Right Wing Cartoon Watch

[n2doc]

http://blueherald.com/2008/07/right-wing-cartoon-watch-31-61608-72008/


Right-Wing Cartoon Watch: Challenging GOP talking points, celebrating the fine American tradition of editorial cartooning, and having a little fun in the process. (The longer blurb.)

Welcome to the 31st installment of RWCW, covering five weeks of newsy goodness. Thrill to the newest mock outrage! Shake at the latest recycled smear! Marvel at the sight of conservatives attacking key parts of the Constitution - except the Second Amendment, of course. Plus, The New Yorker and its critics horn in on our act! (Well, sorta.)

As always, pace yourself, and skip whatever you wish. Too many right-wing cartoons at one time can lead to a toxic overload!



Ah, Eric Allie, stalwart movement conservative - never shall he waver from depicting withdrawal as “surrender,” desired by those aging lefty hippies who hate America! Never mind that - as has been the case for a long time now - the majority of Americans favor withdrawal, and on a more speedy timetable than even Obama is proposing.

many more at link...

[Indenturedebtor]

1. Gah some of those are nauseating but important to know what sort of idiocy

You're going to encounter in the street K+R

[Buzz Clik]

2. Well, now... this requires a bit of perspective.

Political cartooning is an art form and a wonderful form of art at that. Some political cartoonists have both political and artistic genius (Pat Oliphant comes to mind), and others are politically retarded (**cough** Bruce Tinsley **cough**).

Rightwing cartoonists are very rare, and the good ones are rarer still. In the article referenced in the OP, the writer of the article takes all of this much too seriously. It is not necessary to print a rebuttal to a cartoon. Getting upset about an aging hippie (we have them here at DU -- I know that because that's what they call themselves) being depressed about the benchmarks and the successes in Iraq. It happens. I don't like the surrender part, but it comes with the territory. Being a lover of political cartoons, I actually found a mild bit of cleverness in the "Red, White, and Blue" banner.

The author further discusses Ramirez and paints him as some sort of uninformed idiot -- you know, like Bruce Tinsley. Ramirez is an excellent cartoonist who just happens to embrace conservative philosophies. Oh, well. He's good at it, and his humor is biting.

The only cartoonist in the bunch that deserved some scorn was Gorrell for this gem:



For me, that cartoon was a "what the f*ck?" moment. I went to Gorrell's site and browsed a bunch of his cartoons because I've never seen such a remarkable candidate endorsement from a cartoonist before (other than that idiot Bruce Tinsley). I still don't get it. Gorrell is no fan of Bush, and criticizes both sides:





I will confess that he very seldom includes McCain in his cartoons. Maybe he hates him and can't bring himself to draw about him. Maybe not. I'm missing something, but I don't know what.

[n2doc]

3. What about these?

Benson and McCoy are among the worst hacks out there. This is disinformation, pure and simple. There is no way that anyone who spends 5 minutes looking into the issue would not figure out the truth on this one. For Crissakes, Iraq has a Uranium mine! It was shut down after the first Gulf War, and monitored by the IAEA. There was no need to get uranium from Niger, and there was no enrichment program after 1991. Period.

[Buzz Clik]

4. I don't see it as disinformation. Just ignorance.

We had DUers who were wondering about the movement of yellow cake to Canada and its implications about WMDs in Iraq.

Yes, McCoy is a conservative cartoonist. Sorry, but I refuse to hold that against him. Some DUers could learn something from McCoy's understanding of Obama:

[Buzz Clik]

5. Interesting thing about these conservative cartoonists: they ignore McCain.

I checked the last two months of Allie's cartoons: 13 on Obama, 1 on McCain. And McCain was in the cartoon with Obama.

These guys really don't like McCain.

[Blue_Tires]

6. even better than that is Ward Sutton's "Kelly" cartoons

for the Onion, which mock the common RW tone...Some of them are so far over the top they might as well be real...

http://www.theonion.com/content/topics/editorial_cartoon

[Blue_Tires]

7. ttt