National Post: The Canadian publisher of the Franklin the Turtle children’s book series condemned U.S. Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth’s use of the normally friendly anthropomorphic animal’s image in a “violent” meme posted to social media.
It’s going about as well as you’d expect.
Isn’t Naval bazooka-ist … inclusive? And isn’t it kind and empathetic for Franklin to save thousands of kids from a horrific drug poison death?
Does he also target the CIA?
Or is he just cleaning out the competition?
Saw this on Fox and Friends early this morning. My somewhat conservative wife complained it was distasteful, she likes Pete but this was too much. I told her this is the internet, and the company will regret complaining because the response with memes will be 1000x worse for them. Within an hour I started to see them.
Explain that, for the last 20 years, the institutional left has kept conservatives dancing from one linguistic hot button to another, constantly editing the list of banned and offensive words – not because anyone was offended, but as a mechanism of political control.
And now, it’s over. They are reaping the consequences of people who have finally figured out what they were up to and are turning their silly word weaponry back at them.
Conservatives are better at it because we actually have a sense of humour. Our memes are 1000x better than their scolding. She gave me hell (on my birthday) for laughing at the cartoon. I just tried to give her some perspective.
Show her the thousands of times the left has mocked Jesus or Christians and Christmas.
Exactly. If I had a dime for every time a prog called Jesus “Jee-bus”.
Over at the left-wing Globe and Mail, readers are emotionally upset at Franklin the Turtle being compromised by Hegseth. Shocked and outraged as they say.
Franklin and Pete Hegseth Laugh at Communists
Gold.
What’s wrong with using two missiles on a target instead of one?
It’s not like they were blowing up a family. Oh? What’s that? … When Obama or Biden does it it’s okay?
When Mark Kelly did it, it was okay, but in Mark Kelly World, it’s a war crime.
If there is an ‘intellectual property’ argument here I’ll listen, my guess is there isn’t one. Any time we can tick-off the killjoys, we should do it. And it is pretty damn funny.
The US has historically interpreted the satire exemptions to IP law very broadly. Since this isn’t a satire of Franklin it’s a grey area, and satirists generally use heavily modified likenesses to avoid it. Historically this kind of situation is determined by who has the most expensive lawyers.
Most memes are all kinds of violations of IP law, the posters just aren’t worth going after. Hegseth is a different matter.
I briefly looked to see which variation of the Streisand Effect this is, if you scroll down a bit the collection looks to be able to cover any topic the left is sensitive to. Hopefully the collection grows to attack the tier 2 gov’t of Canada
and yes, my kids all had Franklin books.
I’m sorry, the rebuttals write themselves.
When a job is too tough for the seals, they call in the turtles.
Hey it’s Hegseth, coming over to play-yay-yay,
America’s response to the Regan ad.
Trump: “Why did you call in Franklin?”
Hegseth: “Well, sir, Rocky and Bulwinkle were busy.”
Didn’t know about Franklin the Turtle. Looks like a goof.
I am an old guy who remembers a better turtle….Howard the Turtle, on Razzle Dazzle, in the 60s on CBC.
Howard, and Fred Hamm, were just silly jokesters, then take 30 gave us serious shit, with Adrienne Clarkson, before she became a GG, the first CBC chick to become GG, after which we were graced with the Haitian chick from CBC, Michael Jean, and now we have Mary Simon, also from CBC but with a bigger budget. shoes, trips on planes, and even an ice rink.
Razzle Dazzle – Alan Hamel, long before he was polishing his knob with Suzanne Somers. I can’t remember whether I joined the fan club or not. Best CBC show outside The Friendly Giant.
Outstanding work, Pete!
Winding the self-righteous woke left up tight is a critical step on the path of restoring sanity in Western Civilization. No rational person trusts anyone who takes themselves as seriously as do Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi and Gavin Newsom.
This is a terrible things for kids to see. This will mislead them into thinking you can launch a rocket from inside a helicopter.
We have to teach them about the dangers of back blast when using a bazooka or RPG.
Franklin Annexes Western Canada:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G7NnzYBbMAAXOw-?format=jpg&name=small
And if Franklin was buggering another turtle, it would be stunning and brave. I personally find this offensive. Every red-blooded Murcan know the Huey used FFARs and M60 door guns, not those commie RPGs
For a settlement why don’t they just actually publish the book and make a fortune. I’d buy it for my son. He’s 35.
So sorry, Franklin belongs to us now.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Today’s Globe and Mail ran a cartoon attempting to use Franklin against Hegseth, and the remarkable thing was that it wasn’t ludicrously bad. Oh, it sure wasn’t good, and it was frankly embarassing by the standards of the new-emergent genre, but it wasn’t hopelessly bad. That Franklin, he’s even charming when he’s being used by the assholes at the Globe to tote disgusting shit.