Right-Wing Cartoon Watch #27 (11/12/07 — 12/16/07)

The 27th installment of RWCW has arrived, covering four weeks. Everything’s coming up roses in Iraq, they say! Every time we torture someone, another 9/11 is averted! You can’t trust intelligence that doesn’t urge us to bomb the enemy du jour! And Gore Edwards Obama Hillary Clinton is the anti-Christ... or at least, a woman.

Right-Wing Cartoon Watch #26 (10/1/07 — 11/11/07)

The 26th installment of RWCW is finally here, otherwise known as "the ridiculously long debunk of right-wingers - with pictures! - done by some guy with undiagnosed OCD."

In this larger-than-usual installment, covering five weeks, conservatives pretended the news from the Middle East was both great (Iraq) and dire (Iran), attacked one of their favorite bugbears, and massively ramped up the assaults on their presumptive foe for 2008. Somehow, a few of them still managed to find time to attack health care for kids and defend torture.

Pace yourself, now! And skip whatever you like! Too much wingnuttiness consumed too quickly can lead to toxic overload

Right-Wing Cartoon Watch (Hall of Infamy Edition)

For the one year anniversary of Right-Wing Cartoon Watch, I thought it might be fun to look at the cartoons that inspired it, as well as offering a retrospective.

As the RWCW blurb says, most cartoonists have an irreverent and slightly anti-authoritarian streak. Most comedy has a bit of anarchy to it, after all. There's certainly nothing wrong with expressing a conservative viewpoint, and most politicians deserve to be mocked or at least questioned, but I was quite struck by how extreme and far right the following cartoons were.

(Read on here.)

Right-Wing Cartoon Watch #25 (9/18/07 — 9/30/07)

During the two weeks covered by this new installment, conservative cartoonists warned us of the dangers of health care, attacked a former conservative icon, and made sure to scold the working man and woman. They offered reflexive attacks on John Kerry and the Clintons, which is like warm milk, cookies and, uh, red meat to the faithful. Still, nothing could compare with their fury denouncing The Greatest Threat the World Has Ever Faced since - um - their previous Hitler du jour!

RWCW #24 (9/4/07 — 9/17/07)

The twenty-fourth installment covered two weeks. Conservatives hailed their new hero, excoriated one of their favorite old foes, manufactured some fresh slanders, recycled many lame ones, and commemorated a dreadful event.

Highlights/lowlights included:











Henry Payne delivered a great tribute to Pavarotti:



While Gary Varvel was one of many cartoonists who drew a good remembrance for 9/11:

RWCW #23 (8/20/07 — 9/3/07)

The twenty-third installment covered two weeks, and thus offered less of a chance of toxic overload than the previous, super-sized installment. But never fear, it was just as wonky at a quarter the size. And conservative cartoonists were in fine form. Slandering Dems! Lauding a scalliwag! Shunning homosexuals! Lancing straw men and agitating for war! Apart from a few more lame attacks on Ted Kennedy or John Kerry, what more could you ask for?

Highlights/lowlights included:









Gary Varvel delivered a nice piece:

RWCW #22 (6/4/07 — 8/19/07)

The super-sized twenty-second installment of RWCW covered a sizzlin' eleven-week period. What's most distressing is seeing the cartoons that could have been just as easily drawn at the start of that period as the finish.

Highlights/lowlights included:

RWCW #21 (5/14/07 — 6/3/07)

In the even-larger-than-usual, twenty-first installment, covering three weeks (5/14/07 - 6/3/07), most but not all conservative cartoonists mourned Jerry Falwell and opined angrily on immigration. Gas prices were a surprisingly popular topic. Meanwhile, the usual gang lambasted Democrats for criticizing Bush, for opposing Bush, and for - voting in accord with Bush! Huh? Remember, kids, whatever the Democrats do, they're baaaaad!!!

Highlights/lowlights included:

RWCW #20 (4/30/07 — 5/13/07)

In the twentieth installment, conservative cartoonists ranged all over the map in terms of subject matter. Iraq experienced a, err, surge in popularity again. George Tenet received some ridicule. Meanwhile, conservatives also noted the impending resignation of a Brit they loved and celebrated — the French?!?

Highlights/lowlights included:

RWCW #19 (4/16/07—4/29/07)

The nineteenth installment covered two weeks, 4/16/07-4/29/07. The biggest topics were the Virginia Tech shootings and a Supreme Court decision on abortion — but there's always time for conservative cartoonists to attack prominent Democrats and — Rosie O'Donnell?!?

Highlights/lowlights included:

RWCW #18 (4/1/07—4/15/07)

In the eighteenth installment: See chickenhawks squawk! See a(nother) manfactured scandal! See creative ways to attack liberals and African-Americans over Don Imus!

Highlights/lowlights included: