The tsunami disaster as reported by FOX

[maxudargo]

I already created this thread once, but somebody suggested I give it a different, more descriptive title, add a couple of the comic graphics, and post it again.





















The rest of it can be found here: http://www.udargo.com/burton/Tsunami/

[babylonsister]

1. Ouch! I don't watch them at all, but GOOD JOB!

This WILL be forwarded!

[maxudargo]

6. You know...

I never watch them or anybody else, but I happened to catch a few minutes of their coverage of the disaster earlier in the week while I was at the gym. That inspired this little satire.

[Uzybone]

2. Dont forget the "stingy" story

Wahhhhh....they called us stingy!!!! Wahhhhh!!!!

[gnofg]

7. self serving

What was funny is that the U.N. representative said"all" rich countries and the republicans true to nature only thought of themselves. They are the biggest whiners I have ever seen and everything centers around themselves. What is really funny is Sweden has pledged twice as much as us and England 3 times as much

[maxudargo]

9. Yeah! That's what I thought!

The guy never mentioned the US specifically, did he? And he was responding to a question about assistance in general.

But he sure hit a nerve with the Republicans. Hm.

[gnofg]

15. weaklings

My Dad suffered from real prejuduce growing up. He wasn't allowed to swim in the public pools in St. Louis. He never complained. Can you see a weakling like Hannity dealing with someting like this. He would cry.

[Bluzmann57]

25. Your dad has my admiration

You say he never complained. A tough old bird who deserves our respect and admiration. A sissy like hannity would crap his drawers as he cried.

[babylonsister]

26. Can I see your links for those figures?

I heard totally different numbers, but also realize they're always changing.

[tyne]

3. good job

Very very good.

Tyne

[area51]

50. Welcome.

Welcome to DU, Tyne.

[FarLeftRage]

4. ROTFLMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Very accurate... INDEED!

[jonnyblitz]

5. wow that is GOOD!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Old and In the Way]

8. This is outstanding stuff.

You caught the essence of Faux. Well done!

[politicaholic]

10. Hilarious...

Great Job!

[maxudargo]

11. Thanks for all the positive comments.

I spent about two days working on this, and when I posted it before and it didn't get too much response, idiosyncratic suggested I post it again with a different title. I'm grateful to him/her for the suggestion. I'm glad it's entertaining somebody besides myself.

[bpilgrim]

75. that was brilliant!

and the tickers were hilarious, too!

thank you :toast:

peace

[maxudargo]

76. Dude...

Are you billypilgrimz from RT? Or am I just assuming the net is a smaller place than it really is...

[bpilgrim]

77. just an evil DU'er ;->

:hi:

peace

[maxudargo]

86. Hm.

I guess that answers the question. I guess.

[TrustingDog]

87. absolutely-brilliant-right-on-the-mark!

and did I mention you're awesome?

thanks so much for reposting - I missed the original.

[brainshrub]

12. This is great!

I love the message bars: "Clinton Still Horney" LOL!

[AllyCat]

13. Good Work!

This is terrific. I rarely watch them, but everytime someone has it on...that is precisely how they report everything.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

14. maxudargo - You are twisted and evil.....

My kinda humor!
:wow: HAAHAAA! :wow: HAAHAA! :wow: HAAHAA!

Kudos - This one gets shared with all me buds!

[lewiston]

16. Kick

Ha! Ha!

[jimshoes]

17. Bwahaaa

LOL The subtitles are really good too.

[mcscajun]

18. Great conceptually...but why, oh why did you have to use Jefferson Smith?

It pained me to see the hero of "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" made into a Fox Stooge.

[maxudargo]

21. I know...

I love that movie. Jefferson is one of the key characters in these strips because I can get so many good screenshots of him with so many different expressions and emotions on his face from the fillibuster scenes. It's good because he has the same suit and hairstyle the whole time, so I can usually find something I need and match it with other shots. Of course, sometimes I need to comb his hair and give him a shave...

Kudos for recognizing him, but does anybody know where Burton is from? Another great film, but not as well known.

[idiosyncratic]

36. I'm ignorant. Who is Burton? n/t

[maxudargo]

37. Oh, come on

It takes all the fun out of it if I just tell you.

[idiosyncratic]

38. Just a little hint . . .

:kick:

[maxudargo]

40. Ok. He's Russian.

[idiosyncratic]

43. Burton doesn't sound like a Russian name . . .

:kick:

[maxudargo]

45. I don't think it is a Russian name

In fact, you may be right, he may not be Russian. I hadn't really considered that. But he speaks Russian, and he appears to live in Russia.

But I guess the clue would be that he was in a Russian film. A Russian film from the Soviet era.

[idiosyncratic]

I don't think I've ever seen a Russian film from the Soviet era

So, I don't feel ignorant anymore. :)


Except when I can't type and have to edit my post. :dunce:

[maxudargo]

55. Ok, I never tell people

...for some reason. Perverse pleasure at their frustration, I guess. But I owe you and I was just asking a guy where the name "Agador Spartacus" came from because it was driving me crazy, so I'll just tell you. Burton is a character from the wonderful 1972 Tarkovsky film "Solaris." It was recently re-made as an American film starring George Clooney, but the original is very different. Burton does not appear in the remake, but he plays a prominent role in the first act of the Tarkovsky version.

If you've never seen any Soviet era films, I highly recommend anything by Tarkovsky. They're art films and require some patience and effort, but they pay off big if you can get into them.

So Burton's just this freaked out astronaut from "Solaris." The actor who played him had very large eyes, but I used Photoshop to make them even a litte bigger. I wanted his eyes to be as big as mine.

[idiosyncratic]

61. Thanks . . . and I did know who Agador was so I feel better. :-)

My favorite character in a movie I didn't like very much. I like Hank Azaria almost as much as I like Keith Olbermann . . . :loveya:

[CatWoman]

19. Damn, you're talented

this is so damn funny.

However, I must issue a correction here: a tsunami is NOT a tidal wave.

They are two different phenomena.

[maxudargo]

24. I didn't know that

What's the difference? And would anybody at FOX News know it?

[babylonsister]

29. Here tis. Tsumanis...

Tsunami comes from the Japanese tsu (harbor) and nami (wave). Appropriate naming, as some 80 percent of all tsunamis occur in the Pacific Ocean and Japan has suffered many, some coming from as far away as South America. Tsunamis are often incorrectly called tidal waves, but tides have nothing to do with them (though the damage may be worse if a tsunami hits at high tide).

A tsunami (pronounced tsoo-nah-mee) is a wave train, or series of waves, generated in a body of water by an impulsive disturbance that vertically displaces the water column. Earthquakes, landslides, volcanic eruptions, explosions, and even the impact of cosmic bodies, such as meteorites, can generate tsunamis. Tsunamis can savagely attack coastlines, causing devastating property damage and loss of life.

Tsunamis are unlike wind-generated waves, which many of us may have observed on a local lake or at a coastal beach, in that they are characterized as shallow-water waves, with long periods and wave lengths. The wind-generated swell one sees at a California beach, for example, spawned by a storm out in the Pacific and rhythmically rolling in, one wave after another, might have a period of about 10 seconds and a wave length of 150 m. A tsunami, on the other hand, can have a wavelength in excess of 100 km and period on the order of one hour.

http://www.crystalinks.com/tsunami.html

[maxudargo]

30. Thanks

But...even though "tidal wave" is a misnomer, since it has nothing to do with tides, doesn't the term "tidal wave" refer to the same thing as a tsunami? Is there a different phenomenon to which "tidal wave" applies?

[Phoebe_in_Sydney]

73. You're right about the tsunami/ tidal wave thing

But it's just the sort of sloppiness with the facts that you'd expect on Fox anyway. Tsunami sounds like a furriners word anyhoo so Fox would be suspicious of it.

The cartoon is brilliant. I got "OutFoxed" on DVD for Christmas and just watched it so I'm just in the mood for some clever Fox spoofing.

I'm forwarding now to my Fox-hating aussie friends.

[idiosyncratic]

20. Excellent, excellent, excellent! n/t

[maxudargo]

22. Thanks again

See, your advice worked!

[idiosyncratic]

28. Glad to be of service . . .

:loveya:

[Redneck Socialist]

23. this one gets bookmarked!

Too fucking funny. Good job!

[apple_ridge]

27. Fking brilliant!!!!

[MattBaggins]

31. You should contact symbolman

and see if he can turn your idea into a flash animation.

[maxudargo]

32. Who is symbolman?

Does he have super powers?

[ConsAreLiars]

79. Symbolman is

a genius. See http://www.tbtmradio.com/geeklog/public_html/search.php?query=flash+symbolman&keyType=all&datestart=&dateend=&topic=0&type=all&author=0&mode=search for more about what he does.

[maxudargo]

83. Thanks

Checked out some of his Flash movies. Good stuff. Knows how to use Pink Floyd music.

[theboss]

33. Now that's funny

Well done, sir. Well done.

[canuckforpeace]

34. Nominated for front page

We just got FAUX news channel here in Canada. Haven't got up the nerve to look at it yet.

[AgadorSparticus]

35. ROFLMAO!!! i'm glad you reposted this. good stuff indeed.

[maxudargo]

51. Ok, I'm going crazy...

Where the heck is "Agador Sparticus" from? I'm thinking it was a joke name for a character in a movie, but I can't remember...

[AgadorSparticus]

54. Agador Sparticus is the full name of the male housekeeper in

The Birdcage starring Robin Williams, Nathan Lane, and Hank Azaria (who plays Agador). And yes, it is a joke name. It's one of my favorite movies. :)

[maxudargo]

57. YES!!

I remember now. For some reason he or Robin Williams or somebody feels the need to add "Spartacus" to his real name, Agador. That WAS a great movie. I need to see it again. And I'd like to see the French original someday.

[AgadorSparticus]

59. armand calls him agador and albert calls him sparticus at

the same time which confuses the girl's parents. so they cover for their mistake by calling him Agador Sparticus because he likes to be called by his full name.

[chookie]

39. CNN had a non-story on today as well

I think it was inadvertantly a non-story though.

A guy's son was missing, and his Dad, a doctor, was on CNN saying he was travelling to Thailand to look for him. CNN has been following the story breathlessly. I felt badly for him as I did for anyone seeking a lost loved one.

Turns out -- HAPPILY! -- that the kid was nowhere NEAR the tsunami. I am very happy for the family -- gosh, I prefer false alarms to sad stories any day!

Tucker Carlson said tonight that it was the most touching story he'd heard all week. What -- that the young man was nowhere near the tsunami? Like it's sp,e sort of miraculous story of courage and survival? Hey Tucker -- why don't you have ME on as a tsunami survivor, because I was in Pittsburgh when it struck??

Again, CNN couldn't have known that the young man was never NEAR the impacted areas, but for Tucker Carlson to be touched by this story -- well, he's a dick.

[maxudargo]

41. LOL

"Hey Tucker -- why don't you have ME on as a tsunami survivor, because I was in Pittsburgh when it struck??"

[TheWebHead]

66. yeah, I saw that too

I thought the mother said that the son knew about his father travelling over since the previous night and was going to meet him with a CNN reporter, and my eyes popped out of my head, but it turned out the CNN reporter was with the father and the son somehow knew that but he nor the mother bothered to contact CNN to let them know until just after the dad phoned in. The bit of confusion prompted me to e-mail Anderson to question if the story was staged, and he ended up e-mailing me "fuck off" in response... I hit a really raw nerve with Coop.

[maxudargo]

42. Hey! They put my thing here on the BuzzFlash homepage

First one listed under "The Lighter Side." Cool.

[idiosyncratic]

62. Congratulations! You could become famous.

I'm really glad you spent those two days on this! :hi:

[maxudargo]

69. I'm glad I followed your advice and posted it again

otherwise it probably would have disappeared.

[livinginphotographs]

44. That was awesome.

And the comics of Roger Ebert vogue-ing were pretty funny too.

[maxudargo]

46. VOGUE-ING !

Yeah, that's what he was doing. LOL. Maybe Burton should have suggested that and Jefferson would have calmed down a little.

I never thought of that. I should have had him say that at the end, just before he sashays out of frame. Just a sexy whisper: "vogue!"

[livinginphotographs]

47. I like the way you think.

2 :thumbsup: . Way up!

[hatrack]

48. Absolutely brilliant!

Absolutely FUCKING BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!! :toast:

[Bo]

49. strolling on the brushes!!!!!!!!!!!

[maxudargo]

63. I have no idea what you are talking about. You knew that, right?

[MrSlayer]

52. I love the news crawl.

Great Job.

[RevolutionaryActs]

53. The "Burton" guy SCARES ME!

JESUS I mean really I'm going to have nightmares now!!!! :cry:

[maxudargo]

56. ???

What could possibly be scary about Burton?

Burton's a cool guy, like Billy Zane.

[RevolutionaryActs]

58. You sir,

are on crack! lol :silly:

[maxudargo]

93. You say that like it's a bad thing...

[genieroze]

60. Wow, this is really good.

I posted it on the net.

[HamiltonHabs32]

65. Great Job

Must say that was the most refreashing read I have had all week...I followed it up by reading your two previous strips and laughed my ass off. Great work

[flygal]

64. Great job - I enjoyed that!

Even though I can't watch faux overseas - that's about what I'd expect

[barb162]

67. excellent take on Fox

[RetroLounge]

68. Dude, that's funnier than shit

but why Jimmy Stewart? Why???

RL

[Zynx]

70. CNN ran this celeb-worship BS for *real*

I remember watching it and thinking the exact same thing - news media going "Hey, famous white people died in this too! Let's do human interest!"

[rainbow4321]

72. Yep..on Larry King Live tonight....on and on about the model..

Ok..I feel bad for that model who is now in the hospital <and her missing boyfriend> but with over 100,000 people dead and so many more missing, could they have spent a LITTLE LESS time of showing her modeling pictures??? Can they get amy MORE shallow?

[maxudargo]

71. Anybody know anything about TotalFark.com?

I'm getting a lot of hits from there. But you have to pay to access the site...

[ornotna]

74. Absolutely fabulous!

Great stuff you got there, I'll be bookmarking your site. Hope to see some more in the future. I'm sure Roger would give you a:thumbsup:

[Tsiyu]

Beautiful! Stunning!

Nominating for homepage! :kick:

[shiina]

78. love the ticker, too...nice touch

[Swamp Rat]

80. EXCELLENT! "... histrionic wailing we always hear from brown people..."

:kick:

[rooboy]

81. Excellent stuff. Of course the REAL Fox News...

would suspend their coverage for a special episode of "Cashin' In" so they can talk about profiteering from the misery of others.

[blindpig]

82. man thats great

the crawls an especially nice bit of detail. Nice!

[idiosyncratic]

84. A kick, in case anyone missed this piece of genius!

:kick:

[maxudargo]

85. It's crazy

all the traffic I'm getting this morning for this thing. The BuzzFlash link is generating a lot of it, along with the TotalFark.com stuff (I wish you didn't have to pay to find out what that's all about). Lot of people are linking to it from blogs and forums. Somebody at the arianaonline forum linked to it and it didn't go over too well. Most over there apparently found it too dark or even tasteless. But most of the comments I can find are positive.

Thanks again!

[SheepyMcSheepster]

88. hey there maxudargo, great comics!

just read through the others.

what is the origin of the bug-eyed guy, "burton"?

[maxudargo]

89. Thanks. Burton? Burton is Burton, man.

He's probably Russian, although, as somebody pointed out, Burton isn't a Russian name. But he speaks Russian. He's just this freaked out astronaut guy.

[SheepyMcSheepster]

91. so.......

this guy:

is a real guy? and those are his real eyes?
i am just curious as to where and how this pic originated.

[maxudargo]

92. Yep. He's a real guy.

He's also known as Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, which clearly IS a Russian name, so I guess he really is Russian after all.

I think the portraits behind him are of famous Soviet astronauts and scientists.

[Neshanic]

90. Fox/sick media satire perfection. Crawl is hysterical.

[Stephanie]

94. kicking for FOX NEWS

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