks nothing like him.</p></blockquote>
<p><strong>Insanity</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>Amazing!!! The first US president whose very existence is putting food on the tables of many americans. I am a spiderman fan myself. I never liked Superman and how he has been over-rated. Obama needs to get in touch with me so that we can talk a lot more about Spiderman. I would love it.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>U.S. of KKK, white supremist America, America engaged in genocide against blacks, U.S. invented AIDS, Obama elected president<br />
Never never never &#8212; Burris &#8212; well maybe &#8212; well okay &#8212; CBC endorsed &#8212; hell yes<br />
yeah, things are just now getting ridiculous &#8212; oh, I like Obama too.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Well&#8230;.my son has now lost total respect for his favorite superhero &#8211; Spiderman.</p>
<p>Talk about squashing a little boy&#8217;s world.</p></blockquote>
<p>(Here&#8217;s a quick back and forth between two commenters.  The second commenter&#8217;s supercilious attitude is palpable through his terrible spelling and grammar, and for that alone I laugh.)</p>
<blockquote><p>Hey spud799&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;You&#8217;re just upset, because GWB wasn&#8217;t decent enough to be in the superhero comics&#8230;..EAT YOUR HEART OUT!!!!!! BAO has the smarts and the integrity to be a decent President for ALL of America&#8230;&#8230;.not just for the greedy rich!!</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Get you acronyms right if your going to criticize. BAO? I think the correct I.D. is BHO.<br />
Scouts Out!</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Obama collectibles&#8221; &#8211; oxymoron<br />
Marvel comics &#8211; trying to shamelessly cash in on the hype<br />
What&#8217;s next ? A Nancy Pelosi &#8220;fake beard&#8221;, a Harry Reid autographed bottle of suppositories?</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>I hope that when the Chicago mess gets even worse and all of &#8220;O&#8221;s corruption becomes, finally, public, Spiderman will come to the rescue and bring him to justice&#8230;.and put him behind bars where he belongs!</p></blockquote>
<p>Get off the internet, people.  Get off the internet forever.</p>
<p><strong>Bonus</strong> Actual hilarity!  I didn&#8217;t expect to see anything like this on USA Today:</p>
<blockquote><p>All I know is that somebody needs to get a radioactive spider to bite Paul Volcker. Because right now, I think what we need is a superhuman economist.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>And Captain America is secretly an Islamofascist</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Apr 2008 12:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ted Grant</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Canadian commentator Mark Steyn recently wrote a review of Mark Evanier&#8217;s new biography of Jack Kirby. It&#8217;s notable for being one of the only times you&#8217;re likely to come across a &#8220;conservative&#8221; taking the side of labor in a dispute with management, but what really elevates it to level of sheer nuttiness is this [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The Canadian commentator Mark Steyn recently wrote <a href="http://www.macleans.ca/canada/opinions/article.jsp?content=20080416_70346_70346&amp;page=1">a review of Mark Evanier&#8217;s new biography of Jack Kirby</a>. It&#8217;s notable for being one of the only times you&#8217;re likely to come across a &#8220;conservative&#8221; taking the side of labor in a dispute with management, but what really elevates it to level of sheer nuttiness is this passage:</p>
<blockquote><p>Stan was Marvel&#8217;s head writer and presiding genius and, to a couple of generations of readers, Mister Comics. (I met him briefly at the Democratic convention in Los Angeles in 2000: yes, he&#8217;s a Democrat — why do you think comic-book heroes gave up truth, justice and the American way to sit around on rooftops like Spidey riddled with self-doubt about whether their awesome powers are a blessing or a curse?)</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes, that&#8217;s right, Stan&#8217;s political affiliations are the reason Spidey is mopey. I suppose if Spider-Man was created by a conservative, he&#8217;d be out there beating up hippies and commies and abortionists and the gays like a good American.</p>
<p>Oh, wait, Steve Ditko created Spider-Man, and he&#8217;s a Randian Libertarian.</p>
<p>Guess Steyn&#8217;s just an idiot, then.</p>
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