Posted on 12/12/2005 8:42:52 PM PST by saquin
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I first drew Bush as a monkey after his installation by the Supreme Court, exactly five years ago. It was by accident. I was trying to depict him as a spiritual heir to Ronald Reagan, another useless chump whose most celebrated movie hit was Bedtime For Bonzo in which he starred with a chimp. So Bush became a chimp before I ever realised how closely he resembles our hairy forebears.
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Drawing him as a monkey, however, worked a treat. His four hands enabled him to get up to all sorts of interesting tricks, and also somehow fitted his awkward way with words. I drew a sequence of "Hail to the Chimp" strips to coincide with his inauguration in early January 2001.
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Having grabbed pictures off the TV news, I picked up on a three-frame sequence of Bush approaching a podium. There was something about the way he held his arms as he walked up; then, as he faced the cameras, his mouth formed into a distinct pout. He moved like a chimp, walked like a chimp and even talked like a chimp. This was no play acting; George Bush actually was a chimp.
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As his aggressive monomania increased, so too did his weird monkey pout. Some have written complaining that my depiction lacks subtlety and fails to convey his unique qualities and depth of character as a politician. I reply that I would be failing in my duty if I refused to acknowledge his unique qualities as a chimpanzee, for how often does a leader of the free world come along who resembles a monkey in every particular?
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Setting aside for the moment how offensive it is, it's almost difficult to be offended in the midst of all the laughter at how unbelievably juvenile it is. This is the sort of the thing that I would expect to see scribbled on a middle schooler's notebook for the amusement of his buddies ("The President looks like a monkey!! Don't ya think?") and yet this little piece ran in a major UK newspaper.
Your note is perfect--I mean, really, how juvenile. If the left wants to continue to marginalize itself in a world at war with the very people who, if they took over, would first kill all the liberals, they can be my guests.
Wow, that's a great, clever cartoon. He must be a famous artist in England, because when I saw that, I realized I'd never seen his work before, though he goes on like he's some world famous artist.
The Guardian---isn't this the newspaper that tried to influence our election? I don't remember the details.
Why are they complaining? They believe we came from monkeys!
Oh how clever they are.
So Bush is the "missing link"? The libs should be happy.
people like this have less dignity than my dog .
given a choice , I would value my dog far more....
Not only so clever, many on the left feel they are so hip when they say things like this. The superciliousness is excrutiating isn't it?
If you remember, Steve Bell was the one who depicted Ariel Sharon eating a Palestinian baby.
"The Guardian---isn't this the newspaper that tried to influence our election? I don't remember the details."
I remember that! They had their readers send letters to residents of a county in Ohio, urging them to vote for Kerry, and got numerous responses along the lines of "we threw your a**es out of this country over 200 years ago, so stay out" and "F' off." The dem party in that county urged the Guardian to stop sending letters because it was making people so mad the dems were losing all kinds of support. For awhile, the Guardian actually, stupidly, had a web page with the responses, and after glooming over all the negative polls for Pres. Bush, I'd go to that site and laugh myself silly.
Ooops. Turns out I was wrong. Dave Brown drew the Sharon cartoon. It's so hard to tell one ranting looney from another nowadays.
Had an interesting conversation with some 'minority' co-workers this afternoon. These gentlemen are unusually brilliant, technically speaking; although I have questioned their politics. The overall response that was voiced today struck me as odd. "If the elections were held today, I'd HAVE to vote Republican. I can't think of a single Democrat that I can agree with"
Given the habit of Democrats to knee-jerk ridicule everything Pres. Bush does; just to counter him, is driving the Democratic base .... screaming .... into the Republican camps. You just can't buy advertizing like that.
Thanks---I had forgotten the details.
I was appalled that a newspaper from another country would directly advise Americans how to vote.
Mr. Bush will be remembered as a two term president of the world's remaining superpower.. shaping global politics and events. This cartoonist will just be a third rate artist who will be forgotten tomorrow.
The British Ted Rall.
IIRC, the final chapter to that story was that despite W's 2004 margin in Ohio being substantially less overall as compared to 2000, his margin in the targetted county (chosen because it had previously been nearly evenly split) increased significantly.
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