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Mon Dec-07-09 09:44 AM
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| Please help me figure out what this political cartoon is about |
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Edited on Mon Dec-07-09 09:45 AM by Rabrrrrrr
I just don't get it. Is it a Tiger Woods reference? The front guy doesn't look like him at all. Is there significance to the 12th tee, versus some other number? http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/stahler/gallery.html?appSession=917121939478619&RecordID=266&PageID=3&PrevPageID=2&cpipage=1&CPIsortType=&CPIorderBy=& |
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Mon Dec-07-09 09:47 AM
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| 1. The woman represents Blanche Lincoln and the running guy is Harry Reid. |
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The golf club represents the public option and the two guys on the TEE box are Boehner and McConnell ("tea baggers").
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| rug
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Mon Dec-07-09 09:50 AM
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| 2. It is an oblique refrence to the blind Doge, Enrico Dandolo, and his plan to ravage Constantinople |
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under the guise of the Fourth Crusade.
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| Orrex
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Mon Dec-07-09 09:55 AM
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Pretty straightforward, if you ask me.
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Mon Dec-07-09 09:59 AM
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| 4. That was my first thought, but I thought it was too obvious an answer. |
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I was thinking maybe a subtle undercurrent of sympathetic polemic against the defenestration of Jan Hus.
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Mon Dec-07-09 10:04 AM
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| 5. The Simpsons addressed that in Season 3. |
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Mon Dec-07-09 12:16 PM
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| 6. I think it is a reference to |
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the Tiger sitch and how it might now be okay for wives to chase their husbands with golf clubs since there were no consequences for the Woods to have paid.
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Mon Dec-07-09 12:33 PM
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| 7. The Escalade crashed into the 11th hole bunker? |
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Mon Dec-07-09 12:48 PM
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| 9. I'm not convinced that it's a Tiger reference. |
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As of last night the count was eight, but then perhaps the cartoonist was being prescient?
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Mon Dec-07-09 01:26 PM
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| 10. It's an argument that the rise of nationalism at the end of the eighteenth century... |
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Edited on Mon Dec-07-09 01:30 PM by MilesColtrane
...was the spontaneous distillation of a complex 'crossing' of discrete historical forces; that, once created, became 'modular', capable of being transplanted, with varying degrees of self-consciousness, to a great variety of social terrains, to merge and to be merged with a correspondingly wide variety of political and ideological constellations.
Or, it's a tribute to Bill Hoest, creator of "The Lockhorns".
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