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 'Elections'
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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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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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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Colbert on the Klingon-Republican Alliance
Posted by Ocelopotamus on September 12th, 2007 at 2:10 pm
Stephen notices the Republicans’ rhetorical reliance on the word honor, and points out who else tends to use that word a lot.
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Roundup: Fantasy History Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 23rd, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Bush has suddenly decided that the Iraq occupation is kinda like Vietnam after all, but of course he’s careful to draw the wrong conclusions from the comparison. The article quotes American University historian Allan Lichtman as saying that Bush’s spin on the situation “is not revisionist history. It is fantasy history.”
On a related note, […]
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Roundup: Skydiving Baby Giraffe Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 15th, 2007 at 10:39 am
Out, damned spot! Fox News caught red-handed, laundering entries on Wikipedia. Keep on scrubbing, Lady MacFox, but those stains belong to you always.
The GOP’s California strategy: winning the 2008 election by undoing California’s winner-take-all electoral system. Once the state goes piecemeal, the Repubs gain at least 20 electoral votes from safe GOP districts.
Arianna Huffington looks […]
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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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Roundup: Ronald Reagan Memorial Bridge Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on August 9th, 2007 at 9:17 am
This is brilliant. Peter Smith at the Huffington Post has a proposal for renaming the new I-35W bridge in Minneapolis that will replace the one that collapsed: “For a while there, back when the Republicans held the White House and both houses of Congress, they were naming things after Ronald Reagan everywhere. Airports. Aircraft carriers. […]
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John Edwards on Universal Health Care
Posted by Ocelopotamus on July 25th, 2007 at 1:17 am
Here’s a good example of why I like this guy so much.
He gets it. And he lets you know that he gets it.
This is Edwards speaking at the Gnomedex Tech conference in 2006:
… and from Monday night’s debate:
Via this most excellent diary at Daily Kos.
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Roundup: Tiny Four-Eyed Turtle Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on June 18th, 2007 at 10:21 am
POLITICS: In “Hillary’s Labor Problem,” Joe Conason points out that Hillary Clinton’s top political strategist, Mark Penn, is the CEO of a union-busting law firm. “Having started in a tiny, two-man polling operation in a New York City mayoral campaign, he is now the CEO of Burson-Marsteller Inc., one of the planet’s largest P.R. shops, […]
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Roundup: Fried Ice Edition
Posted by Ocelopotamus on May 28th, 2007 at 2:32 am
Profile of Newtok, Alaska: One of the first victims of climate change, a town gradually sinking into the mud. As the hardest hit of the 180 Alaskan villages suffering from erosion, “studies say Newtok could be washed away within a decade.”
Iceberg of Yuck: The Consumerist says, “Poison toothpaste, killer cough-syrup, and tainted pet food are […]
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