Certain things...

[heidi]

There are certain things in this world that I just have no words for, so I need to borrow them from other people. mrpuzuzu directed my attention to this comic book. Here's the summary :

America’s future has become an Orwellian nightmare of ultra-liberalism. Beginning with the Gore Presidency, the government has become increasingly dominated by liberal extremists.

In 2004, Muslim terrorists stopped viewing the weakened American government as a threat; instead they set their sights on their true enemies, vocal American conservatives. On one dark day, in 2006, many conservative voices were forever silenced by terrorist assassins. Those which survived joined forces and formed a powerful covert conservative organization called “The Freedom of Information League”, aka F.O.I.L.

The efforts of F.O.I.L. threaten both the liberal extremist power structure and the U.N.’s grip on America, the U.N. calls F.O.I.L. the most dangerous group in the world. It seems the once theorized Vast Right Wing Conspiracy has now become a reality.

The F.O.I.L. Organization is forced underground by the “Coulter Laws” of 2007; these hate speech legislations have made right-wing talk shows, and conservative-slanted media, illegal. Our weakened government has willingly handed the reins of our once great country to the corrupt United Nations. The Department of Political-Correctness is required to assist U.N. monitors to properly edit all print and broadcast media. Live broadcasts are a thing of the past; all transmissions are monitored by the U.N. and any ‘offensive’ material is dumped.

Rupert Murdoch’s decision to defy the “Coulter Laws” hate speech legislations, has bankrupted News Corporation. George Soros has bought all of News Corps assets and changed its name to Liberty International Broadcasting. LIB’s networks have flourished and circle the globe with a series of satellites beaming liberal & U.N. propaganda worldwide.

The New York City faction of F.O.I.L. is lead by Sean Hannity, G. Gordon Liddy and Oliver North, each uniquely endowed with special abilities devised by a bio mechanical engineer affectionately nicknamed “Oscar”. F.O.I.L. is soon to be joined by a young man named Reagan McGee.

Reagan was born on September 11th, 2001. He is the son of a NYC firefighter whose life was spared by attending his son’s birth. Reagan has grown to manhood in an ultra-liberal educational system: being told, not asked, what to think. With personal determination, which alienates him from his contemporaries, he has chosen the path less traveled…the path to the Right.

Two decades of negotiation with the U.N., and America’s administration of 2021 (President Chelsea Clinton and Vice President Michael Moore), has culminated in a truce with fundamentalist Islamic terrorists, or so America is told. The honorable ambassador from Afghanistan has come to NYC to address the U.N., his name is Usama Bin Laden. Ambassador Bin Laden has announced that he plans a public apology for the “misunderstanding” of the events of 9/11. This apology will occur exactly 20 years to the minute the first plane hit the WTC; this will be on the observation deck at the newly renamed “Unity Tower” built on the hallowed grounds where the WTC once stood.

Tomorrow is September 11, 2021, the twentieth anniversary of the horror of 9/11, or as it has become more politically correct to say “the unfortunate events resulting from the uprising of middle-eastern fundamentalist Islam”. Just days before his arrival in NYC, Bin Laden made a brief visit to Iraq, now a nuclear power that is run by the vicious Uday Hussein. In Iraq, Bin Laden received a tactical nuke that is now contained in his private diplomatic briefcase. Bin Laden plans far more than an apology at the Unity Tower.

F.O.I.L. has become aware of Bin Laden’s plot to destroy NYC and has devised a plan to stop him while simultaneously gaining permanent control of LIB’s satellite network. Unfortunately, U.N. Forces have discovered the secret location of the F.O.I.L. Lair. It is a race against the clock to save NYC from a nuclear holocaust and the world from liberal domination. Only with F.O.I.L.’s help, can “Liberality For All” once again become “Liberty For All!”

Erm. WTFPolarbear?

Comments

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

Actually, edit the previous, because this does seem to be intended as satire: maybe it's just not coming across (in this summary) as terribly successful satire. May change in the handling, may not, but the balance on this sort of project is tricky to obtain (see Team America: World Police for a good example of something that works and doesn't).

[mrpuzuzu.livejournal.com]

Actually, I don't believe it's intended as satire. My reason for this are as following:

The writer originally submitted this idea to Image Comics in their forums. Erik Larsen (head publisher) gave him the smackdown. There then followed a long exchange in which the writer clearly showed this wasn't a satirical work and that he was an ardent FOX News watcher. In one of his interviews, he tries to play off the idea that he's making fun of both sides, but that initial forum exchange pretty much showed that he's a wingnut.

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

o_O

This could actually make decent satire--I mean, I'd probably laugh my ass off at the picture of a buff and heroic Rush Limbaugh confronting a three-headed liberalmonster--but if that's the case...oy.

[batmanmsd.livejournal.com]

How funny that you posted about that book! My brother directed me to it a few months ago and I was just thinking that I should post the link. The concept is absolutely hilarious!

An eye-patch wearing Sean Hannity with a robotic arm? BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I'm not fond of the extremes of either political party (I'm one of dem dere swing voters) but knowing that someone envisions THIS? That's a scream!

Oh, and someone needs to clue Hannity in on the fact that "Independence Day" is about spousal abuse, not patriotism. Then again, people think the same about "Born in the USA" and that's a protest song...

[straussmonster.livejournal.com]

My favorite song that's been abused in promotional fashion like many a Springsteen song (I think it was Reagan who misused 'Born in the USA') has got to be Iggy Pop's Lust for Life being used to advertise cruise lines, when the song is patently about heroin addiction.

[mrpuzuzu.livejournal.com]

Oh, it would make brilliant satire. When I first heard about it, I thought: "Wow! Andy Kaufman really didn't die! And now he's writing comics!" Sadly, that would not seem to be the case.

[gwendolyngrace.livejournal.com]

I'm fond of the short-lived Bush, Sr. campaign that featured the song, "The Best of Times" from La Cage Aux Folles.

[darkthirty.livejournal.com]

This takes way too much time to "get" - and it's not funny or incisive, just cynical - Seinfeld as erudite - you might as well read the complete Cerebus, for a mysogynist, Dave Sim could at least write politics....

[tefkas.livejournal.com]

I sort of read this with half a mind expecting it to be satire, and the other half thinking it was completely stir-fried.

Whichever it is is probably irrelevant, though, as I can't imagine it getting a good following...

[azriona.livejournal.com]

Weird, strange, and would never actually happen....


But wow. What a incredibly detailed concept.....It sort of reminds me of those books that deal with a world in which Nazi Germany won.

(The Children's War and A Change of Regime by JN Stroyar, btw. EXCELLENT.)