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And The Primary Marches On…

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date March 7, 2012

For those of you feeling weary of this GOP Primary and hoping it will end soon can start crying now. Super Tuesday has come and gone, and we’re no closer to having this race sorted out then we were yesterday.

Yes, Mitt Romney won Ohio, but not by much. Santorum managed to snag Tennessee and Oklahoma, but is still being kept in check by Newt Gingrich, who won his home state of Georgia and is helping to split the conservative vote.

About the only thing anyone can agree on is that Super Tuesday has set up a long, draw-out slugfest to the GOP nomination. With that in mind, here are some cartoons that I thought fit the mood moving forward…

Tim Eagan / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Eagan)

Nate Beeler / Washington Examiner (click to view more cartoons by Beeler)

Rick McKee / Augusta Chronicle (click to view more cartoons by McKee)

Joe Heller / Green Bay Press-Gazette (click to view more cartoons by Heller)

Chris Weyant / The Hill (click to view more cartoons by Weyant)

Adam Zyglis / Buffalo News (click to view more cartoons by Zyglis)

Tags Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul, super tuesday

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Nasty Sandra Fluke Cartoon

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date March 6, 2012

With the talk of Rush Limbaugh’s attack of Georgetown Law student Sandra Fluke still making news, the only cartoon we received so far supporting Rush’s position has come from our conservative cartoonist, Gary McCoy. I thought this right wing cartoon was pretty nasty. In fact, it made me wince. But I thought I’d let you be the judge:

Here’s an example of the comments we received about this cartoon:

letdogsvote: “Cartoonist made “pro choice” women appear: fat, ugly, bitchy, slutty, selfish, and obnoxious. Whatever political point Cartoonist intended to make here has been caught up in his generalized portrayal of pro choice women.”

fnordtastic: “I am a firm believe in being able to laugh at yourself, but this cartoon is devoid if any humor.”

Flat Roger: “Gary McCoy continues his string of “hate pornography” with this one and shows he has the same lack of class and intelligence about the issues as Limbaugh.”

Bastard-Captain Queeg: “Were this an attempt at trolling, it’d be an easy 10/10. Sadly, the cartoonist is actually serious. Of course government should pay for birth control, it’s in their best interest to do so.”

Sarah Rimmington: “Wow. That cartoon is horrific.”

Ewen Cluney: “There are many issues where I am willing to accept that liberals and conservatives have a difference of opinion, based on different subcultures or different reasoning, but the portrayal of Sandra Fluke and her testimony (and for that matter the birth control issue in general) by Limbaugh and other conservative commentators has been outright factually wrong.”

Kirk Houser: “”Wince”? McCoy’s cartoon is nothing but “hate porn”. This is just as bad as Limbaugh. Hope the backlash is severe.”

What do you think about the cartoon? Comment below or post a note on our Facebook page.

RELATED:

A revealing portrait of Rush

Limbaugh apologizes for ‘slut’ comment

Our collection of Rush Limbaugh cartoons

Tags prostitute, Rush Limbaugh, sandra fluke, slut

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Putin Claims Russian Election Victory

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date March 5, 2012

Last night, with a tear trickling down his right cheek, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced his victory in Russia’s presidential election. Opposition leaders call the election a sham, rife with fraud, which is nothing new for the former KGB officer. Remember, he’s already served two terms in the Kremlin before term limits forced him to step down in 2008. Instead of quietly stepping down, he got around that by becoming prime minister for his successor, Dimitry Medvedev (although some prefer the term “puppeteer”).

American cartoonists (and news media, for that matter) seem more focused on Mitt Romney and birth control then they do in worldwide events. Fortunately, we have some of the worlds best cartoonists, and here are what a handful think of Putin’s victory…

Tom Janssen / Cagle Cartoons (click to view more cartoons by Janssen)

Manny Francisco / Cagle Cartoons (click to view more cartoons by Francisco)

Cam Cardow / Ottawa Citizen (click to view more cartoons by Cardow)

Petar Pismestrovic / Cagle Cartoons (click to view more cartoons by Pismestrovic)

Olle Johansson / Cagle Cartoons (click to view more cartoons by Johansson)

Tags Dimitry Medvedev, elections, Russia, Vladimir Putin

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A Revealing Portrait of Rush

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date March 4, 2012

The big cigar and little “junk” in this Rush Limbaugh portrait made me laugh. I told Taylor Jones that it was a great cartoon, even though there won’t be many newspapers that will print it.

I asked Taylor what his thoughts were behind the cartoon. Here’s what he wrote me:

Rush Limbaugh’s crude, on-air rant against Sandra Fluke had me flummoxed at first. How to handle such a subject in editorial cartoon form, especially since I’d been tied up with other work and was coming late to the Rush story? Then it suddenly occurred to me that the man is just plain gross, and that simplified my task. I began to picture Rush as the late, great portrait painter Lucien Freud might have. Only Freud wouldn’t have been nearly so kind.

…Besides, I thought the depiction of a naked Limbaugh would compliment my recent caricature of Rick Santorum with a giant condom pulled over his head.

My first rough sketches actually featured Rush in more full-frontal nudity. But then I figured that a three-quarter view would have more impact. Revealing a sort of less-is-more concept, if you know what I mean.

Tags Taylor Jones

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Rush Limbaugh Poor Choice of Words

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date March 3, 2012

Tags Barack Obama, birth control, congress, contraceptives, hearing, pbamacare, pilgrim, prostitute, puritan, slut sandra fluke, the pill, the scarlet letter

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Limbaugh Apologizes For 'Slut' Comment

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date March 3, 2012

Outspoken radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh (click there to view our recent Rush Limbaugh cartoons) has apologized for referring to Georgetown University law school student Sandra Fluke, who is in favor of mandatory employer health coverage of contraception, as a “slut” and a “prostitute.”

Over the past couple of days Limbaugh has lost several of his advertisers over the controversy, including mattress manufacturers Sleep Train and Sleep Number, Quicken Loans and LegalZoom.

Here is Limbaugh’s full apology:

For over 20 years, I have illustrated the absurd with absurdity, three hours a day, five days a week. In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke.

I think it is absolutely absurd that during these very serious political times, we are discussing personal sexual recreational activities before members of Congress. I personally do not agree that American citizens should pay for these social activities. What happened to personal responsibility and accountability? Where do we draw the line? If this is accepted as the norm, what will follow? Will we be debating if taxpayers should pay for new sneakers for all students that are interested in running to keep fit?In my monologue, I posited that it is not our business whatsoever to know what is going on in anyone’s bedroom nor do I think it is a topic that should reach a Presidential level.

My choice of words was not the best, and in the attempt to be humorous, I created a national stir. I sincerely apologize to Ms. Fluke for the insulting word choices.

He doesn’t sound very sorry to me. Here is my most recent cartoon on Rush’s apology.

Tags birth control, prostitute, sandra fluke, slut, viagra

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The Dead Crowd

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date March 1, 2012

I’ve been drawing crowds of dead people lately. Like most cartoonists, I hate drawing crowd scenes. Back when I was a cartoon illustrator I drew lots of crowd scenes; art directors seem to love crowd scenes – readers do too. Readers often send me ideas for cartoons, and the typical idea involves drawing a crowd, or opposing armies, or a “sky filled with helicopters” or something similarly painful to draw.

But, if you kill everyone in the crowd, crowds are much easier to draw. There are no expressions, or body language. When I spend too much time drawing a dead crowd, I find myself thinking about the dead crowd cartoons again and again – maybe that’s unhealthy. In January I drew this cartoon about the Marines who peed on dead Taliban fighters.

This week I drew this one on Bashar Assad …

Now I’m plagued by thinking of “standing in the middle of a dead crowd” cartoons. Like this one …

Now I want to draw President Obama in the middle of the dead crowd saying, “Things seem to have quietened down now, after my apology.” Maybe I will.

I know I’m going to keep thinking about this.

Tags Afghanistan, Bashar Assad, dead bodies, marines, Mormon Church, soldiers, taliban

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Syria and Mormons

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date March 1, 2012

Tags baptism, baptize, Bashar Assad, latter-day saints, Mormon Church

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Remembering Andrew Breitbart

Post author By Daryl Cagle
Post date March 1, 2012

The world of politics woke up to the shocking news that outspoken conservative blogger and activist Andrew Breitbart died unexpectedly shortly after midnight in Los Angeles.

Breitbart was a political firebrand, and gained much fame by posting videos critical of ACORN and Sherry Sherrod that turned out to be selectively cut and presented to malign his targets. Surprisingly, political cartoonists weren’t too kind to his style of journalism, but everything I read suggests that Breitbart welcomed his haters.

In that spirit, here are some Breitbart cartoons from our archives…