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Hi, folks. Here's a collection of some of the better Occutard political cartoons I've come across. Hope you enjoy! 17 Occutard 'Toons

“Without a doubt, people are stepping more gingerly. People are tiptoeing their way through this.”- Ted Rall, liberal editorial cartoonist. Last week’s firestorm over an editorial cartoon at the New York Post is still burning it’s way through the media and the blogosphere, and in the wake of Eric Holder’s declaration that Americans (read: white Americans) are cowards and James Clyburn’s claim that rejection of stimulus funds is motivated by racism, the reactions are naturally mixed and sometimes contentious. Reverend Al Sharpton, for example, is demanding investigations and protests. MSNBC is having shouting matches. Some cartoonists are simply preparing to...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Elizabeth in Washington, DC, nice to have you on the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Hey, Rush, dittos. RUSH: Thank you. CALLER: I'm calling about the cartoon. I finally got to see it because my newspaper reprinted it today. And the cops who shot the chimp, that's not a racist cartoon, that's sexist. That's old Nancy Pelosi lying there on the sidewalk. RUSH: Yeah, let me describe, for those who haven't heard it, or seen it. In fact, I have a Dittocam, for those of you unaware of it we televise the program each and every day on...

by Mark Finkelstein September 1, 2006 - 07:34 In a recent comment on an editorial cartoon in the Boston Globe showing an all-white group of execs gloating over increasing profits as a bedraggled worker hung by his hands, I noted that the Globe's commitment to "diversity disappears when portraying corporate meanies." Great news - just two days later, the Globe has rediscovered diversity! Oh, to be sure, the two corporate meanies in Dan Wasserman's cartoon are both white males. One even sports a suspiciously Nixonian five-o'clock shadow. But an African-American does turn up - as the victim. The cartoon accompanies...

17 August 2006, 11:26Holocaust caricature exhibition will provoke Islamophobia - Russian human rights activists Moscow, August 17, Interfax - Russian human rights organizations have stated that the Holocaust caricature exhibition in Tehran will entail an upsurge of Islamophobia and called on the Iranian authorities to close it down. In an appeal to the Iranian embassy and the UN office in Moscow, they called ‘to listen to the public voice and to close down the exhibition in order to prevent unrest throughout the world, to prevent the prerequisites for Islamophobia’. ‘The caricatures mocking the Holocaust tragedy amounts to jeering at the...

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,...

The State Department yesterday condemned as "offensive" cartoons in a Danish newspaper depicting the prophet Muhammad but defended the paper's right to publish them as a fundamental principle of democracy. It also urged Muslims, who have been staging mass protests against the cartoons and their reprinting in newspapers in Europe, to express outrage when they see anti-Christian or anti-Semitic publications. "We find them offensive," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said of the cartoons. "While we share the offense that Muslims have taken at these images, we at the same time vigorously defend the right of individuals to express points of...

First they came for the funny ones Published February 1, 2006 Kathleen Parker Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of political cartoonists. Not this time for the ones losing newspaper jobs, but for those whose lives are literally on the line thanks to outraged Islamists offering a bounty for their heads. The cartoonists in question are a dozen Danish artists who drew Muhammad-themed cartoons last September for the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten during an exercise to test the limits of free speech. The cartoon-a-thon was conceived in response to complaints from a Danish author...

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

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,...

Best Editorial Cartoons of the Week - 9/27/03The California Recall TelemarketersThe Middle EastElections 2004The War On Terror And The UN

(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...

  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,...

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...

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:

I caught this as part of an article from the February 14 issue of Comic Buyer's Guide: The 411 mini-series will focus on non-violence as a solution to problems. Scheduled to be in stores on April 11 (4/11) for $3.50, the title is an anthology focused on that theme. (Marvel President and COO Bill) Jemas said, " 411 will be the most serious of books that we produce in the next year or so. The word '411' is a buzzword that kids use for 'information now,' and the information we want to convey is about people like Martin Luther King,...

Yo, Muhammad, it was a joke! Hey, did you hear the one about Muhammad and …? No? Me neither. And even if I did hear a good Muhammad joke, you can bet I wouldn't tell it. Not in an e-mail, not in a column, not no way, not no how. Why? Because if you poke fun at the prophet of Islam -or even suggest anything that remotely smacks of irreverence -you will live (maybe) to regret it. Already, I feel the rumbling of thousands of creatively worded hate mails involving the word "donkey" as they thunder along my computer's routers....

2002 was the year Clinton almost got a tv talk show. GW’s State of the Union Speech, 2002. Those poor poor TERRORIST "detainees" at Guantanamo Bay! America remembers Daniel Pearl. Mid-term Elections, 2002. Saddam in disguise... Welcome to North Korea... America stays united!

LA Times has published a political cartoon by Michael Ramirez of Jews praying at the Wailing Wall with the word 'HATE' made of blocks on the wall. (Sorry I was unable to post the cartoon, but can be seen at the LA Times site under Op/ed.)Not that we don't expect this kind of garbage from the LA Times, its just that the bottom feeders have again reached a new low - or a new personal worst.

<p>Post-Dispatch cartoonist John Sherffius has won the Scripps Howard Foundation National Journalism Award for Editorial Cartooning, an honor conferred for his work last year.</p> <p>In their comments, the contest's judges said they "were impressed with the range of his visual metaphors, and he dealt with a lot of familiar subjects without falling into cliches. We felt this was the most consistently excellent portfolio in a very strong field."</p>