aren’t some of them? in reality traitors? Compare what would have been considered treasonable behavior during World War II with what has been taking place today…
Hence, you should be able to quite easily prove how much of Iraq’s oil the US or US oil companies control today.
Yeah. You and Rascal. Busy observing…
That is because, quite frankly, you are.[/quote]
Quite frankly, you are the dirtiest anti-American maggot I know, which is sort of surprising, on so many levels.
HG
[quote=“Fox”]I wondered the same thing.
Excellent interview HG.[/quote]
Cheers, Fox. It is damned good,
HG
HG,
You do come across as anti-American sometimes. For a while you constantly spelled America as “AmeriK-K-Ka,”* which was really annoying, and you seem to take every chance you get to bash us. I’m all for reasonsed criticisms of the US (such as Mucha Man’s), but the continuous volley of insults gets old. If you seriously don’t want to be labeled as anti-American, then let up on the jabs.
Cheers,
Gao
*Apparently the forum screens out K-K-K now, which explains why you stopped.
What I love about the K K K was that it was defeated by Superman because the K K K had all these goofy code words and outfits that became the butt of kids’ jokes.
Klansmen found it humiliating to come home and see their own kids running around the backyard using their real albeit ridiculous secret pass words, hand shakes and the like:
Radio’s Adventures of Superman (rebroadcast nightly at 9:30pm, KABL 960AM) was a popular show on the Mutual Broadcasting Network, claiming 4.5 million listeners in 1947, according to a March 3, 1947, article in The New Republic. While the mainstream press didn’t comment on the political content of the show, it was noted by the right-wing commentator and reactionary evangelist Gerald L.K. Smith, who denounced Superman as “a disgrace to America.”
The radio Adventures of Superman was honored by various groups, including the National Conference of Christians and Jews, the American Newspaper Guild and the Calvin Newspaper Service, a chain of African American newspapers.
THE MOST noteworthy Superman radio episodes are described in Weyn Craig Wade’s indispensable history of the Ku Klux Klan, The Fiery Cross. According to Wade, Stetson Kennedy, a reporter for the short-lived lefty newspaper PM, went undercover into the Klan, learning the secret passwords and countersigns used by the Grand Dragon “Doc” Green’s vicious Klavern No. 1 of Atlanta. For sport, Kennedy passed on the info to writers of the Superman radio show about that comic-book character whom Wade calls “the ultimate antifacist.”
As Wade relates the incident:
The writers jumped on the idea and Superman … began trouncing the Klan over the airways, a battle replete with obviously authentic detail. During the first broadcast, “Doc” Green received a phone call from the Atlanta AP bureau chief:
“Superman’s really on your trail … sounds to me like Superman’s got a pipeline into your klaverns somehow. You’d better watch your step.”
“I smell a rat,” the Dragon said bitterly. “Just wait till I get my hands on him!”
“You’d better make it snappy–Superman just flew over your Imperial Palace to case the joint.”
“Nuts,” the Doctor said, and hung up.
Green had to change his passwords because of the show. The Klan chief tried to retaliate by pressuring Pep Cereal–sponsors of the Adventures of Superman–off of grocery shelves in Atlanta. Despite Green’s actions, the sponsors continued to green-light the anti-Klan shows.
The coolest part of the story is that the network was open about what they called “the tolerance angle.” There were none of those usual flacky obfuscations how people could read politics into a fantasy show if they preferred, and yadda yadda yadda.
An unnamed executive quoted in the 1947 New Republic article about the show said, “This tolerance theme is good business.” He continued, “The psychologists tell us we’re planting a ‘thought egg’ into the kids’ minds. It won’t have too much effect now, but it will when they become adolescent.” Big words–still, didn’t a lot of those children come of age in the 1960s?
I suppose Clark Kent, as an extraterrestrial immigrant, ought not to have been covering the foreigner-hating Klan in the first place; it was a conflict of interest. But journalistic ethics always were loose at The Daily Planet. Anyway, might part of the reason why children are leaving comics in droves is their lack of relevance?
As a caped asset of Time-Warner, Superman has less mobility than he enjoyed in his younger days. His latest stories put more of an emphasis on science fiction and fight scenes–and less on a reaction to current events; for example, the way kryptonite was introduced in 1949 after stories about plutonium hit the headlines.
Like movies, comic books are trying too hard to meet computer games on their own field. That’s too bad; the hatching of a few more “thought eggs” might help bring back readers to the ailing medium of comics.
[quote=“gao_bo_han”]HG,
You do come across as anti-American sometimes. For a while you constantly spelled America as “AmeriK-K-Ka,”* which was really annoying, and you seem to take every chance you get to bash us. I’m all for reasonsed criticisms of the US (such as Muzha Man’s), but the continuous volley of insults gets old. If you seriously don’t want to be labeled as anti-American, then let up on the jabs.
Cheers,
Gao
*Apparently the forum screens out K-K-K now, which explains why you stopped.[/quote]
No I did notice that, and wondered which squealing little Americunt church lady had petitioned the powers that be to apprehend it. but there are ways around it, Ameri.K.K.K.a, for example, but I can’t be bothered.
Oh dear, how many rules can they make?
As Nick Cave shrilly warbled, “well I’m a wicked little lady, but I’ve been trying hard lately, nah fuck it. I’m a monster I admit it!”
Sorry, Gao, I can’t be arsed with anything sensible just now. The reserve batteries are spluttering and a coma’s come a calling.
HG
Why Not:
Blame Canada!
C’mon, HGC, it’s just a reverse gag.
I’m sure if a poster talked with the same vehemece about Oz, you & and many others would righteously hold grievance.
Is America, with a k or otherwise, so reprehensible to you?
The target is saturated, new target please!