context-3
Original: context-3 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Interviewer (a man with dark hair, holding a microphone): "Sir, how do you respond to people who were offended when you said we "should take all minority groups and blend them into a fine paste"?"
Panel 2:
Politician (an older man in a suit with a yellow tie): "Whoa, that quote is taken out of context."
Interviewer: "How so?"
Panel 3:
Politician: "I mean you're saying it today as part of a question, when the original context was ME saying it YESTERDAY as part of a STATEMENT. It is in a strictly technical sense not in its original context."
Panel 4:
Interviewer: "You can't do that! You can't just say "out of context"! You're supposed to explain why the different context changes the meaning of your statement!"
Panel 5 (close-up of the politician's face, pointing):
(no dialogue)
Panel 6 (close-up of the interviewer's distressed face):
(no dialogue)
Panel 7:
Politician (grinning, walking off): "You can't stop me! I've found a rhetorical loophole and no one watching the news has the attention span to notice AHAHAHAHAHA!"
Interviewer (screaming, hands raised): "NOOOOOOOOO"
Votey:
A close-up of the politician's grimacing/scrunched face. Caption: "THERE. IS. NO. CONTEXT."
Interviewer (a man with dark hair, holding a microphone): "Sir, how do you respond to people who were offended when you said we "should take all minority groups and blend them into a fine paste"?"
Panel 2:
Politician (an older man in a suit with a yellow tie): "Whoa, that quote is taken out of context."
Interviewer: "How so?"
Panel 3:
Politician: "I mean you're saying it today as part of a question, when the original context was ME saying it YESTERDAY as part of a STATEMENT. It is in a strictly technical sense not in its original context."
Panel 4:
Interviewer: "You can't do that! You can't just say "out of context"! You're supposed to explain why the different context changes the meaning of your statement!"
Panel 5 (close-up of the politician's face, pointing):
(no dialogue)
Panel 6 (close-up of the interviewer's distressed face):
(no dialogue)
Panel 7:
Politician (grinning, walking off): "You can't stop me! I've found a rhetorical loophole and no one watching the news has the attention span to notice AHAHAHAHAHA!"
Interviewer (screaming, hands raised): "NOOOOOOOOO"
Votey:
A close-up of the politician's grimacing/scrunched face. Caption: "THERE. IS. NO. CONTEXT."
Alt text
A seven-panel comic. An interviewer holding a microphone asks an older politician in a suit with a yellow tie how he responds to people offended that he said "we should take all minority groups and blend them into a fine paste." The politician replies, "Whoa, that quote is taken out of context." Asked how, he explains that the interviewer is saying it today as part of a question, whereas the original context was HIM saying it YESTERDAY as part of a statement, so technically it is no longer in its original context. The interviewer protests that you can't just say "out of context" without explaining why the different context changes the meaning. After two close-up reaction panels, the grinning politician walks away declaring, "You can't stop me! I've found a rhetorical loophole and no one watching the news has the attention span to notice AHAHAHAHAHA!" while the interviewer screams "NOOOOOOOOO." Votey: an extreme close-up of the politician's scrunched, intense face with the caption "THERE. IS. NO. CONTEXT."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.