Jules Feiffer has described Tony Auth best, "His perspective is that of a bemused and often angry comic historian. Irony, never a favorite form with Americans, is his meat and potatoes. He is not smug, and though he can be mean, he is never mean-spirited. Auth is a moralist and an optimist. He insists, even in this day and age, that hope is more than the name of a right-wing comedian or the shtick of a reactionary president."
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Justice22 said, 7 months ago
A true independant thinker who worked for the people.
Donald Williams said, 7 months ago
His memorable vote: “Present!”
Jeddidyah said, 7 months ago
Another P(T)ea brain Party victim.
Tigger
said, 7 months ago
@Jeddidyah
He was a Democrat before he was a Republican, and then an Independent.
dtroutma
said, 7 months ago
Overall a good man who did what he thought was right. His worst mistake, the Thomas hearings and getting the worst member ever, on the SCOTUS.
Michael wme said, 7 months ago
Someone has been complaining about all my comments today, so they’ve all been deleted, but I had no idea who Spectre was, so I looked him up.
Quite a few other comments I made today, as innocuous as this one, have been flagged and deleted, probably in response to some of my less innocuous comments that convinced someone that it was essential to flag every one of my comments, disirregardless of what it was.
Noreen Klose said, 7 months ago
I bet he votes “present”!
A person who only did what was best for himself, no party loyalty…not to the Democrats, the Republicans, or anyone else, either. His true party affiliation was “Me…first, last, and always!”
Radish
said, 7 months ago
Specter was a rat who played a part in the JFK coverup by comming up with the impossible single bullet idea.
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According to the Single Bullet Theory, a three-centimeter (1.2")-long copper-jacketed lead-core 6.5-millimeter rifle bullet fired from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository passed through President Kennedy’s neck and Governor Connally’s chest and wrist and embedded itself in the Governor’s thigh. If so, this bullet traversed 15 layers of clothing, 7 layers of skin, and approximately 15 inches of tissue, struck a necktie knot, removed 4 inches of rib, and shattered a radius bone. The bullet was found on a gurney in the corridor at the Parkland Memorial Hospital, in Dallas, after the assassination. The Warren Commission found that this gurney was the one that had borne Governor Connally.3 This bullet became a key Commission exhibit, identified as CE 399. Its copper jacket was completely intact. While the bullet’s nose appeared normal, the tail was compressed laterally on one side.
braindead08 said, 7 months ago
@Radish
^ Officially known as ‘the bullet that did everything but serve tea’.
Jeddidyah said, 7 months ago
@Michael wme
“Quite a few other comments I made today, as innocuous as this one, have been flagged and deleted,”
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Yes I noticed today that people were responding to some of your comments but you comment wasn’t there…does the moderator tell you about this or do you just notice the posts are missing ?
Michael wme said, 7 months ago
@Jeddidyah
The mods policy is ‘never complain, never explain.’
I posted comments on five or six comics, but none of them are there anymore. And they didn’t send me any warnings or complaints, they just deleted all my comments, since someone flagged them all.
Michael wme said, 7 months ago
@Radish
Fortunately, this has now been solved. Under ‘enhanced interrogation’ Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confessed to being the mysterious person on the grassy knoll.
Radish
said, 7 months ago
@Michael wme
Two things. It takes more than one person flagging a strip to make it disappear. Therefore you are offending multiple people, for whatever reason.
The other thing is that if you are using sarcasm, not everyone will get they joke and they will think you are serious and flag you for it.
And three is, don’t bug the mods, they have ways of making you disappear. Tweak your comments to make them more obvious or acceptable.
Michael wme said, 7 months ago
@Radish
I never use sarcasm.
I assume Neocon and Stephen Colbert (the character, not the actor) are rich persons who support the Tea party because it will cut their taxes.
I am a poor person who supports the Tea party because I know that my betters should not pay any taxes, since they are my betters. I believe that we poor people must pay all the taxes so our betters can live in the style which they deserve as job creators.
I also saw the NASA picture of a Big Blue Marble. I know it was really a marble suspended on a black string against a black background. The world is a disk carried on the back of a turtle, and it’s turtles all the way down! (Even if they engage in excretory activities through their mouths.)
Oak Ridge Boy61
said, 7 months ago
@Tigger
Once again Tig you are wrong. His last campaign was for his own seat but in the Democratic Party Primary. Unlike Joe Lieberman, he did not enter the General Election as an Indepedent.