Um, wow. Not that the statement is incorrect, but…um.

Expains a lot

He’s got legs! He knows how to use them.

That’s harsh, man, just plain harsh. And cold. Harsh and cold.

“Mein Fuhrer! I can walk!”

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh
I gots no legs no legs no legs
i gots no legs no legs no legs

neocons = panhandler on the subway from Kids.

Oh, I got two legs from my waist to the ground, and
When I move ’em they walk around, and
When I lift ’em they climb the stairs, and
When I shave ’em they ain’t got hairs

ooops. sorry Kraphammer.

¿Donde esta Pamela?

Ohhhhh, now you’ve done it.

Whoops. Might be duck-and-cover time.

My understanding is you can’t swing a dead cat in Diyala province without hitting a couple of severed legs. I mean, if you needed a couple, the place is LOUSY with ’em.

Just sayin…

mikey

Oooooh, they’re gonna give you such a pinch!

Kraphammer will be on Bill O’Reilly tonight, telling about how you lied us into an unwinnable war…

giant sammich plz. kthxbye

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When do the trading cards come out? I want to collect the whole set!

I guess we can look forward to a visit by piny and Zuzu’s PC brigade now.

Way to go, Gav – it’s been civil around here for way too fucking long.

is it me or have Marie Jon’ and Josh Trevino between them started over 55 different websites?

This is an insult to all people who have undergone therapeutic or traumatic amputations.
2 million people in the US live with limb loss. 100K per year undergo amputations in the US. It takes a lot of courage and determination to continue living a relatively normal life after amputation. I work with them and I have to tell you that they are mostly NOT disingenuous assholes.

Gavin, you should be ashamed. This is over the top.
Educate yourself about their stories – these are some brave people.

Yes, you should be ashamed.

Perhaps if you tried walking through a mall like Charles Krauthammer.

Well, not walk, exactly.

It’s also an insult to these fine people.

Wait, is “insult” the right word?

No. No, I think I meant “turn-on”.

Carry on, then.

It’s also an insult to these fine people.

Wait, is “insult” the right word?

No. No, I think I meant “turn-on”.
. . .

The next sexual deviance to bring down a Republican official.

It takes a lot of courage and determination to continue living a relatively normal life after amputation. I work with them and I have to tell you that they are mostly NOT disingenuous assholes.

Of course not, but Krauthammer is a malevolent and dangerous person. We’re talking about Krauthammer, not others who share physical characteristics with him.

Maybe he hates humanity because he’s an asshole.

Maybe he hates humanity because he’s an asshole.

Well, yeah. Still, nobody said anything when I photoshopped him as Dr. Strangelove.

Hey, I was doing LOLcons way back in “the day”

http://www.drunkduck.com/Taking_Stock/?p=231174

I work with them and I have to tell you that they are mostly NOT disingenuous assholes.

I think this is the tip that it’s a sarcastic comment.

Still, nobody said anything when I photoshopped him as Dr. Strangelove.

No complaints there: Strangelove was creepy Nazi first, and the physical similarity is simply, uh, wonderful.

“I can has prastetick legs”?

I

No complaints there: Strangelove was creepy Nazi first, and the physical similarity is simply, uh, wonderful.

…Or when I photoshopped Richard Widmark pushing him down the stairs in a screenshot from ‘Kiss of Death.’

I should just keep my mouth shut now, I know.

As someone who has actively participated in the destruction and traumatic removal of limbs, not to mention the tying off of the tourniquet and trying to prevent the guy from looking at the ragged stump AND having to police up the chunks of people after the shooting stopped, I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say that making a comment about the physdis of a warmongering pro death monster like krapmallet is not only totally within the bounds, but is indeed an honorable action.

People who espouse the kind of madness and suspension of civilized behaviors that he does are not in a position to get hurt when somebody throws one at their earhole.

mikey

Indeed Bubba.
Gavin, what would you think of a LOL caption about Alan Keyes that read “I hate whitey fagboyz cause I is a black’?
Same category of insult.
You hit my big red button.

“I can walk!”

yada yada yada yada, dropped brief case, hilarity, teh funny, running around, guns.

“Is there a problem officers?”

Gavin, what would you think of a LOL caption about Alan Keyes that read “I hate whitey fagboyz cause I is a black’?

See, this is weird. In one thread I’m being attacked for being a puritanical liberal speech-censor with no sense of humor, and in the other I’m trying to figure out how to explain the Krauthammer caption so it doesn’t seem like I’m callously making fun of handicapped people.

What would I think of a Keyes caption like that? It wouldn’t be funny, because it doesn’t try to get at the essence of Keyes. It renders him as ‘that black guy.’ Offensive, unfunny.

You’re going to ask how the Krauthammer is different, and I’ll have to try to express that it’s probably true that Krauthammer is embittered because of his accident, and is very dangerous because of what he’s become.

I’m ashamed to read this on a liberal blog. Just as bad if not worse than rethuglican behavior. wow. take it down. making fun of a quadrapalegic is dispicable.

Gavin, a crazy guy spewing spittle – flecked nonsense while trying to make a point he never quite understood himself hardly qualifies as an attack.

On the other hand, you’re gonna catch some flak for this one ’cause there always seems to be people who want to internalize that kind of thing.

Didn’t we just get a lesson a dozen threads back or so about the concept of mens rea? It’s perfectly clear what your intent was, and for that matter, what it was not. If people want to come here and police your humor, there’s not a great deal you can do about it, but as far as I’m concerned you don’t have to defend yourself or your humanity…

mikey

You’re going to ask how the Krauthammer is different, and I’ll have to try to express that it’s probably true that Krauthammer is embittered because of his accident, and is very dangerous because of what he’s become.

I think that kind of reasoning demands a god-like surety on the part of the joker and his audience that each will take each other correctly, and in Krauthammer’s case enough people think like him that his shitty thoughts aren’t obviously the result of a crippling injury, so even in joke form the equation demands some thought that I think is not up to par.

It’s a cliché that a flawed body equals a flawed morality, and it’s one I’m not opposed to for the making of myths – any number of movies have some obese or scarred villain and those faults really work in some cases – but I don’t think it worked out this time.

I confess I would probably find it funny if I saw a sketch about, say, Krauthammer having a grasping tool for unreachably high items made from the bones of Iraqi children, so obviously I’m not quite sure where my line lies. Greasing his wheels with the fat of muslim women? A ramp up to his doorstep on a foundation of skulls?

Well, Mikey, it’s one thing when people you don’t know come flying through and say they’re offended by something, but it’s another when it’s people whose opinions you value.

I guess I ought to take the flak. Actually, perversely, every caption I can think of to tone it down ends up being even worse.

“O Ya? How duz UR mother dance?”

Because there’s something about Krauthammer and the wheelchair that’s essential to his presence. It’s not that he’s handicapped; it’s something about the way he wears it, his personal mannerisms.

Because there’s something about Krauthammer and the wheelchair that’s essential to his presence. It’s not that he’s handicapped; it’s something about the way he wears it, his personal mannerisms.

I agree, although AVENGIN UR KLINGHOFFER would also be in exceptionally poor taste.

“IM ON UR FLOORZ LEAVIN BLACK MARKS”…

Nah, that’s not it either.

I’ll pop it into photoshop and find something…

There, how’s that?

I have to admit, I’m amused by the new caption. I wasn’t particularly offended by the old — perhaps I’ve become that angry at a warmongering freak whose sense of empathy had was long burned out on — I don’t know. There’s something cold and freakish about his assessments that mass death of brown people doesn’t count.

Or something.

so, not sarcastic then. new one is funny too.

Did anyone complain when you photoshopped in with Bette Davis in “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”?

I thought we’d been over this Gavin. Don’t engage the sensitivity cops. Just let them “tsk, tsk” and bathe in their moral superiority until they get their nut.

Don’t engage the sensitivity cops.

Gawd I hope I’m not them and Gavin can do exactly what he likes at all times, providing he abides by the Uniform Code Of Hitlery Justice or whatever I’m told it is over in that other thread.

I did think of one that confuses me:

LETS ROOL ROLL

I has invisible parrot on mai shoulder

Is heavy

Krauthammer: “LET’S ROLL!”

That’s more evil than mine, dude. You’re so complicit now.

sweet jesus ‘let’s roll’ is funny.

I’m going to go out on a limb (ha, ha) and admit that I liked the other one better.

I’m going to go out on a limb (ha, ha) and admit that I liked the other one better.

Well, some were like, ‘funny as a crutch, dude.’

If only Krauthammer would pose with some grinning people, like at some foundation event or something, my Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch dreams would come true.

That’s more evil than mine, dude.

What? I meant like, uh, photoshop a Tootsie Roll in there and uh, well…

See, When I see people like Kraphammer, I think of John Callahan.

John Callahan became a quadraplegic as a result of a drunken driving accident, with himself as the drunk. He eventually became a biting cartoonist, and people with disabilities are often the target of his cartoon (two cowboys in wheelchairs. One says “this town ain’t accessible enough for the both of us!”)

Berke Breathed did wonderful work making jokes about Cutter John’s disabilities. “I ran over his toes. Twice” gets me rolling (heh) every time.

See, it’s not ridiculing the PEOPLE with disabilities, it’s ridiculing the human response to the disability. And yes, making a joke about the disability, like you might make a joke about someone’s large feet (see Dysfyunctional Family Circus, Marfan Syndrome).

All we’re saying, is Kraphammer is an malignant asshole with large feet.

(sigh) I guess sometimes, some folks can’t see anything but some hypothetical insult to some imaginary granfalloon.

As George Carlin says, “Rape isn’t funny. But you can make a joke about it.”

My name is Inigo Montoya. You insulted my granfalloon. Prepare to die.

Lollerz

I was at some film-festival premiere for Jesus is Magic and Sarah Silverman was there to take questions. Some fat person asked why there weren’t any jokes about fat people when she’d offended everyone else. She said “Because they’re sensitive.”

See, I always that Krauthammer’s problem was Parkinsons, so given all the “jokes” made by Con favorites at the expense of Michael J. Fox — not to mention Janet Reno — his own disability was fair game.

Or maybe I’m just evil. Because Gavin’s new caption is pretty good but my first thought was

CANNOT KICK PUPPIES NOW
MUST ABUSE HUMANS INSTEAD

The original was funnier. Now if you’ll excuse me I have a strange craving for the dollar menu that must be sated.

Krauthammer gives me the effing willies. TEH CREEEEEEEPY!

What was the original caption again?

I’m wondering that m’self. Stupid forbidden fruit and the perceived sweetness of its juices.

I got one, though:

ROTFLMAO

Except the L is for lying.

I great gazoogled this, but couldn’t find it, so I took it upon myself to fill the void.

Don’t know if anyone will look at this thread anymore, but….

That’s awesome.