These guys are idiots.
Let's start off with some inanity about the new Popeye movie.
In a particularly odd segment of Sunday’s show that frequently tipped into full-on parody, co-host Clayton Morris began by worrying that test footage from Genndy Tartakovsky’s animated Popeye movie signifies the “wussifying” of the classic character, as he doesn’t sport his iconic pipe and tattoos.“Of course, they’re wussifying,” assured co-host Tucker Carlson. “Nothing is scarier to a modern liberal than tobacco. If Popeye were driving around giving the morning-after pill to fourth-graders, that would be totally fine. But smoking a pipe, a symbol of freedom and masculinity in America itself, the reason this country exists, tobacco, that’s like, ‘Oh, that’s outrageous. That’s a major sin.’”
Yes, Fox. Sure. NOBODY would be upset if an adult handed out birth control to young children who weren't sexually developed yet. NOBODY would raise a fuss.
Do you know what I hate most about the rightwing? All of their fears are phantoms and not connected to reality. They're still fighting Communists. When's the last time you've ever had a face-to-face with a genuine Communist? I'll confess that I don't go to political meetings but they sure aren't the threat to day to day life the right thinks they are.
Now let's go on to the stupid about women superheroes.
Anna Kooiman, the third part of the Fox News trinity, brought up the specter of smoking and lung cancer, but her co-hosts had little time for that, as masculinity was being assaulted from still another front: The introduction of a female Thor, which made headlines, oh, two months ago.Fox and Friends nailed it! The problem with Superhero comics is that they aren't sexist ENOUGH! Keeping females as nothing but eye candy is great for comics because argle bargle.“If you think that’s bewildering,” Carlson offered by way of segue, “take a look at this: This is Thor. Now you may notice something a little different. Popeye lost something, Thor has added something — a couple of them. We’ll see if you can notice what they are.” (Hint: He’s talking about breasts.) “That’s the new, bustier Thor on the left, because Thor is now a chick!”
Seriously though. The idea is idiotic. People who complain about diversity in comics forget one major thing: the comic book industry is dying. Almost the entirety of its readership is middle-aged white men and if you aren't going to get young, minority, or female readers to replace them by appealing to them, the entire readership will be dead in a generation. The comic book industry actually shares a great deal in common with Fox News. Except I expect Fox News' viewership to hit the toilet in ten years instead of thirty. Only wingnut welfare from billionaires propping up the legacy of Rupert Murdoch will keep the propaganda arm of the GOP in business. Practically no-one will be watching it.
Now, superhero comics do NOT have that billionaire welfare safeguard that Fox News does. So you can understand their reluctance to follow the Fox News model and stop trying to appeal to new customers so they can run their billion dollar franchises into the ground. The comic book industry is already plenty stupid. But at their worst I doubt they are stupider than Fox News.
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...birds and bees that he doesn't understand the essential biological, rather than moral or political, absurdity of giving the morning-after pill to 4th-graders.
DC comics. Everyone knows that the Avengers could wipe the floor with all the other options. Well...anyone who is cool knows that.
Getting my popcorn...
Seriously. When are RWNJs going to learn that they look completely ridiculous whenever they try to reference anything "hip?" Unless they're talking about joint replacement surgery, they should avoid hip topics like radioactive spider venom.
But decided against it because I wanted the poll to be specifically about superheroes vs. Fox News. Little did I realize how many people vote in polls for the heck of it.
....could kick all their asses without spilling his bottle of ice-cold Tree Frog Beer.....
Hell, he could slay half of them using the innate vileness of Demon Breath!
All they can know is he doesn't have tattoos.....yet.
But what was this Sailor Man like before he discovered that those leafy greens gave him amazing strength? And what were Popeye's early days at sea like? And where exactly did he get that anchor-shaped tattoo?
Through the script for this film is still being written, Genndy clearly envisions his version of a full-length Popeye animated adventure as being an origin story.http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Of course Fox would object to something cool. Being lame is their stock in trade.
change (day we even say, evolution) is anathema. The idea that a character could grow and change over time is unthinkable to them. Baby Popeye obviously emerged from his mother's womb fully tatted out.
;^)
I probably watched a thousand hours of Popeye cartoons as a kid, and I dont remember any Thor. Olive Oyle and Bluto, yes.
Fox Noose. But hemp was the reason this country exists not tobacco.
http://founders.archives.gov/...
(Tobacco) is impolitic. A Fact well established in the System of Agriculture is that the best Hemp and the best Tobacco grow on the same Kind of Soil. The former Article is of first Necessity to the Commerce and Marine in other Words to the Wealth and Protection of the Country. The latter never useful and sometimes perniciousThomas Jefferson
papers, written by Gouverneur Morris.
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That Fox and Friends are idiots is no surprise. But I do have a suggested edit to the poll - can we label Fox and Friends "the Injustice League"? Seems appropriate. :)
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called the "all winners squad." What about the "all idiots squad" for these jokers?
Let's not forget that Thor has kind of a background in mythology, including an episode where he disguised himself as Freya, goddess of love.
(I'm not sure how may modern pagans would agree to name him patron god of crossdressing, but there is that.)
There may be some men out there (probably including Mr Hemsworth) who could go to any interview in a pink frilly dress and nobody would dare say a thing.
"Their strength is as the strength of ten (each) because their hearts are pure." Fox Noise is the Injustice League.
Mark Evanier, one of my favorite bloggers and a writer who has worked in comics, television and animation, had this to say about Tucker's concerns about Popeye's pipe:
About ten years ago, I was approached about writing a Popeye animated project. It never happened but we had a meeting or two and it was made pretty clear to me that merchandising and marketing were driving this particular venture; that any decision about Popeye having a pipe or Popeye punching out Bluto would be decided on that basis. They were going to make some assessment based on an estimate of how many parents wouldn't buy a toy if the character had a pipe…or how many countries or networks wouldn't buy and air the show.Mark's whole piece is worth reading. Of course, we all know that Carlson is being stupid, but Mark explains why this particular piece of stupid is particularly dumb.A principle Tucker Carlson has voiced as long as I've followed him on TV is that companies should be free from regulation and outside pressures that might minimize their profit margins. And now here he is, arguing that the people who are marketing Popeye need to give Popeye his pipe. Someone needs to ask Carlson, "Even if they think they'll make less money if they do?" Because if they don't give Popeye a pipe, that'll be the reason.
And check out his blog, too. He nearly always has something interesting on it.
