Hey Joe and Puppet. Couple of thoughts. (1) Salon is pretty much a place for preaching to the choir, no? Do you think conservatives, or middle-America middle-of-the-roaders are flocking to this site? So if TMW gives us something to have a knowing chuckle at, what's wrong with that? (2) For the unconverted who do happen onto the site, do you think they're familiar with the TMW archives, and therefore likely to turn away in disgust because of some sense of repetition? (3) Repetition isn't all bad. Why do you think the same commercials show up over and over on TV? Because it works. Conservatives are hammering their messages home, and liberals/progressives need to do the same. And if it's funny to boot, hey, all the better. I thought this strip was cogent--and, by the way, not nailing the foaming-at-the-mouth conservative so much as the media who give him a platform in the name of being "fair and balanced" (and it ain't just Fox).

I guess I'd better fulfill sock puppet's prediction here and put up a few words in this strip's defense: I didn't think it was so bad. The point of the strip wasn't foaming-at-the-mouth right wing commentators, but rather the media's craven willingness to give them prime coverage even as they viciously attack the very media they use to gain exposure.

It kind of reminded me of the old Kent Brockman line: "I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves."

It can't be said or shown often enough how contemptible these media bastards are. More cartoons like this from Tom Tomorrow are fine with me. He's angry. So am I.

You can't believe how CBS was fawning all over Bush tonight, (but then on the weekends THEY preach to the choir), how other Presidents aged more while they were in office, what great shape the President is in, his exercise program. (I'm surprised they didn't mention how his faith keeps him young). The point is and this is what fries my arteries, barely 30% of Americans like the man. So which choir are they preaching to?

Whatever you think about Tom Tomorrow, at least he still makes me laugh. Also, I think he is good at pointing out that absurdity of what seems to pass for reality these days.

Today's cartoon is the smartest and most insightful thing I have read in a long time concerning the mass psychosis and cataclysmic cultural decline the United States has suffered ever since the Supreme Court appointed King George II in 2000, thereby cheerfully flushing 2 centuries of proud constitutional and democratic heritage down the toilet.

By now, it is clear that the more we allow the right wing nut jobs to win, the more we allow them to pillage and destroy American society, the angrier they become.

The only possible explanation is that they know that they are crazy, out-of-control, ignorant babies, and they desperately want to be reigned in.

As for the corporate media: they have all studied their Goebbels, and are very adept at using ignorant rabble routers to distract the bewildered citizenry from the corporate boot planted firmly on their collective neck.

The non-clinically psychotic segment of American society needs its own media.

Salon.com is a step in the right direction, but having farhad manjoo argue that the 2004 election was legitimate makes me wonder whether you have been infiltrated by the enemy

These trolls are running out of ideas. They're phoning in their criticisms. They're the same every week. Terrible. Even their names lack imagination. Joseph L(ieberman)? Sockpuppet? At least use names that aren't highly suggestive of the roles your personas are blatantly fulfilling.

More to the point, why do they care more about a cartoonist than the fact that the entire US system of democracy is going into select private ownership? Or perhaps that's what they're trying to facilitate?

Maybe I'm just a big dummy, but until I read this strip, I had not yet made the mental connection between terrorists issuing fatwas and Ann Coulter or Pat Robertson calling for assasinations. Therefore, this was new and fresh to me. If it hadn't been, I would have just gone and read something else. It's not like you have to invest a lot of time in reading a few sentences in a comic strip. Why write twice as much just to complain about it? Having a bad day?

Hey, I'm about as big a rightwing nutjob as they come, but this edition of TMW had me laughing my outsized rear end off. After all, if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at? Now, you folks do me a favor and get the hell out of here and let me enjoy my meds in peace, get, I told you...

"Stay tuned, a few of his fawning admirers will show up here by Tuesday to tell us if we don't like it we can lump it,..." -- Sock Puppet.

Tell you what, Sock Puppet. You won't have to wait until Tuesday.

If you don't like TT's keen sense of satire, you can lump it.

And it's barely Monday here. How's that?

I love it when ever TT goes after the vacuous hairdoo creatures, dimwitted and detached. These two today are the spitting image of Soledad O'Brian and Miles O'Brian.

Hold still TOM, and allow me to fawn over you.

Why in the world is the 'Mainstream' media allowing a foaming at the mouth nut case like Ann Coulter to spew her hate? Because she sells books? In an earlier cartoon, a year ago or there abouts, one of TT's charaters said that Coulter's books are bought by well funded right wing organizations to pump up her stature. Well, while she was a 'best selling author' this time right wing newsmax was giving her book away free, or greatly discounted and posting chapters on the net. How can that happen? A real author's publisher would be screaming bloody murder, but not Ann's. Obvioulsy there is some sort of right wing plan to tilt the media there way. And this cartoon hits it right on the head. It also suggests that we are heading in a dangerous direction., The right is getting more and more violent with its language. We saw this with judges not long ago and now its the media's turn to be the right wings object of hate. Remember when the right wing's favorite target of hate was the federal government? Oh say about eleven years ago?