Cartoonists With Attitude

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Last week we covered that everyone in the Hillary campaign thinks we're all idiots. This week we cover how a lot of people who don't like the Hillary campaign are acting like idiots. For the record, I invented absolutely none of the metaphors used by Bob in this strip. All of them have actually been used either on a cable news show or a popular weblog in the last week alone. Yes, including the Hitler one.

There's no excuse for misogynist attacks on Clinton just because she's, you know, run a horrifically inept and race-baiting campaign that should have any fan of progressive rhetoric vomiting. Hopefully the former can disappear so there's less cover for people who want to blindly ignore the latter.

This week's strip is double-sized to make up for the fact that there'll be no new comic next Monday. Two of my best friends from high school are getting married, and they've even gone as far as to make everything convenient for me by marrying each other, meaning I can take only one trip and actually enjoy the hell out of it. They also decided to have the wedding right around my birthday, so I can feel like the giant banquet is really for me and Virginia just wanted to dress really, really fancy for it.

If you are also attending a birthday party or just want to totally make your significant other want you, nothing beats the irresistable humor and/or sexual enhancement factor of my book. Buy one. And join the mailing list.

Latest comic - click here!

Last week we covered that everyone in the Hillary campaign thinks we're all idiots. This week we cover how a lot of people who don't like the Hillary campaign are acting like idiots. For the record, I invented absolutely none of the metaphors used by Bob in this strip. All of them have actually been used either on a cable news show or a popular weblog in the last week alone. Yes, including the Hitler one.

There's no excuse for misogynist attacks on Clinton just because she's, you know, run a horrifically inept and race-baiting campaign that should have any fan of progressive rhetoric vomiting. Hopefully the former can disappear so there's less cover for people who want to blindly ignore the latter.

This week's strip is double-sized to make up for the fact that there'll be no new comic next Monday. Two of my best friends from high school are getting married, and they've even gone as far as to make everything convenient for me by marrying each other, meaning I can take only one trip and actually enjoy the hell out of it. They also decided to have the wedding right around my birthday, so I can feel like the giant banquet is really for me and Virginia just wanted to dress really, really fancy for it.

If you are also attending a birthday party or just want to totally make your significant other want you, nothing beats the irresistable humor and/or sexual enhancement factor of my book. Buy one. And join the mailing list.

At this point I'm not even sure Hillary will deliver a concession speech.

Here's an e-mail from a very nice woman named Pam who took time out of her day to inform me about her rather insane views:

The press seems to handle Obama with kid gloves ...He certainly has become “One of Them” – a Washington Politician at his best. I am so surprised that he is able to pull the wool over people’s eyes with “eloquent”?? speaches that say nothing of substance. Maybe a cartoon on how he expressly opposed new primaries in Michigan and florida. His fear of a new vote and his unwillingness to debate Hillary show his weakness and disregard for the American people and his high regard for himself – arrogant and elitist – Jim Jones also created a mass of followers by his words – any resemblence to Obama?

If he does steal the nomination from Hillary, I will choose to either not vote or vote for mccain who I think is the lesser of two evils. At least McCain’s patriotism and his love of America has never come into question.

I get these kind of e-mails a lot. Why aren't you being harder on so and so? Why aren't you spreading the message about the shadow government's involvement with 9/11? Why aren't you using your cartooning abilities to address the very issues I obsess over everyday?


Wednesday: Huffington Post

How this for putting a positive spin on the slow death of print: The Portland Tribune, a free metro paper published twice a week, will be going down to a single printed paper available on Thursdays. What's interesting is that they are announcing this by claiming they are now in fact a daily paper.

Join us each day at www.portlandtribune.com and each Thursday at more than 2,400 locations and green newsstands around Portland.

After all, it is your town and it is your paper – the Portland Tribune – now daily.

Going weekly is going daily...if you post the stories appearing in the print paper slowly throughout the week.

Adding: Writer Kevin Allman follows this stuff and notes how they even spin it as part of the green revolution!

Cartoon for May 12

John McCain owes more than his belly to beer.

"Alien Society: Inconvenient Truths"...


So, yeah, a real late Moron post from last week and a "classic" Fighting Words this week might tell you that I've been a bit under the weather the past couple days. Sorry, yo...

Anyways, HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY!

You may notice that I've been talking about these convergent subjects quite a bit lately... and we're gonna be talking about it a helluva lot more for the next few months. I am fully convinced that the upcoming election HAS to be "high noon" between rational Americans and our moronic media. It's time to put an end to a mainstream media that willingly feeds the delusions of people who believe stories about how Obama is, like, an evil android sent by Hamas to conquer and enslave the American people. This kind of "journalism" needs to be KILLED... killed until it is DEAD, and then killed some more. And nothing kills these people more than being ignored... (hmmm... and yet we must talk about them to get people to ignore them... a paradox).

• If you believe any of the hype about Jeremiah Wright, watch Bill Moyers' recent interview with him... as I say in the cartoon, Wright really doesn't say anything that is incorrect. Even in his more "bombastic moments" in the National Press Club Q & A and the NAACP speech, his arguments are reasonable and firmly based on historical truth. Sure he may have come off like kind of an asshole at times, especially during the Q & A... but this just means he'd make a good newsman, right? Asshole journalism is, after all, the standard these days...
  
  
• Being an asshole seems to be the mark of a good, right-wing Christian leader, too. Seems McCain's good pal Rev. Hagee has retracted his retraction of his totally un-newsworthy comment that New Orleans got what it had coming when Katrina hit.
  
  
• Glen Ford on Obama's "race-neutral" strategy:
  

  In order for his race-neutral strategy to appear sane, Obama must constantly paint a picture of an America that does not exist. This cannot be accomplished without mangling the truth, assaulting the truth-tellers, and misrepresenting America's past and present...
  
  He says the "incompetence was color-blind" in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, thereby deracializing all that occurred in New Orleans from the moment the winds died down to this very second. He claims that 1980s Ronald Reagan voters had understandable grievances due to "the excesses of the 1960s and 1970s," in the process cleansing the Reagan victory of any racist content.