damnum absque injuria

June 25, 2004

That Didn’t Take Long

Filed under:   by Xrlq @ 7:20 am

Via Jessica’s Well (hat tip: Chadster):

7 Responses to “That Didn’t Take Long”

  1. Ubique Patriam Reminisci Says:
    June 25th, 2004 at 7:33 am

    Ein Volk, Ein Rant, Ein Bannah!
    Reuters via Xrlq and many others:

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. Vice President Al Gore on Thursday accused President Bush of telling “an artful and important lie” soon after the Sept. 11 attacks to set the stage for war on Iraq.

    …

    In …

  2. Sharp as a Marble Says:
    June 25th, 2004 at 10:08 am

    I did something similar, more of an Icon, at http://sharpmarbles.stufftoread.com/archive/2004/06/25/292.aspx

  3. Kevin Murphy Says:
    June 25th, 2004 at 11:54 am

    I really don’t see the attraction to this image — the brownshirts were truly awful people. I’m willing to bet that the Kevin Drums of the world hang this around our necks pretty quickly.

    Surely there could be something more creative that doesn’t arguably glorify Naziism.

  4. Sharp as a Marble Says:
    June 25th, 2004 at 12:47 pm

    That’s what I was aiming for. I was 50/50 on if I really wanted to do it because, yes, the term brownshirts is a Nazi relic, but that’s what Gore was saying- that anyone who thought that the media should be fair and truthful was using the same tactics as the Nazi machine.

    So I opted for the ‘icon’ aspect to hopefully lower the connection but still maintain the spotlite on the asshole who called me a Nazi!

  5. Xrlq Says:
    June 25th, 2004 at 1:08 pm

    Kevin: I don’t think the image “glorifies” anything. I’m not sure it’s even possible to lampoon Al Gore’s idiotic reference to “digital brownshirts” without making any reference to the real ones.

  6. Kevin Murphy Says:
    June 26th, 2004 at 1:24 am

    I was thinking more like this

  7. Xrlq Says:
    June 26th, 2004 at 11:43 am

    Bo-ring. OTOH, I could settle for a picture of Al Gore himself wearing a brown shirt, coupled with a speech balloon reminding us that he created the goddamned Internet.

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