After writing this post, noting the ongoing transformation of "mainstream" journalists from junkyard dogs to lapdogs, I was planning to put up another request for a cartoon, as I did here and here. (A reader who prefers to be anonymous filled the first request; the second is still open.)
But then I saw this set of cartoons, which captures my idea, exactly.
Cross posted at Jim Miller on Politics.
(Journalists who wonder why they are the target of these cartoons should take a look at this survey.
Although I am glad to point you toward this set of cartoons, I would still like to publish an original cartoon or two on the same subject.)
Posted by Jim Miller at January 18, 2009 02:09 PM | Email ThisI'll be glad the hype is over ...and we get to see exactly what Bambi can (or can't... or won't do). A very large segment of the electorate is in for a rude awakening.
We'll be here to point it all out.
We'll be here to pick up the pieces.
Let's be proud that the liberal media elected a Islamic nutjob to the presidency.
Posted by: Karen on January 18, 2009 07:30 PMRagnar, is the last 8 years your definition of excellence?
If it even remotely is, you have a very low bar.
I'd expect a Republican Administration to balance the budgets, slow government spending, diminish bureaucracies, reverse limitations on our freedoms, expand American's stature in the world. I don't think we got that this time - which might have something to do with the election results.
Calling the next president "Bambi" suggests you're contributions to the debate as we move into the future will be light weight at best.
Posted by: BA on January 18, 2009 07:32 PMCall him the Messiah . . . or else.
Posted by: Mark on January 18, 2009 07:44 PMWhere exactly have I claimed that particular straw dog?
That being said, the last 7 years 4 months and 8 days have been excellent in keepin ghtis country safe, in thwarting several documented planned attacks.
We'll see if we can say the same in the next year, the next 4 years. I doubt it.
*keeping this
Posted by: Ragnar Danneskjold on January 18, 2009 11:15 PMThe fine USMC Captain I know is not too worried about what the new CiC is going to do.
So Sorta two wildly different POV's.
Elections and Presidents do have consequences and leave legacies.
All we can do now is try to not be swallowed up in the whirlpool of imposition not of freedom but slavery.
Posted by: Col. Hogan on January 19, 2009 12:21 AMLa Sheehan against President Bush was exactly analogous to Hamas - she could strut and fret her lost son across the stage and blame Bush for the death. Oh, Sheehan didn't deliberately send her son into harm's way hoping for that death, but she harvested the same sort of public sympathy for herself and outrage against Bush, just as Hamas does successfully against Israel.
And Obama - slick talker despite the lack of accomplishments and the glut of position-concealing 'present' votes. A far leftie, a fervant Iraq defeatist, the opposite color, everything the media needed in its ideal anti-Bush puppet. And verily they celebritized him and promoted him and fawned instead of asking him any penetrating questions - a whole unanimous army of Jeff Gannons. Remember Jeff Gannon, scourged from the White House press corps for failing to ask hostile questions? Now we the media are all Jeff Gannon.
And Sheehan? Didn't she go off on a crusade to oppose Nancy Pelosi from the left during the election? You mean the media didn't trumpet that candidacy? Gosh, you don't suppose it was because her utility to the anti-Bush movement was finished, do you? Poor Sheehan, tossed into the ditch like a broken doll, all used up and useless and forgotten like a spawned salmon. Maybe a nice bald eagle will take her home for lunch.
Posted by: Insufficiently Sensitive on January 19, 2009 07:19 AMLapdog it is.
Posted by: swatter on January 19, 2009 07:27 AMCO2 Tax Proposed for Oregon: Tax Based on a Lie
This is in addition to cap and trade for industry. They're going to ration energy at the same time while raising taxes to use it. (The bill is here.)They're doing it in the name of global warming, but here's the rub: CO2 doesn't CAUSE global warming. If there's warming, the increased CO2 occurs hundreds of years after that. Put another way, man is responsible for less than 1% of carbon emitted into the atmosphere. Of alllll the greenhouse gases only 4% is CO2 (the largest greenhouse gas is water vapor). That means only an infinitesimal amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is man made or even close.
They capping and trading (rationing) CO2 AND taxing a naturally occurring substance over which we have little or no control.
Somebody please tell them they're about ready to blow a hole in a foundation of our economy for a lie that they're too lazy to check out themselves.
Even the libs are admitting it now as I've pointed out in previous posts. Here's a bit from Huffington post (here):
"...there is an 800-year lag between temperature and carbon dioxide, unlike the sense conveyed by Mr. Gore's graph. You are probably wondering by now -- and if you are not, you should be -- which rises first, carbon dioxide or temperature. The answer? Temperature. In every case, the ice-core data shows that temperature rises precede rises in carbon dioxide by, on average, 800 years.
see James Hansen's scare re: Obama has 4 years to save the planet - what a dick !
Posted by: KS on January 19, 2009 09:01 AMHey Ragnut, did Bush get bin Laden?
Did Bush destroy the Taliban?
Did Bush ruin the US economy better than bin Laden ever could?
8 years of incompetence, corruption, unnecessary wars that alientated even our best allies in the war on terror.
Bush: Worst economic record since Hoover, worst deficit in history, worst response to a disaster on American soil (Katrina) and worst attack on US soil since Pearl Harbor.
Bush approval rating: 22%
Obama approval rating: 79%
Media lapdogs: Where are those WMDs and where is the veidence the Iraq was ever a threat?
Facts are tough for right wingnuts to handle.
Posted by: correctnotright on January 19, 2009 09:27 AMLearn it. Love it. Know it.
Posted by: jimg on January 19, 2009 09:43 AMHere - Do you still believe the propaganda that global warming is perpetuated largely by human CO2 ?
Posted by: KS on January 19, 2009 10:50 AMSo in order to fix this problem, were going to spend money even faster than Bush did. Yeah........ there you go. LOL
Posted by: Medic/Vet on January 19, 2009 10:57 AMOh, and NotCorrectOrRight? You do know that the budget deficit was plummeting under Bush and the GOP, and it exploded (doubled) after the Slavery Party took over.
And now your Marxist Messiah promises Trillion Dollar Deficits as far as the eye can see...
You Slavers are the ruination of these United States.
Posted by: Shanghai Dan on January 19, 2009 10:58 AMApproval of what? What has Obama done to measure his approval rating by? Sheesh, he hasn't even sworn in, and his job is already approved. This is just sick.
Posted by: DopioLover on January 19, 2009 11:18 AMThe reality is that the mainstream media are thoroughly corrupt – manifesting itself in a lack of both conscientiousness and honor – which leads to incompetence and duplicity. It deals in half-truths, the suppression of facts, the exaltation of evil and savaging of the sublime, and outright lies all the time.
Posted by: Palouse on January 19, 2009 01:01 PMNow it's Obama's turn to a cost of 170 and still climbing. Yet not one news paper has said a single word about this.
Nothing but a love fest!
So they wonder why they are going out of biz.
PS... PI, it's wake up time.
Posted by: Medic/Vet on January 19, 2009 01:39 PMBambi says doesn't matter... aren't you listening to your messiah?