Comments on: Obama: These are not the cartoons I thought I knew

By: The Colossus of Rhodey

The Colossus of Rhodey — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:07:04 +0000

Obama was for political cartoons before he was against them…

The Messiah in 2005: But what I love about political cartoonists – at least, what Ill love about them until I open up the paper and see a drawing of my big ears accompanied by something that came out of……

By: OneGyT

OneGyT — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:25:54 +0000

You fail at using words that the “laughless left” understands.

The New Yorker meant to satirize (sorry — make fun of) what they saw as conservative …

No, not conservative. Rethuglican.

By: drunyan8315

drunyan8315 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:54:11 +0000

It’s fun watching BHO start to meltdown. Not too fast ’cause we need you to survive your own convention.

Bingo. We need to follow "Operation Chaos" now with "Operation Prom King". We have to get this dude across the finish line in August, and then whack him hard in November! We sure as hell don't want to end up facing Hillary "The Comeback Kid", who will have the whole Demo-acade-media-tainment sector knocking themselves out to make up for ever doubting her, and trying to explain how the Republicans are to blame for the riots.

By: Mojave Mark

Mojave Mark — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:44:44 +0000

It’s fun watching BHO start to meltdown. Not too fast ’cause we need you to survive your own convention. Then you will be sacrificed on the political altar of identity politics.

By: Dale in Atlanta

Dale in Atlanta — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 20:24:41 +0000

Barack HUSSEIN Obama (PBUH)(SAW)(SWT), the new Messiah!

By: mattshu

mattshu — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:35:00 +0000

The entire reason this doesn’t work as satire is because that thing that they’re attempting to satire (conservatives try to portray BO is a muslim, america-hater) doesn’t exist in reality.

By: Stoo Pid

Stoo Pid — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:26:21 +0000

Help me here. How is depicting the Senator as a Muslim an insult to Muslims?

Is the goofball channeling the wrong Marx? Groucho instead of Karl?

By: The Race Card

The Race Card — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:41:16 +0000

We’re getting clowned.

By: econavenger

econavenger — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:36:15 +0000

Why does Barry want go near the offensive cartoons to Islam thing? Being Obamessiah as a political strategy is annoying enough…at lease you can satirize it. But does our political Man of the Year really have to set himself up as an uncartoonable “Obamohammed” too?

Our Ex-Islamic Rage Boy needs to chill or he will set himself up for even better satire as he makes these connections to help us define him.

http://blog.bretttrout.com/uploaded_images/irb-man-of-year-736061.JPG

By: Alec

Alec — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:35:10 +0000

The cartoon was TRYING to make fun of conservatives. It is painful to the left because the cartoonist hit the maximum liklihood Obama square on the head.

By: Spanglemaker

Spanglemaker — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:32:54 +0000

If Barack Hussein keeps whining and crying about Muslims, he’s gonna need a diaper on his butt AND on his head.

He’d REALLY hate the comics I draw. Here’s one of mine called “Bluto: American Taliban”, dedicated to Theo Van Gogh…

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.listAll&friendID=87284673&startID=332912499&StartPostedDate=2007-11-28%2014:10:00&next=1&page=1&Mytoken=756E67A1-551E-4F27-B8EF5333A45F8613172727620

By: max1

max1 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:08:48 +0000

Hey Barry (Don’t imply I’m a Muslim, but so what if I was?!) Obama… Guess what? You don’t have to go after the Muslim vote. You had them at “Hussein.”

By: franksalterego

franksalterego — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 18:06:05 +0000

The chips are down!
–SilverStar830 on July 16, 2008 at 1:45 PM

The ass-hat Liberals sure are full of themselves, aren’t they.

By: pilamaye

pilamaye — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:58:25 +0000

I did not know he said that in 2005.

Maybe some young up and coming investigative reporter looking for that Big Story could do a study into some other things B.O. said in 2005, and compare them to some of the things that he is saying right now. I am sure the end report would be truly fascinating reading, especially for some superdelegates who may be starting to wonder if jumping on this guy’s bandwagon was really that hot of an idea.

By: ForNow

ForNow — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:50:48 +0000

Did I say that Obama is trying to distract from the New Yorker articles? Maybe he's meant to punish the New Yorker for those articles. "Inside the cover story: Controversy adds to ad woes at the New Yorker" by Keith J. Kelly, New York Post, July 16, 2008. It's one thing to punish them for the cover if that's what it's really about. But it's a sly bank shot to do it for the articles. Well, the New Yorker walked right into it. There's more meta-discussion - discussion about discussion (or, more generally, expression about expression), in this presidential campaign than I recall seeing in others. Obama somehow turns everything into questions of whether it's okay to say something. Only a PC expert like Obama can skillfully negotiate the maze of speech hazards and multiple standards which Obama keeps evoking. Obama likes it that way. Everybody should just be quiet and let the Great Telepromptee teach us our lines.

By: SilverStar830

SilverStar830 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:45:12 +0000

In reaction to the cartoon linked by silverstar: next there should be a cartoon of 2 liberals smiling and high-5ing over the dumb hick’s response. Perhaps that was the intention. Christine on July 16, 2008 at 1:37 PM

It took me all of about 60 seconds to find this close approximation... or maybe it's a bullseye? http://www.cagle.com/working/080715/cagle00.gif The chips are down!

By: fogw

fogw — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:41:36 +0000

Criticism through words. Out of Bounds
Criticism through pictures. Out of Bounds
Criticism through associates. Out of Bounds
Criticism through inference. Out of Bounds
Criticism through parody. Out of Bounds
Criticism through jokes. Out of Bounds

Sensitive little Momma’s boy, isn’t he?

Ooh, Ooh, please don’t make fun of my ears Maureen, I don’t want to cry and wet my pants. That was our first warning of how insecure this dope is.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:37:00 +0000

In reaction to the cartoon linked by silverstar: next there should be a cartoon of 2 liberals smiling and high-5ing over the dumb hick’s response. Perhaps that was the intention.

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:34:12 +0000

“takes the focus” OFF, not “on”! Duh.

By: SilverStar830

SilverStar830 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:33:50 +0000

This is the editorial cartoon in my local San Diego newspaper today…

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/features/breen/archive/20080716_breen.gif

*sigh*

By: Christine

Christine — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:32:57 +0000

Is this the 3rd news cycle on this bit of fun at the expense of the vast right-wing conspiracy? Methinks they do protest too much.
Come to think of it, my college buddy had that New Yorker with her but didn’t show it to me…she knows I’m no longer in the liberal club and haven’t been for a long time.
It seems to me that this cartoon takes the focus on the real problems with the O-bomb-us campaign. Is there any wonder that the Iraqis in the know want a retired fighter pilot instead of Barry Whosane NObama? It’s a Nobrainer.

By: jon1979

jon1979 — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:22:09 +0000

Obama should be careful what he wishes for when it comes to being offended. While he and his staff obviously think the candidate’s race allows them to declare anything they don’t like to be off-limits, his ability with the national media to be the “ultimate moral authority” (to borrow MoDo’s phrase about Cindy Sheehan), once you legitimize the idea that any group’s concerns about being offended by anything, and then you happen to be elected president, then any foreign group or individual who doesn’t like something about your policies can claim to be “offended” by some aspect of what you’re doing and use that as an excuse to justify their actions.

Obama may be trying to use the New Yorker cartoon depicting him as a Muslim as another step to make any criticism of him off-limits, but suppose it’s 2009 and Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad doesn’t want to listen to the Obama Administration’s plan for the Middle East because he’s offended that Barack isn’t a Muslim despite having a Muslim father. Throwing the “Oh yea? Well, I’m offended even more” card back at Ahmadinejad isn’t going to do anything to curtail the Iran nuclear program.

By: ForNow

ForNow — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:18:35 +0000

Obama just doesn't want people, especially Democrats, reading the New Yorker articles about him. They lay bare his endless scheming opportunism. Obama continually complains about distractions - and continually creates distractions. Another example. Should immigrants learn English? (but actually their kids usually do.) Obama: Think instead about our kids learning other languages (but they usually do in school, just not often very well.)

By: The Race Card

The Race Card — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:16:50 +0000

byteshredder on July 16, 2008 at 12:31 PM

You’re brilliant. Your future is very bright. Buy sunglasses.

By: Bob's Kid

Bob's Kid — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:01:29 +0000

New Yorker meant to satirize (sorry — make fun of)

You got a hearty guffaw from me on that one, Ed.