There. That should save a lot of commenters a lot of time.

I was seriously into being an editorial cartoonist when I was young. The work I did cost me my high school diploma (withheld by an angry administration).

As soon as you start drawing editorial cartoons with any real bite, people lose their friggin’ minds. It’s the most dangerous job in America. Every cartoon you draw might as well be a picture of Mohammed. You can write an editorial piece about how great flag burning or murdering gay people might be, but heaven help you if you depict these subjects in a CARTOON. You court oblivion.

My words here won’t defuse the powerful madness brought about by editorial cartoons. But let me simply say that ranting about how unfair the political content of a given cartoon might be is a telltale sign that you are either an idiot or you believe everyone else is an idiot. Really.

Sarah Palin is a big girl, and Rush Limbaugh is a big boy.

Glenn Beck – also a big girl.

Imagine if it were an Obama/Clinton/Pelosi book… it wouldn’t be published with a ‘haha’ attitude, but a ‘look what those low-rent Republicans are up to now!’

Also it reminded me of Garbage Pail Kids for some reason, which grossed me out… I was into Ninja Turtles. : )

That dangerous, near-heretical slip on Mark’s part (quoting a description of Republicans as “reasonable … worthwhile”) needed immediate correction.

And the comment about “blinders” added a delicious dollop of irony……

Helen Thomas, Michael Moore, and (especially) Henry Waxman wouldn’t even need to be ‘shopped.

It’s crazy that people don’t have a sense of humor anymore. We’re even getting death threats about this book.

It’s called S-A-T-I-R-E people. Lighten up.

Chip
BOOM! Town

Because, you know, that really is just an eensy, tiny bit evil.

Just sayin’.

Thing is, from my time in a bookstore? I don’t think this will sell. Left-wing attacks on the right generally don’t sell that well. Right-wing attacks on the left? Those sell like gangbusters.

Go figure.

When the store I was working at sold out of the Swiftboat book attacking Kerry, I had customers SCREAM at me that we were just a bunch of lefties trying to prevent them from getting the book.

This was NOT an isolated incident.

Is it the problem of keeping religion a private matter that should not be legislated into laws that govern us all?

Is it the problem of allowing a woman to decide what happens to her body?

Is it the problem of recognizing that two people who love each other and want to be married are a stabilizing force in society regardless of their gender?

Is it the problem of expecting that those of us who are lucky enough to be successful realize that we owe something to the society that made that success possible, that perhaps we shouldn’t constantly be whining about taxes, and that maybe our success creates a responsibility to those less fortunate?

Is it the problem of expecting a corporation that enjoys the profits of capitalism to also act reasonably towards it employees and responsibly towards the environment we all share?

If these are some of the problems to which you are referring, then I am proud to be part of the problem.

In other words, I am proud to not be a republican.

That does sound nice…

And I deeply resent the portrayal of Anne Coulter as an alien grey. There is no evidence of greys causing actual harm in the world, unlike Coulter. If you want to insult someone, give a grey long blond hair and a big old honkin’ Adam’s apple.

Just as those who decry the occasional teabagger depiction of Obama as Hitler lose credibility by not having said anything about the Iraq police action protesters having depicted Bush as Hitler – neither was productive, and frankly, both were offensive.

As far as artistic merit, Palin looks like Spock going through a particularly nasty pon farr.