Satire To Sue New Yorker
“Words can no longer stand by and let the media abuse them without retribution,” said Satire’s lawyer, Noah Webster VI. “Words have rights too. But more importantly, they have real meaning and represent to people the truth. The courts have said so.”
Webster, who successfully defended Truth in “Cheney vs Last Throes,” “Fox vs News” and the landmark, “Funny vs Dane Cook,” is suing The New Yorker under the “Is” law - named after former President Bill Clinton’s “It depends what the meaning of ‘is’ is” triangulation of the linking verb in his attempt to weasel out of an admission of an affair - which set a legal standard for words and phrases, legislating proper usage and criminalizing most perversions of proper terminology.
Not since the class action law suit enjoined by the words “Independent,” “Logic” and “Journalist” against Bill O’Reilly, has the meaning Read more
THE NEW YORKER: WHAT’S SO FUNNY ABOUT SATIRE?
Okay, it’s a cartoon. Cartoons are supposed to be funny. I get that. But usually you at least get a caption underneath that tells you why it’s funny. The New Yorker cartoon didn’t even give us a “Git ‘er done” or a “Wha-a-at?” or in this case, “Black People In The White House And They’re Not The Help.”
How in the world is anybody supposed to get that this thing is a joke?
I know funny, and I can tell you right now, having a Negro Muslim and his angry terrorist-militant wife in the Oval Office isn’t what anyone would ever think is funny. At least no one I know. It isn’t even a decent “Family Circus.” Now there’s Read more
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