Does anyone else think Bibi's "bomb cartoon" was a little, well, embarrassing?

[yellowcanine]

Really, is this the way a national leader should talk to the U.N.?

[hlthe2b]

1. I was waiting for them to cut into a road runner/Wile E. Coyote cartoon.

Embarrassing? Good gawd, yes.

[BeyondGeography]

8. Agreed...all that's missing is the ACME branding

[OldDem2012]

2. Can you imagine how the MSM would have treated a US President? nt

[brush]

3. Yep

Good God! Not a good image. Whose picture would I see if I looked up the word "warmonger" in the dictionary?

[kysrsoze]

31. Completely unprofessional! He should have at least had the skeelz to create a PowerPoint

[MADem]

4. About as embarrassing as Colin Powell's truck cartoons and little vial!

Yeah, it was pretty embarrassing.

What cracks me up is the pre-WW2 drawing of what constitutes a "bomb." I mean, really--no one's going to be lobbing anything that looks like that over anyone's border anytime soon! He would have been a bit more convincing if he had a menacing-looking generic missile-looking thing on his graph!

[yellowcanine]

11. Good comparison. Two photos I am sure Powell wished didn't exist.

Has to be the biggest embarrassment of his life. OTOH, only one more for Bibi, who doesn't seem capable of embarrassing himself.

[MADem]

36. Bibi has a rather singular focus and he will not be swayed. He is convinced of the rightness of

his views, and that's never going to change. If the nation-state of Israel wants a different perspective at the helm, they have to trade Bibi out for a different model, because he's not shifting. He's like granite when it comes to his POV!

Powell, OTOH, was more willing to do as he was told than to tell the boss that what he was doing was wrong. Powell railed privately (and after-the-fact in a book) but didn't have the "granite" constitution to tell Porgie that this was a fool's errand and he didn't want to be played. He'd have a better place in history if he'd done that, to be blunt about it.

[WCGreen]

28. George W.'s 8-ball...

[GoCubsGo]

35. Yep. My thought exactly.

I'll never forget that day. They had the hearings on TV where I worked at the time. Some of my former co-workers were shitting their pants over it. I just said, "Cartoons? Are you fucking kidding me? That's their proof? They can read a license plate from a satellite, yet they can't produce anything but a cartoon of these alleged weapons labs? What bullshit!" That met with blank stares and the sound of crickets. I left at that point. I couldn't take it any more.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Embarrassing and insulting.

[porphyrian]

10. Insulting was my take. "Here's a cute pictograph for the stupid people."

He even pointed out the fuse.

[yellowcanine]

14. The whole notion of using a cartoon bomb to depict a nuclear device is something

which I am sure would just not occur to anyone who knows anything about weapons. Kind of like comparing a knife to an AK 47.

[porphyrian]

19. It think its intention was to simplify the message and the tone was that we were stupid...

...for not already agreeing with him.

[yellowcanine]

25. Yes, "simplifying the message" always makes it easier to convince people to go to war.

Just like saying "Saddam has WMD's and gassed his own people!" worked for Bush and Cheney in 2003.

[porphyrian]

26. Yep. Simplify the choice, dehumanize the enemy and distract from what you do with the money. n/t

[Marrah_G]

6. He is an ass

[rfranklin]

7. Not as sophisticated as Condi's "mushroom cloud"

but perfectly fitting for the cartoonish minds of the right wingers here and in Israel.

[randome]

9. It was intended as an homage to Herbert Lom.

[yellowcanine]

17. Heh. Perfect.

[randome]

22. Like this one.

http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&sa=X&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENUS364&biw=1280&bih=923&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=QY8NB-bLgMwrjM:&imgrefurl=http://talesfromahungrylife.wordpress.com/2010/05/&docid=gRfD6ei6r8QEgM&imgurl=&w=375&h=261&ei=YMdlUK70K-nxygHpsIF4&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=3&sig=111681497343413731752&page=1&tbnh=124&tbnw=165&start=0&ndsp=31&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0,i:80&tx=62&ty=34

[yellowcanine]

33. Clouseau: Special delivery—a bomb. [pronounced “beumb”] "Were you expecting a bomb?"

[n2doc]

12. looks like a fundraising graphic

"see, we have almost reached our goals for the year! A little more fear mongering and I'm sure the US will put us over the top"

[yellowcanine]

15. Except for the fuse it DOES look like a fundraising graphic.

Good catch.

[frogmarch]

13. I thought it looked like

a Christmas tree ornament and wondered wtf.

[MADem]

37. Harkhowthebells, Sweetsilverbells, allseemtosay, throwcaresaway!!!

Ho, ho, ho....indeed!!!!

[riverwalker]

16. The Road Runner and Wile. E. Coyote

a cartoon from a
loon

beep! beep! kabooom

[Nye Bevan]

21. .

[SDjack]

18. Finally, Iran knows where the 'Red Line" is. It's about a gnat's ass from

filling that sphere.

[HopeHoops]

20. Yeah. That's not a good graphic.

[hifiguy]

23. He looks like Boris Badenov.

All he's missing is Natasha Fatale.

[arthritisR_US]

24. I put it in the lame department. n/t

[WCGreen]

27. A little condescending as well...

[valerief]

29. I wasn't embarrassed. I do agree with Stewart's take on it, that it looks

like a Wile E. Coyote bomb.

[Mr Dixon]

30. LOL

Now that is sad

[ann---]

32. Yes, it was

childish and ridiculous. He must know that he was being laughed at by so many people.

[yellowcanine]

34. Mitt is probably kicking himself that he didn't think of using a graphic like that in one of his

speeches. Except he would have used an Etch a Sketch and it would not have "worked" as well.

[wtmusic]

38. Absolutely not...it was HORRIBLY embarrassing.

Love the white out at the left edge...nice touch