Slog - Comments on Horsey's Latest http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest The Constitution burning in the fireplace is a nice touch. (Link)... Copyright 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:32:22 -0800 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:42:06 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by levide Nice try, but this doesn't quite work. The myths about the Obamas the New Yorker cover is ostensibly satirizing are patently fictions, where the jabs at the McCains in the Horsey cartoon are essentially true (Cindy WAS a prescription drug addict, John IS an aging hawk, etc.). If a cartoon wanted to portray myths about McCain it would have to present him as a noble, straight-talking, party bucking war-hero. And the media does a fair enough job of that as it is.

]]> levide http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073562 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073562 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:41:06 -0800 Comment by mirror Check out this killer take on the New Yorker cover by Red State Update. (And it had some New Yorker I hadn't seen before)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7YiNw5AMshg

]]> mirror http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073565 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073565 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:42:38 -0800 Comment by Matthew What levide said.

]]> Matthew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073569 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073569 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:46:54 -0800 Comment by COMTE The only problem with your satirical take @1, is that many people wouldn't get it - they'd think it was actually true, just like many people still believe all the idiotic "rumors" about Obama.

Actually, now that I think of it, it would most likely be the same people believing BOTH memes - so, I guess that would make them doubly irony-challenged.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073578 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073578 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:54:29 -0800 Comment by Timothy The comparison doesn't work.

]]> Timothy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073579 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073579 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:55:06 -0800 Comment by Mike in MO I like that Dick Cheney is the Osama Bin Laden in this version.

]]> Mike in MO http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073585 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073585 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:02:00 -0800 Comment by jackie treehorn A McCain presidency might give us another Land of Confusion video from Genesis at least.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3MzShg7yXik

Silver Lining for VEEP!

]]> jackie treehorn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073590 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073590 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:07:57 -0800 Comment by Andrew Really though, horsey is a total total moron.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073603 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073603 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:18:20 -0800 Comment by I'm Black! Really! 'Twas a matter of time, though not nearly as good.

I'm with #8.

]]> I'm Black! Really! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073610 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073610 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:21:50 -0800 Comment by Julie Am I the only one that read/sung "Bomb bomb bomb -- bomb, bomb Iran" to the tune of the Beach Boys' "Barbara Ann"?

That and the constitution were nice touches, but, as others have said, the overall theme doesn't work.

New Yorker Cover = Exaggerating myths about the Obamas, Horsey cartoon = Exaggerating Truths about the McCains.

]]> Julie http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073616 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073616 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:25:00 -0800 Comment by ams I wish, oh how I wish that people would bring up the, "trollop faced cunt" remark more often... that woman looks like she is about to eat my brains.

]]> ams http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073647 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073647 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:47:19 -0800 Comment by there is nothing funny in seattle EPIC FAIL

]]> there is nothing funny in seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073654 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073654 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 11:51:37 -0800 Comment by umvue Hazarding stating the obvious...

The "joke" is that this is for "literalists". It is not meant to parallel, exactly, the New Yorker cover. You fail humor 101.

]]> umvue http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073660 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073660 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:04:06 -0800 Comment by Gitai Horsey's such an entertaining asshole. However, Cindy McCain really was a drug addict, John McCain really is fucking old, and he really did make the "bomb Iran" joke.

]]> Gitai http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073663 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073663 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:13:30 -0800 Comment by Sam @10 - No, you're not the only one who sang "bomb Iran" to the tune of "Barbara Ann" - McCain actually did, and that's what the cartoon is referencing:

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2007/McCain_unplugged_Bomb_bomb_bomb_bomb_0419.html

]]> Sam http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073666 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073666 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:14:28 -0800 Comment by joykiller National Review covers almost never have speech bubbles. Just cartoons with large heads.

]]> joykiller http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073671 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073671 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:18:37 -0800 Comment by RR Anderson tacoma has been generating some nice cartoons lately too:
http://www.feedtacoma.com/tacomic/?tid=7763

]]> RR Anderson http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073681 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073681 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:32:13 -0800 Comment by monkey but that Cindy McCain is fucking hillarious.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073704 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073704 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:56:16 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle @1 for the win.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073705 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073705 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:56:57 -0800 Comment by jcricket It's not perfect, and I think Horsey missed the point, but it's still miles ahead of anything the no-talent-hack the Times calls a political cartoonist puts out. Devericks sucks rocks - mainly producing knee-jerk government bashing cartoons meant to be understood by 5 year olds.

]]> jcricket http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073706 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073706 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:57:15 -0800 Comment by Vince Touchy...so touchy. Both are funny. Sorry for all you humorless cry babies.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073762 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073762 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 13:57:06 -0800 Comment by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me @14

Right. In order for this to make sense, it would respond to a cover that hypes truths about the Obamas... Maybe one with Barack snorting a nice fat rail of coke and Michelle doing something to express her deep shame in being an American.

Hey, with their confessed pasts, Cindy & Barack have a lot in common...

]]> You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073779 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073779 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:14:28 -0800 Comment by Raphael If you wanted to litteralize innuendos about McCain, Cindy would have a black eye.

]]> Raphael http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073859 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073859 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:57:08 -0800 Comment by mackro mackro OK, I usually hate on Horsey, aesthetically more than anything, but also in getting the point across.

BUT... this is the first cartoon he's ever done that not only didn't make me wince but illicited a minor "right on"!

]]> mackro mackro http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073925 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1073925 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:33:38 -0800 Comment by infrequent @1... hmm.. a war hero? wouldn't a parallel be the way in which the left sees mccain which isn't true? by showing him a wheelchair bound -- something that is not true -- the comic actually accomplishes this.

personally, i find neither that humorous even though i get the joke.

]]> infrequent http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1074031 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/horseys_latest#c1074031 2008 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:42:06 -0800