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Title:The Hunting Notesfile
Notice:Registry #7, For Sale #15, Success #270
Moderator:SALEM::PAPPALARDO
Created:Wed Sep 02 1987
Last Modified:Tue Jun 03 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1561
Total number of notes:17784

1420.0. "Tank McNamara" by 29067::J_HENSON (Don't get even, get ahead!) Tue Dec 06 1994 09:05

Does anyone read the comic strip _Tank_McNamara_?  It's usually in the
sports sections, and satirizes events going on in the world of sports.
And by sports, I mean baselball, football, basketball and such.

Every now and then, though, he gets on gun-control or hunters.  Right
now, he's doing some stuff with hunters.  It's sort of wierd.  He has
some people protesting hunting, but has Charleton Heston reprising
his Moses role to counter them.  I'm not quite sure who he's digging
on this, but I don't particularly care for it.

Usually his topics are the offshoot of some recent event (like the
baseball strike, for example).  I'm trying to figure out what recent
even spurred this series.  Anyone know?

Jerry
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1420.1Never too late to join the NRA30029::MERCIERTue Dec 06 1994 10:0513
         It looks like a double whammy to me. He's getting hunters and the
    NRA in one shot. Charleton Heston is a speaker and member of the NRA.
    As far as the recent turn of events you need look no further than our
    recent elections. It was in the paper recently that Clinton was over 
    heard saying that the assault weapons ban was responsible for the loss
    of 21 seats in the house. The anti_gun, anti_hunting liberals are 
    severly bruised right now BUT they'll work their way back if we let
    them! Isn't Tank Mcnamara in the GLobe??? If so, you don't have to go
    any further left than that to get your fill of that crap..........
    
    That's my honest opion for what it's worth.......
    
    Bob M�
1420.2DNEAST::GOULD_RYANTue Dec 06 1994 11:5013
    
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    My thoughts exactly. The "cartoonist" that pens Tank McNamara has often
    put in digs, always portraying shooters and hunters as unshaven,
    ignorant slobs with beer guts. For several years he did this with the
    "Assault Weapons" issue, with the person of the above description
    holding an AK-47 with a banana clip and yelling about the sporting
    virtues of such "weapons of mass destruction".
    The Anti crowd has been dealt a serious repudiation in the elections
    but look for them to use every method of mass media, including comic 
    strips, to attempt to win the "hearts and minds" of the folks in middle 
    America.
1420.324661::LEFEBVREPCBU Asia/Pacific MarketingTue Dec 06 1994 13:1013
    Sheesh guys, lighten up.  It's satire.
    
    Do you get offended when Tank McNamara portrays sports fans as fat,
    drunk, unshaven neanderthals?  Do you get offended when he depicts the
    average male as a lazy couch potato who needs to have the channel
    clicker surgically removed from his clutches?  Of course not.
    
    It's meant to poke fun at us.  I thought it was hilarious, especially
    after Heston zapped the animal rights activists with lightning.
    
    Too funny.
    
    Mark.
1420.4WAHOO::LEVESQUEwhat's the frequency, Kenneth?Wed Dec 07 1994 07:577
    It'd be a lot funnier if our rights weren't being systematically
    eliminated, with the assistance of people like cartoonists, stand up
    comics, Djs etc whose inaccurate and extremely unflattering portrayals
    of gun owners and hunters sow the seeds of the acceptability of
    eliminating our rights. Just my opinion.
    
     The Doctah
1420.524661::LEFEBVREPCBU Asia/Pacific MarketingThu Dec 08 1994 12:413
    Mark, I see your point, but I still found the cartoons hilarious.
    
    Mark.
1420.6it cant offend if you dont see it.16616::MELENDEZFri Dec 09 1994 13:468
    Hi guys,
    The LA times is so far left and anti gun its not funny.
    Do what I do. Dont buy the paper, and if they try to give it to you
    refuse.  Also let them know why.  I dont buy some forms of alcohol due
    to the fact that for every bottle the Kenedys of Mass get ten cents.
    
    Joe.