How Does Doonesbury Stay Ahead of the Curve? 3 comments
Jeez, Louise, Jiminy Cricket and Jesus H. Christ on a shingle, I never thought I'd look forward so much to Labor Day falling on the anniversary of the beginning of WW II, 1 September this year, as I do now.
Never mind that the election won't be for another solid 2 months after that.
OK, for starters, speaking as a born Elitist Upper East Sider, and as someone who went through High School being Ja Accused of looking like a young Harold Ross, and who also recently spent his days toiling at work cleaning, and thinking of interior decorating plans for an outdoor latrine called the New Yorker, and who who just so happens to own the complete set of the New Yorker cartoons, all of this hullabaloo is a non-starter.
Why?
Well, the TheNewYorker.com website has an Alexa traffic rank of 5,600, or so, and that's for the entire world of web freeloaders.
Here in the good old USA, The New Yorker has a paid subscriber base of about 1 million copies a month, about 1/3 of 1% of the US population, or to put it another way....
99.67% of the American population does NOT subscribe to The New Yorker.
Never have, never will.
In other words, they don't influence jack diddly squat and it's delusional to think that they do.
Just like nobody listens to Techno, no one reads The New Yorker, not even for the cartoons.
Various other phrases around all this sound and fury spring to mind as well:
Slow News Day, Summer Doldrums, Dog Days Of Summer, Help!!! I've Got A 24 Hour News Cycle To Fill and I Can't Get Up!!!
Etc, etc, you get the picture.
This is not to say that there isn't any merit to these attacks on our Mister Obama being uncalled for and below the belt and just downright unsporting, because they are.
It's been little noticed in this past week but Doonesbury pretty much covered all this ground in the last week of the just passed month of June:
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