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Last updated on August 8th, 2017 at 02:03 pm
Dave Barry’s year in review:
Internationally, the big news comes from Denmark, center of a mounting furor over some cartoons, published the previous year in a Danish newspaper, which depict a prophet whom, in the interest of not offending anybody, we will refer to as Fohammed. This upsets several million of the prophet’s followers, who request a formal apology from the newspaper, greater sensitivity to their religious beliefs, and, where necessary, beheadings. Eventually everybody realizes that the whole darned thing was just a silly misunderstanding.
Read whole thing; v. funny. In the Age, those Chaser fellows are also review-minded:
In Denmark, the Jyllands-Posten newspaper published 12 cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed to explore the topic of censorship. It ended up proving censorship’s virtues when the Muslim world exploded in anger over the perceived blasphemy. The images were first published in Australia on Tim Blair’s blog; disappointingly, he was not among the casualties.
Future generations are going to look back at this era and ask us how we could have allowed Paris Hilton to happen, and we are not going to have a good answer.
This, I’m afraid, is completely true.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 12 31 at 03:12 AM • permalink
The images were first published in Australia on Tim Blair’s blog; disappointingly, he was not among the casualties.
And here I thought us right wing death beasts were the ones callous when it comes to casualties. Indeed, that sounds like wishful thinking on the part of the Chasers.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 31 at 03:56 AM • permalink
Or would that be wistful thinking? One never can tell with The Age, eh?
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 12 31 at 03:57 AM • permalink
Report this to Reporters Without Borders.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 12 31 at 04:57 AM • permalink
The Chaser boys seemed to have learnt well from mentor, Andrew Denton, to have no shame.
Posted by boxofmatches on 2006 12 31 at 04:57 AM • permalink
Pro censorship, to the point of wishing the death of the publisher. Hm, reminds me of … fatwas.
Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2006 12 31 at 05:19 AM • permalink
The Chaser boys seem to have forgotten a certain incident in 2006 that saw one of their number implying – for purposes of comedy – that fans of Islamic Australia’s favourite Rugby League club were prone to violence.
i saw the chaser once- some kind of election night special a few years back- they don’t seem to have got any worse which is probably the nicest thing i can say
i could say they were boring predictable unoriginal left wing propagandists from the abc ‘john howard is a f**kwit’ school of comedy but it’s NYE and i’ll be charitable
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 31 at 08:03 AM • permalink
Tim Blair’s blog; disappointingly, he was not among the casualties
Congratulations, Tim! 😀
Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2006 12 31 at 11:55 AM • permalink
The images were first published in Australia on Tim Blair’s blog; disappointingly, he was not among the casualties.
It doesn’t occur to these assclowns that they’ll be casualties if people like Tim Blair don’t take a stand for their rights, which they are too spineless to do themselves.
The problem is, we can’t defend Western Civilization without also simultaneously defending those who don’t deserve it.
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2006 12 31 at 03:13 PM • permalink
As the campaign lumbers to the finish line, the Republicans desperately hope that the voters will not notice that they — once the party of small government — have turned into the party of war-bungling, corruption-tolerating, pork-spewing power-lusting toads, while the Democrats desperately hope that the voters will not notice that they are still, basically, the Democrats.
Can’t say it any better than that.
So the Chaser boys see the virtues of censorship. Must have taken instruction from John McCain.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 12 31 at 04:19 PM • permalink
From the Chasers article: “The twin scourges of Islamic extremism and the Bush administration continued to ravage the globe, although militant Islam helpfully restricted much of its outrage to irrelevant personages such as Danish cartoonists and the Pope.”
Oh, is that so? All those car bombs and kidnappings and rockets lobbed into Israel by Hezbollah and beheadings of Christian school girls in Indonesia and so on, ad infinitum, were not instances of militant Islamic rage, I suppose, just high spirits? I don’t know what the Chasers are supposed to be chasing, but it looks like they’ve spent most of the year using their heads as suppositories. When you get tired of that particular view, boys, you might try casting a glance at the real world in the full light of day.
The Evil Mask of the Left slips a little once again??
twin scourges of Islamic extremism and the Bush administration
Yeah, just think of the evil symbolism of a giant US Nuclear Carrier rushing to the aid of the Moslem Tsunami victims and then being upstaged by the UN officials who used US offshore hospitality for their sightseeing tour…
Will the USA’s tentacles never retract??
the Chasers comic review of 2006 on Beaconsfield Mine saga
‘At the time of WorkChoices, Shorten’s presence was a powerful reminder that unions could still provide great benefits to their members’
-comedy gold (Seinfeld better watch his back)
‘By the end of the 14-day saga, Shorten was offered ALP preselection, was being touted as a possible leader’
Terry Lane would be proud of the boys- Shorten was preselected and being touted as a possible leader long before beaconsfield
you’d think the cynical way the ABC and the usual suspects turned a tragedy/story of survival into the bill shorten show would be something to satirize but i guess these talentless taxpayer funded schmucks are’nt going to bite the hand that feeds them- better just to tow the ABC/ALP line.
Posted by eeniemeenie on 2006 12 31 at 08:09 PM • permalink
The Chaser is disappointing. Their reference to Tim merely shows who really has the cajones.
These idiots from the Chaser should try to do the comedy that they do here in Saudi Arabia or Iran.
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2006 12 31 at 09:03 PM • permalink
“These idiots from the Chaser should try to do the comedy that they do here in Saudi Arabia or Iran.”
I should correct myself. If you can call it comedy….
Posted by The Best Infidel on 2006 12 31 at 09:05 PM • permalink
The images were first published in Australia on Tim Blair’s blog; disappointingly, he was not among the casualties.
Sounds like a Blairhad.
Are Chaser seriously suggesting that Tim Blair should have been murdered for linking to the cartoons? Is this supposed to be funny? Are they trying to be satirical or clever? How would they suggest the Blairster should have been demised?Yet again, brainless idiot leftys have a lethal weapon. A platform. From which they can diplay to the entire world their warped and seriously dangerous thinking.
And here was silly me thinking that perhaps some of this lunatic lefty thinking might be attenuated a bit in 2007.
Like Donald Rumsfeld, I have even shaken the dictator’s soft, damp hand.
And unlike Rumsfeld, he did nothing to impede or stop the dictator.
Rumsfeld: One
Fisk: ZeroPosted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 01 01 at 02:48 AM • permalink
Damn! How’d that post get in this thread? Oh well, everyone please pretend it’s germane, olay?
Posted by Steve Skubinna on 2007 01 01 at 02:50 AM • permalink
The difference between humor and a clumsy attempt at snark.