I ran into a girl at a bar on trivia night whose boyfriend had just broken up with her via text message. She was set to move to California to live with him in a few weeks. So I drew her this, which was my only contribution to our trivia team other than being the only person in the bar who could name the daily newspaper in Indianapolis.
You think Kanye West is as big of an egotistical douchebag as one can get. Until you run in to George Bush claiming Kanye’s dissing during Hurricane Katrina was the worst moment of his presidency. When softly prodded by weak sauce interviewers Oprah and Matt Lauer on Iraq and the response to Katrina, Bush gives the same defiant, canned answers he always has and ends with, “well, you’ll have to read the book.” The only time he really seemed to get emotional was talking about Kanye. Lauer and Oprah eat that stuff up like crack. How did that make you feel?
You have to apologize for things on television now so we can all collectively experience and tweet about it, so Kanye went on The Today Show for that.
After giving a long, rambling answer and appearing kind of vulnerable, Lauer kept pressing in hopes of getting him to cry or make an outrageous statement that could go viral for two hours and make him seem relevant. After he tried to explain himself some more, Lauer rolled tape of Bush saying Kanye’s comments upset him and urged him to “look at his face.”
Now that’s good television.
I guess Lauer was really concerned with Bush getting an apology. Too bad during that interview Lauer didn’t roll tape of Iraqis who had their lives torn apart by Bush’s pointless war and urge him to look in their eyes and apologize.
So there was a video going around Monday of a guy telling a TSA employee not to grab his junk after he opted out of the body scanner.
This CNN clip shows the video, but it’s the banter between anchors at the end that I love. They can’t conceive of why anyone would have a problem with this. Of course we have to have full body scanners and if you don’t want that then of course they need see if that’s a banana in your pocket or if you are just happy to see a TSA inspector with rubber gloves. Don’t you remember the underwear bomber?
The amount of time collectively wasted having us walk through scanners and take off our shoes because of two failed bomb plots could have been used to build a web of trans-continental maglev trains. Which is why this comic will come true.
If only we could get back to the way things were.
Wednesday: Kanye’s Sorry
I did a cartoon for the Phoenix’s Ski and Snowboard pullout, and it’s online now.
I’m still in Philly, but I’ll be heading back to Boston next week. Say what you will about the Boston accent, but at least we pronounce the word water correctly.
If only Keith Olbermann had incorporated and added his political donations to the mountains of cash dumped into campaign coffers, he probably wouldn’t have violated any ethics rules at NBC. As August pointed out this week, the network lacks decent standards on a number of other levels as well.
Great effort is made in politics and journalism to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, as opposed to actual interests being conflicted. Journalists like Bob Woodward love to tout symbolic fact that they bring their daughter into the voting booth with them to cast their vote, as they are above such biased activities.
Also, Bush has a new book out and I wanted to throw him in there. You may have heard he was very upset with what Kayne had to say about him during Hurricane Katrina. Truly unfair for him to have to suffer such an indignity while citizens of New Orleans floated dead on the streets of America.
Republicans will be doing nothing over the next two years except trying make Barack Obama a one term president. He seems eager to work with them on that.
Last week I was in Pittsburgh and did this comic with Rob Rogers.
