The brilliance of Mr. Fish! I really need to start including him in my cartoon roundups.
His take on Obama v. Wright is especially trenchant.
I’m not necessarily saying that I absolutely agree with the cartoon’s comically reductive expression of certain religious beliefs, but its portrayal of the double standard regarding what’s considered fair game for criticism […]
Entries Tagged as 'Barack Obama'
Mr. Fish on Obama-Wright, That Ad, and the Big Gas Tax Swindle
Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 5th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
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Roundup: Pansies vs. Chair Sniffers Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 1st, 2008 at 2:40 am
A little sampler platter for you, my pretties …
First up, a brilliant post by Hunter on Daily Kos:
Things I have learned during this campaign season:
In a race that includes a former First Lady of the United States and a multimillionaire Republican senator rumored to share up to eight residences with his wife, the black guy […]
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Thank You, Bob (or, That Flag Pin Won’t Get You Into Heaven Any More)
Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 20th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Bob Schieffer attempts to explain it slowly and clearly for George Stephanopoulos. It probably won’t do any good, but I love him for trying.
And seriously — it’s beyond tragic that this sort of thing even needs to be said, but clearly it does.
Via this diary.
I like the parallel Mr. Schieffer draws here between public […]
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Bitter
Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 11th, 2008 at 8:31 pm
This is just sublime.
Man, he knows how to talk back.
In fact, I have no choice but to haul out the Oh Snap Flowchart:
(Swiped from this diary.)
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Schadenfreudian Hillarity
Posted by Ocelopotamus on April 8th, 2008 at 2:41 am
In case you haven’t seen any of these yet, my pals at Schadenfreude (who I love despite the fact that they terrify me sometimes) are doing a good job of capturing the current logic of the Hillary campaign in video.
These are turning up all over Greater Blogistania and one of the other installments in […]
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Mid-January Frosted Mini-Roundup
Posted by Ocelopotamus on January 17th, 2008 at 10:58 am
I’m starting to worry that Ocelopotamus has become like that stock old-man character from sitcoms and things, who falls asleep for a while and then wakes up sputtering and tries to pick the conversation up wherever it was five minutes ago, as if no time has passed.
On the other hand, it’s heartening that I […]
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Roundup: Flight of the Humpback Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on November 19th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Markos from Daily Kos has a new gig writing opinion pieces for Newsweek, and he’s been in rare form with his first couple of efforts. From this week’s column: “In his first Inaugural Address, Ronald Reagan remarked that ‘government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.’ While the quip has provided […]
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Roundup: Monkey in the Bathroom Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on November 6th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
I can’t scrape together enough time at the moment to do OcPot’s usual painstakingly well-rounded roundup — I’m seeing The Waterboys at the Park West tonight, woo-hoo! — but I wanted to get some of these links up before they fossilized. So here’s a charmingly slapdash, quick-and-dirty roundup. In ripped fishnet and high heels.
The always-eloquent […]
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Roundup: Swiftly Tilting Planet Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on September 17th, 2007 at 2:05 am
Eric Alterman has an outstanding column in The Nation on how the media’s mean girls (of all genders) develop the narratives they use to bring down the presidential candidates they take a dislike to. With examples of what they did to Gore in 2000, and what they’re doing to Obama and Edwards right now.
Two of […]
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Rolling Stone: John Edwards is “the Real Liberal” in the Race
Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 13th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
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The Money Power: Clinton, Edwards, and Obama at Yearly Kos
Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 5th, 2007 at 5:54 pm
From a story in the Washington Post on the Yearly Kos convention taking place in Chicago this weekend…
I can’t believe Hillary actually said this out loud.
Clinton came under attack for declining to join former senator John Edwards (N.C.), who is quite popular with bloggers, and Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in pledging not to take […]
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Roundup: Still Life with Salmon Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 28th, 2007 at 4:33 am
POLITICS: The Washington Post brings us the fascinating story of how Cheney’s quest to undermine environmental science for political purposes led to a humongous pile of rotting dead fish. “… Because of Cheney’s intervention, the government reversed itself and let the water flow in time to save the 2002 growing season, declaring that there was […]
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Roundup: Green Blood and Near Beer Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 11th, 2007 at 5:33 am
POLITICS: Department of things that should be perfectly obvious to everyone: Colin Powell says we should close Guantanamo. “Essentially, we have shaken the belief the world had in America’s justice system by keeping a place like Guantanamo open and creating things like the military commission. We don’t need it and it is causing us far […]
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Roundup: Magnum Opus Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 4th, 2007 at 7:18 am
COMICS: For once I’m starting out with the comics section, in honor of the fact that Salon has added Opus by the mighty Berkeley Breathed (Bloom County, Outland) to their repertoire. Oh, happy day. Here’s the first installment. Along with my favorites This Modern World by Tom Tomorrow and Tom the Dancing Bug […]
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