Apple App Store Says Mad Magazine Artist too Mean for Approval

Publius Forum ^ | 11/10/09 | Warner Todd Huston

[Mobile Vulgus]

I always knew that Mad Magazine was filled with ner-do-wells that will rot your brain and turn you into a big meanie. My teachers in school all told me so... and they were teachers so they must've been right. Now the Apple iPhone App store has finally seen the light of reason on this truism, too. Well, if the App Store didn't deny Mad Magazine exactly, it did lower they kabosh on one of its nasty, mean-spirited artists, Tom Richmond, by denying his iPhone App registration. Serves him right, the troublemaker.

The good name of Apple computers will not be sullied by the rottenness, and all around anarchy of this no-account, Richmond, that's for sure. And to assure that Apple will always stand for truth, justice and the American way, Richmond's crummy little iPhone App has been denied. Take that forces of un-Americanness!

So, what was Richmond's apostasy, you might wonder? Well, last year cartoonist Tom Richmond was asked to help with the graphic display of a proposed iPhone App that would connect the user with information on their representatives in Congress. It was to monstrously be titled the "Bobble Rep" App. The idea is that you'd key in the name of a congressman into your iPhone and his contact info would pop up on the screen. You'd get a little cartoon illustration of the congressman, his phone number, address and website.

"And," You might ask? "So blinking what," you might blurt out? Well, any casual look at these ultra mean, highly objectionable cartoons depicting a few of those well-born and delicate members of Congress will disabuse you of the notion that this iPhone App is anything but born of the devil.

Behold more of the blasphemy:

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[Mobile Vulgus]

Wow, what is wrong at Apple??

[OpeEdMunkey]

Hey Kerry...why the long face?

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Al Gore’s on the Board of Directors. (Is that what’s wrong? You decide.)

[SkyDancer]

Fiddle, ORLY????

[GraceG]

Thin Skinned Politicos and their puppets in Apple, or is it the other way around.....???

[vpintheak]

Apple and their smarmy little commercials can shove it. Every time I see one of those commercials I am filled with the desire to pummel that MAC guy. Apple is for college kids.

[jbstrick]

“Apple is for college kids.”

Interesting reply.