Iowahawk rounds up Fort Hood headlines
Thursday November 12, 2009
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Iowa Hawk is King.
I crack up every time Sean Hannity praises the "tea-baggers."
Does he not know what teabagging is?
Of course, I also laugh when I hear "Santorum."
The measure of Iowahawk's skill is that he was able to satirize the New York Times, which I thought no longer possible.
It's no longer possible to go for the easy "women and minorities hit hardest" easy layup any longer, after all.
Hello Sj,
Actually, Brian's post notably targeted mostly opinion or intellectual journals, whereas Iowahawk satirized only news outlets. The point being that I think we all expect opinion outlets to have opinions - but we expect something else from news outlets.
Hello Athelstane-
Actually, I'm reminded of an article I read many, many years ago, shortly after the National Lampoon was started in 1970. The editors of the NL were interviewed and described an encounter they had with the Mad magazine staff. According to them, the Mad staff couldn't understand why the Lampoon produced versions of what they were parodying that looked exactly like the original. The Mad guys didn't see the humor in spot-on renditions of the originals --- they didn't think it was funny unless it was twisted into a gross distortion of its target. I think Iowahawk has the same blind spot.
I would add that the Lampoon satires of the 1970s, spearheaded by P.J. O'Rourke, who I had followed since he was an "underground" paper editor in my own hometown, did a whole lot to take down the leftist pablum of that era by its very accurate rendition of the tone and substance that was being purveyed without having to reach for obvious exaggeration. Brian achieved that --- Iowahawk did not.
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