another round of TERRIBLE POLITICAL CARTOONS

[Crossroads Inc.]

Apparently once isn't enough for Mr. Payne...


Lets hear it for the SAME cartoon!

And just to drive the point home...






Who wants to spend a few seconds digging up garbage the Republicans have said to all three of their daughters... Anyone?

[Samuel]

No need- Rush once compared Clintons daughter to a dog.

[Pablo Sanchez]

Who wants to spend a few seconds digging up garbage the Republicans have said to all three of their daughters... Anyone?

The fact is that everybody's family is pretty much off-limits in the same way, even if the situations are different. Rush Limbaugh once made an off-color joke about Chelsea Clinton being ugly, and he got the same reaming that David Letterman is getting now.

The thing of it, to me, is that Republican's families seem to come up more often in the context of hypocrisy, because of the importance of the family values shtick to the GOP's image and self-image. Like Mary Cheney's and her sexuality was off-limits, even though it showed a serious dissonance or personal hypocrisy on Dick Cheney's part, in that he actively aligned himself with people who openly despised his child.

The Palin family saga is a much more blatant example of the same "families are out of bounds" garbage, because the vein in that mine is so rich; Troopergate, bilking the RNC for a fortune in perks for her family, making the state of Alaska pay for her to live in Wasilla during her governorship, preaching abstinence and family values while your daughter was getting up the stick with some white trash hockey player, and then that daughter's subsequent schizoid pro-abstinence pro-motherhood campaign. We're not really allowed to talk about any of that, especially Bristol, which is honestly the richest family story in politics. I mean, she's mounting a public campaign in favor of abstinence and Christian family values when the only reason she's well-known is that the abstinence concept failed her plus she cut the baby's father and his family out of the picture, and both of these decisions (mounting the campaign and cutting the daddy off) were almost certainly dictated by her monumentally ambitious and politically ruthless parents (Todd is totally Sarah's hatchet-man) and their backers. The whole family is basically a prop in Sarah Palin's travelling political theater, and yet because puts on a phony twang and isn't erudite, we're supposed to believe that she's not a stone-hearted ice-cold power-monger who makes Hillary Clinton look like Carol Brady. The cult of personality on that woman was/is pretty serious--look at that "Media Malpractice" movie, for example.

What saves America from Sarah Palin is that though she's an adroit backstabber and good at political calculation, she's slow on her feet and can't handle going off-script. Her skills took her to the top in state politics, which in most of the country are pretty damn forgiving when it comes to media coverage, but when you've got rings run around you by Katie fucking Couric it's clear that you're not cut out for the big show. Right now, when she's able to dictate her interactions with the media and isn't subject to tight, constant, campaign-style coverage, she's doing pretty well at keeping her image good and keeping her hand in the game. But I think she'll come apart a matter of days after she steps back onto the national campaign stage. They're talking about running Newt Gingrich in 2012, after all, imagine how Palin is going to look after the Newt turns his soulless lizard-eyes on her and vomits up a gallon of blood and acidic bile all over her MILF dress.

About Henry Payne, his drawings of Obama look really weird to me, in terms of posture. If you look at his archives he almost always draws Obama with his chest thrust out, his head tilted waaay back, and with no eyes at all. This is bizarre because I can't find a single picture of Obama that even remotely looks like that stance. He does squint when he grins, I guess, but otherwise his eyes are visible and expressive, and his body language always looks very comfortable and natural, which I think is one of his strengths as a speaker and television personality. Given that Obama simply does not look IRL like Payne's drawings of him, what is Payne's purpose in drawing him with outthrust chest and tilted back head. I'm tempted to just call it a subtle (or not-so-subtle) racist rendering--uppity blacks with their chests thrown out and heads held high!

[SirNitram]

No need- Rush once compared Clintons daughter to a dog.

McCain: You know why Chelsea Clinton's so ugly? Her father's Janet Reno.

I believe that's the one I recall most. Off-limits, sure.

[The Yosemite Bear]

That's because it's a characture of a con man/pimp figure when he's drawing Obama.

[Crossroads Inc.]

That's because it's a characture of a con man/pimp figure when he's drawing Obama.

Hmmm,... Yeah.. IM guess this guys just a taaad racist

[Mr Bean]

Huh? Racists? Obama's in a classic mobster's pinstripe suit with a pair of Mook's behind the hapless victim. How do you read racism into that one? Everyone draws him with giant ears so it's not that...

[Slacker]

That's pretty definitively gangster to me.

[Isolder74]

That's pretty definitively gangster to me.

So Obama is Italian now?

[Slacker]

I didn't say the cartoon made sense, just that's what the cartoon was portraying. And there are plenty of gangsters that aren't Italian, although I grant you the traditional image is of the Italian mafia. (With its connections to organized labor, illustrated in the cartoon.)

[Qwerty 42]

It might just be a Jersey thing, but it's pretty common to compare politicians to gangsters as a way of assaulting character, it never has anything to do with the race of the particular politician. Of course, in Jersey, the comparison is a little more valid than most voters would like.

[Drooling Iguana]

That's pretty definitively gangster to me.

So Obama is Italian now?

No, but he is from Chicago.

[Pulp Hero]

[Dominus Atheos]

It's a good thing that we have Chuck Asay around to tell us about how Universal Health Care is actually a plot by Walmart to crush small businesses.

Two things, first I feel really bad for the employees of the store down the street since if they get sick or injured they're completely fucked since they don't have health insurance. Two, if there are any concerns about the burden this puts on small businesses, then maybe we should pay for it with a surcharge on the rich.

[Pablo Sanchez]

Two things, first I feel really bad for the employees of the store down the street since if they get sick or injured they're completely fucked since they don't have health insurance. Two, if there are any concerns about the burden this puts on small businesses, then maybe we should pay for it with a surcharge on the rich.

I'd like to add a third thing, which is that the GOP is constantly bringing up negative effects that they allege national health care to entail, but they never actually bother to figure out whether these problems, if they even occur, will actually constitute bigger problems than the health care crisis, which is not only a terrible problem in the present, but will also continue to worsen unless serious reforms are made.

[Dominus Atheos]

I suppose whether or not you think this is a terrible cartoon or not would depend on how much you like any of the famous people who have died recently.

[Crossroads Inc.]

YOu know, I remember I would make a bunch of posts for each cartoon outlying just how ridiculous they were... These days, I will let them speak for themselves.

[Pulp Hero]

I suppose whether or not you think this is a terrible cartoon or not would depend on how much you like any of the famous people who have died recently.

I think that cartoon is rather funny myself.

[Nephtys]

1.4 TRILLION? Um. Does that 'artist' even know the scale of what 1.4 Trillion is? Michael Jackson almost assuredly never even touched a total of 1.4 trillion dollars in his life. The actual number was 1.4 MILLION, which is way off by several orders of magnitude.

DURR. NUMBARS HARD.

Really now, we should be banned from using the word Billion or Trillion on TV, because people can't fecking count. 1.4 trillion is 1,400,000 million. That's about three times the entire annual US military budget.

[Pulp Hero]

1.4 TRILLION? Um. Does that 'artist' even know the scale of what 1.4 Trillion is? Michael Jackson almost assuredly never even touched a total of 1.4 trillion dollars in his life. The actual number was 1.4 MILLION, which is way off by several orders of magnitude.

DURR. NUMBARS HARD.

Really now, we should be banned from using the word Billion or Trillion on TV, because people can't fecking count. 1.4 trillion is 1,400,000 million. That's about three times the entire annual US military budget.

I don't know, the big screen TV at that funeral was pretty big....

[Dooey Jo]

1.4 TRILLION? Um. Does that 'artist' even know the scale of what 1.4 Trillion is? Michael Jackson almost assuredly never even touched a total of 1.4 trillion dollars in his life. The actual number was 1.4 MILLION, which is way off by several orders of magnitude.

DURR. NUMBARS HARD.

Really now, we should be banned from using the word Billion or Trillion on TV, because people can't fecking count. 1.4 trillion is 1,400,000 million. That's about three times the entire annual US military budget.

They could cut the number in half and reference the Iraq war instead.

Oh right, I forgot, that was for a nobler cause than feeding starving children.

[Qwerty 42]

I suppose whether or not you think this is a terrible cartoon or not would depend on how much you like any of the famous people who have died recently.

I think that cartoon is rather funny myself.

Same. It's not really a criticism of any of the celebrities who have recently passed, it's more mocking the news networks for their preposterous coverage of something that, ultimately, doesn't change how the world turns.

[Darth Raptor]

I like the one with the leeches. Again with assuming I have any sympathy whatsoever for "the rich". Wealth as moral strength is one of the worst popular myths we have in this country. They should be fucking grateful that people aren't actually out for their blood, as opposed to just a fraction of their exorbitant money pile.

[Crossroads Inc.]

Another golden Comic by our friend Chuck Asay!

[Ziggy Stardust]

Another golden Comic by our friend Chuck Asay!

The best part of that is "Uh oh! Get back! Here comes a commie mob!" Very telling.