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Monday, April 23, 2007

That damned Nancy Pelosi

What's Mallard raving about today?

Nancy Pelosi.

One of these days someone should write a scholarly article about Mallard Fillmore, contrasting the lavish attention to detail expended creating grotesque caricatures which are, despite the level of detail, barely recognizable with the one-dimensional subject matter whose stock-in-trade is the straw man argument.

I don't have that kind of time on my hands, so I'll just mention the irony in passing.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Yuk Yuk. Bet no one ever thought of that zinger before, Bruce.


Speaking of right-wing cartoons, here's one that I found to be particularly vile, even more so than most Mallards:

http://myturl.com/08YcH

Anonymous said...

That's actually a pretty darn good characterture for Bruce. I knew who it was, and it wasn't too over the top. No straw-man usage yet this week; the "joke" was lame, but he's batting .500 here, so let's give some credit!

Taquelli said...

Yeah, I was, in fact, impressed. That looks mildly like Nancy Pelosi; even better than her herself, because she is not an attractive woman. It actually flips my bonnet a little that she's become the bastion of Democratic thought, because I often have a tendency to disagree with whatever the hell she is doing. Her and her stupid, stupid grandchildren.

Anonymous said...

dude, Pelosi is cute as hell, and a damn respectable woman.

Anonymous said...

You can tell that Tinsley took a long time trying to draw a picture of Pelosi, and that this was the best he could do. It looks like he drew it straight from a photograph, which begs the question: could he draw her from a different angle? I mean, look at the composition of this cartoon. Pelosi is right in the middle, as if to say "SEE? I told you I could draw!" and she is surrounded by text (ostensibly a joke), which makes the whole thing look to me as if Tinsley drew the picture first, said "hey, that's pretty good," and made up the joke as an afterthought.

Anonymous said...

I gotta agree with taquelli, that's actually a pretty good cariacture, especially in contrast to yesterday's bloated-corpse attempt at Al Gore. And the gag was OK, though I hope it doesn't foreshadow a week of gripping about Nancy Pelosi.

And that VT cartoon is disgusting.