Kender,
Funny, funny stuff. Great wit, highbrow satire. Really, you should write for SNL. This piece is hilarious, and I love the “Shoe-in” pun. In fact, while there are many, many worn out shoe puns going around, yours, Kender, is polished.
And I detected your jab at Bush’s missile defense
system. LOL. Like it would really work.
My only question is why haven’t they released the thrower, Muntader al-Zaidi? No one was hurt. Bush forgave him. Even likened it to someone yelling during a speech. No harm. No foul. Plus, Muntader hurled the insult of insults at Bush. LOL again.
Granted, there are those who’r gathering in the streets of Arab nations much like Bill Ayers and Jeramy Wright, stomping and burning American flags, but it’s all in good, clean freedom of speech fun.
Like Muntader’s station manager said, “Let him go. He was just exercising his freedom of speech, and giving Bush some exercise in the process”.
Is it not healthy that the Arab world now embraces the tenents of freedom of speech? It’s a wonderful thing.
Why, I saw a drawing of Muhammad in the Village Voice of all newspapers last week, and nobody blinked. There were no riots in the streets of Syria or anyplace else.
Well, actually, it wasn’t just a drawing of Muhammad, (and this is the best part) the Prophet Muhammad was (this is so funny my sides are splitting) the Prophet Muhammad had this German Shepard dog on its back, and was performing an oral act on it.
I kid you not.
In the western world, this is considered to be a huge insult to a religious leader, but not one towel-headed (I love freedom of speech) bath needing, bead growing Arab so much as commented, much less killed a Jewish bystander.
Well, actually one did. (not killed, commented)
The Village Voice received a letter from a Jordanian gentleman who said the funniest part of this whole cartoon was that Muhammad was performing this act while the dog was lying on an open copy of the Koran, which, some idiot in the office calls a must read for derelicts, dildo-heads and demons.
Personally, I was offended. I mean, freedom of speech doesn’t mean you can yell theatre in a crowded firehouse. Does it?
When all is said and done, I think the guy who drew the cartoon is a real heal. By the same token, I guess some humorless Americans didn’t appreciate our President and the office of the Presidency being the target of some coward who throws like a nine year old girl. Then screams like her little sister.
Oh, well, to each his own, I guess. Or in The Hammad Man’s case, to each his bone.
