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rocket_scientist
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 Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:13 pm Post subject: Marvel Comics Uses Captain America to Fight Tea Baggers |
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Marvel Comics: Captain America Says Tea Parties Are Dangerous and Racist
Publius Forum ^ | 2-9-10 | Warner Todd Huston
Posted on Tue Feb 09 2010 23:56:57 GMT+0200 (Namibia Standard Time) by TitansAFC
Marvel Comic�s Captain America is the mightiest soldier with the super powerful secret soldier formula that makes him a super man. Sadly, this muscle bound hero that took on the whole Nazi army during WWII seems to be afraid of those American people who�ve joined the Tea Party movement. Not only is Cappy quaking in his little red booties, but he�s sure that the Tea Party folks are dangerous racists, too.
Isn�t it wonderful that a decades old American comic book hero is now being used to turn readers against our very political system, being used to slander folks that are standing up for real American principles in real life � and one called �Captain America� at that?
In issue number 602 of Captain America, a new story line has begun called �Two Americas.� In it the current Captain (there have been a few of them, apparently) is on the trail of a faux Captain America that is mentally deranged and getting chummy with some white supremacist, anti-government, survivalists types going by the name of �the Watchdogs.� While investigating this subversive group, Captain America and his partner The Falcon � a black super hero � have decided to try and infiltrate the secretive organization.
In preparation for the infiltration, Marvel Comics depicts the two super heroes out of costume and observing from a rooftop a street filled with what can only be described as a Tea Party protest. The scene shows crowds of people in city streets carrying signs that say, �stop the socialists,� �tea bag libs before they tea bag you,� and �no to new taxes.� Naturally, the people in these crowds are depicted as being filled with nothing but white folks.
The black character asks the out of costume Captain, �What the hell is this?� And follows that with, �looks like some kind of anti-tax protest.� The Falcon character then snidely tells his partner the Captain, �So I guess this whole �hate the government� vibe around here isn�t limited to the Watchdogs.�
The two then discuss their plan to infiltrate the subversive group that Marvel comics seems to be linking to the Tea Party movement. This discussion culminates in The Falcon wondering how a black man would do such a thing. �I don�t exactly see a black man from Harlem fitting in with a bunch of angry white folks,� he tells the incognito Captain America.
The Captain tells him, �no it�s perfect� this all fits right into my plan.� After this we find that the Captain�s plan is to send the black man into a redneck bar to pretend to be a black man working for the IRS and to get everyone all mad� because� well, you know that every white person is a racist that hates black civil servants, right?
So, there you have it, America. Tea Party protesters just �hate the government,� they are racists, they are all white folks, they are angry, and they associate with secretive white supremacist groups that want to over throw the U.S. government.
Bet you didn�t know that when you were indulging your right as a citizen to protest your government that you were a dangerous white supremacist that wants to destroy the country, did you? Bet you didn�t realize that your reverence for the U.S. Constitution was a subversive thing to do, did you? And I�ll also bet that you never imagined that you�d scare the little blue panties off of Captain America!
Nice going Marvel Comics. Thanks for making patriotic Americans into your newest super villains.
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visitorq
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Yeah I was looking at that earlier too... funny how they make the people in the crowd look so unsavory, even criminal (the way their faces are drawn and the color tones to make them look all sinister). Blatant piece of pro-government propaganda. |
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rocket_scientist
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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| visitorq wrote: |
| Yeah I was looking at that earlier too... funny how they make the people in the crowd look so unsavory, even criminal (the way their faces are drawn and the color tones to make them look all sinister). Blatant piece of pro-government propaganda. |
If you are old or really really like TV, you can remember TV's Batman with Adam West. In the beginning, they had a drawing of misc thugs that Batman and Robin beat up with cartoon text bubbles saying "Bif!" and "Wham!". The t-partiers look like those thugs.
You are right. |
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kabrams
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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mises
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Is nothing sacred? Must everything be political? This is bloody obnoxious. |
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RufusW
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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| Free-market baby! |
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RufusW
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 3:59 pm Post subject: Re: Marvel Comics Uses Captain America to Fight Tea Baggers |
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| In issue number 602 of Captain America, a new story line has begun called �Two Americas.� |
That's pretty funny seeing as Queen of the teabaggers Palin basically believes in two Americas. |
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Fox
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:13 pm Post subject: Re: Marvel Comics Uses Captain America to Fight Tea Baggers |
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| Naturally, the people in these crowds are depicted as being filled with nothing but white folks. |
While I think it's fairly borish to enlist some of our beloved national icons in such a trite attempt to make a political point of this nature, I really don't understand the above quoted criticism at all. These inane, confused, boarderline retarded tea party protests are almost invariably filled with nothing but white folks. You might see a few minorities here or there I guess, but unless there were thousands of hand drawn individuals in that frame, the absence of a non-white protester is just being true to the statistics I believe. |
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RufusW
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 4:49 pm Post subject: Re: Marvel Comics Uses Captain America to Fight Tea Baggers |
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| Fox wrote: |
| These inane, confused, boarderline retarded tea party protests |
Well played Fox. |
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mateomiguel
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:21 pm Post subject: |
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| visitorq wrote: |
| Blatant piece of pro-government propaganda. |
I think Captain America's entire thing is to be propaganda. He's like the embodiment of propaganda, with ultra cool propaganda powers. |
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caniff
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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| I'm gonna have to root for the captain to completely kick their a$$es. |
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Kuros
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 8:28 pm Post subject: |
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| mises wrote: |
| Is nothing sacred? Must everything be political? This is bloody obnoxious. |
Ditto.
Things like this make me glad I missed out on comics as a kid. |
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Adventurer
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Kuros wrote: |
| mises wrote: |
| Is nothing sacred? Must everything be political? This is bloody obnoxious. |
Ditto.
Things like this make me glad I missed out on comics as a kid. |
I read comics here and there, and I can't say I like Captain America claiming everyone at the Tea Party is racist. That's a bit over the top.
I do have my misgivings about that group, at any rate. Somehow, I don't know, but they give me the chills. It's just a feeling, but I wouldn't use a comic book to attack them. That's partisan politics put on children. |
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ThingsComeAround
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wesharris
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| Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2010 9:19 pm Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| Kuros wrote: |
| mises wrote: |
| Is nothing sacred? Must everything be political? This is bloody obnoxious. |
Ditto.
Things like this make me glad I missed out on comics as a kid. |
I read comics here and there, and I can't say I like Captain America claiming everyone at the Tea Party is racist. That's a bit over the top.
I do have my misgivings about that group, at any rate. Somehow, I don't know, but they give me the chills. It's just a feeling, but I wouldn't use a comic book to attack them. That's partisan politics put on children. |
Technically. Cpt America readers are probably early teenagers to late 30s.
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