KERIK and "Mallard the Duck"----One Funny, One Not

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KERIK says he was "good enough for the pResident"----BWA-hahahaHAH! Plus, oh, he might like going back to Iraq but, darn it, that pesky WIFE of his won't let him---thank ZEUS! he picked the right woman FOR A WIFE (forget the LOVERs) who just wants him AT HOME--well, or at least CLOSE to home, snug in a love nest--IN THE SAME CITY somewhere! "HOME IN AN HOUR, BABY!" (Judith ain't that demanding anymore.) Plus, he-such-a-big-tough-man, he just-need-Woo-dy-calling-and-being-with-just ALL DA TIME!

Item 2 WASTES Mallard the Duck. TINSLEY should make an offer to KERIK as a writer for ACTUAL COMEDY.

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http://www.nypost.com/gossip/cindy.htm

.... "Wasn't easy to take. My brother said he didn't know I was this tough. One thing that helped me, I read no newspapers and didn't watch TV. What people report to you, no matter how bad, it's still somehow not as awful as seeing or hearing it yourself. ....

...Listen, he was terrific. Called every day. Made sure to be with me every day. For three days before I withdrew until the moment I left, the man was with me constantly. This great stand-up guy backed me no end. He called my wife. His wife called my wife. ....

"I have offers. International security stuff with regard to Israel, Jordan, the Middle East. Maybe a consulting or counter terrorism firm. Being good enough for the president gives you great credibility. I've just been to India. I'd like to go back to Iraq except my wife isn't crazy about that idea. They need all the help they can get and at some point there will be enormous opportunities for the private sector. Security training is essential to stabilize the region.

"Right now I'm deciding the future of the world. After I do that, I'll go forward." And then he called Hala to say, "Home in an hour, baby."

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2005/02/21/much_ado_about_a_duck/

...Bruce Tinsley, creator of the conservative duck commentator, thanked his fans and told readers that without their calls and letters of support, "Mallard wouldn't last an hour."

Perhaps he should have put it another way.

"Does this mean if I e-mail saying how unfunny this foul fowl is, you'll get rid of this propaganda strip? Let me be more direct: Remove this stupid comic from the paper!!" e-mailed reader Thomas Garside. "Let me add my opinion to the mix in the clearest way possible," wrote J.J.E. McManus. "get rid of Mallard Fillmore . . . !"

Point taken. ....

...The Duck has a more fatal flaw: "It's just not funny," said reader Michael LaVigne. "He can have his opinion, fine, but it needs to be funny, too."

Reader Kathy Tappan asks why the Globe wastes precious space on a strip that is "usually hateful, nasty, ill-informed, or mean-spirited . . . " If the strip was also funny, she said, "you might have an excellent comic on your hands." But, she said, it's not. ....

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And, the Gallery:

[shoelace414]

1. Mallard is totally unfunny

at least prickly city has some humor behind it.

[bmbmd]

2. Putting words into FDR's mouth

calling social security a "Ponzi Scheme" was the worst comic strip I have ever, ever seen. SS bulds a bridge of trust between generations. If Tinsley wants to violate that trust, to defraud the greatest generation-well, that's his business. Using FDR to prop up his position is revisionist history.

[shoelace414]

3. and when did Ted Kennedy call Obama Osama?

[Fenris]

4. Regardless of politics, Mallard Fillmore is simply humorless

Tinsley rarely has enough space in his strip to pull the joke off because he fills the one giant panel he uses usually with verbatim propaganda. You can have an opinion and have a sense of humor, and I think Tinsley doesn't have the latter.

[underpants]

5. Oh Kerik is deciding the future of the world

Good I was worried it was that other unachieveing fraud W.

[JHB]

6. Another thread on the Lame Duck's latest smears...

...which are suspiciously timed to coincide with the big "smear the AARP" drive.

So the question is: Is Tinsley another Williams-esque paid shill? And if he's not, is it because he was too dumb to get himself a piece of the action?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=3157496&mesg_id=3157496

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7. And Here's the Rest of the Gallery