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In a day and age when elected officials in Washington, D.C., seem to be treating the American people more like turkeys than bosses, I offer this Thanksgiving Day cartoon as representative of how many Americans feel on this special day.

Radical left-wing cartoonist Ted Rall -- who reveled in dismissing American servicemen as "idiots" -- was recently laid off. Editor & Publisher reported the story in an April 22 article: NEW YORK Chalk up one more wildly talented cartoonist to be victimized by the economy. “I’ve been laid off,” reads the headline on the blog of cartoonist Ted Rall, president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. Rall, an editorial cartoonist for Universal Press Syndicate, has served as editor of acquisitions and development at United Media for the past two years. “My job was finding new talent -- comic strip...

"He's superman at the moment - young, black, good-looking, progressive," says British cartoonist Andy Davey. So perhaps it's not surprising you have to look hard to find an unflattering cartoon of the new US president. With the end of his first 100 days in sight, the Political Cartoon Gallery in London is putting on an exhibition of original cartoons of Barack Obama. It charts his rise as an outside candidate for the Democratic Party nomination to his first few months in the White House. The founder of the gallery, Dr Tim Benson, says he's assembled more than 60 cartoons from...

The cultivated inside-the-Beltway paper suggests we ship all the Cubans back to Fidel. The Washington Post specializes in detecting racism that is undetectable even by the most vigilant Politically Correct Policeman -- then self-righteously denouncing its alleged perpetrator. Let a sports team owner defend his team's name (Redskins) and the Post pounces: "Redskins is not a term fashioned by American Indians." Let Bill Bennet, who has spent a lifetime idolizing Martin Luther King Jr., make an oblique reference to black crime rates and a Post editorial promptly brands him "the poster child for racism." A WaPo editorial even sniffed out:"Yellow-peril...

An exhibition of more than 200 cartoons about the Holocaust opened Monday as Iran's response to last year's Muslim outrage over a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper. The display, showing 204 entries from Iran and abroad, was strongly influenced by the views of Iran's hard-line president, Mahoud Ahmadinejad, who drew widespread condemnation last year for calling the Holocaust a "myth" and saying Israel should be destroyed.

WE ARE ALL DANES NOW! Hindus consider it sacrilegious to eat meat from cows, so when a Danish supermarket ran a sale on beef and veal last fall, Hindus everywhere reacted with outrage. India recalled its ambassador to Copenhagen, and Danish flags were burned in Calcutta, Bombay, and Delhi. A Hindu mob in Sri Lanka severely beat two employees of a Danish-owned firm, and demonstrators in Nepal chanted: ''War on Denmark! Death to Denmark!"In many places, shops selling Dansk china or Lego toys were attacked by rioters, and two Danish embassies were firebombed. It didn't happen, of course. Hindus may...

UPDATED: The Cartoon War: A Collision of Values Filed under: General — site admin @ 8:19 am Nope, it’s not a “row.� It’s a war.At first take the name The Cartoon War may suggest something comic, exaggerated, or surreal. Those elements are in play– definitely in play. Cartoon and War are a collision, words that should not appear in the same serious sentence. They are a collision of values. But that’s the core of this, isn’t it? Likewise, the very real violence and anger add a heavy, instructive irony. The war between open and closed societies is not superficial,...

Go here http://villagevoice.com/news/0447,sutton,58615,9.html to see an utterly biased, disgusting characterization of those who are happy with President Bush's win as gap toothed, wife beating rednecks. I hesitate to post this in humor because it is NOT funny. Laura Ingraham is talking about this right now. I apologize if this has been posted. I did search but did not find it.

(CNSNews.com) - A nationally syndicated cartoonist, criticized for allegedly using racist themes to mock Secretary of State designate Condoleezza Rice, told CNSNews.com that his comparison of Rice to the black maid Prissy in the film "Gone With the Wind" had nothing to do with race but came about "because [Rice] lied about a war." "It's got nothing to do with the fact that she's black or anything else ... or even Republican," cartoonist Jeff Danziger told CNSNews.com. "She lied about ... or she was wrong and didn't know it, in which case she shouldn't be there." Danziger said the...

Minneapolis Star Tribune censors IPW cartoonist IowaPresidentialWatch.com’s political cartoonist, Linda Eddy, has been censored by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Eddy distributes her cartoons by email and regularly sends them to the Tribune. Her latest, showing John Kerry during his 1971 Senate testimony, is titled “Silencing Veterans since 1971” and shows an American soldier in Kerry’s hand, his head covered. Tribune Deputy Editorial Page Editor B. James Boyd responded to Eddy’s latest cartoon by banning any future editorials from the artist: “Please take me off your e-mail list. Your latest statements about Kerry are too much. He said no such...

THE BOONDOCKS (FOX) - Cartoon Network is reportedly finalizing a deal to pick up the failed FOX pilot presentation from Sony Pictures Television, based on the comic strip by Aaron McGruder of the same name. The animated series chronicles the clash of cultures that ensues when two youths from inner-city Chicago, Riley and Huey, move to the suburbs to live with their grandfather. McGruder and Reggie Hudlin are the executive producers of the project.

1)Dick Wright, The Columbus Dispatch, OH 2) Brian Fairrington, caglecartoons.com 3)Mike Thompson, Detroit, Michigan, The Detroit Free Press 4) Doug Marlette, The Tallahassee Democrat, FL 5)Chip Bok, The Akron (Ohio) Beacon-Journal 6)Michael Ramirez, California -- The Los Angeles Times 7)Jeff Stahler, The Cincinnati Post, Ohio 8)Jeff Stahler, The Cincinnati Post, Ohio 9)Eric Allie, Illinois -- The Pioneer Press 10)John Cole, Durham, NC -- The Herald-Sun

Today's Toles cartoon in the Washington (com)Post, entitled The 20th Hijacker Arrives, depicts the U.S. Capitol building being blown apart by "The Deficit," and with a sub-title, "Who Could've Foreseen?"

1) "Saddam Rat Caught" By: Best of Latin America The Clinic, Santiago, Chile December 14, 2003 2) "Saddam Captured" By: Mike Keefe The Denver Post December 14, 2003 3) "The Glory of Saddam By: Jeff Parker Florida Today December 14, 2003 4) "Saddam Captured" By: Best of Latin America Cagle Cartoons, El Universal, Mexico City December 14, 2003 5) "Saddam Skin Rug" By: Daryl Cagle Slate.com December 14, 2003 6) "Saddam Captured" By: Jeff Parker Florida Today December 14, 2003 7) "Santa Saddam" By: Best of Latin America The Clinic, Santiago, Chile December 14, 2003 8) Emad Hajjaj, Ad-Dustour Newspaper,...

Last Update: 26/11/2003 10:58 Cartoon of naked Sharon devouring infant wins top U.K. prize By Haaretz Service A cartoon of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon eating the head of a Palestinian baby against the backdrop of a burning Palestinian city has won first prize in the British Political Cartoon Society's annual competition. There were 35 entries in the Cartoon of the Year competition, sponsored by the British Independent newspaper, from some of the country's leading cartoonists. Dave Brown's winning cartoon was published in the Independent a few months ago, when it was claimed that it was inspired by a Goya painting....

This might be the reason why we keep shipping jobs overseas... Our factories are full of laid-off workers and factory owners are tired of paying through the nose to meet EPA standards and regulations. The Slinky Factory is a good example. The owner of the Slinky Factory cautions "Watch your steps!" See more than 270 cartoons on all subjects for kids of all ages!

(1) Daryl Cagle, Slate.com (2) Walt Handelsman, Long Island, NY, Newsday (3) Steve Sack, Minnesota, The Minneapolis Star-Tribune (4) Jimmy Margulies, New Jersey -- The Record (5) John Cole, Durham, NC -- The Herald-Sun (6) Dana Summers, Orlando, FL, (7) Bill Schorr, United Media (8) Jeff Stahler, The Cincinnati Post, Ohio (9) Bill Schorr, United Media (10) R.J. Matson, NY, The New York Observer (11) Mike Keefe, The Denver Post (12) John Cole, Durham, NC -- The Herald-Sun

#1 - Tab (Thomas Boldt), The Calgary Sun, Alberta, Canada #2 - Petar Pismestrovic, Kleine Zeitung, Austria #3 - Jean Veenenbos, Austria, Der Standard #4 - "Carlucho" Carlos Villar, El Economista, Mexico City, Mexico #5 - Peter Nicholson, Melbourne, Australia #6 - Bill Leak, Sydney, Australia

WASHINGTON - The Secret Service (news - web sites) used "profoundly bad judgment" in seeking to question a Los Angeles Times cartoonist over a political cartoon depicting a man pointing a gun at President Bush (news - web sites), a senior House Republican said Tuesday.   Rep. Christopher Cox (news, bio, voting record), R-Calif., chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said the Secret Service owed Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Michael Ramirez an apology "and the public is owed an explanation both of how this happened and why it will not happen again." The use of "federal power to attempt to...

A cartoon that ran in the Chicago Tribune depicting Israeli Prime Minister with an oversized nose and a Star of David on his suit has been called anti-Semitic by a top Chicago rabbi who demanded readers boycott the newspaper. "We decry the publication of this cartoon, which effectively makes this newspaper a vehicle of anti-Semitism," Rabbi Michael Siegel told a crowd of more than 100 protesters crowd gathered outside Tribune Tower, the Tribune reported. In tbe cartoon, which dealt with the Bush administration attempts to broker peace in the Middle East, the president is shown enticing Sharon to cross a...

Nobody bites at auction for Doonesbury comic strips PORTLAND - Remember those Doonesbury comic strips that made fun of Portland's school funding problems? On Friday, supporters of Measure 26-48 were ready to auction off three more of Gary Trudeau's original strips. All the proceeds were meant to help out the Portland School District. There was only one problem - no one made a bid. However, that did not stop the measure's supporters from pushing their message about the upcoming election. "Anybody in Multnomah County can go and drop their ballot off. We need to have people do that. This...

  Nebukhad Nizzar (By Emad Hajjaj, 3/24/03).    (By Yassin Khalil, Teshreen, 3/24/03).    Sharon commenting on the US-UK missile attacks on Baghdad: This is a historical revenge for what Nebukhad Nizzar did about 2,500 years ago. (By Mustafa Rahmeh (Alittihad, 3/25/03).      Arabs crying for seeing the continuous daily death and destruction inflicted on their brothers and sisters in Iraq (Al-Ahram, 3/25/03).   The marshes to Baghdad (By Khalil Abu Arafeh, Alquds, 3/24/03).   Where are the flowers? (By Nasser Al-Ja'afari, Alquds, 3/24/03).   (By Stavro Jabra, 3/23/03).   Incompetent Arab rulers don't see or hear anything (Khaldoun Gharaybeh, Al-Ra'i,...

See this thread for Iraqi foreign minister's comments regarding treatment of captured Americans.

Radical Islamic group protests UM cartoon that the definition of stupidity is "sitting in front of a bulldozer to protect a gang of terrorists"===== MD PAPER MOCKS BULLDOZER DEATH OF AMERICAN Please see: http://www.inform.umd.edu/News/Diamondback/archives/2003/03/18/cartoon.html SEND POLITE COMMENTS TO: newsroom@dbk.umd.edu, parsons@dbk.umd.edu, managing-ed@dbk.umd.edu, melanie@dbk.umd.edu, opinion@dbk.umd.edu, ombudsman@dbk.umd.edu COPY TO: cair@cair-net.org Numerous background articles at: www.iap.org ______________________________________ Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) 10661 South Roberts Rd, Suite 202 Palos Hills, IL 60465 Tel: 708 974 3380 / Fax: 708 974 3389 /Pager: 1 800 481 4306 http://www.iap.org E-mails: iapinfo@iap.org Proudly serving Palestine and al Quds

PA Inciting Palestinians Against America, Critic SaysA Review of "Doodling for Saddam: The Use of Cartoons in Palestinian Newspaper to Recruit for the Iraqi RegimeJulie StahlBureau Chief, CNSNEWS.COM Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - The Palestinian Authority is inciting its citizens against America, and the publication of anti-American sentiments in the government-controlled press proves it, an informed critic said here. David Bedein, bureau chief of the Israel Resource News Agency in Jerusalem, charged that the Palestinians are using their media to stir up the public against the U.S., even to the point of going to war. Bedein has put together a collection...

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Arab News cartoonist Kahil dies in London By Khalid Al Maeena, Editor in Chief JEDDAH, 12 February 2003 — Arab News cartoonist Mahmoud Kahil died yesterday after undergoing surgery at a British hospital. An internationally known political cartoonist, Kahil was the technician in charge of the publications of the Saudi Research & Publishing Company, which publishes Arab News and 16 other publications. Prince Faisal ibn Salman, chairman of the Saudi Research & Marketing Group, expressed his deep sorrow on hearing news of the death of Kahil, who had been working for the company since 1979. In a full-page obituary...

LONDON - The Israeli Embassy in London has sent a strongly worded letter of protest to The Independent, following an editorial cartoon yesterday by Dave Brown, depicting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon biting the flesh of a Palestinian baby. In the cartoon, Sharon says: "What's wrong? Have you never seen a politician kissing a baby?" The background shows Apache attack helicopters sending missiles from the cockpit with the message "Vote Likud." In her letter, Shuli Davidovich, the embassy's press secretary, writes: "As Britain commemorates National Holocaust Day, I am shocked that The Independent has chosen to evoke an ancient Jewish stereotype...

'It is not the cartoon's skewed picture of the Middle East conflict that is at issue. It is the use of the classic "blood libel" of Jews murdering gentile children for their blood' I am not easily offended, much less shocked – at least not by media coverage of Israel and the Middle East. For though I have edited the oldest and most influential Jewish newspaper in the world for the past dozen years, for a dozen years before that I was a foreign correspondent, often a war correspondent – beginning in the late 1970s in the Middle East and...

This jerk has really gone over the edge this time.

You make the call. I don't usually get my boxers in a bunch, but I find this cartoon offensive. Unfortunately, the Philadelphia Daily News doesn't provide an e-mail address for Signe. If any of you Philadelphia area FReepers know how to contact and respond to this, let me know

A selection of the good political cartoons from the University of Maryland, College Park. Enjoy From the "Liberal Crap" daily: From the Editorial:

On Sunday morning, as I listened to radio and TV news bulletins and leafed through the papers, one story stood out as a subject for the next day's cartoon: Ariel Sharon's attack on Gaza City. It was not the first time I had been prompted to criticise Sharon. But what stood out was the timing – the thought that the assault was not unconnected with the approaching Israeli election. The task was to create an image illustrating that, although the missiles had been targeted at Gaza, the message was aimed squarely at the Israeli electorate. My starting-point was the newsreel...

<p>A 1937 American political cartoon about President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.</p> <p>Call it the cartoon crisis. The domino-style fallout over the Depression-era sketch displays the wildly unpredictable nature of Iranian politics at a time when conservatives feel threatened from all sides.</p>

A Pulitzer-prize winning cartoonist is under fire from Muslims for his depiction of a Middle Eastern-looking man behind the steering wheel of a nuclear-bomb laden truck under the headline, "What would Muhammad drive?" The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim World League are demanding an apology from Doug Marlette's syndicator, Tribune Media Services, and from his employer, the Tallahassee Democrat. Cartoon by Doug Marlette, used with permission The cartoon shows a Ryder rental truck like the one used by convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh. In a phone interview, Marlette told WorldNetDaily he would not apologize, though he...