Cartoonist Glenn McCoy... calls himself "a conservative cartoonist"

[Quantess]

If he uses the word conservative to describe himself, that is a clear sign that the word conservative has taken on a new meaning that is completly different than the original meaning of the word. I believe the correct word is radical or reactionary.

Start with a google image search if you want to see a gallery of his works.

http://www.vice.com/read/the-brutality-report-the-art-of-glenn-mccoy

http://townhall.com/political-cartoons/glennmccoy/

[BOHICA12]

1. A no holds barred - take no prisoners attitude.

Disturbing most of the time.

Hard to smile when its your own ox being gored ....William Rasberry

[MrSlayer]

2. Political cartoons should have some basis in reality.

These are just ugly smears with none, the worst sort of propaganda.

[Ken Burch]

3. Why do these types always act like Democrats are trying to FORCE women to have abortions?

n/t.

[MrSlayer]

7. Because it increases the level of frenzy in their rabid followers I guess.

They have to make their enemies look as evil as possible.

[JHB]

19. Projection

They have to show Democrats and liberals (of course, they see no distinction) operating in a kind of nonsensical ideological fog because that's what it looks like from their own nonsensical ideological fog.

[Ikonoklast]

26. Because everyone knows that Republicans NEVER have abortions.

Which is funny, because before abortion was legal, every young woman that I knew that had a D&C done was the daughter of a Republican in town.

Lots of young women needed a D&C back then for some reason, not so many now, though.

[ChunderingTruth]

4. Sure he is a RW Swine but it is his right to be one

would you rather live in a country where people are not free to express themselves no matter how much you disagree with them?

[Luminous Animal]

5. Where or where does the OP state that he has no right to be a right wing swine.

[ChunderingTruth]

6. Then why call him out

for his free speech now?

The guys been around for a number of years doing what many consider offensive political cartoons so why call him out now?

I am not defending what he does, I find the cartoons vile but he does have the right, which I fully support, to be vile in America.

[Quantess]

8. Interesting take on my OP.

How puzzling that you think I'm calling someone out on free speech.

Your assessment is woven out of whole cloth, just like Glenn McCoy weaves his ideas from whole cloth.

[ChunderingTruth]

9. As does yours IMHO

why even call someone out for their free speech in the first place?

Would you like it if someone was doing it to you?

[Quantess]

10. Would I like it if someone did it to me? You are. LOL.

Instead of discussing the content of the cartoons, which I intended to do, you want to shut down the whole discussion by calling it "an attack on free speech".

Show me where I am calling anyone out on free speech.

I would like to address the artist's content, his ideas, his asssertions. Would you like to address the artist's content, ideas, assertions? Or would you prefer we just avoid the discussion..?

[ChunderingTruth]

11. I will address his content

IMHO it is crap.

OK so what else do you want to talk about?

I am sure you will get a whole bunch of people to agree with you that his cartoons are crap too.

If you want the truth, find out who is funding his crap and expose them.

[Tunkamerica]

15. I think the Op makes a good point which you avoided.

You're calling him/her out for calling someone else out. How would you like if someone did that to you?

Oh wait I think I just did.

The cartoons are offensive, from what I saw.



he looks like a nice enough guy

[Ikonoklast]

27. It's a right-wing tactic defending the indefensible.

The first thing they claim is that you are trying to shut down 'free speech', even though you never stated or inferred that is what you want to do.

Claim victimhood right off the bat in order to shut down discussion, right out of the playbook.

[Quantess]

31. Apparently so!

It's only my guess, but it looks like someone is feeling defensive that their cherished cartoonist is under the spotlight on a liberal discussion board!

Having a discussion about something is pretty much the opposite of stifling free speech.

Pretty soon, I predict he/she will complaining back home at FR" that the Democratic Underground censored his free speech. Just a hunch.

[EOTE]

20. Wow, not too bright are ya?

You are aware that free speech is a two way street, right? You're aware that the first amendment doesn't mean that some people can speak out and everyone else has to shut up about it, right? Wow. The level of ignorance is breathtaking.

[Kingofalldems]

35. He has free speech but we are not allowed to respond

[alphafemale]

12. Getting mocked for your beliefs is a hallmark of free speech, not an affront to it.

Deal with it.

[ChunderingTruth]

13. True but you are mocking a person who cannot defend themselves

not very sporting

[alphafemale]

14. How is it that he can't defend himself?

Did somebody just cut off his hands and sew his mouth shut?

[Tunkamerica]

16. What are you talking about? He can defend himself by drawing a picture of obama

hitting babies with a baseball bat.

Are you saying no one can talk about any other person on the planet unless they are in the same room? No matter what?

You're being ridiculous. I don't expect to see you tomorrow. Sorry about responding to you when you weren't here to defend yourself.

[EOTE]

21. So you think that only people present in the room can be mocked.

Dear god, I've seen some rather ignorant comments on this site, but yours takes the cake. I hope you've never mocked or insulted a president or other politician before unless they were there to address it. Really man, your outlook is beyond naive and infantile, it's mind-numbingly stupid. And that's being kind.

[Quantess]

23. Another false accusation from you: "mocking"

Where has anyone "mocked" the cartoonist?

If you will please refer back to my original post, you will see that I posted one link that criticizes him and one link that praises him. Basically I wanted people to check out his works, and then discuss it here.

I really don't appreciate these baseless accusations from you.

[Kingofalldems]

34. You seem familiar

[gratuitous]

24. Looks like someone missed something

Here you go:



You're welcome.

[TlalocW]

17. I'm sure he and the guy draws Mallard Fillmore

Meet up regularly to bitterly mutter into their beers that a liberal conspiracy is keeping them out of more newspapers than what they're in.

TlalocW

[baldguy]

18. He's guilty of the same sin as all "conservative" humor.

It's not funny.

[ellisonz]

33. +1

It's really not.

[BiggJawn]

22. Our campus "news" paper runs his crap.

They used to run a selection of cartoons, some right, some left, then some member of the Campus Libertarians wrote a LTTE complaining about their "liberal bias" and now they exclusively run the shit from McCoy.

That's right, I said SHIT. Olliphant he aint

[Quantess]

25. Interesting. Do the libertarians like his extreme anti-choice message? I wonder.

Because, y'know, libertarians want the government to stay out of peoples business, and all...
But I hope they also feature some left-oriented content, to counteract it.

[BiggJawn]

32. Around here, Libertarians are Young ReTHUGlicans who wanna smoke dope...

... and think "Atlas Shrugged" is the greatest literary masterpiece since "The Iliad". So the anti-choice stuff is probably OK with them since it meshes with their stunted world-views.

And no, McCoy OWNS the top of the Op-Ed page. I wonder why they don't have Mallard Fillmore, too.

I tend to break down into uncontrolled giggles anytime I hear somebody rant about "Liberal College Campuses", because they sure as hell ain't talking about this "little" Midwest Ag/Engineering/Business school...

[Sheepshank]

28. Of course he's a Conservative.

This is typical outward display of inner paradigms.

In other words, truth be damned. The personal message is too important to be side tracked with the nuances of reality, reasonableness and truth.

[CBGLuthier]

29. RW version of Mr. Fish or Ted Rall

But, as with that misogynist Bill Mahr (the hell he isn't) vs. that misogynist Rush Limbaugh I am sure everyone will tell us how it is different.

[GoCubsGo]

30. This shit shows up in my local paper on a regular basis.

This clown and Mike Lester are their two favorites, so I get to see this garbage on a near daily basis.