Batshit Rightwing Cartoons 2011

Meanwhile, Doonesbury gets kicked to the op-ed page at the LA Times and other papers because it dares to discuss the truth about the recent spate of abortion restrictions.

http://www.latimes.com/media/photo/2012-03/68745659.jpg

http://media.caglecartoons.com/media/cartoons/12/2012/03/25/108778_600.jpg

WAAAH

hahah wow that's pretty impressive

we're not sure why but this incident makes us angry at obama

i mean there's likely a case to be made that the "like my son would have looked" distracts from the necessary political change of revoking stand your ground laws in favor of drawing attention to america hardly being postracial or whatever but suggesting that bam was playing the situation for cheap political theater and that the entirety of your response to the trayvon martin case is "look at that horrible politician pandering" is kind of ridiculous and spectacularly offensive and omg i am trying to reasonably respond to that fucking thing, forget it

http://www.cagle.com/2012/03/cartoonist-criticizes-obama-for-politicizing-trayvon-martin-murder/

Bridget R.: “I’ll play devils advocate and ask anyone to give me an example of other presidents talking in the media about a local murder case. I’ll wait.”

speculating wildly but i would assume Reagan got asked about Bernie Goetz, Clinton about OJ, and not to mention presidents talking in the media about local medical cases (every abortion ever) ugh why i am i arguing with the internet about some idiot quoted as making a comment about a cartoon

I can always tell when my critics have no substantive argument to make in their defense, for that’s when the shallow charges of “horrible cartoonist” and “racist” start to fly.

Nixon about Manson...

Yeah, I posted the LA Times cover w/Nixon and Manson in the other thread. And that one was wild, because Manson got hold of a copy of that paper, snuck it into the courtroom and showed it to the jury.

gratifying to see the facebook comments beneath the carton are almost entirely negative, and think it to be incredibly offensive

thousands of spastic, hyperventilating leftists reached for their inhalers in unison, collectively raising CO2 levels, and melting the polar ice caps. All the while I celebrate their anger sitting in my comfy arm chair and watching the ice melt in my glass of scotch, with a warm, smug grin on my face.

Dictionary definition of trolling. Except, no, when he's not making jokes about Rosie O'Donnell's weight he apparently has "substantive" arguments to make. Choose one, man: either you've got a serious political point or you're just another member of the shithead army looking for a reaction.

He rolls out another classic in his defence of the Sandra Fluke cartoon:

it struck me as deliciously ironic that many of the tolerant, compassionate liberals who took issue with my supposedly portraying Miss Fluke as a “slut” and “prostitute”, and with my lack of civility, did so by calling me every vulgar name in the book and making death threats against me

"Deliciously ironic"

The bizarreness of Obama stating that if he had a son, he would look like Trayvon is nearly unfathomable.

Yeah, how is this unfathomable?

Obama obv should not care whether Trayvon was black, white, yellow, purple...

deliciously ironic

this strain of 'you're no better than me' rhetoric is so flaccid and lazy and gross, the worst type of trolling imho

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X-iu-aCiY7U/T2sDOIit6UI/AAAAAAAAA0A/89UXyVIJAuQ/s1600/Triumph+of+the+Swill.jpg

http://www.beckyandjoeshow.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/what-the-heck.jpg

Apparently has something to do with this:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/glenn-beck-tom-hanks-pro-obama-film-nazi-propaganda-304233

And Hanks is an "Obama-bot." And chocolate because of Forrest Gump. And stem cells because, whatever, why the hell not.

http://i.imgur.com/1rcuf.jpg

i... don't understand?

Is this a gay superhero thing?

is that even political?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=AB%2FDL

how is this difficult to parse, you guys are smart

i don't get the reference. is superman obama? did obama shit himself? SOMEONE GIVE ME A LINK

for a thread, and a community, that spends a lot of time ingesting right-wing rhetoric, y'all are not v facile w/the imagery

lemme spell it out for you: n-a-n-n-y s-t- fuck it nevermind

cartoonist says he's riffing on gay green lantern, etc.

"Captain America came out against the Tea Party, Green Lantern just came out. The comic book industry is becoming nothing more than another leftist enterprise, poisoning truth, justice and the American way."

i did not know that 'ab/dl' had become right-wing code for the social security state.

though i do remember a daily mail-style story about a guy with that fetish who tried to claim disability, i think?

i didn't even know what 'ab/dl' was, but there was a pretty appreciable gestalt at work i think

if yr gonna take a walk down the slippery slope, and defend so-called moralism, then yeah, fetishists and furries will scan to the right as avatars of the degenerate left-wing usurpers of life as it was and ought to be.

the slippery colon of degenerate behavior

AB/DL is defined at the bottom of the cover.

"bottom"

Well done, sir.

i didn't even know what 'ab/dl' was, but there was a pretty appreciable gestalt at work i think

yeah i think it is part of the fine tradition of batshit rightwing cartoons that often the whole is fairly comprehensible even when the specifics are completely nonsensical.

and yet the only politician with a known diaper fetish is tea party sympathizer and admitted whoremonger Sen. David Vitter

maybe??? http://rebuildingfreedom.org/2011/10/25/nanny-state-to-the-nth-degree-connecticut-officials-push-washington-to-offer-free-diapers-to-poor-mothers/

The comic book industry is becoming nothing more than another leftist enterprise

So they'll only celebrate free enterprise when it agrees with them ideologically?

"Tax money should not go to poor mothers, it should only be spent on bombs and drones!"

Seriously i hate this effing country. That 'entitlements' and 'socialism' can never be mentioned when it comes to the defense budget or corporate handjobs or PACs really just underscores how arbitrary those terms are for me. That people really believe this stuff is just really upsetting on a daily basis.

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/533335_160176884115498_2039665322_n.jpg

Comic content, meh. Caricature of Obama is completely WTF!

it looks like he's speaking from his ears, which resemble some sort of alien mouth

I see he's been drawn similarly a few times upthread, but those were under the cut. afaict, Obama has a pretty normally shaped head irl. Why are they turning him into a banana with ears...oh, wait...banana...ape...I see.

http://content.comicskingdom.net/Mallard_Fillmore/Mallard_Fillmore.20120620_small.gif

cartoon characters be homophobic

that seems like a pretty normal joke.

Not so much normal as cliche beyond recognition, and the punchline's delivery is breathtakingly labored.

that a mallard strip has a (dreadfully unfunny) punchline at all is a radical evolution for this most pathetic of comic strips