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Asked about his 2001 love note to Osama bin Laden, cartoonist Michael Leunig replied:
And we were, so little we knew about him and still so little we know about him. I just wanted to raise it and I, I stick by that. I stick by that to this day.
We know a little more about him now:
Bin Laden said the publication of the cartoons was a graver offence than the ‘’bombing of modest villages that collapsed over our women children’’.
‘’This is the bigger catastrophe and the more dangerous one and for which the punishment is graver.’’
Under that legal structure, Leunig is only a slip of his pen - and the installation of a spine - away from being classified as worse than a child-killer. All it takes is one drawing of Mohammed ...
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ObL or cartoonist Michael Lunatic?Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 20 at 05:55 AM • permalinkLeunig is only a slip of his pen ... away from being classified as worse than a child-killer. All it takes is one drawing of Mohammed ...
If only, Tim. If only.
Leunig regrettably has a finely honed sense of self-preservation, though he might consider others disposable. One explanation can be found on his website:
[sic] and philosophy ...Leunig was born in East Melbourne in 1945, a slaughterman’s son and the second eldest of five children. He was educated at various state schools, kitchen tables, paddocks, rubbish tips, loopholes and abattoirs in Melbourne’s industrial Western suburbs ...
He fled from formal education and pursued a successful career as a factory labourer and meatworker where he nurtured his art
"Michael Leunig”
I’d beat the crap out of that worthless asshole, but my dad made me promise never to hit little girls, and since he’s a whiny little bitch, he’s safe.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 03 20 at 06:24 AM • permalinkSo osama-bin-hiding thinks it is wrong to publish cartoons about a paedophile. Strange logic that.
Posted by surfmaster on 2008 03 20 at 07:14 AM • permalink#10
Waziristan, we’re getting to know you,
Getting to know all about you ...Would drawing a duck-billed Mohammed’s puss be okay? It could be about Mohammed touching the people of Australia in a nod to multiculturalism. Someone should “ask the imam”.
Posted by andycanuck on 2008 03 20 at 08:09 AM • permalink#12 ...missiles fired from an “unidentified location. Yes
#13 Ha-ha-ha.Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 20 at 08:12 AM • permalinkDraw Mohammed in Leunig’s style.
Two birds with one stone!
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2008 03 20 at 09:21 AM • permalink#13, thanks for the link. The vid at the bottom was well worth the listen, too (never have been able to hear Barber’s Adagio for Strings without getting teary-eyed). The great Islamic “civilization” that Osama bin-Dead loves so much has never, and will never, produce anything half so beautiful as that.
"so little we knew about him and still so little we know about him”
You know, if Mr. Leunig spent as much time researching a topic as he does on his hair, he might not sound like quite so much of a twit. We know a great deal about bin Laden, Mr. Leunig. He is not some unknown man from the deep deserts. He is the son of a famous and wealthy family who has given hundreds of interviews and speeches over the years. We know him quite well, Mr. Leunig, which is why we are trying so hard to kill him.
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2008 03 20 at 11:12 AM • permalinkpaco! We have to do something about lyle. I don’t know about you but his talented output is eclipsing the stuff I’m putting out. Remember what we did to Mr. Creosote (tire iron to the knee when he was lacing up his ice skates)? And Penguin (assigned to the Moon Base Alpha base of operations). I think we need to do something similar to lyle. But quick.
Posted by wronwright on 2008 03 20 at 11:58 AM • permalinkIs that a knocking I hear? Is that you, wronwright?
I think I’ll just step onto the fire escape for a moment…
The War Against Cartoons –
Bin Laden’s Henchmen ReportWith rockets and anvils we bought
Plus blueprints from Acme, we ought
To nail one thin bird;
We can’t be deterred -
We guarantee he will be caught.(pause)
Imam, we regret to report
The bird is frustrating sort;
Saad was railroaded;
Yusef exploded;
The bird seemed to think it was sport.(pause)
He is, Imam, quick as a curse,
As fast straight ahead or reverse;
Though Abu is dead
And Raz and Ahmed -
The bird will soon ride in a hearse….#7
If it isn’t well drawn or funny or even clever is it still blasphemy?Posted by Col. Milquetoast on 2008 03 20 at 12:34 PM • permalink#13 MarkL
I like how he thinks: distributed blasphemy.
#32 Achillea
LOLMohammeds. Yeah. Time to go viral.
=^D
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2008 03 20 at 05:21 PM • permalink"I just wanted to raise it”
Crap. You just wanted to send Osama some hugs because he killed thousands of Americans, and you hate America.
In addition to being a talentless hack, with the artistic abilities of a retarded five year old, you’re a stinking sack of pro-terrorist shit.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 03 20 at 05:26 PM • permalinkSpiny, Rebecca, that is why I think he is on to something.
So does the VRWC have cartoonists? We certainly have jokesters and limerick writers (Lyle is good). Distribution? easy with photocopiers and lamp-posts even at the most basic possible level.
Personally, the funniest one I have seen was a cartoon of mohammed shagging a pig and entitled ‘To protect his favourite girlfriend, mohammad decided on a new rule....’
I do not have a copy of it, though.
MarkL
Canberra#38 Funnily enough, Dave, when I was in the US in 2005 I went to two very big bookstores [Barnes and Noble was one] looking for a Leunig cartoon book for my US/Aussie brother. [Actually some of L’s stuff used to be very whimsical and clever, until he got a gig as a columnist and revealed all his vile lefty spleen.]
I couldn’t find any of his books.
Not only does he hate America, America seems to hate him back, and for good reason.This is what great art looks like…
and, this is what diarrhea on canvas looks like…
Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 03 20 at 06:00 PM • permalink"Actually some of L’s stuff used to be very whimsical and clever”
Actually, Barrie, Leunig has four serious shortcomings as an artist.
1.) He can’t paint.
2.) He can’t draw.
3.) He can’t write poetry.
4.) He can’t write prose.
God only knows what he does to music. Thankfully, I’ve never been exposed to any.
The only thing Leunig has going for him are friendships with reactionary leftys that date back to the Vietnam War days, and now the leftys he used to smoke dope with in the 60s have positions of authority in Australia’s arts and media businesses, which is why this talentless hack gets published.
It’s a payoff for his political orthodoxy.
Tim Blair is ten times the writer Leunig is, and so are a bunch of other people who post here. Lyle, for example, is so much a better poet than Leunig, it boggles the mind...and Lyle does it off the top of his head! Leunig can’t even master basic ideas like rhyme and meter, Lyle can do it without even thinking about it.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 03 20 at 06:51 PM • permalinkI love the idea of Lolmohammeds. Though why stop at Mohammed himself? Here’s my first one.
Posted by Evil Pundit on 2008 03 20 at 06:58 PM • permalink#40 You are right about Leunig. There was a certain charm with his work at the beginning. Think I have his first book of cartoons somewhere.
The problem was that by the end of that first book all that was interesting and clever about Leunig had been expended. Now we have a middle-aged man who affects this vulnerable little man persona while his cartoons and writing reveal a vile ultra-left wing anti-Semite.
Leunig was fantastic, his first five books or so are required-reading for all my children.
And he is now a deranged, mealy-mouthed, partisan apologist for primitive philosophy.
Both things can be true.Posted by ooh honey honey on 2008 03 20 at 07:55 PM • permalinkOnly Melbourne could produce Leunig and only Melbourne could consider him a ‘national treasure’. He is typical of the bitter and twisted dead-end leftism that passses for intellectual life, there. To impose the meaningless Leunig duck on overseas visitors at the closing ceremony of the Commonwealth Games (in itself a ponderous, humourless, tiresome non-event), was so typically characteristic of Melbourne parochialism. characrYrevc
Mister Curly Ingenue
With duck at hand
And suitcase tooFluttered o-s to Tehran
With filthy toons
That please ImamsMister Curly Ingenue
Loves peace and geese
And killing jewsPosted by eeniemeenie on 2008 03 20 at 08:27 PM • permalinkCatherine Deveny feels safe to say:
Easter? Oh wake me when it’s over.
Posted by stackja1945 on 2008 03 20 at 10:40 PM • permalinkLeunig (from the Denton link)”...to comment on the world of politics which I didn’t know a great deal about...”
Plus ca change…
Posted by carpefraise on 2008 03 21 at 02:51 AM • permalinkCELLULITE ON PACO’S NEW BOTTOM LINE:
Wronwright has sounded a warning
To Paco, whose antennae rise
That new types of writing are dawning
Their poetry’s on the demiseLyle’s verse surge has them worried
His grasp of verse meter is sweet
Their strategy yet has not put them in debt
What’s the verdict on this in Wall Street?Posted by carpefraise on 2008 03 21 at 03:21 AM • permalinkWhat the? A poem about a poet? I need to nip this in the bud.
(wronwright enters lyle’s coordinates into space orbital laser cannon targeting computer)
Posted by wronwright on 2008 03 21 at 05:36 AM • permalinkAt least Deveney excels in one area...she’s one of the world’s foremost eaters.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2008 03 21 at 06:32 AM • permalink#31 Colonel, even stick figures and abstracts count. The image on the window, or on the toast counts.
Posted by Deborah Leigh on 2008 03 21 at 11:55 AM • permalink
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Daddy, we hardly knew you.
Germaine wrote that. Ironically one of the best cartoons ever done about Germain was by Leunig. It’s in my briefcase. Along with the 1st Birthday Party for the dead cat called GST!