SURRENDER MONKEYS

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I know someone started a thread about New York Post covers but I don't know how to search the sandbox

anyhow today's is a classic

http://www.drudgereport.com/nyp.jpg

― dmr (dmr), Thursday, 7 December 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

give up the funk

http://www.asuwebdevil.com/images/issues/584ys4m6.jpg

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 7 December 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

(a) sub-par Simpsons reference inappropriate to audience
(b) blunt cut-and-paste aesthetic is good choice, but they still could have lined up heads better
(c) headline accuracy is basically 0%
(d) thread I started on this topic forever findable via unique term "increadingly"

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

(e) gotta have that funk

― Mr. Que (Party with me Punker), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link

water on mars!

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

(f) linguistic side-question: doesn't the term "surrender" suggest that you're actually surrendering a thing, like land or soldiers? not that i want this kind of specificity from the Post -- it would be really pointless then -- and not that you can't call people "surrender monkeys" in theory, like as assessments of their character, having nothing to do with the situation in progress, but ... you know, abandoning a military offensive is just "giving up," and ceasing to lend troops to what you claim as a sovereign democratic government is just, like, "cutting aid."

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

cheese eaters wear mouse ears!

http://media.salemwebnetwork.com/TownHall/Car/b/lb1208cd.jpg

http://media.salemwebnetwork.com/TownHall/Car/b/payn061210.jpg

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

are all editorial cartoonists completely idiotic?

― deep space nine (deep space nine), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link

(c) headline accuracy is basically 0%

the combination of ballsy audacity and wild inaccuracy gives the very best Post covers that special "wtf" quality

― dmr (dmr), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:26 (seventeen years ago) link

also it's totally a basement jaxx video

http://www.astralwerks.com/basementjaxx/wyha/grfx/wyha_still.jpg

― dmr (dmr), Thursday, 7 December 2006 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

also, your fave pundit weighs in on "Operation Surrender", referring to 1939 Poland in the 2nd sentence, before ejecting the premise entirely by the fourth paragraph to spend to the rest of the column ranting on about Matt Lauer questioning Bush about torture, an event that happened three months ago.

The final sentence of the column proposes that we ask "our new friends Iran & Syria" about their torture methods, apparently forgetting the fact that we've been flying folks over to Syria to be tortured for the last 5 years. But hey, why let shit like that get in the way?

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 7 December 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I read this headline as containing a comma that it doesn't.

SURRENDER, MONKEYS

Which makes exactly the same amount of sense as the intended meaning, actually.

― franny (frannyglass), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:44 (seventeen years ago) link

isn't the new york post the one owned by moonies?

― Sandbox Scourage (Scourage), Saturday, 9 December 2006 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

No, it's owned by Rupert Murdoch.

The Moonies own the Washington Times.

― milo (milo), Saturday, 9 December 2006 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

No wonder the administration is in such a shambles what with Baker sliding around the place with his big nametag on sneaking up on people and handing them backwards memos.

― walterkranz (walterkranz), Saturday, 9 December 2006 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

fun with the NY Post breathlessly reporting on its own "shocking"/"provactive" front page.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Tuesday, 12 December 2006 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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