Toons: The Center for Right-Wing Nuttery, Job Creators, Winning Hearts and Minds, and More - 4/19/12

[ellisonz]

By John Darkow, Columbia Daily Tribune, Missouri - 4/19/2012


By John Cole, The Scranton Times-Tribune - 4/19/2012 - "GSA vs Afghanistan"


By Bob Englehart, The Hartford Courant - 4/19/2012


By Adam Zyglis, The Buffalo News - 4/19/2012


By RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch - 4/19/2012


By RJ Matson, The St. Louis Post Dispatch - 4/19/2012


By Randy Bish, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - 4/19/2012


By Mike Luckovich, April 19, 2012


By Henry Payne, April 19, 2012


By Ben Sargent, April 19, 2012


By Dan Wasserman, April 19, 2012


By Steve Breen, April 19, 2012


By Chris Britt, April 18, 2012


By Jim Morin, April 20, 2012

Notes: It's almost the weekend! - Credit: Cagle Cartoons, Universal UClick.

[gateley]

1. As always, thanks so much! The Dick Clark ones are so touching. McCarthy/West -- too true! nt

[ellisonz]

2. You're welcome gateley!

Dick Clark was a legend. Losing him and Mike Wallace is just making it clear how little class we have on TV these days.

[marshall gaines]

3. great

lovely, felt some nostalgia about the American Bandstand show. was a daily television fare.

[PatSeg]

4. Thanks

Good week for cartoon material.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. I just wish...

they would have spelled "severely" correctly in the first one.

[Jim Lane]

7. In defense of the cartoonist...

He was putting words in the mouth of a right-winger, and that might well be how the person depicted would spell the word.

[awoke_in_2003]

8. You may have a point...

it is not like correct spelling is a big player in teabag rallies.

[ellisonz]

10. The cartoonist published a correction.

http://www.politicalcartoons.com/cartoon/3004b06a-87cd-49fd-9f18-cf99698da33f.html

[surrealAmerican]

6. k & r

There seems to always be something to keep these cartoonists busy. There are some good ones here.

[RZM]

9. Thanks

Though I will say that thankfully the last one isn't much true at least when it comes to power.

McCarthy ruined lives. The only thing West is ruining is his reputation (or whatever semblance of one he has).

[hay rick]

11. K&R for the Zyglis space shuttle toon.

[JohnnyRingo]

12. K&R... Thanx for posting

[The Wizard]

13. West is a disgrace

to humanity. Normal people want nothing to do with him.

[6502]

14. Who is "West"?

Sorry, I haven't lived in the US for a while so I am a bit out of the loop.

[CBHagman]

15. Representative Allen West (R-FL)

Here's an article that will give you the lowdown on why he's news this week:

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0412/75025.html

Rep. Allen West channeled Joe McCarthy in a town hall event in Florida that he’s “heard” that up to 80 House Democrats are Communist Party members, the Palm Beach Post reports.

The Florida Republican, and tea party favorite, made the comments while speaking in Jensen Beach, Fla. Tuesday evening.

In a video clip of the event posted Wednesday, West was responding a question from a constituent asking “What percentage of the American legislature do you think are card-carrying Marxists?”

“That’s a fair question. I believe there’s about 78 to 81 members of the Democratic Party that are members of the Communist Party,” West says in the video.

[6502]

16. Thanks for the update

All I could do was watch with my jaw dropped.

[underpants]

17. The Mayan/Dick Clark one is hilarious