Is this that signature British wit I keep hearing about?

Ohhh….I get it! This is like that other statue in Iraq!



C’mon guys. Toppling a Bush statue is really hackneyed and boring. Why resort to hyperbolic and empty gestures when you’ve got the facts on your side?


posted by greg on November 20, 2003 @ 10:18 am

12 comments

  1. I’m guessing because facts and figures don’t make the papers anymore.

    Comment by andrew — November 20, 2003 @ 10:42 am

  2. True, but even something simple like “Bush Lied, People Died” or “Quagmire Accomplished!” is better than a symbol as played out as toppling a Bush statue. There’s a million legitimate complaints to be made about Bush that don’t give the right excuses to call us all crazy extremists.

    Comment by greg — November 20, 2003 @ 10:51 am

  3. But crazy extremists are always what make the news. The news stopped being news long ago. Why do things like school shootings and child abuductions monopolize media time? They’re really almost non stories. People like the shocking and extreme.

    Most likely the people running this protest were crazy extremists. That’s just the way things work.

    Comment by andrew — November 20, 2003 @ 11:51 am

  4. But crazy extremists are always what make the news.

    True. Kinda like whenever there’s a gay rights rally, the news crews always end up showing the small group of embarrassing leather queens making out with each other instead of the hundreds of perfectly normal people.

    By the way, am I the only one who thinks this Bush statue looks like the statue from the cover of one of Michael Jackson’s albums? Maybe it’s just because he’s been the only thing on the news lately…

    Comment by greg — November 20, 2003 @ 12:10 pm

  5. view the pic here:
    http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005A1T1.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

    except while the Bush statue has a mini tony blair in his pocket, MJ’s statue has a 12 year old and some Xanax.

    Zing!

    Comment by Jason — November 20, 2003 @ 12:34 pm

  6. Few people know this, but I’ve been the biggest proponent of the “zing” during these dark days of the zing. I’m glad to see that it’s making a comeback.

    Comment by Earnest — November 20, 2003 @ 1:16 pm

  7. I thought it was hilarious. Sorry to hear you guys get your feelings hurt. Maybe Santa will bring you a nice hanky for Christmas.

    Comment by The Real Ronnie — November 20, 2003 @ 1:49 pm

  8. You know what ronnie? Why dont you blow me instead. Or do trolls just wait around for their moms to do that?

    Comment by The Real FDR — November 20, 2003 @ 1:56 pm

  9. I thought it was hilarious. Sorry to hear you guys get your feelings hurt.

    Feelings hurt? Huh?? The image of a toppling Bush statue was sorta funny the first hundred times I saw it, but after I saw it done here, here, and here, I was hoping for something a little more original.

    Comment by greg — November 20, 2003 @ 2:02 pm

  10. The British haven’t done anything original in fifty years. Well, except creating a relatively succesful multicultural social democracy.

    Comment by JoeW — November 20, 2003 @ 8:18 pm

  11. I like the toppling statue.

    And you know, the good slogans on signs have been used for years now, and didn’t accomplish jack shit.

    –Kynn

    Comment by Kynn Bartlett — November 21, 2003 @ 12:22 am

  12. I don’t see the harm in some innocent statue toppling. These people spent weeks creating tons of posters, a giant statue, and organizing to get lots of people out to protest an obvious evil. Who are we to complain because they didn’t have a more clever idea? There is room on the left for both clever editorials and brute symbolism. In this case, I don’t see how this is extremist behavior or that it hurts the liberal cause. The only people who would be offended by this are right-wingers who hate the left anyway.

    Comment by Danimal — November 21, 2003 @ 7:21 pm

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