{"id":8121,"date":"2010-10-13T06:30:34","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T13:30:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8121"},"modified":"2010-10-13T12:46:49","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T19:46:49","slug":"toon-remix-of-the-political-moment-a-mickey-mouse-response-to-becks-daffy-claim-that-donald-duck-spoof-a-government-conspiracy-against-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8121","title":{"rendered":"Toon Remix of the Political Moment: A Mickey Mouse Response to Beck&#8217;s Goofy Claim that Donald Duck Spoof a Government Conspiracy Against Him!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/MickeyMouse_Pluto_BeckRadio_med.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">If American politics and political discourse is going to devolve into little more than a bad Disney cartoon &#8212; and it has, as this election season demonstrates in spades &#8212; why not just cut out the middle man and cut straight to the cartoon chase?<\/p>\n<p>Our thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/rs\/2010\/10\/beck-calls-cartoon-remix-federally-funded-propaganda-apparently-scaring-mickey-mouse\/\">Stephen C. Webster at RAW STORY<\/a> for drawing our attention to the latest escalation in the Glen Beck Toon Wars (so far, a one-sided war, in truth).<\/p>\n<p>The first volley was the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8104\">&#8220;duckin&#8217; brilliant&#8221;<\/a> remix of Donald Duck cartoons by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebelliouspixels.com\/2010\/right-wing-radio-duck-donald-discovers-glenn-beck\">Jonathan McIntosh of Rebellious Pixels<\/a> &#8212; wherein our hero is driven daffy by the paranoid <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7712\">tea bagger<\/a> rantings of the Fox &#8220;News&#8221; superstar.<\/p>\n<p>In response, Fox&#8217; finest fantasist has seemingly become convinced the whole thing is a Big Government conspiracy out to get him. &#8220;Some of these remix videos, I believe, get federal funding,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebelliouspixels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Glenn-Beck-Responds-To-Donald-Duck-Video.mp3\">declared Beck<\/a> on his radio show last week. &#8220;We&#8217;re looking into the funding of this gentleman, and the <i>incredible<\/i> propaganda against me,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;ll find out if it&#8217;s been federally funded, ya know, as part of the stimulus package.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, apparently Mickey Mouse isn&#8217;t taking Beck&#8217;s latest goofy conspiracy theory lying down, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/ikat381\">YouTube poster &#8220;ikat381&#8221;<\/a> helped us to learn over the weekend&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"341\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dbjjTLVrkKA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/dbjjTLVrkKA?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"341\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Keep it comin&#8217;, Glenn! We&#8217;re lovin&#8217; these toons! So, we&#8217;d be <i>outraged<\/i> if we were you!<\/p>\n<p>If you missed McIntosh&#8217;s brilliant original, here it is again. It&#8217;s as smart a take on (and reflection of) today&#8217;s political environment as anything else we&#8217;re likely to see, at least until the elections are far behind us. So sit back and enjoy it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HfuwNU0jsk0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/HfuwNU0jsk0?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If American politics and political discourse is going to devolve into little more than a bad Disney cartoon &#8212; and it has, as this election season demonstrates in spades &#8212; why not just cut out the middle man and cut straight to the cartoon chase? Our thanks to Stephen C. Webster at RAW STORY for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,289,60],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fox-news","category-glenn-beck","category-toons","bb-type-toon"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8121"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}