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Top Ten Glenn Beck Cartoons

Sometimes I wonder if Fox News will let Glenn Beck say any crazy thing he wants – but with Fox’s decision to give Glenn Beck the boot, I guess the answer is a resounding no.

Plagued by sinking ratings and an advertising boycott, Fox announced that Beck would lose his show later this year. This might be a happy day for many, but most editorial cartoonists will be sad to see Beck and his conspiracy-minded gobbledygook leave television.

So I thought it would be fun to post the top ten Glenn Beck cartoons from our archives, and remember the good old days of usurping Martin Luther King, Jr. and calling President Obama a racist.

10. Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

9. John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune

8. Bob Englehart, Hartford Courant

7. John Cole, Scranton Times-Tribune

6. Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

5. Daryl Cagle, msnbc.com

4. David Fitzsimmons, Arizona Daily Star

3. Daryl Cagle, msnbc.com

2. Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

1. Sandy Huffaker, PoliticalCartoons.com

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I Hate Unions

I Hate Unions Color © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,union, public employees, Wisconsin, Ohio, Walker, Kasich, Republicans, elephants, TEACHERS, EDUCATION, SCHOOLS

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Government Shut Down

Government Shut Down © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Elephant, GOP, republicans, tea party, tea, election, Donkey, Democrat, Govenment Shut Down, Continuing Resolution, Budget

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Koran Burning Protests in Afghanistan

Here’s my new cartoon about protesters in Afghanistan fighting and killing because some dumb, bigoted pastor in Florida decided to burn a Koran for some publicity.

Koran Quran Terry Jones pastor Florida Afghanistan Islam
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The whole situation reminds me of the protests and violence following the Danish Cartooning Controversy that occurred back in 2005, when 12 editorial cartoonists were commissioned by the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten to draw caricatures of the Islamic prophet Muhammad in attempt to contribute to the debate regarding criticism of Islam and self-censorship. Even with a free press defined by law, there are other constraints regarding what can or can’t be published.

Here’s the cartoon I drew back then. It’s sad that for some, things never change.

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My Latest Cartoons – Taxes, NATO, Bombs, Libya and Syria

Oh dear, I haven’t been good about posting my most recent cartoons – here they are.  This is my annual cartoon about tax time …

This one is about the NATO bombing/no-fly-zone in Libya …

Here’s one on the Republican union bashing.

..and the looming government shutdown …

This is a local cartoon about our ridiculous, multi-billion-dollar trains to nowhere in California.  Our new/old Governor Brown is eager to have an election so we can approve new taxes.  With all the billions of dollars poured into the ground for a worthless Los Angeles subway, and the local $500 million dollar, most expensive high school ever built, it is hard to make a convincing argument that we need higher taxes.

Here’s my portrait of Syrian dictator Bashir al-Assad and his father, Hafez al-Assad.

Here’s another drawing of Bashir.  He is fun to draw (his neck makes me laugh).  As a manly cartoonist, I don’t like to put sissy labels on my caricatures; regrettably, most people don’t know what Bashir looks like, and he needs a label – still, I’m no sissy cartoonist.

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Koran Burning Protests

Koran Burning Protests Color © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Afghanistan, Koran, Terry jones, burning, riots, protests, Islam, Gainesville Florida

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Online Dating Cartoons

Online dating has exploded in recent years, with everybody from busy stockbrokers to soldiers overseas using sites like Match.com and eHarmony to find their soul mates.

Check out some funny cartoon about this brave new world of internet romance in our new Online Dating cartoon slideshow.

eHarmony OKCupid Match.com online dating personals sex
David Fitzsimmons / Arizona Daily Star (click cartoon to view slideshow)
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Foreign Cartoonists Weigh In on Quran-burning Pastor

Protests in Afghanistan against the burning of a Quran in Florida by Pastor Terry Jones has entered a third straight day. The Taliban seem to be stoking the fires of the angry mobs, who have already killed 20 people and injured nearly 100 more.

It’s always interesting to see how the world’s cartoonists react to an event like this – a single, idiotic American motivated by religious intolerance stirring up trouble and creating violence halfway across the world out of bigotry and hatred.

Slovakian cartoonist Martin Sutovec drew Pastor Jones trying to use the flames of liberty to get his Quran-burning started…

While Signapore cartoonist Deng Meil Coy shows us the face of terrorism.

Israeli cartoonist Shlomo Cohen shows Jones responding to warnings about creating violence in a Dirty Harry moment…

While Jordanian cartoonist Emad Hajjaj suggests it’s the media that are the true fire-starters.

Bulgarian cartoonist Christo Komarnitski draws a comparison between Jones’ Quran-burning and the terrorists behind 9/11.

Meanwhile, I just think he’s kind-of an ass…

RELATED: More cartoons about Quran-burning Pastor Terry Jones

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Is This Obama Cartoon Grotesque and Racist?

John Darkow / Columbia Daily Tribune

As questions grew about the scope and focus of the Obama Administration’s offensive in Libya, Columbia Daily Tribune cartoonist John Darkow drew the cartoon above, suggesting that the “limited target” that Obama spoke off actually included the removal of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

But Daytona Beach News-Journal reader Martin Press couldn’t get past what he refered to as the “wildly exaggerated features” of President Obama.

“The caricature… is so disrespectful to the president of the United States that it could have been drawn by one of the nutty “birthers” who infest the media,” wrote Press in an letter to the editor.

We’ve had numerous discussions here about the unique difficulties that come into play when your exaggerating features and caricaturing the nation’s first black president. Is Press right about this Darkow cartoon being “grotesque and racist,” or is he just being too sensitive to race and the art of a political cartoonist to exaggerate the features of his subject, in this case President Obama?

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Quran Burning Cartoons

Florida Pastor Terry Jones threatened to burn copies of the Koran back in September as part of a publicity stunt, but it wasn’t until March 20 that Jones ordered a copy of the Koran to be torched in a portable fire pit.

On Friday and Saturday, attacks by mobs in Afghanistan incited by the burning left at least 20 dead and more than 90 injured.

Click here to view our Koran Burning cartoon collection to see what the world’s best cartoonists think about this latest wave of hate and violence.

Terry Jones Koran burning Afghanistan U.N.
Daryl Cagle / msnbc.com (click to view slideshow)
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Baseball Opening Day Cartoons

It’s that time of year again. The annual ritual of trips to the ballpark, $5 hot dogs and the crack of the bat as we are greeted with a new season of professional baseball.

One man who has covered a lot of baseball opening days is sports cartoonist Drew Litton. The long-time cartoonist for the now-defunct Rocky Mountain News, Litton now draws sports cartoons for ESPN.com and The Chicago Tribune, and was kind enough to share some of his favorite opening day cartoons.

To view his more recent cartoons, check out his fantastic sports cartoon blog here, as well as his cartoon archive here.

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Tax Sharks

Tax Sharks Color © Daryl Cagle,MSNBC.com,Income Tax,IRS,Internal Revenue Service,April 15th,Tax Day,Family,Federal,Swimming Pool,Sharks