Michael Koby - Latest Comments in The Death of Satire

Re: The Death of Satire

J.P. Hamilton — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:16:46 -0000

Not that I am one to agree with Michael on politics :) - I should point out that the week this came out, there was a story about a woman who had to kill her crazed pet Chimp because it was attacking one of her friends - this story was all over the Internet. The cops had to shoot it because it went absolutely nuts. This is what the cartoon is satirizing. There is nothing racist about it. The race card is old and tired and the people that keep pulling it out are the ones that make their living out of creating controversy.

Re: The Death of Satire

Michael Koby — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:01:33 -0000

There's nothing saying that the congress-person that the monkey represents
isn't black. There is something to be said about the inherit racism
displayed by some police officers (see "American Skin" by Bruce
Springsteen). I'm definitely not saying that racism isn't an issue, but
rather, like you said, in this particular instance it was blow out of
proportion.

Re: The Death of Satire

Norman Tran — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:28:08 -0000

I agree that this whole racism issue is probably an overreaction. But what do you make of the cops shooting the monkey? How does that add to the metaphor that the monkey represents Congressional bill writers?