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Feb 08 2010
The Week in Editorial Cartoons – Mad Hatters and Tea Parties
Crossposted at Daily Kos
THE WEEK IN EDITORIAL CARTOONS
This weekly diary takes a look at the past week’s important news stories from the perspective of our leading editorial cartoonists (including a few foreign ones) with analysis and commentary added in by me.
When evaluating a cartoon, ask yourself these questions:
1. Does a cartoon add to my existing knowledge base and help crystallize my thinking about the issue depicted?
2. Does the cartoonist have any obvious biases that distort reality?
3. Is the cartoonist reflecting prevailing public opinion or trying to shape it?The answers will help determine the effectiveness of the cartoonist’s message.
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Steve Sack, Comics.com
Feb 06 2010
Snowy TGIF: What is Your Favorite Classic Rock Song?
Crossposted at Daily Kos
The Who — an important band from the 1960’s ‘British Invasion’ — is scheduled to perform during the half-time show at this Sunday’s Super Bowl between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts.
Anyone who is a classic rock and music aficionado has to wonder: what accounts for the popularity of such rock groups formed almost fifty years ago?
Andy Singer, Politicalcartoons.com, Buy this cartoon
Jan 28 2010
The SOTU Speech as Seen by Editorial Cartoonists
Crossposted at Daily Kos
President Barack Obama is a superb orator. If anyone can make an rousing speech, he can. He has proven it time and again. For him, words matter. He is calm, rational, never gets too emotional, and always tends towards the logical. Display of emotions is for losers, many an analyst has observed about his speaking style.
Tonight, he had the crowd’s attention all the way. Talk about a “captive audience.” Oh sure, the Republicans booed him and refused to stand up and cheer. That’s what they always do.
Imagine the president’s surprise when he thanked the GOP for its invaluable contributions to our national discourse and, instead of screaming “You lie,” members of the loyal opposition stood up and cheered him when he uttered the following words of wisdom…
RJ Matson, Roll Call, Buy this cartoon
Jan 26 2010
The Week in Editorial Cartoons – In Corporations We Trust
Crossposted at Daily Kos
THE WEEK IN EDITORIAL CARTOONS
This weekly diary takes a look at the past week’s important news stories from the perspective of our leading editorial cartoonists (including a few foreign ones) with analysis and commentary added in by me.
When evaluating a cartoon, ask yourself these questions:
1. Does a cartoon add to my existing knowledge base and help crystallize my thinking about the issue depicted?
2. Does the cartoonist have any obvious biases that distort reality?
3. Is the cartoonist reflecting prevailing public opinion or trying to shape it?The answers will help determine the effectiveness of the cartoonist’s message.
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John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Buy this cartoon
Jan 26 2010
The Week in Editorial Cartoons – In Corporations We Trust
THE WEEK IN EDITORIAL CARTOONS
This weekly diary takes a look at the past week’s important news stories from the perspective of our leading editorial cartoonists (including a few foreign ones) with analysis and commentary added in by me.
When evaluating a cartoon, ask yourself these questions:
1. Does a cartoon add to my existing knowledge base and help crystallize my thinking about the issue depicted?
2. Does the cartoonist have any obvious biases that distort reality?
3. Is the cartoonist reflecting prevailing public opinion or trying to shape it?The answers will help determine the effectiveness of the cartoonist’s message.
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John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Buy this cartoon
Jan 21 2010
The Week in Editorial Cartoons – Sarah Palin’s Brilliant FOX Debut
Crossposted from Daily Kos. I didn’t have the time yesterday to post it here.
THE WEEK IN EDITORIAL CARTOONS
This weekly diary takes a look at the past week’s important news stories from the perspective of our leading editorial cartoonists (including a few foreign ones) with analysis and commentary added in by me.
When evaluating a cartoon, ask yourself these questions:
1. Does a cartoon add to my existing knowledge base and help crystallize my thinking about the issue depicted?
2. Does the cartoonist have any obvious biases that distort reality?
3. Is the cartoonist reflecting prevailing public opinion or trying to shape it?The answers will help determine the effectiveness of the cartoonist’s message.
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The Teabaggers’ Intellectual
Clay Bennett, Comics.com
Nov 24 2009
The Day Religion Clashed With Science
Crossposted from Daily Kos
On July 21, 1925, a court in Dayton, Tennessee found the defendant, John Scopes, guilty of teaching the theory of evolution in high school. Writing in the Baltimore Evening Sun, journalist H.L. Mencken had some harsh words for anti-intellectuals opposing Scopes’ viewpoint
What its people ask for — many of them in plain terms — is suspended judgment, sympathy, Christian charity, and I believe that they deserve all these things… The civilized minority in the State is probably as large as in any other Southern State. What ails it is simply the fact it has been, in the past, too cautious and politic — that it has been too reluctant to offend the Fundamentalist majority. To that reluctance something else has been added: an uncritical and somewhat childish local patriotism. The Tennesseeans have tolerated their imbeciles for fear that attacking them would bring down the derision of the rest of the country.[F]undamentalism, after all, made men happy — that a Tennesseean gained something valuable by being an ignoramus — in other words, that a hog in a barnyard was to be envied by an Aristotle.
Nov 03 2009
You Better Recommend THIS Diary
crossposted from Daily Kos
It is one of the many mysteries of this blog. Whether you’re an innocent newbie or a battle-hardened veteran of blog wars, anyone who has written diaries lately on Daily Kos has to wonder about this
How in the world does a diary get on the Recommended List? And, how come my brilliant diaries — well-researched, written in superb prose, with thoroughly persuasive arguments, and always timely — never make it the the list while those others with titles like “Naked Pooties Gone Wild,” “Breaking: Disco and Donna Summer Are Back,” “Alan Grayson Forgot to Brush His Teeth Today,” “I’m No Obamabot,” and “Rush Limbaugh Eats Babies” annoyingly hog the rec list?
Does anyone know the answer?
This mysterious enquiry continues below the fold.
Oct 16 2009
‘Sacked: The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Rush Limbaugh’
Crossposted at Daily Kos
… is a book about Limbaugh’s unsuccessful bid to become a co-owner of the St. Louis Rams of the National Football League. It will hit book stores all over the country tomorrow, filled with hot air and inane explanations of why this good man was sabotaged from becoming an active participant in America’s favorite pastime, professional football.
Vic Harville, Stephens Media Group (Little Rock, AR):: ::
Caller #1: Mega-dittos, Rush. Now that your brief foray into professional football has been sabotaged by liberals, what are you gonna do next?
El Rushbo:
I’m going to Disney World!In Obama’s America, an honest white man does not get equality of opportunity. I’m just going to go back and lead the Republican Party to victory in 2010, 2012, and beyond. The pinko, socialist, communist, racist owners and their toadies in the NFL will have hell to pay!
Oct 12 2009
The Week in Editorial Cartoons – The Last Edition
Crossposted at Daily Kos. Look in the Comments Section of Daily Kos for more cartoons on the economy and sports. Somehow, I couldn’t fit them in the main text of the diary.
THE WEEK IN EDITORIAL CARTOONS
This weekly diary takes a look at the past week’s important news stories from the perspective of our leading editorial cartoonists (including a few foreign ones) with analysis and commentary added in by me.
When evaluating a cartoon, ask yourself these questions:
1. Does a cartoon add to my existing knowledge base and help crystallize my thinking about the issue depicted?
2. Does the cartoonist have any obvious biases that distort reality?
3. Is the cartoonist reflecting prevailing public opinion or trying to shape it?The answers will help determine the effectiveness of the cartoonist’s message.
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Glenn Beck’s Fear and Paranoia
Dave Granlund, Politicalcartoons.com
Oct 09 2009
Michael Steele: “Where’s Bush’s Nobel Prize?”
Cross posted at Daily Kos
In an hastily-arranged press conference which just ended at the National Press Club, Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele condemned the Nobel Committee for awarding the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to President Barack Obama of the United States.
Steele offered the following remarks
Hajo de Reijger, Politicalcartoons.com (The Netherlands):: ::
“The Nobel Committee has done a great injustice to all peace-loving people around the world by prematurely awarding this prestigious award to someone who is totally undeserving of it. In fact, the person who is a deserving recipient was the 43rd President of the United States, George W. Bush. Remember him? His vision, governing philosophy, and far-reaching efforts to promote peace and cooperation amongst various nations should have resulted in him, and not Barack Obama, being selected for this international honor.”
More of Chairman Steele’s expanded remarks below the fold.