{"id":1235,"date":"2005-12-07T22:54:19","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T04:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1235"},"modified":"2005-12-07T22:57:43","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T04:57:43","slug":"oliphant-drawing-from-the-deep-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/?p=1235","title":{"rendered":"Oliphant, Drawing from the Deep End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucomics.com\/patoliphant\/\">bio<\/a>, Pat Oliphant is apparently <strong><em>the<\/em><\/strong> political cartoonist of all political cartoonists.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the most widely syndicated political cartoonist in the world and a winner of the Pulitzer, he produces work that is as visually stunning as it is metaphorically powerful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Visually stunning?  Metaphorically powerful?  The bio can now be updated with &#8220;pathetically disgusting&#8221; and &#8220;harmful to the national discourse.&#8221;  Nice additions to the Pulitzer there, Pat.  With his <a href=\"http:\/\/images.ucomics.com\/comics\/po\/2005\/po051206.gif\">latest effort<\/a>, Oliphant joins the disturbing chorus of the far, far left, spouting horrific insults and baseless accusations of the worst kind while only showing a slim grasp of history and a slimmer hold on reality.<\/p>\n<p>Oliphant, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Godwins_Law\">Godwin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderkraut.com\/\">WunderKraut<\/a>, a blog previously unknown to me (thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogsearch.google.com\/blogsearch\">Google Blog search<\/a>), looks at the cartoon and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderkraut.com\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/12\/07\/gee-how-original\/\">calls out Oliphant<\/a> on his comparison.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You know, there was a time when even thinking about calling your Commander In Chief Hitler would have brought a well deserved backlash from the American people and the press. Not today.<\/p>\n<p>Sure Hitler killed over 6 millions Jews, several million other people, started the most destructive war in history and destroyed most of Europe for his own personal megalomania\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BUT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bush is <strong>JUST AS EVIL!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Come off it already. Give me proof.  [emphasis in original]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>WunderKraut continues on and it&#8217;s worth a visit.  Still, I have to point out the twenty he leaves on Oliphant&#8217;s dresser when he finishes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PS: Can I officially question Pat Oliphant\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s patriotism? Hell, maybe even his loyalty?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To quote some blogger, &#8220;Heh.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to his bio, Pat Oliphant is apparently the political cartoonist of all political cartoonists. As the most widely syndicated political cartoonist in the world and a winner of the Pulitzer, he produces work that is as visually stunning as it is metaphorically powerful. Visually stunning? Metaphorically powerful? The bio can now be updated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-our-media","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/targetcentermass.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}