By: The Usual Gang of Idiots Publisher: Mad Average Rating: Binding: Paperback Label: Mad Number of Items: 1 Number of Pages: 96 Publication Date: June 06, 2007 Release Date: August 01, 2007
Georgie boy takes it on the chin A classic harpooning of America's biggest idiot by the "usual gang of idiots". No one in the administration was spared. Georgie, Dicki, Condi, Rummi, and even the Bush daughters got it right where they deserved it. You CAN judge this book by the cover. Classic MAD. You won't be disappointed.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World As a kid I used to collect and read Mad Magazine avidly even after Sister Miriam Lucille warned me that "they [MAD] were pink around the edges" because they made fun of our American heritage. Sister Lucille, I'm sure, never could see the humor that caused us to laugh and chuckle our way through grade school. And it wasn't until now, forty-plus years later that I could appreciate how sophisticated their humor and satire really was and still is.
Seeing the silly face of Alfred E. Newman wearing a tee shirt that reads "I'M WITH STUPID" with a red arrow pointing to the man he is standing next to, namely George Weasel Bush, was an irresistible impulse to turn back the clock toward my youth to see if the magazine could tickle my funny bone as it had so many years earlier. It did.
First, there is a tremendous amount of work that goes into a publication of such detail and volume. I will bet that these Mad writers and cartoonists go through at least a couple of cases of beer before they come out with the finished product.
You can appreciate its level of sophistication with its "Pirates of the Constitution" with cartoons of Bush, Cheney and Rice in Johnny Depp style dress, the play on the Gap commercials with Fi(red) and Disappea(red), or the comparison of George W. to each president in American history. This requires a phenomenal amount of work and knowledge. And Cheney with a sadistic look in hunting garb, was an especially creative cartoon. My favorite: $9.99 US (Cheap) $11.99 CAN (Cheap, eh?)
As we find truth in humor, we also find truth that is not so humorous, but should not be forgotten. Seeing a caricature of George Bush, on a stage, in a tux, saying: "Hmm ....No Weapons of Mass Destruction here..." and then thinking: "Hoo Whee! What a tough crowd!" is not funny when the audience consists of rows of flag-draped coffins. Nevertheless the reader cannot miss the message of a president who has cost the lives of so many over missed or cherry-picked intelligence, and then, makes light of it. That is an accurate portrayal of sick humor that is Bush's and not MAD's. The writers also remind of us of certain utterances such as "I'm not going to change, see? I'm not trying to accommodate. I won't change my philosophy or my point of view. GWB: Feb. 7, 2004. And we certainly have paid a high price for such a train of thought.
So, with another one year plus left with George W. Bush as president, I have to parody Alfred E. Newman and ask: "What, me worry?"
Well, yeah, I really do.
But, I wouldn't worry about buying this issue. It's destined to be a classic.
Happy New Year!
Not my cup of tea... Heaven knows, I am no supporter of the present administration, but this publication was a little too rough for my taste.
Soldier's Perspective The content reflects the subject; stupid and idiotic with a twinge of patriotic embarrassment. But this is a compliment for the delinquents at MAD! It was hard to tell where the joke starts and reality ends!
A lot funnier than Michael Moore Not always the articles I would have chosen, but overall funny and on target. One of my favorites is the campaign ad if he were running against Jesus. It really lampoons political ads in general.
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