I Smell a Mole!
I’ll be back to do a Renew America Round-Up a little later, but I think one of our readers has successfully infiltrated their ranks. Check out the opening to this column, written by a man known only as “Paul S.”:
The U.S. population must be separated into two categories: the Americans and those foreigners that have entered since 1965. Immigration policy since 1965 has not followed the democratic process of by and for the people. Rather, immigration policy has been a series anti-American decrees with the goal of making the white American people unemployed. This accounts for the tens of millions of illegal Mexicans, South Americans, Asians, Indians and Arabs, the terrorist activities and high crime rates, as well as the massive American unemployment rate.
I’m not sure how 5% could be considered “massive” by any standard, especially when you consider the unemployment rate for white people (the only ones whom Mr. S. really cares about anyway) is a paltry 4.3%.
Here’s how the column concludes:
Foreigners in America beware! Someday our patience will end, and then the despicable, lying mouths of you foreigners and corrupt politicians will be closed forever.
This is just too good to be true- veiled death threats? Only Debbie Daniel is that kooky. C’mon, folks, ‘fess up- which one of you wrote this? You can e-mail me personally if you don’t wanna put it in the comments.
I did it!
I just checked this guy’s IP address to see if it was Yosef or Marq playing tricks, but I’ve never seen it before. I guess it’s the real Stanton Carlilse 😉
Errr…aren’t the politicians that he’s making barely veiled threats against the ones that he and his cronies voted into office?
Of course I’m the real Stanton Carlisle, you liberal twits!
Errr…aren’t the politicians that he’s making barely veiled threats against the ones that he and his cronies voted into office?
Sadly, Yes!
All furrin-lookin peepul = furrin
All white folks = not furrin
Great, glad we got that sorted out.
Wonder what the First Nations people think about this.
“Foreigners in America beware! Someday our patience will end, and then the despicable, lying mouths of you foreigners and corrupt politicians will be closed forever.”
The dude’s talking like Rorschach.
“Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire thread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout “Save us!”… and I’ll look down, and whisper “No.”
If some psycho in a mask and trench coat starts going around breaking peoples’ thumbs, Paul S. would be a likely suspect.
Why 1965? I say 1865 would make more sense.
I’m Brian, and so’s my wife!
The dude’s talking like Rorschach.
Hey! Who’s the WATCHMEN fan? That’s like the second-best comic series ever (after SANDMAN).
Look at the bright side of his plan: Ah-nold will have to shut his lying mouth forever! No more lame “girly-men” jokes.
Watchmen>Sandman. By a considerable margin.
As for the column under discussion…man, most of them at least feel some compunction to *pretend* to be something other than unreconstructed racists. Crikey.
Dammit. That was me.
I started working on a non plus wacko column, but gave up. I think an additional level of difficulty could be added by having plants use an acrostic in the body of their essay: Some Americans Deny Life You Notice, Observe. Thinking of a good acrostic is actually pretty much where I stopped trying, but even the above bizarre syntax is par for the wingnut course, so I’m sure someone can get away with it. Other suggested initials: BOG, BAGE, and ADAMYOSHIDA.
GeoX- Sandman gets credit for lasting longer than twelve issues. Plus, it had niftier artwork.
I vote for 1665,
My town would be here, but with much less traffic.
Watchmen was a limied series. It wasn’t supposed to last more than 12 issues.
But I agree that Sandman was better.
As a former North Carolinian, I can give “Paul S.” credit for one thing — Robin Hayes is a nutcase. He makes Jesse Helms look caring & compassionate.
There was a very good graphic novel adaptation (done by 70’s underground comic legend Spain Rodriguez) of the book _Nightmare Alley_. Nightmare Alley’s lead character is… Stanton Carlisle.
I’ll grant you the artwork, but Watchmen only NEEDED to last twelve issues–it was (I assume) designed that way from the start. I love Sandman in its own right, but for me, it lacked that kind of concentrated narrative power, and the final denouement, imo, was kind of weak. Furthermore, as much as I love the Endless, is there really a Sandman character as compelling as Rorschach? I don’t think so.
I’m not trying to derail the discussion, I promise…
Searching the RenewAmerica message boards, we soon learn that the group adheres to Paulism. Searching “paul” produces 134 hits while searching “jesus” produces 129.
http://www.renewamerica.us/forum/search.php?q=jesus&m=1
http://www.renewamerica.us/forum/search.php?q=paul&m=1
I’ll grant you the artwork, but Watchmen only NEEDED to last twelve issues–it was (I assume) designed that way from the start.
Yeah, but my point was as an overall series, Neil Gaiman had more gas in the tank than Alan Moore (and as far as creatively mixing in mythology with pulp horror… well, it was just more of my cup-o-tea I guess).
I was really drunk and lonely the other night, and I thought if I wrote something like that I could get hooked up on hannidate. My bad.
Yeah, but my point was as an overall series, Neil Gaiman had more gas in the tank than Alan Moore[…]
Ahh, bunk! In the late ’80s, for instance, Moore revived an old, ’50s-era superhero book in Britain, Marvelman. When re-published in the states, it was re-titled Miracleman due to Marvel Comics’ objection to the original title. After a fairly lengthy run, Moore passed the writing chores over to Gaiman, who was an up-and-coming star at that point (Sandman had begun, but was still fairly early in its run).
For whatever reason, Gaiman’s take on the character was significantly weaker than Moore’s, lacking much of the wild innovation that Moore had introduced. Coincidentally, the publisher came under increasing financial pressures, and the book sorta petered-out. It was no great loss by that point.
Comparing a limited maxi-series like Watchmen that is designed from the beginning to be a set number of issues to an ongoing comic, like Sandman was, is rather pointless, as the comic will inevitably have weak issues or whole storylines that are sub-par, as indeed Sandman did have (all too often, as I recall).
Just as an aside, recently, a movie adaptation of Watchmen had made it all the way to pre-production before Paramount got cold feet and pulled the plug. Probably just as well, since as yet, no one has made a good adaptation of an Alan Moore comic. This fall’s “V for Vendetta” looks somewhat promising, though. As to how they’re going to market a movie in which the “hero” blows up the British Parliament is beyond me…
Meanwhile, Gaiman and long-time Sandman cover artist Dave McKean have made an original film due out this fall, Mirrormask. It looks like a McKean painting brought to life, which is… creepy.
Marq- Ever read the first Death limited series?
I’m way too lazy to write something like that.
I wonder if Paul S. is Mr. Smith?
Ever read the first Death limited series?
Yes. It was pretty good. Benefitted from the better-than-average-for-Sandman art by Chris Bachalo. I sort dropped out of reading comix shortly thereafter, around the late ’90s. I forget if I saw the last few Sandmans-I had lost most of my interest in it by then. These days, I’m only picking up a few titles, ‘cos they ain’t cheap any more. So I’ve mostly lost sight of what Moore, Gaiman, Morrison, Ennis, et all are up to these days, if anything. I’m mostly reading stuff penned by J. Michael Straczynski, creator of the TV show Babylon 5, ‘cos he amuses me. He doesn’t tend to do stuff as ground-breaking as Moore & the other Brits-Ennis’ Enigma was one of my favorites, for obvious reasons-but he’s a solid, straightforward storyteller.
Oh, why make me decide between Moore and Gaiman? Might as well ask me to choose my favourite among the stars of the sky.