Ramirez wins Reuben Award
posted at 5:30 pm on May 27, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
Michael Ramirez has another award to put alongside his two Pulitzers. The IBD Editorials cartoonist was recognized by his peers as 2009′s Outstanding Editorial Cartoonist, winning the coveted Reuben. Ramirez has produced incisive, entertaining, and memorable editorial cartoons for many years, and we may need him now more than ever. Here’s his latest cartoon, lampooning Barack Obama’s convenient avoidance of the fact that his predecessor kept the nation safe and secure despite the terrorist threat:
Congratulations, Michael. You are one of the indispensable voices in today’s media, and we’re glad that your peers recognize that. Well done, sir!
Ramirez has a terrific collection of his works: Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion, which covers the entire breadth of Ramirez’ career, and it gives a fascinating look at political history. Read my review here, and watch my interviews with Ramirez here and here. And don’t forget to check out the entire IBD site, while individual investors still exist.
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Ramirez is a genius…I’ve loved his work for years. Plus, he’s actually funny. He’s the anti-Ted Rall.
AUINSC on May 27, 2009 at 5:32 PM
He is the best, even the liberal press can’t ignore his genius…
right2bright on May 27, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Congratulations to him!
He is terrific.
INC on May 27, 2009 at 5:35 PM
He is such a wise latino, filled with the richness of his experiences, has more often than not, drawn a better cartoon than some white males who haven’t lived that life, cough cough tom toles..,.
joeindc44 on May 27, 2009 at 5:36 PM
He fit the teleprompters in!! AWESOME
portlandon on May 27, 2009 at 5:37 PM
He certainly deserves it.
Esthier on May 27, 2009 at 5:37 PM
Excellent!
Do the Hopey/Changey brownshirt goons have
his home address!!!!!(Snark).
canopfor on May 27, 2009 at 5:38 PM
Well earned! Congrats!
Hey – did ya’ll see this one?
Not meaning to overshadow the master – just thought it was funny….
vapig on May 27, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Good one, plus a well-deserved Reuben!
I would’ve made it a rear-view looking over Barry’s shoulder out on a room full of swirly-eyed, hypnotized media, except for one Tapperesque guy looking around in alarm–with the words scrolling on TOTUS, of course.
Christien on May 27, 2009 at 5:42 PM
Uh oh. Can Ramirez put the words “domestic terrorism” in The Precedent’s mouth? I thought that was a hate crime, or something.
progressoverpeace on May 27, 2009 at 5:42 PM
This is working! Quick we have to change it immediately…. and if my changes brings about a domestic attack…then it is clearly BUSH”S FAULT!!
jukin on May 27, 2009 at 5:44 PM
Apparently, the only cartoonist with the guts to call out Obama. The liberal voters must have voted by secret ballot or with brown paper bags over their heads.
BuckeyeSam on May 27, 2009 at 5:46 PM
If he hadn’t it would have read: Um, uh, you’re, uh, getting, um uh sleepy.
mchristian on May 27, 2009 at 5:49 PM
Bravo, Ramirez!
And “War On Terror” expressed by Obama’s own mouth…his boobprompter couldn’t come up with other words.
maverick muse on May 27, 2009 at 5:53 PM
Congratulations, Mr. Ramirez, on another well-deserved award for your excellent work.
AZCoyote on May 27, 2009 at 5:54 PM
Why did you just know that when a political cartoonist with some artistic talent and a functioning brain finally emerged in America (no, Garry, you’re not), he would be conservative?
Don’t you guys get sick of being right? I do, too.
Jaibones on May 27, 2009 at 5:57 PM
Ramirez reminds me of Jim Treacher. Both are so intent on making a partisan point that they usually forget to include an actual joke. The cartoon above is a prime example.
crr6 on May 27, 2009 at 6:01 PM
Ain’t that just the way it is. Leftists get the Nobel and Pulitzer and the conservatives get a sandwich. We get not respect at all, I tell ya.
genso on May 27, 2009 at 6:04 PM
Libs tend to be myopic when it comes to recognizing humor and irony.
INC on May 27, 2009 at 6:07 PM
Example 283947239807 of an Obama supporter with absolutely no sense of humor.
Need Obamacare to yank that massive stick out of your arse? Sorry, there’s a waiting list….
mjk on May 27, 2009 at 6:08 PM
You’re getting sleepy sleeepy, pay no attention to man behind the curtain.
Speakup on May 27, 2009 at 6:14 PM
Good one.
thomasaur on May 27, 2009 at 6:16 PM
You just paid Jim a huge compliment…unwittingly, of course.
AUINSC on May 27, 2009 at 6:17 PM
Ramirez reminds me of Jim Treacher. Both are so intent on making a partisan point that they usually forget to include an actual joke. The cartoon above is a prime example.
Hey, crr6, didja hear the one about how the Obama’s were picking out a new job. One choice was Carrie Prejean!!!!lolololomrotflmao.
see also, Bill Maher, etc.
joeindc44 on May 27, 2009 at 6:17 PM
The Goode Family is starting to night. I hope it is goode and the clips I saw. Speaking of cartoons… Oh am I suposed to use the OT: thingy?
petunia on May 27, 2009 at 6:19 PM
Plant.
portlandon on May 27, 2009 at 6:23 PM
Good for him. Much deserved.
Yakko77 on May 27, 2009 at 6:25 PM
Ramirez is great! I’d love to see him lampoon the issue of Republicans taking on Sotomayor “at their own peril,” because she is latino. How in the hell have we gotten to the point that blacks and latinos can say anything, but whites can’t? Are latinos going to vote Democrat as one block, because a Republican objects to her judicial activist outlook? Do latinos believe that a latino woman makes wiser decisions than a white man because of her “life story?”
Star20 on May 27, 2009 at 6:43 PM
Great stuff. His cartoons are part of my daily morning routine.
Scrappy on May 27, 2009 at 6:48 PM
In case anyone missed it, Rall lost his job a few weeks ago. I guess that he ran out of hate material when he didn’t have Bush to kick around any more.
Del Dolemonte on May 27, 2009 at 7:32 PM
Crr6, you’ve highlighted one huge reason out of many that I could never be a liberal. You have to get rid of your sense of humor in order to be one.
TeeDee on May 27, 2009 at 8:04 PM
Jeff McNelly made his name in editorial cartooning back in the 1970s by being one of the only political cartoonists who would take on Jimmy Carter during the 1976 election and in the first few years of Carter’s presidency. Ramirez is following the same path as being the lone voice willing to challenge Obama’s infallibility (though since Obama is nearer and dearer to the hearts of liberals than Carter ever was — they were still pinin’ for Ted Kennedy — I don’t know if Ramirez will ever match McNelly’s Pulitzer for editorial cartooning).
jon1979 on May 27, 2009 at 8:05 PM
Oh, the horror of Bush Derangement Syndrone withdrawal.
Bigfoot on May 27, 2009 at 8:24 PM
MacNelly was the master-but Ramirez is a close second.
Btw-the husband gave me “Everyone has the RIGHT to My Opinion” for my birthday last year.
I HIGHLY recommend it.
annoyinglittletwerp on May 27, 2009 at 10:20 PM
The only reason I flipped through the toxic rag known as the L.A. Times was to chuckle at one of Ramirez’s master works. That was years ago. I wonder it they still carry his cartoon.
Zorg on May 27, 2009 at 10:58 PM
ccr6 is an actual joke
corona on May 27, 2009 at 11:20 PM
Zorg:
The LA Slimes dropped Ramirez years ago.
He’s now with Investors Business Daily.
annoyinglittletwerp on May 28, 2009 at 12:30 AM
Congratulations, Michael Ramirez!
I have a wall in my office papered with Ramirez cartoons. Such a refreshing change from the run-of-the-mill juvenile liberal pap that makes up most of modern political cartoons.
notropis on May 28, 2009 at 2:46 AM
Whereas you remind me of nobody.
Jim Treacher on May 28, 2009 at 1:43 PM