batshit rightwing cartoonists 2010

Wow, that SEIU cartoon! There is nothing even remotely factually accurate going on in that picture, other than SEIU endorsed Obama in the '08 elections. And probably some members have mustaches.

yeah can someone translate that batshittery? what does it have to do with race/violence? i don't even

why is the mailman knocking on an empty door? also lol poor innocent kindly bishop.

Last August, some tea baggers beat up an SEIU member at a health care reform town hall, which the right wingers then spun, as in 180 degrees, as a case of big, bad, communist violent unions beating up on the good citizens of the USA. I'm guessing this is a logical (ha) extension of that spin. Also a search for "T0m B@l@n0ff" and communist or thug returns some pretty lolsob results. So think basically this is a batshit attempt by rightwing cartoonists to paint all unions, especially strong unions (which SEIU is), as racist thugs, when we all know that is just the Teamsters and probably Bricklayers and Tuckpointers. (j/k, mostly)

> why is the mailman knocking on an empty door?

it's a dog training school, not a real postman / door

ah i see. so in panels 1-3 it's a real dog, being trained to ignore traditional real-world things that excite dogs like cats, squirrels, and mailman. only in panels 3 and 4 does it become a metaphorical attack dog.

3 and 4 4 and 5

Dog seems to have been trained to attack altar boys though?

surely there are loads of cons out there who think the catholic church is decadent and depraved tho? how is this a liberal media thing?

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corporations are victims!

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the world never changes
facts aren't real
narrative is king and will never die

i have to say, that motorcycle is AWESOME

Good thing we live in doublespeak world cos next week Ramirez is scheduled to show Obama bending over the Statue of Liberty for a corporate gang bang.

holy shit, is no one going to comment on that insane story about teachers at a school teaching girls to beat boys in the crotch?

truly amazed that they labeled a giant spool of red tape "Red Tape."

Mordy 2 people did comment

i mean what are you gonna say, there isn't much to say besides "delusional wingnuts makin shit up again"

ah i see. so in panels 1-3 it's a real dog, being trained to ignore traditional real-world things that excite dogs like cats, squirrels, and mailman. only in panels 3 and 4 does it become a metaphorical attack dog.

I was going to say, I was always angry the Times never did any good muckraking on squirrels and kittens.

The right wing hatred towards the NYT makes a lot of sense when you realize it's been Rupert Murdoch's MO to destroy the paper since he was old enough to realize he would inherit his daddy's fortune.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/apr/26/wall-street-journal-new-york-times-rivalry

i don't understand the donkey driver one.

when you are doing something illegal you shouldn't be surprised to be asked for identification.
it is illegal to look mexican btw.

at least in arizona.

In honour of today's UK general election:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/05/04/article-1272501-096E48E8000005DC-751_634x441_popup.jpg

Thinking about American government and the donkey comic:

Its funny how "anything less than blindly accepting every move the government makes means you're unpatriotic" was so intense during Bush, but now its this weird defense of their country from the evil government thing/holding onto their values (which is just as vague and emotional about getting wood over the word FREEDOM). An obvious transition, but the donkey comic makes more sense during the Bush years. Now it reads more like mixed emotions about authority/government- are republicans feeling oppressed or not? Are they not sure? I can see one reading that comic and thinking "Stupid democrats are such loud mouths why can't they respect laws and authority?" and then marching on Washington with Tea baggers yelling the (less specific) things the donkey is in that comic.

And this isn't some slow realization about how irrational the people behind the comics are, just a little fascination with the mix of Bush era emotions (nothing but emotions) and Obama era emotions.

Do love the Daily Mail cartoon - not only is Britannia going to plunge headlong into an abyss, it'll be - oh no! - raining there, too.

Bush-era is at heart the core reason Tea Partiers don't trust the government, and was proof of the less extreme right's anti-gov't tendencies. Of course if any Tea Party/Right Wing group were to miraculously get control of the white house and all three branches, they would be just as eager to construct and enforce federal policy. Because a desire for power and control overrides any and all ideologies.

proof for the less extreme right's anti-gov't tendencies

http://cache.boston.com/bonzai-fba/Third_Party_Graphic/2010/05/07/po100506__1273247157_4529.jpg

dunno which is more obnoxious, the caricature or the kwlly style speech bubble

kwlly kelly

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not that batshit compared to some others but i just wanna know what is that terrifying robot thing between the seats?

http://www.headrobot.com/images/rosie.jpg

Didn't know Rosie was a double agent.

box o' terror

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Boys are icky? That's as brave as Farrington will be about insinuating lesbianism and his problem with it?

No, boys are ¡cky! which is all mexicated and unamerican

I have no idea what the fuck the Oliphant cartoon is about but he generally is not batshit, and Jack Ohman is definitely not batshit -- just some poor drawing designs.

Oliphant's work, which from time to time employs ethnic caricatures, has occasionally been criticized. In 2001, the Asian American Journalists Association accused Oliphant of "cross[ing] the line from acerbic depiction to racial caricature".[1] In 2005, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee expressed concern that some of Oliphant's caricatures were racist and misleading.[2] In 2007, two Oliphant cartoons produced a similar response.

"Generally" but thanks for clearing that up.

kiLL
BABY
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I think Shirley is the real hero of that comic.

That strip reminds me of this weird mid-90s right-wing TV show set in a cafe. This Mr. Rogers type-fellow used to order pie and listen to waitresses and cooks make bad jokes about taxes and Bill Clinton, and then, randomly, Jacob Weisberg from Spin Magazine (now of Slate) would show up.

hooray Kelly is back!

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Not exclusively right-wing, but just pure greatness

http://davegranlund.com/cartoons/

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