Supposed foreign political cartoons

Radically Rethinking · 31st January 2010, 03:07 PM

In the past I've gotten forwarded emails from my dad containing right-wing (i.e. pro-Republican, anti-Democrat) political cartoons. The odd thing is, these messages were always falsely titled "Australian political cartoons." I had a hard time believing any political cartoonist outside the USA would be praising George Bush, so I just did Google searches on the cartoonists' names and found they were all Americans writing for American papers. A good deal of them were from the California-based Investor's Business Daily and none of them had anything to do with Australia.

So today I get another one, the first in at least a year, containing an anti-Obama cartoon drawn by Toby Dials of tobydials.com and redstate.com. But it was preceded by the caption "This awesome cartoon is from Scotland. Yes, the whole world is laughing at us."

Who the F thinks these cartoons are from other countries? And why?

Marquis de Carabas · 31st January 2010, 03:15 PM

I suppose it's possible (though a quick google shows nothing to confirm it) that there is some Scottish paper that runs his cartoons. If that is the case, an unwary sort might see it in such a paper, make the assumption that the cartoonist is of the same nationality, and start a stupid rumor.

If no Scottish paper is running them, though, it seems likely that someone just likes spreading ************.

Architect · 31st January 2010, 04:09 PM

In all fairness, the Scottish broadsheets run cartoons taking the mickey out of many politicians - Bush and Blair were obvious targets during the "War on Terror" - but I can't recall any about Obama and I've never heard of Toby.

Beerina · 1st February 2010, 12:51 PM

I can see lots of cartoons about the US around the world, given we stomp around like a bull in a china shop, but I also would not expect them to be about US-internal politics, except tangentially at best.

I wouldn't expect too much along the order of our health care debate, our skyrocketting deficit, our recent Supreme Court stuff, etc.

31st January 2010, 03:07 PM	#1
Radically Rethinking Scholar Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Bellevue, Nebraska, USA Posts: 75	Supposed foreign political cartoons In the past I've gotten forwarded emails from my dad containing right-wing (i.e. pro-Republican, anti-Democrat) political cartoons. The odd thing is, these messages were always falsely titled "Australian political cartoons." I had a hard time believing any political cartoonist outside the USA would be praising George Bush, so I just did Google searches on the cartoonists' names and found they were all Americans writing for American papers. A good deal of them were from the California-based Investor's Business Daily and none of them had anything to do with Australia. So today I get another one, the first in at least a year, containing an anti-Obama cartoon drawn by Toby Dials of tobydials.com and redstate.com. But it was preceded by the caption "This awesome cartoon is from Scotland. Yes, the whole world is laughing at us." Who the F thinks these cartoons are from other countries? And why?

31st January 2010, 03:15 PM	#2
Marquis de Carabas Penultimate Amazing Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: vuori Posts: 27,106	I suppose it's possible (though a quick google shows nothing to confirm it) that there is some Scottish paper that runs his cartoons. If that is the case, an unwary sort might see it in such a paper, make the assumption that the cartoonist is of the same nationality, and start a stupid rumor. If no Scottish paper is running them, though, it seems likely that someone just likes spreading ************.
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31st January 2010, 04:09 PM	#3
Architect Chief Punkah Wallah Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: UK Posts: 8,478	In all fairness, the Scottish broadsheets run cartoons taking the mickey out of many politicians - Bush and Blair were obvious targets during the "War on Terror" - but I can't recall any about Obama and I've never heard of Toby.
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1st February 2010, 12:51 PM	#4
Beerina Sarcastic Conqueror of Notions Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: A floating island above the clouds Posts: 23,835	I can see lots of cartoons about the US around the world, given we stomp around like a bull in a china shop, but I also would not expect them to be about US-internal politics, except tangentially at best. I wouldn't expect too much along the order of our health care debate, our skyrocketting deficit, our recent Supreme Court stuff, etc.
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