Letters to the Editor
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Hmmm
Well, it looks like Tomorrow, like Breathed, looked back to yesterday for this week's strip. Still, as usual, I find this one more cogent and funnier. And, as always, the crazy thing is that he didn't really do much more than put a twist on what the rightwing blowhards are actually doing. Is it just by sheer numbers and repetition that they have succeeded in getting this stuff accepted as analysis?
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Finally- A Glenn Greenwald gets a new post up to read.
Garry Owen and shoutero0o GO 'round and 'round the mulberry bush again.
What's new?
Owen- shoot!
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I had to laugh
I couldn't count the number of times I've been accused of disapproving of some clearly immoral action "just because you hate Bush." I guess it's because the right wing thinks of the left as being a symmetrical image of itself: since they hate the Clintons and blame all evil on them, the left must be doing the same.
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@ Havok
Good point--you may be right.
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Liberal Hatreds
Don't we also hate America?
Just asking...
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and Jesus...
we ARE all heathens, you know.
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I didn't always hate George bush, you know.
When he was governor of our fair state, I didn't much care because one hack politician is just like another to me. But that was before Iraq...and Guantanamo...and waterboarding...
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Governor of Texas
Texas is a weak-governor state, too. Bush had a lot fewer opportunities to screw things up there.
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Hate?
I resent that. I don't hate George Bush or Dick Cheney. Hate is such a negative way to put it. I prefer to think of it as liking almost everyone else on the planet a whole lot more.
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Dear Tom
Write an essay if that's what you want to do. First rule of comic strips is don't make your audience read like it's Tolstoy.
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C'mon Tom!
You used to take on the weak Democrats -- clearly the only point of influence we have on government. Taking shots at Bush now is like taking shots at Satan or Hitler; it reinforces your readers' rational hatred for Bush but leaves no solution. We need to be reminded of how weak the only party that might represent us is. Only with pressure on the Democrats are we likely to move toward sanity. Please rediscover your insurgent self and start leading the discussion, instead of tagging along at the back of the parade.
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I hate him
I hate him because he is responsible for torture and civilian deaths, not the other way around.
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I want to add, Tom
Tom, my note was stern because of my respect for you. I should have made that clear in my note.
You, later joined by Ted Rall, gave my reality-based generation some of what my parents got out of strips like Pogo and Doonsbury: a brilliantly engaging frame for our perspective. You made us feel less alone, and thereby inspired us.
You have my eternal gratitude, however you deploy your formidable skills in the future.
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Why are these comics all so one sided?
I would expect political commentary to spread the disgust equally on the politicians, not just one gang of them. How do you expect us to find your satire and sarcasm funny if it is so transparently just a method to actually show support for a gang that is easily just as corrupt and self focused as the other? It shows that you are nothing more than a politician supporter. Politician=politician.
I think a really funny strip could be made of Charlie Rangel's 2 million dollar (of our money) "donation" to the library at City College of New York. What's so funny is that he is using your money to build a library that will be called "The Rangel Library". That is really fodder for satire, don't you think?
Please, we need a real satirist, not just another democrat hack.
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One sided?
The main point of cartoons like TMW is to mock the powerful. AKA Bush/the right wing. If you go back and read TMW during Clinton's tenure, you will find a number of them took shots at him. That said, Tom Tomorrow is a progressive editorial cartoonist, so why in the world should he be expected to somehow be 'balanced'?
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@Poco
I have to agree with The Professor: TMW has never shied away from skewering Democrats, in or out of power. He depicts them as weak and accommodating at times (vide the the recurring character "The Sensible Liberal") and plainly corrupt at others (most of the Clinton era, as The Professor has observed, though he did also do some cringeworthy panels back then calling the Republicans crazy for thinking Clinton might have had sex with an intern). I'd say he's pretty balanced in the sense that he attacks the majority parties and political orientations with equal vigor. One wouldn't say he's "balanced" in the way the MSM tries to be "balanced" because he always attacks from the left, but I'd say the Democrats and mainstream liberals don't get away with much in TMW.
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Maybe its because he keeps sending my kid to war
Let's see, 40 or 41 months in the Army...
5 in training,
6 in Afghanistan (19th Birthday),
6 at Ft Bragg,
7 in Iraq, (20th birthday)
6 at Ft Bragg,
and 10 on this tour in Iraq with 5 left to go, where he had his 21st birthday and will have his 22nd. That adds up to 400 times the days that Mr. Bush spent actually serving his country in Uniform, if you assume he attended his National Guard duties at all.
We hates him, my precious, and not just himself.
How many children of Senators and Congresspersons are in Iraq? Hint: You cannot divide by this number.
True, there is one in Afghanistan, in Kabul.
Sorry, but most post anonymous so the bastards can't retaliate against him.
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Good enuf.
I was not a TMW reader during the clinton years, but I would still expect him to make light of the party that controls congress and the senate. Is that not powerful enough for you? I am trying to be as sensitive to this issue as I can, but I remain convinced that the majority (~90%) of TT's commentary is anti republican/pro democrat.
When it comes to dealing with actual humans (i.e. conservatives, liberals, etc), I find that he constantly portrays conservatives in a political sense. I am a crunchy conservative, and care not for the mindset of the economic development based attitudes of many conservative, but on the other hand, I find them generally more rational than those mostly identified with liberal issues (Gore, et al).
Whereas, I am thoroughly convinced that guys like Savage are basically running their schtick (not reality based), I rather enjoy the way he slices and dices both parties. I wish more cartoonist would do likewise.