Dear Wingnuts, you have just been bitchslapped.

[oldhat]

Ouch.

[kwolf68]

1. You know

What does it say when the most poignant journalism in America today is from some guy drawing funny pictures?

That cartoon speaks 1000 words.

[oldhat]

2. Danzinger

Danzinger, very quietly, has been making the most lucid commentary on politics over the past few years. I hope he wins a Pulitzer, if he hasn't already.

[nostamj]

5. Danziger has won TWICE... lots more here...

and he's NOT the only one.... see here:

TOONS!

Jeff Danziger is a syndicated political cartoonist. He has worked for the Christian Science Monitor and the New York Daily News, and has twice been a Pulitzer finalist. In addition to regular political cartoons, his illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, the London Times, and The American Prospect. His new book, Wreckage Begins With "W", was published in June.

from an interview with Danziger.....

http://www.campaigndesk.org/archives/000904.asp

ZR: What do you think cartoons can do that other media can't?

JD: They can be funny. Americans expect them to be funny, that's an expectation from childhood. But they can also be provocative, and they can come up with a visual metaphor that will stick with you.

One of my favorite cartoonists is Paul Conrad, who's quite on in years now, I think. He worked for years for the Los Angeles Times, and he had a cartoon of Nixon nailing himself to the cross ... and with his free hand he was hammering in his other hand, and that stuck with me for years. But a lot of times they can be unfair and very unforgiving and very unarguable.

ZR: From an artistic perspective, who are you hoping will be the nominees for both parties in 2008? Anyone you'd particularly like to draw?

JD: My latest theory is that ... the country is screwed no matter who wins, because this dispute will go on ...

ZR: You mean this partisanship that exists?

JD: Yeah, I mean if Kerry wins and doesn't have ... some support in Congress, he's not going to be able to do anything ... the people on the other side are unassuageable. And if Bush wins, well everything will then be guaranteed to be his fault.

It is literally the triumph of politics -- somebody said that, it wasn't me -- but it is the triumph of politics as a thing unto itself, where it's the dispute that is important.

ZR: Well just from an artistic perspective then?

JD: From an artistic standpoint I don't care. It doesn't make any difference.

ZR: Condi Rice could be fun to draw ...

JD: I know what you're trying to say, but I've already been through this. I'm a Vietnam veteran, and I've already been thru this shit once on the level of what does it mean to me, and now I sort of think ... it just points to the ... hopelessness of us ever understanding the world, and whether or not democracy is actually a good idea. You know, you'd think that you get the best person, but the last 5 or 6 presidents of this country -- put them in a room together and you wouldn't hire them to sell shoes.

ZR: Well, I still think democracy's a good idea.

JD: You're absolutely right, in that it does tend to keep people from embarking on wholesale revolts, because it's a pressure valve. Because hate this government, wait until the next election.

ZR: Well, don't lose hope.

[TaleWgnDg]

11. check this out . . .

Danziger was a twice nominated finalist but never a winner of the Pulitzer Prize:

http://www.pulitzer.org/cgi-bin/query.cgi?E=1&X=0&searchtype=1&Q=Danziger&FormsCheckbox1=1&case=0&FormsCheckbox2=1&words=1&FormsButton2=Search

Not trying to take anything away from what you've posted but merely trying to be accurate . . .

[nostamj]

14. oops! post in haste...

regret after the edit window closes... sorry.

he still ROCKS

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

9. Danziger...a quiet, cold anger.

A cold fierceness...similar to Rall, but a colder pithyness.

[dweller]

13. a thousand thousand kudos to nostamj then

who has posted 'Toons' here documenting these artists for our viewing these past turbulent 4! years.

what an archive that has been.
:toast: to nostamj!

dp

[maryallen]

16. What does it say about AMERICA that ...

the only citizens free to tell the truth are cartoonists???

[johnfunk]

3. Spank those ditto monkeys!

[Snotcicles]

7. Ditto Monkeys I'm using it

With the standard two day waiting period.

[blue neen]

4. That cartoon says it all.

What newspaper is that from?

Thanks for posting that.

[NJCher]

6. says it all about republicans

sick bastards.


Cher

[NYC Liberal]

8. Thanks for posting that...

I've got some emails to send now.

[TaleWgnDg]

10. if there's any humor in that stupid ad . . . at all . . . then

it's that GWBush lacks the large motor skills to wind surf himself! how many bikes and segways has he trashed? the damn idiot.

humor? as the death toll climbs every day in Iraq? what a complete incompetent and unfit president is George Walker Bush.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

12. ...........

[T Bone]

15. yup

:kick: