By Chrissy the Hyphenated
- Autumn 2008, the “Vote Obama” election issue
- February 2009, when MAD lurved Obama
- March 2010, when MAD unfriended Obama
- April 2011, when MAD published an Obama Slam Book
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Me and Dearest splurged $6 whole bucks on the current issue of MAD to get the two pages of the presidents feature for our scrapbook. But after we looked at the rest of the magazine, we thought what a shame we don’t have any pet birds. It’s in the recycle.
Neither of us has looked at a MAD in eons. We recall it being fairly 12-year-old boy juvenile … fart jokes and such. Now it’s very political and, from what I could discern, targeted at chronically unemployed, male drop-outs living in their moms’ basements with their Che posters and pot plants, which they carefully nurture under grow lights.
MAD was high on Obummer in 2008 and 2009. Now, he’s the jerk who couldn’t deliver on their ultra left wet dream of a Nanny State that would send losers like them monthly welfare checks, food stamps and free health care so they could afford their own pads without having to get jobs.
For example, they hate Christians, Republicans and Sarah Palin (even though they think she’s hot). They also kinda hate Buddhists, but don’t have much to say about Muslims, the cowards. And they think babies are gross and parents are stupid. (Did I mention the basement?)
Based on their obvious attachments to 60s things like the Beetles and Laugh-In, I have to wonder what they will do when their aged mothers die and those Social Security checks stop.
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I think this cover came out a month after his inauguration….LOL
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Oops, I inadvertently deleted the part of my post that linked to this and two other MAD graphics.
Falling off the Obama train – MAD magazine
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How far the comic of my youth has fallen. Do they still have “spy vs spy”, my fav.
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Yes. This edition the black guy was stealing plans to some device and got shut into it. The white guy was laughing at him through the window and pointed for black to read the plans, which said, “Giant microwave.” Then white turned on the machine and black splattered all over. I thought it was really creepy.
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I haven’t read MAD in decades, but when I was a little kid I used to sneak my big brother’s copies out of his room and read them when he wasn’t around. Some of the artists, cartoonists, and caricaturists they had back then were very funny and talented. The movie and TV show parodies were often very clever, even insightful on occasion. Some of the articles they ran presupposed a rather high level of cultural literacy in their readers; I can still recall one exceptionally clever one that had a number of famous pieces of poetry, each one re-written in the style of a different poet. These were literary heavyweights like Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Carl Sandburg, Matthew Arnold, John Donne, etc. The piece would have meant nothing to the reader unless he or she was familiar not only with the poems, but with the distinct individual style of each poet, because the humor came from taking a poem by one and imagining what it would have been like if it had been written by a different poet. I’m sure they never run anything even remotely like that nowadays, because their target audience would not even know (much less care) who any of those dead white male poets were, and the humor would be totally lost on them.
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Wowe Chrissy! I just got around to doing a little catching up. WHAT AN EFFORT and success on the Media Bias. HOWEVER DO YOU DO SUCH AWESOME WORK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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aw garsh ::grindingtoeintocarpet::
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