Yeah… yeah…. basically I agree with the Wege:
When you’ve got all those pictures of Bachmann looking like the just got laid prom queen the morning after, you don’t need to run pix of her with horns.
Seriously. This isn’t humor so much as grist for the other side. I don’t agree for a second that the Living Word video hurt Wetterling, but there’s no way we gain from photoshopped rudeness and every likelihood these pix will surface in two years at an inopportune time. Put another way, how would you react to seeing Keith Ellison with horns? I know I for one would be a little pissed if I saw that.
Fighting the wingnut hordes doesn’t require us to adopt their tactics. There are more ways of being mean than “conservatives” can begin to imagine, so let’s try something a little more imaginative and a lot less persecutory.
You’ve got a meme: Bachmann’s church despises Catholics. Stick with that one. Horns just make people feel persecuted, and I think we all know what pains in the ass Christians can become when they feel persecuted.
Not that you don’t have every right to publish what you like. I just don’t see where the gain is in all of this.
…But, dammit! One of those pics of Michele Bachmann cries out for one single, tiny added detail to make it absolutely perfect, and just this once I’m gonna be the one to add it:
Ahhh. I feel better now.
UPDATE: Later that same night, once I got home from work and could tweak it a little, I arrived at version 2.0
Which do you like better? Leave your vote in the comments.
ANOTHER UPDATE: Overnight in the comments Photoshop Goddess Idyllopus and new DL-er Nihilix both voted for the new tweaked version, and I have to agree:
Rrrrrr! MS Paint bad! Paint Shop Pro good!
Oh, I think you “get” exactly what I was saying. This is a perfect example of what TO DO with photoshop. It’s funnier than it is political, and you can’t say that about a picture of Michele Bachmann as “the Beast of Babylon.”
Wow. I stand in awe.
5 of one, half dozen of the other, but the second.
Who she actually reminds me of is Ado Annie Carnes in Oklahoma.
I like 2.0.
And I liked meeting you at Drinking Liberally!
nihilix
ooooh – and you have one cool site. nice works!
Thanks, nihilix — it was great to meet you too. Come on back now, hear?
Idyllopus: Hey! good to hear from you. Yeah, I like the 2nd version better too. I always have better results when I’m not at work and therefore don’t have to rely on using only MS Paint. Yeesh!
They’re both good, actually.
By the way: Have you tried The Gimp? It’s a freeware graphics program. http://www.gimp.org/
Oh boy; if only I had a dollar for every time I’ve been told about Gimp in the last few years..!
Yes, I know I should look into it, and I will eventually, but I dread having to learn something new from the ground up when I’m only now — after three years! — figuring out all the bells & whistles on my trusty old Paint Shop Pro 7.04.
Yeah, I’m a slow learner.
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