Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 10, 2016
Transcript:
Man holding badge: Excuse me, sir...NSA...are you the author of Anoesis News service? Eddie: Ah-yeh. Man that was holding badge: Our investigation of fake news postings on social media led us to your items on government secrets. We're here to seize your laptop. Ned: Whoa...hold on. "Fake News" falls under satire, which is protected speech! Man in black: Yes, sir, we know......but we didn't say anything about his news being fake. Eddie: *SIGH* Suppressed again... Ned: Yeah, but...wait...what?
Dtroutma about 8 years ago
Leave it to Eddie.
Can't Sleep about 8 years ago
I always knew Cap’n Eddie was telling the truth. What he was saying made as much sense as anything else happening these days.
The Cubs won the series, and everything began to fall apart.
Next week, God shuts off the gravity.
Superfrog about 8 years ago
But you can’t really suppress the free expression of a real fake satire of a fake real secret fake fake news story in the real world.
somebodyshort about 8 years ago
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
- Voltaire
KenTheCoffinDweller about 8 years ago
Small problem there Gentlemen! Seizing the laptop won’t fix the problem since it is all in his head in the first place.
kmasters21 Premium Member about 8 years ago
Am I the only one who had to look up ‘anoesis’? Wiley is a genius for coming up with the one word that epitomizes Washington and almost half of the electorate.
Varnes about 8 years ago
They’re coming after Wiley, next…….
BubbleTape Premium Member about 8 years ago
while probably still protected under the 1st amendment, there is a difference from fake news that identifies itself as fake (like the onion), which is satire, fake news that tries to pass itself off as real news (like most of the stuff on breitbart) are lies, manipulation, and dangerous and probably still protected but should be fought. not only did a guy recently shoot up a restaurant because of fake news (lies) but the owners of that restaurant have been harassed for months and received death threats. someone needs to take responsibility for printing and promoting those kinds of lies.and then there is “fake” news where the author believes the crazy conspiracy.
Megan Albertson Premium Member about 8 years ago
@mwaurelius If you think News Control or thought shaping started with the Internet, you’re very young or poorly informed. Go back and watch some “nightly news” broadcasts from the 1960s and 1970s. In retrospect, and armed with the facts of the day, we were horribly misled.
sandpiper about 8 years ago
@mwaurelius The travesty of news manipulation goes back even further. Check the stories of what was left out of the so called ‘battle front’ news reels of WWII. Had American families been allowed to see the actual death toll and brutality of battle, the ‘stop the war’ movement might have begun long before VE or VJ day. Imagine today’s world if the internet had existed then or during WWI.
tripwire45 about 8 years ago
Hah! Eddie’s always right.
wdgnas about 8 years ago
how is it possible there were children held in the basement of the pizza place THAT DIDN’T HAVE A BASEMENT? is this another trumpism? like i know more than the generals, but puts them in his cabinet? or i am going to keep all the carrier jobs from moving to mexico but not all of them? at least trump didn’t say something really stupid like oops, my bad…
Kilrwat Premium Member about 8 years ago
Classic disinformation: give the truth to a lunatic so it will automatically be discounted.
Radish... about 8 years ago
Look at em oppress me.
Honorable Mention In The Banjo Toss Premium Member about 8 years ago
We are soon to have a fast-food magnate as secretary of labor. It would be to his advantage to have people believe that God has shut off the gravity. Eat more junk food, folks! Look how much less you weigh than you did during the previous administration.
dabugger about 8 years ago
Eddie’s is satire; which ‘they’ want to suppress real truth.As we said in the first place.
Durak Premium Member about 8 years ago
So, we can suppress truth, but not satire. Great.
withaG about 8 years ago
Something I saw in an author’s note at the end of a book I just read (written before all this talk about “fake news”) seems to cover what is going on today: “Decisions about what is true and what is not are made not by facts, but what we, as individuals, are predisposed to believe. Oftentimes this is based upon our personal, political, religious and cultural beliefs.”
whiteaj about 8 years ago
This is the real story. The authorities are not so much worried about fake news getting out as they are about REAL news getting out.
Brass Orchid Premium Member about 8 years ago
This is exactly why some people made it illegal to teach slaves how to write. I guess teaching them to read so they could follow written instruction was allowed, though. Say what you want about the Grand Old Party of The South, but they sure know how to uphold tradition.
jmworacle about 8 years ago
Wait! Did I miss something! Did Hillary really win?
Thomas & Tifffany Connolly about 8 years ago
The double edged sword of information!! It cuts both ways!!
Daeder about 8 years ago
Satire is protected, lying and calling it factual news is not.
Spade Jr. about 8 years ago
Miller, get with it, willya? The political funnies, liberal or conservative are DONE for awhile. Or are you not smart enough to come up with some original comic humor?
hippogriff about 8 years ago
Night-Gaunt49
Come on! Give Ben Bagadikan’s Media Monopoly proper credit. Since he died recently, he won’t personally gain from the plug.
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strictures
The atom bombing was a test; Hiroshima on a central business district (ignoring the naval base just out of blast range), and Nagasaki for residential (since Kokura was clouded over), coincidentally, the largest Christian community in Japan. The first peace attempts by Japan were in late April, through USSR, who stalled them until they could invade Manchuria for its factories. Another, more logical attempt was made through Switzerland in late July. Most Japanese military leaders knew the war was over after the loss of the Marianas, long before Trinity. Sure, there were a handful of fanatics who tried to kill Hirohito “in the name of the emperor” while his surrender broadcast was being played. They had no support from the military and when they committed suicide, let them bleed to death instead of the coup de grace decapitation.
harryrandolph about 8 years ago
The Truth? You can’t handle the truth!
Dr_Zinj about 8 years ago
Capt Eddie needs to go all Constitutional on those alleged agents.
4th Amendment:“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
5th Amendment:“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.”
GeorgeSteele over 5 years ago
Fake news is not “satire” – it’s propaganda and sedition. Who are you trying to kid with this apologist crappola? She lost in a massive face plant – get over it!