Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for May 21, 2010
Transcript:
Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling NATE Nate: There WON'T be an oil spill in the Gulf! DRILL, m@#*& F!/$@, DRILL! Reporter: That was you last year, Nate! In light of the OIL SPILL, what are your feelings on drilling in the Gulf now? Nate: WHAT?! Nate: I never said there wouldn't be an oil spill! Anyway, what does the spill have to do with oil drilling?! Reporter: Um...huh? Nate: "Sigh!" These people! Finding bizarre connections just to advance their political agendas. STUDIOS Man: You maniac! You're on the sidewalk! Nate: And your point IS?! Nate: I'm home! What's for dinner? Woman: Oh, NO! Nate, you're in the wrong house, AGAIN! You live next door! Nate: I never said I didn't! Now it's chilly in here -- excuse me while I start a fire! Man: Nate! That's NOT a fireplace! Woman: AGH! IT'S OUT OF CONTROL! Nate: You complainers! Are you saying people shouldn't be warm?! Man: Nate, our house is burning down! Nate: "Sigh!" What's that got to do with ME? Fire is part of nature! Man: NATE! Nate: I'm not saying they started that fire themselves, just so they could blame me...but it seems very convenient. Nate: It's a burden being RIGHT all the time! End
jnik23260 over 14 years ago
Is it a coincidence Nate looks a little like Pat Buchanan?
riley05 over 14 years ago
That last panel’s comment is SO Faux News!
Glenn Beck, for certain.
ianrey over 14 years ago
Nate the Neocon is one of my top 3 favorite recurring serials in TTDB, up there with Lucky Ducky and, oh let’s say Dinkle.
Possum Pete over 14 years ago
Full page spread of “How to Draw Doug” please!
poohbear8192 over 14 years ago
Nate, the Texas State high school history books will make you a hero.
Just Wait!
fritzoid Premium Member over 14 years ago
Crossover potential! Nate the Neocon educates Louis about why God-Man made Lucky Ducky so lucky!
Ushindi over 14 years ago
I want more GOD-MAN!
aardvarkseyes over 14 years ago
Harley, taking something “to the nth degree of stupid” is a comic device called reductio ad absurdum (literally, reducing something to its most absurd state). This is the way some humour works. What you really don’t like is the point the cartoon is making about right wing pundits. If you can answer a simple question without changing the subject, please try this one: how often HAVE Fox pundits admitted they were wrong?
Charles Brobst Premium Member over 14 years ago
KILL BP!!
3hourtour Premium Member over 14 years ago
..sure everyone one is worried about the poor oilled up geese..but what about poor ‘ol haliburton??..
Donaldo Premium Member over 14 years ago
I want more with the floating death-head of the ghost of James Caan. That always cracks me up.
“But I’m NOT dead.”
jpozenel over 14 years ago
It’s difficult to argue with Nate’s logic.
riley05 over 14 years ago
I don’t think Nate’s comments count as “logic”. More like Glenn-Beckian “disingenuousness”.
tobybartels over 14 years ago
@jnik23260:
Probably a coincidence. Although it doesn’t say so up top on this cartoon, this is Nate the Neo-conservative. And Pat Buchanan, for all his faults, is not a neoconservative.
riley05 over 14 years ago
So Glenn Beck would also be a neo-conservative, since this dialog is obviously taken directly from his disingenuous style?
tobybartels over 14 years ago
Sadly, Glenn Beck didn’t start this style. (FWIW, I would not consider Beck a neocon. That only makes him a different kind of idiot, of course.) And perhaps Nate is not supposed to be a neocon in this strip, either.
But he’s an old character, not based on Buchanan. Actually, if I had to guess, I’d say Sean Hannity.
MasterDavidGoodmen over 14 years ago
In this strip, Nate presents with the symptoms of classic Wing-Nut Personality Disorder. This is the blindness which causes someone’s want du jour to be mistaken as the basis of the functioning of the universe.
Anything contradicting the self-created party line is just plain wrong. Thus his rejection of his recorded statements as being his. Rather predictably, science and logic are anathema to the WNPD person. WNPD is a sociopathy, resulting in many people being hurt by its carriers.
Still, when no one is being hurt by it, it is rather funny! Somewhat like a non-benign Mister McGoo!
smurf_farts over 14 years ago
Politics aside, this is one obvious joke stretched over nine panels, and about as subtle as a kick in the groin. Really Michael Moorer style preaching to the choir, and who aspires to that?
Harvey Richards would wreck Nate, probably with the classic “I’m rubber, you’re glue” doctrine of reciprocal taunts.