Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has an MBA and worked for a consulting firm before getting involved in Israeli politics, so he knows a little something about livening up a boring presentation with graphics. Unfortunately the fuddy-duddies at the U.N. nixed his innovative PowerPoint idea, or maybe their projector didn’t have the right port for him to plug his laptop into (Thunderbolt is the new hotness, guys, get with the program), so he had to use this drawing of a comical cartoon bomb, of the sort that Wiley E. Coyote would use on the Road Runner, instead. If you were the underling tasked with Israeli U.N. presentation graphic design, what icon would you have used? Some suggestions, after the jump!
How about a V-2 rocket? It’s very iconic, with the fins and all. Plus it’s much more vertical than the cartoon bomb, which means it’s better for use as an impromptu uranium enrichment-measuring bar graph. And it was invented by actual Nazis, which really adds an extra protection-of-the-Jewish-people zing to the image.
They could also Photoshop this classic picture from 2008, in which the Iranian government already Photoshopped in extra missles to make their missile launch more scary looking. Each extra missile represents another 10% more uranium enrichment. Plus it will teach the Israelis and Iranians that sometimes they have the same PR goals!
Or maybe the problem is that the Bibi’s bomb wasn’t cartoonish enough? Perhaps we should introduce a wacky, bumbling character named Kaboom! (translation into Hebrew and/or Farsi pending) who would represent the Iranian nuclear program, spouting anti-Semitic rants and getting into hijinks. “Hey, Zionist filth, I’m almost to the 90% level … whoooops, another one of my scientist friends just got assassinated! Wha-hey!” “THAT’S OUR KABOOM!”
Meanwhile, Raytheon is working on a Water-Based Bomb Wick Dousing System, which will be marketed to interested governments at a reasonable eight-digit price. [Guardian]
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Any truth to the rumor that Acme Industries is suing for Intellectual Property rights?
Jessica Rabbit is a sleeper agent…
You're straining here to make a joke about a situation that is poised to open up WW III.
If you can't joke about WWIII and mass extermination in the name of religion, what CAN you joke about?
Kim Kardashian's boobs?
And her tits, too.
Oh, I didn't know we were using "joking" as a euphemism…
In that case, I too have an issue with people "joking" about WWIII…
Crippled Italian midgets?
Are they crippled *Black* Italian Midgets?
Because I have a TON of black jokes that need an outlet. Been bottled up too long here in post-racial 'Merika.
Might I suggest…?
Mangled baby ducks.
What's your point?
There is nothing about which The Wonkerati will not joke – and proudly so.
One is tempted to suggest "Lighten up, Francis."
Fuck, if you told me there was a nuke headed over to NYC right now, I'd be on here commenting about urban renewal, waiting for the flash outside my window
And wow would my commute back to Jersey be a breeze.
Because you'd be part of the breeze is where you're going with that..?
I don't get it.
With such a serious situation poised, maybe Netanyahu should have been a little more professional with his presentation, no?
Only if the rest of the world gets involved.
Man, wait… don't get me wrong, but if Israel jumps first and starts bombing Iran, Obama goddamn well better step back and assess.
The only joke here is that Netty is desperately trying anything he can think of to START that WW3. Cant you see the desperation in his eyes? Its like hes on a last, desperate schedule or something…
It's more of a strain to joke about it after WWIII begins. Joke while the joking's good, I say!
The world will not end with a bang, but with a sarcastic chuckle.
Isn't that cute. You actually think the world would get involved while Israel turns Iran to glass. Adorable.
Glad to see you've already bought the hype. WWIII, my ass. Call me when China has its finger on the button, m'kay? Thanks.
Bibi Unveils Israel's Latest Weapon Against Iran
Angry Bombs (away).
But aren't the new Hungry, Hungry Piggies more Assassin oriented?
Wait til you see the new Israeli Space Defense Initiative.
At least he's circumscribed.
Iswydt
At what point do you draw the red line when a Palestinian youth pulls back on his slingshot, before he releases that rock on that tank? When he puts the rock in or when he starts pulling back on the rubber?
You don't have to draw a line, you just have to touch the screen and KABLAM! the bomb blows up before he even fires it off!
This got nixed in the green room no nukes
I just hope Israel doesn't need to cheat and use a Mighty Bald Eagle.
Let's just hope Iran never acquires anvil technology.
Israel may have to deploy their Road Runner counterstrike.
I hope Bibi doesn't take a wrong turn at Astaneh-ye Ashrafiyeh.
Is dat like Alboykoikee?
"Here is a secret photo of the Iranian Illudium Q -36 Explosive Space Modulator!"
And everyone hears the same Warner Brothers music.
"Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be an Earth-shattering kaboom!"
Delays, delays!
I hate to correct my dear Wonkette editors but that bomb is a Rocky and Bullwinkle type of bomb. It is definitely not a Roadrunner type. Carry on.
http://i.ebayimg.com/t/BORIS-BOMB-Rocky-Bullwinkl…
Watch me pull a bomb out of my hat.
Wrong hat?
I usually take a size 6 7/8.
Now that's something EVERYONE can enjoy!
My, what a big link you have.
Right? Fucking Google. How does it work?
I heard it was something about all-go-rythyms, some kinda beats, I guess.
Well they did get their nuclear reactor designs from the Russians.
With Boris and Natasha's help, of course.
Moose and Squirrel libel!
It looks more like a Zelda bomb to me. Now we need to beat the Bombchu Bowling to get the bigger bomb bag.
plus the fuse needs Viagra.
when i was a wee miss fuflans and the acting bug was beginning to take hold, i informed my parents i wanted to be natasha when i grew up.
only when i matured did i realize i actually wanted to be cruella de ville.
What, no classic mushroom bomb image?
We don't want this cartoon to end up as a mushroom cloud.
His presentation could use advice from Louis Gohmert.
Soulda brought some anthrax. It worked for Gen. Powell.
How about a Super Big Gulp, this is America.
Illegal in NYC.
Diplomatic immunity, bitches!
Did Bibi hire Wile E. Coyote as a speechwriter?
Hey, Bibi? BEEP-BEEP!
Luv, Obama
That's the most cromulent presentation to the UN on imaginary threats since Colin Powel's.
It embiggens Iran to enrich more weapons grade uranium.
Needz moar Mad magazine Spy vs Spy.
I guess Obama's the Black Spy?
Oh, I made a MAD magazine "Goy vs. Goy" comment before reading the thread. Bad me.
Maybe they can paint a fake tunnel on the side of a cliff and trick the Iranians into running into it!
Or have a train come out and run over them while they're looking at it!
"If my friend Mahmoud was in dis stove, would I toin da gas on?" – Bugs Obammy
Or drop a really heavy metal object on them, before or after the train.
He's a Jew, so he's against power pointification.
Jon Stewart nailed it (as per usual) – "Bibi, if you need to know what a nuclear bomb looks like, go check the basement."
Meep, meep!
NEEDZ MOAR SNIDLEY WHIPLASH!!!!!!!!!
Holy smokes! I had no idea the Iranians possessed such advanced technology! And the fuse is already lit!
Bomb them now Mr. President! For the love of all that is good and holy, bomb them now, before it's too late!
Our precious bodily fluids are at stake here….
The moment he took a dinner with Sarah and Todd Palin in Israel is the moment I lost respect for Bibi as a statesman.
I lost respect for Bibi as a statesman 20 years ago.
Nettin-Yahoo is just itching for a war. Iran's been about 2 years away from getting a nuclear weapon since 1986 according to the neocons.
Like Roth from Miami, they keep dying of that same heart attack.
Then Iran's just gotta have it! Just gotta!
What's worse is that our own neo-cons have been itching for a war with Iran since the Revolution, so the talk never quite ever dies.
Nettie-pot knows exactly what he's doing, he's trying to get our neo-cons screaming murder so that he can force the president's hand. They tried getting Bush into Iran, and as much as I hate Bush, even he wasn't dumb enough to take that bait.
Bibi also wants to know why the windows in airplanes don't open.
If the windows open "they" can drop them big ole bombs?
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! JOSH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seeing most of the world laughing at Bibi has taken me to the final stage.
A special treat via Juan Cole's [ where he brings the snark too]. A commenter links to this:
http://972mag.com/bibis-acme-bomb-at-unga-inspire…
The Bob Dylan one was priceless.
Oh hell fucking yes:
http://972mag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Itay…
Put your hands on your tits (but your hips will do!) …
I like the one of Bibi in blackface.
Hey Bibi? You want war with Iran? Get lost, that Mitt has sailed.
What all you smartasses dont know is that is actually what the Iranian bomb looks like.
Nah, with the sanctions they can't afford red toner cartridges anymore. The Iranian bombs are pure black and white now.
He could have at least made a PowerPoint presentation.
"Kaboom! (translation into Hebrew and/or Farsi pending)"
Moobak!
I think that's right…
Looks like Farsi about face to me.
This is good news for John McCain.
And the Beach Boys.
Beach Boy, now.
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Here's what he should have used: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ80Ainr1P8
Slim Pickens riding the bomb at the end of Dr. Strangelove, with the cowboy hat representing the last 10 percent.
You dropped the bomb on me, Bibi.
GAP BAND WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(edit: I never thought I'd type that in my life)
Great now you're the one sticking songs in my head. And yay for more p-ness. Easy as one, two, three. Or simple as do re mi. ABC, one, two, three, baby, you and me girl!
For the WIN!
After the presentation he ran straight into a cliff face that had a tunnel painted on it.
If, only…Perhaps the Israeli people will retire him (with votes) at the next election…
In magic underwear.
EDIT: Aw, c'mon, I hate replying to dead air.
Water-Based Bomb Wick Dousing System
Enough with the Mormon mouth sex stories!
The wingnuts are in power in Israel, and would like Mericia to be likewise.
Hey, don't give Bibi shit about his graphics — for a dire warning of an imminent threat given by a neocon, that's an entirely appropriate picture. It should be taken with requisite seriousness.
Which nation is Tom and which nation is Jerry?
Answer this carefully. You don't want to be called an antisemite.
Truthfully, it kinda strikes me as more of an Elmer Fudd vs Yosemite Sam kinda deal here…
Just wait until Iran reads the fine print on their new bomb: "Warning: not effective on Road Runners."
Also, I hear Iran's economy is hovering next to the big cliff of sanctions and they're about to look down.
Did he make explosion sounds like someone playing Battleship? Also, that comb-over is positively Trumpesque.
GIULIANI LIBEL!
Bibi is Israel's W.
Yup. Though to be fair, he's much more articulate. But yeah, the dumbass son of a famous family who made good.
Boom-Boom, out go the lights! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab39zSPKLC8
And this is why Obama won't take his calls.
Your move, Colin Powell …
"BOOM!" goes the Israelite.
Even with the popularity of that vid, I don't think enough people will up-fist this in the manner it so richly deserves.
Why thank you kind madam/sir!
**takes a bow**
Bibi better watch out for falling pianos.
also. too. Bacon!
I knew the Comics Curmudgeon was going to have a field day with this one. Right up your old alley, Josh.
"Right up your old alley, Josh."
Always the buttsecks with you people.
Sorry Inga, I didn't realize you were feeling so left out. The invitation to join us "you people" is always open.
Another quality explosive by Acme Inc. We thank Bibi for his business, our base market of coyotes hunting birds was a bit limited.
And why would Iran want a nuclear weapon anyway? I mean it's not like politicians from two nuclear armed nations are constantly making threats to bomb them just for the hell of it and they might want to have the means to deter those threats or anything.
I mean after all, it's not like North Korea hasn't been threatened by anyone since THEY got the bomb.
I can't believe people don't get this. The Iranian regime is a terrible one, but their quest for the bomb is not rocket science (well, it is, actually). Folks don't seem to remember that they didn't really start shifting this program into high gear untl Dubya pushed them into the "Axis of Evil", which fed right into the regimes cynical hands and which allowed their nutjob president to be elected in the first place. There would have been no Mahmoud without Dubya.
Surely, it would be a good idea for the US to follow this guy off the cliff at top speed. What could go wrong?
In an a related story stock of the Acme company is up 15% in anticipation of more bomb purchases.
A little classic video would have worked too. Ultimato Rad Boy.
"Leave Bond to me."
Perhaps he could have used a picture of Chris Christie. Fat Man.
When I look at the picture, all I think is if that Convenience Store gets 500 more bucks in donations they will have reached their goal of helping to cure Juvenile Diabetes.
Forget about that Acme Bomb. I want that cool ability to hang in mid air, after stepping off a cliff, then have my body stretch as I begin to fall. And, of course, I want to be in the next episode the whistle poof on to the canyon floor below.
Can i haz that?
Bibi has a pocket version of this evidence and if Obama would have had the sense to invite him over he would have shared it with him. Take your briefings, Obama !
Yep, at least Mitt said so and then Bibi tried to deny it. But Bibi would love to have Mitt in the Oval Office because he could then have the neocons push into another war, in which Amuricans would fight, 'cause I don't see Bibi sending any troops in….
Moose and squirrel don't stand a chance.
Well the good thing about cartoon bombs is that they never actually kill anybody.
Anticipate a drone strike on Batman any day now.
Some days you just cant get rid of a bomb!
Translation of Ahmadinejad's speech to the UN:
You have no chance to survive. Make your time.
Translation of Netanyahu's speech to the UN:
Somebody set us up the bomb!
Move 'zig'. For great justice.
More original than the thermometer, but that really is a terrible fundraising placard.
Just 10% more donations and Iran will be able to send the kids to camp in Afghanistan.
It's surreal that Bibi would bring a comic graphic into his discussion of so serious a topic. it reinforces my theory that I am really in a coma and just hallucinating all of this. I think it looks like the bombs in Spy vs. Spy, the old Mad Magazine comic, by the way.
what i really love is his cartoon scowl matches his cartoon bomb.
Well, if the extent of their technology is simple gunpowder-based cannonballs, what's to worry?
Bibi's beside himself. He has never had such a difficult time persuading an American president to go to war to advance Israel's interest at the expense of its own. It's almost as if Americans have realized Israel's agenda and America's conflict in terms of professed policy. If this persists, finding a peaceful two-state solution may be the only option left.
This.
Just looking at that pic makes me want to get out my old Super Mario Brothers 2 game.
Video of Iran's uranium-enriching gas centrifuges, set to this little ditty:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEuwAh3LFvM
I would be more convinced if Bibi had a monocle and a white cat in his lap.
Bebe has been reading to much Mad Magazine
Beep Beep !
when I saw it I thought it was one of those charitable donation "thermometers" — i.e. "this filled in red line shows how much welfare the US has given Israel"…..
As if Netanyahoo wasn't cartoonish enuf, that is an ACME A-bomb, isn't it?
moose and squirrel may want to duck
Psst! There's only one virgin and she's 72 years old.
And they promise her to everybody…
Was thinking about this as the day wore on and after reading all comments. Then started wondering: does Bibi Netanyahu have a Giuliani-style hair comb-over, so I went to Google and Googled the question: Does Bibi Netanyahu style his hair in a comb-over. Sure enough, there was a story from Heretz, the Liberal Israeli newspaper, confirming that, indeed he does. Can we really go all-out in supporting the ideas of an individual vain enough to style his hair in an early Giuliani-era, Zero Mostel in "The Producers" comb-over?
I think Bibi should have used this picture instead.
http://starreviews.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/dr…
Oh, Bibi, you so craaaazzzzzeeeee! No, I really mean it; you're fucking nuts!
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