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…
John Cole / Scranton Times-Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Cole)R.J. Matson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch (click to view more cartoons by Matson)Pat Bagley / Salt Lake Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Bagley)Adam Zyglis / Buffalo News (click to view more cartoons by Zyglis)David Fitzsimmons / Arizona Daily Star (click to view more cartoons by Fitzsimmons)Kevin Siers / Charlotte Observer (click to view more cartoons by Siers)
James Murdoch, son of News Corporation media mogul and occasional pie target Rupert Murdoch, has decided to give up his role as the head of the British newspaper subsidiary News International in the wake of an enormous phone hacking scandal and illegal payments to the police.
Here are five funny cartoons about phone hacking, News Corporation and the general silliness surrounding the Murdoch family. Our cartoonists draw, you decide…
R.J. Matson / St. Louis Post-Dispatch (click to view more cartoons by Matson)Cam Cardow / Ottawa Citizen (click to view more cartoons by Cardow)David Fitzsimmons / Arizona Daily Star (click to view more cartoons by Fitzsimmons)Mike Keefe / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view more cartoons by Keefe)David Fitzsimmons / Arizona Daily Star (click to view more cartoons by Fitzsimmons)
Here’s my newest cartoon about everyone’s favorite birth control warrior, former Pennsylvania Senator and Presidential Candidate Rick Santorum (view more Rick Santorum cartoons here). For a man who not afraid to tell voters what’s on his mind (no matter how looney), Santorum now regrets saying he wanted to “throw up” after watching John F. Kennedy’s speech to Baptist ministers in Houston in 1960.
Just for the record, here’s what Kennedy said in his speech:
“I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.”
Wow, Kennedy didn’t want The Pope to control American politics. Harsh.
You see, Santorum wanted to hurl because despite what our Constitution says, he doesn’t believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute.
“The idea that the church can have no influence or no involvement in the operation of the state is absolutely antithetical to the objectives and vision of our country,” Santorum said on Sunday.
The Oscars are here! Time for Americans to drool and fawn over millionaire celebrities at the Academy Awards dueling it out over a little golden statue.
One cartoonist who has been outspoken about our celebrity obsessed culture is our very own Brian Fairrington. Here are some of Brian’s harshest cartoons aimed at anyone who chooses US magazine over The New York Times.
For the past few weeks, the rhetoric on the campaign has shifted from the economy and job creation to birth control and women’s reproductive rights. Many cartoonists have weighed in on the topic (view our collection of women’s rights cartoons here), but this cartoon by Adam Zyglis of the Buffalo News stood out.
Adam Zyglis / Buffalo News
We’ve had a lot of readers react to the cartoon via our Facebook and Twitter pages. Here just a sample of what they said about the cartoon:
Steve Berlin: “Totally unfair. Because the GOP would never put “Women” and “rights” in the same sentence.”
Don Mitchell: “Why not? Sarah Palin can draw targets on a map and play the victim card.”
Gerardo Enrique Garibay Camarena: “It’s Foul, and it amazes me how libs are incapable to understand that the symbol used in Palin’s map was NOT a target.”
Theresa McGrath Moran: “Takes a woman to make a man…remember who’s body you came out of.”
Dave Washburn: “Oh wait, I get it. If you’re against the government forcing religious institutions to violate their religious beliefs, you’re for shooting women. OK, now it makes sense.”
Maite Brown: “Contraception is the target. Sadly….NOT fair.”
Paul J Falkowski: “THIS IS Another expression of violence.”
Barbara Elizabeth: “This time it is not being promoted as something that SHOULD be done to the other side, but instead as something that the other side is ALREADY doing. Big difference since the weirdos out there won’t see this as an instruction from the left, but instead as a critique of the right.”
What do you think? Comment below and weigh in – fair or foul!
It’s that time of year again, where we celebrate the movies and garnish actors and actresses with awards and accolades for keeping us entertained. Personally, I’m protesting the Oscars this year, not because I don’t enjoy movies or the spectacle of a big awards show. I just think the Presidential race has been much more entertaining.
Don’t agree with me? Check out our Academy Awards cartoon collection, and tell me who’s a better actor – George Clooney or Mitt Romney.
Dave Granlund / PoliticalCartoons.com (click to view our Academy Awards cartoons)
It’s make-or-break time for Rick Santorum (who still can’t escape the infamy of his last name on Google). The culture warrior has risen in popularity among the Republican base by throwing out red meat pertaining to religion, birth control and slamming the president’s value system as a “phony theology.”
Can Santorum not only win the GOP nomination, but somehow unseat President Obama from office? Our cartoonists sure don’t think so. Here are five recent cartoons that sum up their thoughts…
David Fitzsimmons / Arizona Daily Star (click to view more by Fitzsimmons)John Cole / Scranton Times-Tribune (click to view more cartoons by Cole)Jeff Parker / Florida Today (click to view more cartoons by Parker)Adam Zyglis / Buffalo News (click to view more cartoons by Zyglis)Jimmy Margulies / The Record (click to view more cartoons by Margulies)
Our cartoonists don’t draw many sports cartoons, but when a great story enters the zeitgeist, they sharpen their pencils and dig in. Jeremy Lin, the out-of-nowhere star player for the Knicks, has almost single-handedly reversed the fortunes of his team.
Check out what our cartoonists think of Linsanity with our new collection of Jeremy Lin cartoons!
Taylor Jones / Cagle Cartoons (click to view our Jeremy Lin cartoons)
