This infrequently-updated blog supplements the series Right-Wing Cartoon Watch, currently at The Blue Herald.

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Friday, October 05, 2007

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.)

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