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Great work like always Sam. Can't wait to see the new layout. By the way, are you ever going to finish the unbelieveibly messed up bible stories?
Well that was really good Sam, shorter than I though but overall good as always, btw, you have many series now, does that means one of them is getting out of front page?...well if the new layout still have the same format. I guess I will have to wait to find out!
The new layout will incorporate all series and specials on the frontpage. 
This episode was hilarious! Great work on this.
Great as usual.
Funny stuff.
Ha! I was wondering what you where gonna do with Rumsfeld!
Great one.
Especially when Bush did that 'Party!' thang. (And everyone got old and saggy.)
Good, I wish it was longer...
The Return of the Taco King.
Well, not really, I'm just here to post a comment on the new toon and be on my way. 
Anyway, the animation was solid Sam, and I'm glad in the 4-odd years this site has been around Rumsfeld FINALLY uttered his first (and apparently last) line of dialogue. :P
I would like to point out some holes in your thinking on this issue, though. First and furmost, the command of language and how it is represented to the public is a tactic used by all politicians for all time, including Democrats.
Note that Democrats won't commit to denouncing the surge, are using a non-binding, virtually useless resolution to stop it; and instead of a "surge" are advocating "escalation". What the hell does that mean?
Secondly, and this is a far more profound error on your part, Fox News IS fair and balanced, but not for the reason you may normally think. Please read this (not a shameless self-promotion, I just don't feel like repeating myself):
http://azandi.wordpress.com/2007...d-on-the-media/
Another thing, what the hell is wrong with Drudge Report? Liberals like yourself worship Buzzflash, doesn't the right get its turn?
Finally, if you REALLY believe that withdrawal from Iraq any time soon will be beneficial for Americans, Iraqis, or the war on terror, you really have no understanding of the geopolitical sruggle there. To put it simply, think of it this way; before the invasion (which I still think was a tactical error) there was no strong concentration of terrorists in one country, it was a scattering of cells all over the world. Now Iraq is al-Qaidia, every Islamic fascist terrorist on the planet is there, this is no time to back off, its time to increase our efforts.
I don't want to make a big flamewar or anything out of this, I simply do NOT have the time with school, work and college visitations. This is just my view.
Nice job on the animation, keep up the good work.
TacoKing, are you sure you watched the cartoon?
First all, Rumsfeld spoke in the last episode. He had two lines. :D
Secondly, I don’t think the cartoon mentioned anything about a surge or pullout. The cartoon merely suggested that the administration should spend more time figuring out how to win the war, and less time on how to win over the public with their fancy slogans and such. They need to start being honest with us. For example, look how long it took for them to admit to not winning in Iraq. The media had been accurately reporting this for over year; minus the Fox News of course.
Lastly, I have no idea what Buzzflash is, but the Drudgereport IS a biased news site. It’s actually more like a tabloid. I understand completely what Fox News really means when they say “Fair and Balanced”, but they are deceptive in the way they present themselves to the public.
Sam T
To be perfectly honest, I haven't heard anything about slogans or the like, maybe I haven't been watching enough cable news? As far as I'm concerned, Bush is looking for ways to win this war, and don't understimate Petraeus. He's a highly educated man and I think its worth giving it a shot.
I like Drudge, I think he's a pretty funny guy and he certainly doesn't try to hide his bias, neither does Fox. Neither does the flagrantly left MSNBC or New York Times. Lets face it man, unless you're watching PBS or C-SPAN, cable news is going to have bias, I've given up trying to fight it, I now embrace it. Sure, Fox isn't fair and balanced, but you can hardly say that for its competitors either.
CNN may not be perfect, but at least they don’t have a comedy show or a nightly parade of left-leaning pundits attacking and bashing Republicans every chance they get.
The Fox News channel is the MOST biased news network currently on the air. They are the very thing they deride.
Exactly how many times does Bush have to fail in Iraq before you realize that were losing? Furthermore, how many times does Bush have to fail at his job before you realize he isn’t a good at it?
Lastly, I hardly believe you haven’t noticed their slogans and catchphrases as you used the word ‘surge’ yourself. I’m sure you’ve heard “A New Way Forward”, “Stay the Course” and my fav "We're not winning, but we're not losing". Enough already! I’m freaking ready to hear “We won!”.
Reality is finally starting to sink in for our President and his administration, but I’m wondering if its too late.
CNN is decent in its bias-control, but I notice you blatantly refused to respond to my charges of leftist bias in other media conglomerates; namely MSNBC, New York times, Washington Post, and the like.
I DON'T think we're losing in Iraq, nor are we winning. This isn't the traditional "us vs. them" scenario Sam, this is a common mistake of the left. This isn't the Iraqis vs. America, this is Iraqis vs. Iraqis. We're unfortunate enough to be caught in this violent maelstrom; and our objective is to bring some stability to the region. A stable, pro-US Iraq would be a stupendous tactical victory and would have made the whole trouble worthwhile, and I think it can still be done.
Al-Qaida, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Mahdi Army, and the various other cells of the overall legions of the mujihideen CANNOT defeat us militarily. We need to hold out long enough for their inevitable collapse, we cannot prove weak in the face of a fascist enemy that seeks our absolute obliteration.
I also pose another question to you. Hypothetically, you, President Sam T. Nelson, what would be your next foreign policy maneuver at this point? How would you fight the war on terror? You know where nearly every last one of them are, Iraq. Would you withdraw? If so, why? And what would be your subsequent move?
First off, I haven’t blatantly refused to respond to anything. I responded with CNN as my example as you grouped them all together. I don’t know too much about those Medias you speak of. From what I do know the NYT has a somewhat left leaning opinion page, but that doesn’t have anything to do with the news they report. Bush is just now finally admitting to things the NYT has been reporting on for years. So don’t try and tell me their news is biased. There news is just the truth and sometimes the truth can be ugly. I don’t know anything about the Washington Post. I only watch two shows on MSNBC occasionally, but from what I can tell they have only one liberal host and the rest are all conservative. How is that such a leftist bias? At least MSNBC has a freaking liberal hosting a show. Show me one show on Fox News that does. Also, what is your problem with these papers and networks? Please tell me what they have said or done that was wrong? I can (and have) give you a million of things Fox News has lied about.
Secondly, we ARE losing in Iraq. Even Bush doesn’t say were winning anymore. We are not unfortunate for being in the middle of the mess we have created. We are in this mess because our President CHOSE this war. His choice is what was unfortunate. Level headed Americans protested against this war back in 2003, and tried to tell the President not to do it because we knew what could happen. And so here we are today in the exact mess that we predicted.
Hypothetically speaking if I was President, after 9/11 I would have probably invaded Afganistan and destroyed Al Quida. I would have also not stopped until I had found and killed Osama Bin Laden. Meanwhile, I would have reached out to every country in the world and asked for their help in finding and killing terrorists (especially Osama). Bush did most of all this, and I was behind him all the way (you forget that I was a bush supporter back in the day). He tragically went wrong when he invaded Iraq. Bush squashed every bit of sympathy and support we had after the terrorist attack. He took advantage of the situation. He took advantage of me and I will never forgive him.
Lastly, Taco-King, I think you may need to stop watching Fox News and listening to right wing talk. You obviously listen to it a lot as you’ve got the rhetoric down pat. And because you are only listening to sources that tell you what you want to hear on a daily basis you’re becoming less informed about the truth and oblivious to the reality in which we are living.
Let me respond point-by-point:
a. MSNBC and NYT are notoriously leftist, this can't be refuted. MSNBC having only one liberal and all the rest conservatives? What the hell are you talking about? Brina Williams? Chris Matthews? Keith Olbermann? And Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough are about as conservative as Alan Colmes is liberal; take that as you wish to interpret it. Not ot mention a vast platoon of leftist reporters, commentators, or otherwise constituting the schedule. Likewise for the NYT, I would highly recommend you read "Journalistic Fraud", a fantastic critique of the Times by bipartisan media analyist Bob Kohn.
b. Your second point presents a fundamental question that both of us need to answer; and I imagine we have differing views on this. Did America bring civil war to Iraq, or did the Iraqis ignite civil war amongst themselves? I would posit the latter; we didn't do anything except remove a fascist warlord who sheltered immensely dangerous terrorists such as Abu Nidal (the most wanted terrorist of the 20th century) and Zarqawi. All we did was remove infrastructure and give the Iraqis a chance to start over, their version of starting over is to blow themselves up over a 3,000 year old mundane religious difference. That isn't our fault or our perogative, but we do bear responsibility for the violence; thus withdrawal would be morally dishonest and geopolitical suicide. We should stabalize Iraq, dispel the insurgency, and assist in any way we can a fledgling progressive Iraqi state. Give Petraeus a chance.
c. no. That tactic won't work on me Sam, I'm afraid. Take my word for what its worth but I swear in the name of God that I'm not lying when I say that I do NOT exclusively watch Fox or listen to right-wing radio. The only program on Fox I watch is O'Reilly, I actually probably watch more MSNBC (Countdown, Carlson's show, Scarborough Country) than I do Fox. Furthermore, I vehemently REVILE most of the right-wing radio crowd, I detest Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Michael Savage, and the like. I get my daily news from BBC, Digg, National Review, and Drudge; thats not being brainwashed, thats just being a conservative. I'll point out that BBC and Digg are devoid of bias, that National Review is a highly presigious publication, and that Drudge is fucking hilarious.
Well, I feel as though I’ve said everything I have to say, and stand behind every bit of it.
You have absolutely no right bashing other Medias, when you support the Fox News. They are THE MOST bias “news” network on the air. I have a feeling you think anything reported that doesn’t look good for the President (regardless of the fact that it’s true) is bias news. Of course, we all know Fox News would never do that. Unless, of course, they can no longer hide it.
Also, you have yet to provide me with anything those so called left wing bias Medias have done to qualify them for the label you have assigned.
I laughed very hard when you said Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson and Joe Scarborough aren’t very conservative. I have to admit, I used to not like ol’ Joe, but he has really turned around. He is still conservative, but unlike you, he isn’t afraid to admit the truth. I enjoy watching his show now, as it’s refreshing to see someone on the air that tells it like it is. Brain Williams is a liberal? Please. He gives absolutely no opinion in his news program. Are you sure you don’t listen to talk radio? Everything you said is the same as what Hannity, Coulter, and Limbaugh repeat ad nauseam.
Lastly, that wasn’t a tactic. It was some friendly advice. Seriously! I don’t think I even want to converse with someone that still watches Bill O’RLY. I stopped watching him years ago as he has truly gone mad. It must be difficult to keep up with all those lies. The guy is a joke.
Sam T
Hey taco queen, get your facts straight, Saddam actually killed Abu Nidal since he was trying to eliminate any evidence of supporting terrorists that America would use as propanganda to argue against him about give safe haven to terrorists involved in attacks against American and thereby help justify a war against him.
Proof Abu Nidal was killed by Saddam:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Nidal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/
intern...,778571,00.html
In fact, Jane's Information Group suggests that Saddam Hussein ordered Abu Nidal killed in 2002 in case Abu Nidal acted as a mercenary for the U.S. in the event of an invasion.
Oh for crying out loud, Sam, stop decrying people's arguments as illegitimate just by using the "oh my god, you like Fox" tactic. You've used it for years, its old, repetitive, and lame. I told you the only show on Fox I watch (not even regularly) is O'Reilly, and I think he's a pretty reasonable guy most of the time.
Evidence of the leftist media? Are you serious? Have you ever watched Countdown? A show that has compared US armed forces as terrorists? Have you ever watched "Hardball" with Matthews? More like "Softball", you'd have to be blind to not see the glaring leftist bias. And again, Scarborough and Carlson are about as much conservatives as Alan Colmes is a liberal, take it as you will. You think Scarborough's presense at MSNBC proves they're not a leftist organization? Fine, Colmes proves Fox isn't a right-wing organization.
A fundamental thing you're really not perceiving here is that no one is denying that Fox has a right-wing bias; they embrace it in fact. The problem is that liberals refuse to acknowledge the overwhelming leftist bias in cable media and print publications.
One more thing I have to say to you, just a friendly side-note: "Medias" is not a word.
Taco Queen (you're not my type btw, look for another king) you must have a spectacularly low standard for "proof" if you cite Wikipedia and the Guardian magazine. That other guy beat me to it moron, Saddam blatantly gave government sponsored hospitality to Nidal and flagrantly bragged about his support of terrorists bombing Tel Aviv. The only reason he killed Nidal was to hide his obvious state-sponsored terrorism links, read this.
http://www.slate.com/id/2102723/
The reason you don’t like my argument, is because it’s a good one. No other news network comes close to being as biased as the Fox News Channel. Until you decry that channel, your argument as no merit. You can complain all day about the one liberal show that MSNBC has, but Fox News has 20x as many Conservative shows. I also can’t respect anyone that says Bill O’RLY is a reasonable guy. Oh, and I figured out why you're so (mindlessly) against NBC News. Bill O’RLY is on a crusade against them now.
I think I'll start calling my site “Fair and Balanced” too. You should have no problem with that, right? I don’t hide my bias either. However, I don't claim to be a News Channel either. I'm a comedy site, but Fox News is turning into one more and more everyday. Hell, I don't even have to write jokes when I spoof them. I only have to watch them for a few seconds, and I have all the material I need.
It ISN'T a good argument, its the same spoon-fed MoveOn.org tripe thats been floating around the internet for the last 4 years. Yes, they're biased, other networks and pulications are equally so, thats what the "fair and balanced" moniker connotates. And don't fool yourself, Bill-O most certainly is NOT the only person who's noticed liberal bias in the media.
http://newsbusters.org/
Sorry, I've never been to moveon.org. I'm fully capable of thinking on my own. You can in no way attack other news networks for being biased while supporting one that is (the MOST biased to be accurate).
I would say that's a very fair and balanced argument. :D
I'm not attacking anything; fine, theres liberal bias in the mainstream media, what do I care? Its freedom of speech, thats what America's all about; I don't get my news from cable TV so I don't care.
What I AM criticising is liberals who are incessantly attacking Fox, when leftist bias in the media is so staggering in its scope.
Hey Taco King, thanks for defending my network and all, but, trust me we want to be baised because that's how we get all those Bible thumping, gay hating, white trash inbreeding viewers which comprise a significant portion of America's Population. As an Aussie, it feels real good that my network can influence so many Americans. If I can just buy the other networks I can pretty much control all of America's media and eliminate that left wing bias. Help me do it Taco King. If you do, I will make you more popular to rednecks and there spokesman even more than Jeff "Fox"worthy, who I asked to change his last name in exchange for his soul and on the condition I make him gain fame among fellow rednecks. Before his name was Jeff Cnnworthy. (What the hell were his parents thinking?!)
Oh by the way, forgot to end with Foxnews catch pharse "We Distort/ You Decide."
Hey Rupert, just a few questions for ya bud...
a. Is the concept of a "paragraph" foreign to you?
b. As the purported crusader for American conservative journalistic supremacy, I must inquire why you support liberal political candidates financially? Maybe you're more fair and balanced than most leftiest realize?
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/
2...in1600694.shtml
c. Hey Ruperr, I must tell you I find it morally repugnant and intellectually regressive, as well as outright absurd and empirically unsound to maintain this position that all conservatives are rednecks; especially considering that I'm a Chicago based Iranian-American. I must ask, Rupert, have you ever read an issue of National Review? Weekly Standard? Do you know who Dinesh D'Souza is, Rupert? How about Charles Krauthammer, Amir Taheri, Salman Rushdie, or Steve Forbes? All hard-line conservatives, all the very anthesis of "redneck", and all more educated than you could ever hope to contemplate at this point.
d. Gee, Rupert! Its almost as if you're not who you say you are! That this is a stupendously ill-composed ruse, that you're some kid with a junior high's degree in political awareness, a sedentary post-materialist Hollywood compliant neo-Marxian fighting against "the man" and trying to act clever against some "redneck Christian conservative"! I don't know who you've been talking to, "Rupert", but its about time you broaden your view and enhance your rhetoric.
Woohoo! Old fat saggin' party time! Whaaaaat?
I liked the conf. part.
Also forgot to mention in DD1 that I liked the effort you put into the guitar part.
Not that these responces are that long & page-consuming, but like in a BBC (forum) off-topic rants could stand to be deleted, starting with Taco King's first post & upwards from there. (honestly TC, keep that trivial stuff in the back of your head. Your critique is like trying to watch a movie in a theater where everyone near you has read the book ::cough:: Queen of the Damned ::cough:: X-Men ::cough::
If these other news channels were as blatantly biased as Fox News, I would agree with you. I think we should decry ANY bias in our news. However, we shouldn’t be against reporting the truth simply because it doesn’t look good for our President. I want to always hear the truth, regardless of how ugly it may be. Honestly, I can’t wait till Bush is out of the White House and a Democrat is voted in. Then when the news media (along with Fox finally) continue to report the truth, people like you will have no qualms. However, liberals will begin howling. I don’t consider myself a liberal, but a moderate, and I always try to look at the issues from both sides. I also rarely listen to and or read opinion pieces, as I like to think for myself. My cartoons may be tilted toward skewering only one side of our government, but look at who has been completely in control since I started making political cartoons. If Bill Clinton was the President right now, we would have a Bill Clinton cartoon for sure.
Lai-Lai, that was the single most retarded metaphor I have ever heard in my life, your wit is about as acerbic as Anna Nicole's rotting flesh. If you can't stand a well-reasoned criticism (I notice you didn't even bother trying rebuking anything I said dumbass) get out of the arena.
Sam:
"I think we should decry ANY bias in our news. "
I don't. It isn't our perogative to educate people who are dumb enough to get their news exclusively from cable news, if they want to get a biased breaking news bulletin, we have no reason to stop them. As long as the bias exists on both sides (and it most certainly does), the status quo can be maintained.
You keep saying Fox "doesn't tell the truth" or they only cater to conservative personalities, I just don't think thats true. They give people like bill Clinton, Michael Moore, Bill Maher, and Phil Donohue a loudspeaker as well as right-wingers, don't pretend that they don't give the left its say, thats bullcrap and you know it.
Why, how can you ever trust a Democrat candidate? Perhaps the sleazient, most cowardly party in this country's history? A country so peonic and obedient that they mindlessly voted for the Iraq war by vast majority, and now conveniently forget that such a thing ever happened and want to cut and run while innocent Iraqis and our brave soldiers are being blown to pieces because of their criminal negligence. Personally I'm voting for Giuliani, but thats another post.
You should be against all forms of blatantly biased media. Today, more than ever, we need the truth, not lies. Why this isn’t obvious to you is beyond me.
And this point, I would rather trust a Democrat after witnessing the disastrous Bush Administration. If I had my way, we would have neither party running the country. However, I have to deal with the reality in which I live.
“They give people like bill Clinton, Michael Moore, Bill Maher, and Phil Donohue a loudspeaker as well as right-wingers, don't pretend that they don't give the left its say, thats bullcrap and you know it.”
You can’t be that dense. You know very well the only time Fox News talks about those people is when they are bashing them relentlessly.
Sorry, but this will be my last post on this topic as I cant have a discussion with someone who doesn't live in reality. I've replied fully to your original posts and made my case well known. You on the other hand have avoided my questions while attacking me for asking (typical Bill O’RLY maneuver).
Later,
Sam T
PS- Seriously, I’m done. I have a new site layout to finish. Plus, you’ve given me the encouragement to begin work on an O’RLY Factor cartoon spoof. Don’t worry, I’ll make it very Fair and Balanced.
When have I avoided any of your questions? Ever? If you're not going to post, I challenge a bystander (heh) to point out when I didn't respond to a point you made.
Yes, generally when Clinton, Maher, or one of their copatriates is on Fox they're being criticised, but thats not the point. The point is that they have the chance to criticise back, and an intelligent person would be able to discern for themselves who's right and who is wrong.
I don't think the Bush administration has been "disastrous" per se, just incompetent. Domestically the economy has been growing exponentially, we have zero unemployment, and I agreed fully with Bush's guest-worker program, even though it was attacked by the more ignorant members of Congress. Iraq was a mistake, yes, but I think the Democrats are on the verge of executing a far more tremendous one in leaving at this point in time.
I don't live in reality? Really? Because I'm defending Fox? ok, you can say that, its your blog, I think you're incredibly jaded for doing so though, this will also be my last post on this thread, heres to an interesting debate.
~Taco King
Another great cartoon, keep them coming Sam T!
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