Wednesday, October 28, 2009

The White House Lap Dogs

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Posted by Rod Williams
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4 comments:

  1. da patriotOctober 29, 2009 at 1:07 PM

    That is an awesome collection of cartoons. Of course, what can you expect from racist cartoonists who are nothing more than tools of the GOP! :)

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  2. lot 2 learnOctober 29, 2009 at 3:23 PM

    The one at the top in the Doctors office is the best I have seen yet

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  3. AnonymousOctober 30, 2009 at 3:15 PM

    Are these cartoons really up to your standards? Much of the content of this blog suggests otherwise.

    It's dismaying to see so many intelligent, disgruntled voters associated (however tenuously) with either main party accepting/perpetuating this spoon-fed "media bias" line.

    We're smart enough to know that the real problems with media are much deeper and more unsettling than that. I propose that among these are the following:

    1) the media are dependent upon the goodwill of political and economic leaders for access to information and sources;

    2) this seeming unprecedented severity of this state of affairs has arisen in part because of the sparse resources their multinational parent companies are willing or able to allocate to news-gathering functions, investigative reporting and overseas bureaus; and

    3) for reasons that are intertwined with -- but not wholly dependent upon -- 1 and 2, media of all kinds have long been moving away from the reportage of facts and toward a febrile species of 'opinion'-journalism, which perpetuates the illusion of an ongoing discourse between two putative 'points of view': 'liberal' and 'conservative'.

    Let me step back for a moment to clarify: I'm not saying that there is no intellectual, moral or historical basis for the idea of a left-right spectrum. I wish, however, to draw our attention to the fact that media have been pushing an increasingly simple-minded version of this dichotomy, and that that it is this very process that often poisons the well of political/civil discourse in our uncertain and confusing times.

    I'll allow that I can be characterized fairly as, generally speaking, left-of-center, just as you (the present blogger) could be called right-of-center. But like many citizens whose outlook is left-of-center, I'm no rabid defender of all-things-Obama, nor am I supportive of (or even interested in) network or cable-'news' (the latter of which is more like MTV than sober journalism).

    I merely share these thoughts with you in the hope of keeping alive the possibility of political conversation that rejects this increasingly specious and, frankly, poisonous dichotomy in favor of a mode of conversation that sets out as a matter of principle and intellectual honesty to eschew ad hominem excesses currently prevalent in media. It's not easy, and I make no claim to being a genius at it. But as far as I can see, it's worth it, and these repetitive and slogan-like cartoons are really worth the attention of someone of your obvious intelligence.

    - a reader

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  4. AnonymousOctober 30, 2009 at 3:21 PM

    "and these repetitive and slogan-like cartoons are really worth the attention of someone of your obvious intelligence."

    Woops. Among a few other acknowledged typos/errors of grammar and usage, I, of course, meant to say here: "really NOT worth...."

    Respectfully,
    A Reader

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