Comments on: Discover The Nutwork

Discover The Nutwork

y2karl — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:17:47 -0800

What do Charles Krauthammer, Harry Lime and Sideshow Bob have in common? Discover The Nutwork

By: hackly_fracture

hackly_fracture — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:23:44 -0800

I didn't understand how it all fit together until I saw the Mothra Fairies.

By: Fuzzy Monster

Fuzzy Monster — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:26:10 -0800

Only one link? What have you done with the real y2karl?

By: y2karl

y2karl — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:32:34 -0800

Mediated him. I am very disappointed by the absence of Skeletor, myself.

By: briank

briank — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:33:22 -0800

And no tiny fonts, either...... Hey, why are you wearing a rubber glove on your head?

By: Hildago

Hildago — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:36:04 -0800

I appreciate the inclusion of Gargamel. I always saw him as a magical version of Richard Nixon.

By: felix betachat

felix betachat — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:42:38 -0800

Priceless! Gargamel --> Gingrich --> [WTF? ~ Grinch?]

By: Capn

Capn — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:48:24 -0800

Zim Zod and Zorg? Oh Noes!

By: NinjaPirate

NinjaPirate — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:55:24 -0800

I have no idea what this is all about, but there's no space for Ren Hoek and on that basis I dispute it's value to mankind.

By: wendell

wendell — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:55:41 -0800

y2karl, did you say mediated or medicated? I personally object to the inclusion of Muttley in this group; from his consistantly disrespectful treatment of Dick Dastardly, occasional sabotaging of his dastardly schemes (on those occasions when he showed some chance of success) and his impressive skill in getting a safe distance away from most of Dastardly's disasters, I've always considered him a probable Double Agent for the forces of goodness and niceness. But then again, it was a Hanna Barbera cartoon, making all attempts to search for logic moot. I understand the reductio ad absurdum, but I still miss the opportunity for further textual ridicule.

By: dougunderscorenelso

dougunderscorenelso — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:58:58 -0800

I didn't understand Scooter. I always thought Scooter was pretty on-the-ball. The Zim/Zod/Zorg trio was great, though.

By: Hildago

Hildago — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 13:59:32 -0800

Wendell, In college, Muttley was president of the College Republicans and wrote a lot of articles for the student paper about "this school's affirmative action problem" and put signs up next to a lot of planned parenthood clinics. If he's a double agent, he should win a damned Oscar for it.

By: gompa

gompa — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:10:17 -0800

Only one link? Yeah, what gives? I might be way out of the neocon loop or something, but I'd never seen DiscoverTheNetwork.org, the Horowitz & Co. omnibus site this thing's parodying. Which is a fascinating read, by the way, particularly for its truly astonishing ability to sustain such an intoxicating level of hysterical bluster and glib oversimplification through so many profiles. Choice nuggets leap off every page: One of the early catalysts of [Cornel] West's rise into the cultural stratosphere was his plea for racial harmony. As a Marxist black radical he was almost unique in saying that it was not appropriate for other black militants to hate all whites and Jews. Most of [Noam Chomsky's] "books" are pamphlets in disguise, collections of speeches, or interviews strung together, as in the case of the best selling 9-11, which was assembled by email with the assistance of his acolytes. Bruce Springsteen himself has been fed Chomskyite views of the world by his longtime friend Van Zandt. So if I've got this straight, Bruce Springsteen and Little Steven are spearheading a movement to fool buyers of legitimate books into purchasing pamphlets containing random snippets of Chomskyite rhetoric, which has resulted in the horrifically topsy-turvy America of today, where black Marxist intellectuals like Cornel West occupy the cultural stratosphere. Which finally explains why last week's issue of In Touch had that story about the Cornel West-Henry Louis Gates-bell hooks lover's triangle on the cover.

By: XQUZYPHYR

XQUZYPHYR — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:11:18 -0800

By: wendell

wendell — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:30:12 -0800

Thanks, XQ, the Your Momma's Network is less funny but more coherent (which is usually the case) The domain name discoverthenutwork.org is still available, but the .com version was recently registered. WHO GOOFED?

By: Scooter

Scooter — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:45:47 -0800

Who talkin' bout me? Who talkin' bout me?

By: tweak

tweak — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 14:59:51 -0800

Harry Lime? I hope you enjoy your cuckoo clocks and bitter chocolate.

By: clevershark

clevershark — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:55:59 -0800

Sometimes I wonder if the Horowitz-Coulter loony wing of the GOP actually put a lot of effort into becoming political satires.

By: telstar

telstar — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:01:15 -0800

But....I already get all my nutwork news from the World Nut Daily.

By: Space Coyote

Space Coyote — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:06:26 -0800

That image of Prince John is priceless.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 17:35:01 -0800

What about Burgermeister Meisterburger?

By: orthogonality

orthogonality — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 18:58:07 -0800

Um, but Horowitz's site categories (damns?) those profiles into (completely subjective) pigeon-holes, and gives the impression that there's a continuum of political thought from Islamic terrorist Mohammed Atta to actor George Clooney. The parody site only lists persons alphabetically. Which really misses out, as it would be much funnier if one could pretend there's some continuum of ideology from Donald Trump to Bill Buckley to Ann Coulter to Donald Duck.

By: bardic

bardic — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:07:57 -0800

Modok.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:11:14 -0800

the fake Maria from Metropolis is perfect! thanks y2k! : > (altho Horowitz is already a parody)

By: amberglow

amberglow — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:12:20 -0800

ooo--and Heatmiser!

By: the_bone

the_bone — Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:35:54 -0800

I love that it has Sark and the Once-ler.

By: nofundy

nofundy — Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:45:32 -0800

Excellent! Thanks. Whore-no-wits done well. And I thought the original site was great parody!