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Cidu Bill on Jun 22nd 2009
Not that President Obama has asked me for my opinion, but…
Of course I understand that as a role model for kids, the fact that he’s trying to quit smoking is a good thing — but honestly, with all his many responsibilities, do we really want him dealing with the distraction and crankiness that come with nicotine withdrawal?
(Of course, having just signed a major anti-smoking bill, he doesn’t have a lot of choice, does he?)
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, cigarettes | 25 responses so far
Cidu Bill on May 4th 2009
Daniel Brindis: I work in and follow politics rather closely but cannot for the life of me figure this out.
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Tom Toles, humor, political cartoons | 18 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Feb 20th 2009
The New York Post. Because it’s inconceivable that anybody’s going to top this one (and yes, “inconceivable” does mean what I think it means).
Where do you even start? As racist as it is, and it’s plenty racist, this political cartoon doesn’t even begin to make any sense.My first thought when I saw this was, Does the
New York Post have no editors? Nobody whose job it is to say Whoa, this is probably not a good idea?
But it turns out the Post continues to believe no mistake was made. Editor-in-Chief Col Allan said, “The cartoon is a clear parody of a current news event, to wit the shooting of a violent chimpanzee in Connecticut. It broadly mocks Washington’s efforts to revive the economy. Again, Al Sharpton reveals himself as nothing more than a publicity opportunist.”
Well, of course he is. But like the broken clock that’s correct twice a day, Sharpton’s absolutely right this time.
Filed in Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, New York Post, monkeys, political cartoons, racism | 110 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Feb 19th 2009
Because of Obama-induced irrational exuberance? If so, has anybody ever thought of Presidents Day as referring to a current president?
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, CIDU, Hi and Lois, comic strips, comics, humor | 27 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Jan 20th 2009
It is being said, metaphorically, that George Bush turns over the keys to the White House to Barack Obama today. Which got me to wondering… Does anybody know offhand whether the White House door actually has a key? I have this mental image of Bill Clinton slipping out some night to hit McDonald’s, locking the door behind him.
I’m sure there’s always Secret Service agents standing guard at every entrance, but can the front door be locked if necessary?
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, White House | 22 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Dec 10th 2008
Is the joke here that the characters don’t know what alliteration is, or that the cartoonist doesn’t?
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, CIDU, comic strips, comics, humor | 19 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Dec 5th 2008
Is Barack Obama technically unemployed right now?
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel | 22 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 16th 2008
Without the Obamaland sign, it makes sense to me. With it, on the other hand…
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, George W. Bush, comics, humor, political cartoons, politics | 24 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 10th 2008
Filed in Argyle Sweater, Arlo and Janis, Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Frank n Ernest, In the Bleachers, Jimmy Johnson, John Deering, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Scott Hilburn, Steve Moore, Strange Brew, baseball, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, leprechauns, lol | 14 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 4th 2008
You don’t think so? Then try rewriting it with the colors reversed and see how it looks.
The reality is, the majority of white voters — or close to it, anyway — will probably be voting for Obama today; and according to the most recent polls, upwards of 95% of black voters will be voting for… Obama.
So with all due respect, Mr. Billingsley… Okay, actually I’ve been sitting here for ten minutes trying to complete this sentence. I can’t. This comic is just ugly and I’m sure Senator Obama would feel the same way.
Filed in Barack Obama, Curtis, Ray Billingsley, comic strips, comics, humor, politics, racism | 50 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Nov 3rd 2008
“among whites who call race an important factor, Obama does less well.”
People actually get paid for coming up with this sort of information.
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, politics, polls | 29 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Oct 27th 2008
Obama was referring to the current Robin. Duh.
Filed in Barack Obama, Batman, Bill Bickel, David Willis, John McCain, Nightwing, Robin, Shortpacked, comic books, comic strips, comics, humor | 20 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Sep 19th 2008
(or Cheap Shot of the Day, whatever)
Barack Obama, referring to John McCain: “And now he tells us that he’s the one who’s gonna’ to take on the old boys network. The old boys network? In the McCain campaign that’s called a staff meeting.”
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, John McCain, humor, politics | 26 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Sep 1st 2008
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Brainwaves, Clear Blue Water, Doonesbury, F-Minus, Frazz, G.B. Trudeau, Jef Mallet, Joe Biden, Leigh Rubin, Mark Parisi, Off the Mark, Real Life Adventures, Rubes, Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal, Tony Carrillo, Zach Weiner, aliens, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, juries, lol, trials | 4 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Aug 6th 2008
- This was her response to McCain’s ad comparing Barack Obama to celebrities such as Britney Spears and Hilton, and it’s funnier than I’d have expected Paris Hilton to be.
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Britney Spears, John McCain, Paris Hilton, humor | 20 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Jul 18th 2008
The NAACP and David Paterson (New York’s first black governor) have entered the Condemn the New Yorker Cover Derby: The NAACP is calling it “tasteless, Islam-a-phobic, mean spirited and racially offensive” while Governor Paterson, not to be outdone, called it “one of the most malignant, vicious covers of a magazine I have ever seen.”
Out of, you know, all the very many malignant, vicious magazine covers he’s seen.
Now here’s the amazing thing about this story that’s garnered worldwide attention:
And right here I’m warning anybody who’s easily offended to stop reading
Last week, Jesse Jackson told a fellow guest on a television program — when he thought the microphone was off — that he doesn’t like the way Barack Obama “talks down” to black people and that he’d like to “cut his nuts off.”
This week, the network confirmed that he also referred to Obama as a nigger (I refuse to say “the n word,” because I’m not 8 years old).
At the risk of putting things in perspective, shouldn’t this have been a bigger story? Sure, it was reported, but it’s been completely overshadowed by a cartoon which nobody seriously believes was intended to denigrate Obama.
A leader in the black community calls a black presidential candidate a nigger… and a drawing.
I am not seeing worldwide condemnation. I am not seeing the outrage. I am not seeing Governor Paterson and the NAACP making speeches and releasing press statements.
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Governor David Paterson, Jesse Jackson, NAACP, New York, New Yorker, comics, political cartoons | 26 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Jul 16th 2008
Tonight, in what appears to be an obsessive desire to keep the “New Yorker magazine cover” story alive, you told Larry King that you personally weren’t offended by it, but it was insulting toward Muslim-Americans.
I’d like to offer you the advice that your advisers should have offered Monday morning: Shut up. And when you’re done with that, shut up.
Seriously, Senator, you are turning a non-issue into something that makes you look more foolish every time you open your mouth. First you let your “people” release a statement kinda sorta calling the cover tasteless and offensive, and then you go on national tv to be offended on behalf of the Muslim-American community (who are perfectly capable of speaking for themselves, by the way).
This cartoon was published on the cover of a magazine with a circulation of maybe three people outside of New Yorkers and New York expatriates. A magazine that supports you, by the way. And surely you understand that the cartoon wasn’t intended as a criticism of you, your wife, or the Muslim-American community.
You’re going to encounter some genuine slurs over the course of this campaign, and it doesn’t bode well for you if this cartoon can, to use a technical term, put your panties in a twist.
If you really felt the need to criticize the cartoon, you could have simply said, “Eh, I guess they thought they were being funny,” and left it at that. The situation would have been diffused — this never should have been allowed to become a “situation” — and you would have (as my son would say) burned the New Yorker: They can defend their intentions, they can put you on the defensive by suggesting you should have been savvy enough to recognize satire, but there’s no defense against being told “you’re just not as funny as you think you are.”
July 14: Okay, looking at this week’s New Yorker cover… Isn’t it clear that this satirizes the various rumors circulating about Obama? Even if you’d never seen a New Yorker cover before: a few months ago they ran a cover showing Obama and Hillary Clinton in bed together, both waking up as a phone rang at 3am; everybody seemed to understand that the New Yorker wasn’t suggesting that the two candidates were having an affair.
Apparently this wasn’t obvious to either the Obama or McCain campaigns: “The New Yorker may think, as one of their staff explained to us, that their cover is a satirical lampoon of the caricature Sen. Obama’s right-wing critics have tried to create … But most readers will see it as tasteless and offensive. And we agree,” said Obama’s people neatly sidestepping the matter of what they actually believed.
McCain’s people echoed the phrase “tasteless and offensive.”
So sue me. I thought it was pretty clever.
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Larry King, Michelle Obama, New Yorker, satire | 57 responses so far
Cidu Bill on Jul 15th 2008
(online now because apparently I still haven’t mastered the very basic WordPress commands)
Filed in Arlo and Janis, Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Jesse Jackson, Jimmy Johnson, Leigh Rubin, Mike Luckovich, Rubes, comic strips, comics, comics that made us laugh out loud, humor, lol, political cartoons | 18 responses so far
Cidu Bill on May 31st 2008
Nicole: While I disagree with the premise , I would have to say that this is a chad
(Newer visitors: Please check out the FAQ for an explanation of the ChadWatch strips)
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, ChadWatch, Hillary Clinton, elections, humor, political cartoons, politics | No responses yet
Cidu Bill on May 20th 2008
In the Muslim faith, anybody born to a Muslim father, regardless of the mother’s religion, is a Muslim (which might have implications in the case of Barack Obama); while Judaism uses the opposite rule, that a child is Jewish or non-Jewish depending on the mother — under the logic that you can be 100% certain who the mother is, but…
(None of this is to say, of course, that parents can’t and don’t raise their children however they see fit; but this is what Muslim and Jewish law dictate)
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Islam, Judaism, Muslims, religion, trivia | 13 responses so far
Cidu Bill on May 11th 2008
You can make a valid argument that Hillary Clinton hasn’t run history’s classiest campaign — especially after she responded to losing her early lead by going all Captain Queeg on us — but there’s no basis for this cartoon; and aren’t political cartoons supposed to represent and actual event or comment or trait, rather than just something the cartoonist decided to pull out of his butt?
Filed in Barack Obama, Bill Bickel, Hillary Clinton, Mike Luckovich, comics, humor, political cartoons | 22 responses so far
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