An audience with Lord Love-a-duck
Just a few things to say about the Michael Leunig interview on Enough Rope last night. Firstly, it's interesting that he home-schools his children. I wonder if he'll cop any criticism for that, given that there's a general suspicion of home-schoolers, who in Australia tend to be mostly 'fundamental' Christians, and in America either fundy or just trying to keep lefty moonbat ranters out of their kids' heads.
Secondly, I was intrigued by the exchange in which Denton confronted Leunig with a quote from the period of the 'Holocaust cartoon competition' episode, "there are people determined to bring Leunig down". Leunig vigorously denied ever saying anything like that, and though I suspect Denton would do his research well, one has to give Leunig the benefit of the doubt, until the quote gets definitely sourced. All kinds of people get misquoted, for all kinds of reasons. But in the very next breath, Leunig himself then goes on to attribute an improbable-sounding quote to "a Melbourne columnist" (let me guess, initials AB?), who supposedly called on his readers to "take Leunig down". This sounds like absolute balderdash, and I won't be surprised to see a rebuttal from, er, AB. (Update: 'AB' has indeed rebutted this absurd claim).
Asked by Denton for an exposition of his notorious Israel=Auschwitz cartoon, Leunig was mealy-mouthed and evasive: "Cartoons are ambiguous, they have many meanings". The closest he came to an explanation was merely fatuous: apparently Israel is like Auschwitz because both are surrounded by barbed wire. A hint to our Living National Treasure: the wire around Auschwitz was to keep people in, the 'wire' around Israel is to keep people out. There's a difference.
I'm sorry Denton passed up the opportunity to ask Leunig the one question I would want to put: given that Bush, Blair and Howard, to say nothing of the evil Zionists, are getting it all horribly wrong, what exactly would Leunig's plan be to deal with militant Islam? Your time starts now, and answers involving hugging or ducks will not be accepted...
Just a few things to say about the Michael Leunig interview on Enough Rope last night. Firstly, it's interesting that he home-schools his children. I wonder if he'll cop any criticism for that, given that there's a general suspicion of home-schoolers, who in Australia tend to be mostly 'fundamental' Christians, and in America either fundy or just trying to keep lefty moonbat ranters out of their kids' heads.
Secondly, I was intrigued by the exchange in which Denton confronted Leunig with a quote from the period of the 'Holocaust cartoon competition' episode, "there are people determined to bring Leunig down". Leunig vigorously denied ever saying anything like that, and though I suspect Denton would do his research well, one has to give Leunig the benefit of the doubt, until the quote gets definitely sourced. All kinds of people get misquoted, for all kinds of reasons. But in the very next breath, Leunig himself then goes on to attribute an improbable-sounding quote to "a Melbourne columnist" (let me guess, initials AB?), who supposedly called on his readers to "take Leunig down". This sounds like absolute balderdash, and I won't be surprised to see a rebuttal from, er, AB. (Update: 'AB' has indeed rebutted this absurd claim).
Asked by Denton for an exposition of his notorious Israel=Auschwitz cartoon, Leunig was mealy-mouthed and evasive: "Cartoons are ambiguous, they have many meanings". The closest he came to an explanation was merely fatuous: apparently Israel is like Auschwitz because both are surrounded by barbed wire. A hint to our Living National Treasure: the wire around Auschwitz was to keep people in, the 'wire' around Israel is to keep people out. There's a difference.
I'm sorry Denton passed up the opportunity to ask Leunig the one question I would want to put: given that Bush, Blair and Howard, to say nothing of the evil Zionists, are getting it all horribly wrong, what exactly would Leunig's plan be to deal with militant Islam? Your time starts now, and answers involving hugging or ducks will not be accepted...
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