Snopes/the Urban Legends Reference Pages has something to say on the subject of that Coup cd cover pictured below:
Claim: The planned cover for a hip-hop album due to be released in November depicted an exploding World Trade Center.Status: True.
Origins: The image below pictures the planned cover art (prepared in June 2001) for the forthcoming "Party Music" album by the hip-hop group The Coup. The cover depicts The Coup with an exploding World Trade Center in the background; group member DJ Pam the Funktress waves two sticks held between thumbs and forefingers (as if "conducting" the proceedings with two batons) while "Boots" Riley displays what looks like a detonator (but is actually just a guitar tuner).
They include further explanation, but since it's a quote from an interview in The Stranger, why not go straight to the source. Not The Source; they stay firmly out of the political stuff.
Anti-capitalist rap group the Coup planned to use the image pictured here as the cover for its new album, Party Music, slated to be released in October. On the day of the terrorist attacks, Elektra Records vetoed the image. The Stranger was able to talk to the Coup's MC Boots Riley about these events.You were for keeping the cover?
Yeah, and this is why: As the day unfolded, I saw--which is what I should've known--what the media was doing with this tragedy. How the media and the government were using people's shock and sadness to parlay it into spending millions more on the military, and to parlay it into making people [approve of] super right-wing measures--and using this incident on Tuesday to put forth the picture that this happened in a vacuum, as opposed to what really is going on--the fact that this is just one in a series of blows that needs to be compared to what the U.S. does on a yearly basis throughout the world. Even if all 50,000 workers died in there, it wouldn't match up to the 100,000 people the U.S. generals ordered to be killed in East Timor.
This album cover has you blowing up the Trade Center. I mean, that's...
Well, obviously that wouldn't have been as funny if I made it after this [event].
Now, here's what I find interesting.
The warbloggers, by and large a group of conservative or libertarian het white men often proclaim, in anguished tones, that their voice goes unheard in theliberalmedia. That it's the leftists who get all the print and tv coverage and suchlike.
Maybe I'm following the wrong liberalmedia, but I'm not hearing opinions like Boots'. Much love to Sarah Vowell (thanks, George!), but she's not going that far out, and she's at the boundaries of allowable dissent. And some of the warblogger reactions to the Salon piece on 'Forbidden Thoughts". . . sheesh.
Whatever happened to goring sacred cows and being politically incorrect and shit? Or is that only acceptable when it's directed at someone else?
Ok, that was a rhetorical question.
Dear God, Instapundit uses the old "rope-a-dope" cliché to describe Bush's UN speech.
These people. . . aren't really people, are they? They're just defective AIs running unattended in the basement of a university somewhere.
Their stupidity is real. But they are not.
I'm not even sure how the phrase works in this context.
Rope-a-dope refers to taking a great amount of punishment, albeit less than your opponent thinks, in the hopes of placing them in a false sense of security.
How do you do this when you're not taking any punishment and everyone knows you're lying through your teeth...especially when they can see you loading up with the overhead right miles and miles away?
and again, who's the dope in this strategy?
Speaking of "Rope-A_Dope"... is it just the burning white man hatred thats embedded in me speaking or does everyone else think that the "joke" executed by the latest three anal crusts of society was entirely in poor taste and they deserved to be beaten within an inch of death, pitched over the side of the highway they were stopped on and left to crawl to find medical help? Oh wait, they're medical students. They could potentially heal themselves so add "break every bone in their hands" to the previous laundry list of "to-do's".
i didn't even know about rope-a-dope until i heard it in a public enemy song...would have looked it up at that point but i unfortunately don't own the right dictionary. [open to suggestions] then i heard xtian slater drop it in the film broken arrow, anybody remember who wrote the script?
confidential to lord shag: i'm not sure, but if you're right then i'm in big trouble for telling someone just the other day "i have the feeling we're in for something that's going to make 9/11 look like a sunday picnic." i did not mean to imply that this feeling was in any way a good feeling. it is, in fact, a very, very bad feeling.
i seem to remember saying the same thing after oklahoma city, and it seems as if i was right...
Fertile- Did you mention that you were not sure if you had enough explosives to "bring it down" and if you didnt, you did have a contact that might have?
If so, please state your location so I can drum up the beat down squad.
If not, then I think you are ok, for the time being.
You did realise "Anti-Idiotarian" shortens to "AI", didn't you?
The one time they had an opportunity to create something substantive (an organisation, CitCUN), they squibbed it. My view is that as soon as the IT sector turns up again, these folks will get jobs again and not have as much time for blogging.
freetles, nope, missed that. Try not to think about that little self-description too much.
I don't see them playing well with others, for some reason. Or do they not even play well with each other?
"I don't see them playing well with others, for some reason. Or do they not even play well with each other?"
Or themselves...
I'd play with Laura.
Need I remind you all that this is a family-friendly site?
Stop laughing, damn you.
LOL - Aaaron don't hinder the Lord. It's the nicest thing I've heard in...days. Well, I guess I'm better off than I originally thought.