© Matt Bors Incidentally, Bors did a cartoon with the same theme as the New Yorker cover months ago, and some people think he did it clearer and funnier.
The website 23/6 makes a disturbing observation for beer drinkers everywhere. In 2000, the US elected two oil men — Bush and Cheney — and gas prices went through the roof. Now, the Republicans are trying to get us to vote for McCain, whose wife owns of one of the largest beer distributorships in the […]
As Electoral-Vote points out, for Republicans NY-13 is the congressional district that keeps on giving: First, Republican Congressman Vito Fossella tries to prove his love of family values by having two families. Fossella decides not to run for reelection. The Republicans pick Francis Powers to run for his seat, but his son (Francis Powers Junior) announces […]
This cartoon is from April, but it is similar in nature to The New Yorker cover: © Ruben Bolling Ruben has an excellent article talking about satire and the importance of satirical intent. In his view, the satirical intent of The New Yorker cover is unclear, because you need too much context to understand what […]
In Cannibal Liberals, Neal Gabler looks at how the worst attacks against liberals come from other liberals. But if that’s too many words to read, here’s a cartoon that pretty much conveys the same idea: © Lee Camp
“Now McCain is coming under fire for comments made by his top economic adviser, former senator Phil Gramm, who called America ‘a nation of whiners’ and said the country is only in a ‘mental recession.’ Just a mental recession. Like the $5 a gallon gas, and the bank kicking you out of your house — […]
Is it just me, or is JibJab not as good as they used to be? Oh well, this one is pretty funny. Plus you can put yourself into the movie, if you want.
According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), their terrorist list is growing by an average of 20,000 names a month. The ACLU says that over a million people are already on this list. Let’s get real. Either we are creating a quarter of a million terrorists every year, or else our government has gone […]
© David Horsey What I find ironic is that while the images in The New Yorker cover were completely false (Obama as a Muslim terrorist?), there is video of McCain singing “Bomb Iran”, and Cindy McCain admitted to being addicted to pain killers (after she lied about it). So, the real cover contains falsehoods, while […]
ABC news has a story about super-rich American tax cheats who got caught avoiding taxes by setting up bogus shell companies in Liechtenstein. What’s interesting to me is that the the accounts were set up for the Americans by none other than the giant Swiss bank UBS. Hmmm. UBS, where have I heard that name […]
Last week, NPR did a report on the economic proposals of McCain and Obama. McCain’s centerpiece is tax cuts for the wealthy, while Obama champions a tax cut for the middle class. NPR ignored the fact that McCain is now promoting the same plan that he opposed 8 years ago, and that Bush’s tax cuts […]
One or two people have mentioned to me that I seem to be partisan in my selection of articles. It isn’t that I don’t have any articles making fun of Obama, they are just dwarfed in number by all the articles about McCain. Finally, I have a defense. The International Herald Tribune asks “What’s so […]
