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This pooped into my inbox a little while ago:

Eric Allie, who’s an unfunny and not very talented cartoonist, must need some hits, because he drew a cartoon titled “Deep Throat II”, which shows Obama (who’s beyond Allie’s limited ability to caricature, so he’s mainly recognizable because his skin is brown) sitting in the Oval Office. Another misshapen human-like caricature asks “I thought the Washington Post was here to discuss the campaign” and a bubble from under the desk says “Down here”.

I think I’d have to work to push out something this old and tired: a Watergate reference, the Washington Post as the exemplar of liberal media, and a Lewinski/blowjob joke. If I had to make my living as a cartoonist and this was the best I could do, I’d be sharpening my razor and drawing a hot bath.

Update: I thought this was Daryl Cagle’s work initially but I fixed the post to give credit/blame to the right asshole. BTW, Cagle is the cartoonist for the liberal MSNBC and syndicates Allie’s work.

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  1. 1.

    whiskey

    Eric Allie drew it, not Cagle. Cagle’s not a good cartoonist either, but he does host a political cartoon clearinghouse site.

  3. 3.

    jl

    Thanks, but I am not interested in viewing the cartoon. Nice to get more evidence they are running on fumes, though.

    A Reader

  4. 4.

    c u n d gulag

    Give Conservatives a break!

    They’re not funny because they suffer from a severe ‘irony deficiency.’

  5. 5.

    pragmatism

    the clenis will haunt this earth like david broder’s ghost moaning “BOTH SIDES DOOOOOOOOOOO IT”. this morning (and it’s only 10:30) i have noted 4 separate clenis mentions/allusions. two of those were on sports talk radio during my commute.
    can’t these clowns get dennis miller to write some new material for them?

  6. 6.

    Quaker in a Basement

    Aw, quit yer honkin’.

    Is Allie’s point completely stupid? Sure. Is his metaphor hamhanded and tasteless? Of course.

    But there’s no Lewinsky angle here. No cheating-on-his-wife implication. The point of the cartoon is that the WaPo is fluffing Obama’s candidacy.

    It’s a stupid, ugly cartoon invented by a stupid, ugly little mind. No need to improve on the outrage with fake interpretation.

  8. 8.

    Culture of Truth

    LOCK IT DOWN, THIS ELECTION IS OVER

    Former President George W. Bush told ABC News Tuesday that he supports Mitt Romney. “I’m for Mitt Romney,” Bush said.

  11. 11.

    Southern Beale

    I don’t get the Watergate reference unless we’re supposed to surmise some kind of deep throat thing?

    Stupid. Yes, they’ve gotten so bad in the right-wing world they’re trolling for hits by trying to gin up controversy.

    It would have been smarter and more relevant to attempt a parody of the Time cover. Ah well.

  12. 12.

    Mojotron

    A few years ago the Something Awful forums had a thread documenting the worst of the worst right-wing hack political cartoonists, Eric Allie was always a top contender but then someone would break out the Glen McCoy “Obama taking baseball bat to babies in dumpster” cartoon and everyone would solemnly nod and agree that that was truly the worst.

    The thread actually spawned some really good discussions and tribute artwork, the satirical takeoff Mallard Fillmore strip when author Bruce Tinsley was arrested for DWI was brilliant. They also showed how Cagle himself is lazy and constantly recycles “the media is a mindless herd” gag drawn similarly every time. There’s some remnants if you google “Politiquiddick Cartoongate Thread”

  15. 15.

    Clime Acts

    Oh please. Lighten up

    I don’t agree with the gist of the cartoon, but the caricature of Obama itself is damn good for the style this cartoonist favors. Spot-on, I’d say.

    Don’t fall into the scowling, humorless mode of the far right scolds please.

  16. 16.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @c u n d gulag:

    They’re not funny because they suffer from a severe ‘ironyironing deficiency.’

    There. That’s better.

    Only in the bizarro world of the wingtards does the WaPo, home of Fred Hiatt, wanker of the decade runner-up, give Obama a hummer.

  17. 17.

    MattF

    As a mix of about an even dozen different winger fears and resentments, it’s revealing and pretty weird. I think, every now and then that I ‘get’ the winger mind-set, and then they go and surprise me.

  19. 19.

    Are You Kidding

    On what planet is MSNBC “liberal?” They’re corporate shills, like the rest.

  20. 20.

    quannlace

    It begs to be answered- Why when conservatives try to be funny, it’s just….painful

  21. 21.

    patrick II

    @Culture of Truth:

    I hope G.W. repeats his endorsement at the republican convention on national tv.

    As bad a president as George Bush was, if he would have actually choked on that pretzel, Cheney would have been worse. If he would have won, McCain would have been worse (we would have had war with Iran by now, and no clue how to do anything else). And even Romney, the uber-capitalist, pension stealing, tea-party malleable, etch-a-sketch presidential candidate would be worse.
    Sadly, G.W. of the cream of their crop.

  22. 22.

    jibeaux

    Speaking of actual humor, Ellen DeGeneres has won the Mark Twain award for American humor this year. One, well deserved although she is technically a bit too nice for a Mark Twain award, and two, fuck you again, Million [sic] Moms against Ellen.

  23. 23.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    So they are accusing Obama of being gay? ROLF

    If the social conservatives taught America anything it’s in the closet gay guys do not marry Amazon goddesses like Micheal Obama lest they be seen as small and weak next to their wives.

    You know what this is; it’s these in the closet gay conservatives have the hots for Barrack Obama.

  24. 24.

    Randy P

    Clue to conservative “humorists”: the reason non-wingnuts are not laughing at your stuff is not because it’s “controversial”. It’s because it isn’t funny. It tends to lack crucial elements, like an actual joke.

    My daughter introduced me to a show called “Portlandia” which pokes fun at all kinds of liberal hippie types in Portland. It’s hilarious. Yet I know that in the hands of a Mallard Fillmore, the very same material would be tiresome, juvenile, unfunny blah. Why is that?

  25. 25.

    kindness

    The link isn’t working.

    Yea, I know it’s a link from a copied post but….

  26. 26.

    pragmatism

    @Clime Acts: saying “that’s all you got” is humorless and scowling? things must look strange through firebag tinted glasses, klymaxx.

  27. 27.

    jibeaux

    @Randy P: That’s a good example. I’d bet that no actual conservatives are involved in the making of Portlandia.

  31. 31.

    fasteddie9318

    Derp derp, the only presidential candidate who hasn’t had a single week in this election cycle with more positive stories than negative stories is getting a hummer from theliberalmedia, derp derp. GEEZ THAT’S FUNNY.

  33. 33.

    RP

    (a) Cagle is also a terrible cartoonist. He isn’t a rightwing hack, but reliably right leaning because he can’t resist the lazy, both sides do it framing. That would be ok if he were a good artist, funny, and insightful, but he’s none of the above.

    (b) Why does anyone respond to Clime Acts? As I’ve noted before, he’s obviously a paid rightwing troll.

  34. 34.

    The Other Chuck

    @Randy P:

    Because Portlandia aims to be good-natured at pointing and laughing at the goofiness of hipsters, the things that are actually funny on their face. A right-winger would instead turn it into bitter spiteful preachy polemic against the wastrels and moochers of the hated counterculture. You have to mine the newsletters from actual communist activists to find a similar attitude toward humor on the left.

  35. 35.

    Forum Transmitted Disease

    This would be a lot funnier:

    Eric Allie, who’s an unfunny and not very talented cartoonist, must need some hits, because he drew a cartoon titled “Deep Throat II”, which shows Obama (who’s beyond Allie’s limited ability to caricature, so he’s mainly recognizable because his skin is brown) sitting in the Oval Office. Another misshapen human-like caricature asks “I thought that Clime Acts was here to discuss some totally insignificant bullshit” and a bubble from under the desk says “Down here”.

    Amirite? Shit, I’d put it on my fridge.

  36. 36.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Well, damn, have you seen this guy in a swimsuit? He’s a sexual object for straight women and gay men, who view Michelle with envy.

    and speaking as a straight guy this must be quoted for the truth, Obama does have the “it” factor.

    To funny to think of most the Right Rage at Obama is just shock over their own carefully repressed sexuality.

  37. 37.

    Mark S.

    @Clime Acts:

    I don’t agree with the gist of the cartoon, but the caricature of Obama itself is damn good for the style this cartoonist favors. Spot-on, I’d say.

    Okay, you’re just trolling. That’s an absolute horrible drawing by any standard.

  38. 38.

    Rob in Buffalo

    The premise of the cartoon is that the Kaplan Daily is in the tank for Obama, presumably just like the rest of the liberal media. No, really, that’s the premise.

  41. 41.

    Brachiator

    @jibeaux:

    Speaking of actual humor, Ellen DeGeneres has won the Mark Twain award for American humor this year. One, well deserved although she is technically a bit too nice for a Mark Twain award, and two, fuck you again, Million [sic] Moms against Ellen.

    I don’t think you need to have a corrosive wit to stand with Mr Clemens. Ellen has a sly, oblique style that I think that Twain would easily have applauded.

    Good on her.

    Couldn’t link to the editorial cartoon, but am not feeling overly sad about it.

  42. 42.

    SatanicPanic

    @The Other Chuck:

    You have to mine the newsletters from actual communist activists to find a similar attitude toward humor on the left

    QFT- communists are not funny. I’m related to one. He’s able to make choice of ice cream into a painful discussion of first world privilege.

  44. 44.

    Mike G

    Cagle leans toward lazy-Broderism but occasionally does something good.

    I remember one from a few years ago, showing Bush as a hyperactive cowboy, wildly firing off his six-shooters in every direction, and woman standing next to him saying, “I like him. He makes me feel safe.”

  45. 45.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Rob in Buffalo:

    Prezactly.

    Which ties into the Watergate thing, in that back then, the WaPo was on the cutting edge of exposing the criminal Nixon, which Rethugs have never forgotten. It’s why there is a birdcage liner straight of the presses rag like the Moonie Times in DC.

  46. 46.

    jayackroyd

    @Clime Acts:

    Yeah, I don’t get the criticism of the art either. It’s evokes Ren and Stimpy, and posing Obama with his head tilted at that angle he so favors isn’t that bad a caricature.

    I just looked at the last half dozen or so, and I agree they are unfunny.

  48. 48.

    Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)

    @SatanicPanic:

    It amazes me how much so many American conservatives are like communists, at least as far as their personalities go. Lack of humor? Yep. Taking themselves far to seriously? Yep. Persecution complexes? Yep. I bet there are other ways, too, but I don’t want to spend this lovely afternoon thinking about communists or American conservatives any more than I have to. But maybe we could get somebody to answer Jonah Goldberg’s dum liberal fascist book with a well thought out, well written book about conservative Stalinists or something.

  49. 49.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    @SatanicPanic:

    QFT- communists are not funny. I’m related to one. He’s able to make choice of ice cream into a painful discussion of first world privilege.

    Ugh, so am I, complete with over-the-top politicization of food choices and a firm belief that the entire world economy is and has always been a zero-sum game: that’s right, there has been no increase in total wealth in the world since Adam, it’s all just been traded around and every transaction necessarily involves a winner and a loser. I wonder if it’s the same guy? There can’t be that many of them roaming around, even with the mental hospitals shut down.

  52. 52.

    Dave

    y’all know it’s an article of faith among the rightwing idiots that obama is gay, right? someone from the republican back bench is going to blurt a ni-CLANG but odds are just as good someone will call him a queer or whatever.

  54. 54.

    jibeaux

    @Brachiator: Yeah, I don’t have a problem with it. She’s cut from a different cloth, but that doesn’t mean he wouldn’t have appreciated her.

  56. 56.

    SatanicPanic

    @Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:

    I wonder if it’s the same guy?

    We might be related then. I seem to have met a lot of these people though. You’re already to enjoy your food/music/whatever and then you hear “are you really going to eat/listen to/do that?” Uggh, here we go again.

  58. 58.

    Clime Acts

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    fuck off, Timmeh.

    Hi Moron. I see you are up to your usual scintillating rhetoric today.

    So am I to gather you think the caricature itself, as caricatures go, is inferior? Or are you doing the daily tribal thing you do?

    and inb4 your inevitable ‘groupie’ act.

    You’ll have to help me out here…are you referring to BJ’s Bot-tards groupie act? If so, then yes, my comment indirectly points to that. Glad to entertain you.

  59. 59.

    Clime Acts

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    So they are accusing Obama of being gay? ROLF

    Where in the cartoon is the implication of gayness?

    Your sexist kneejerk assumption that it must be a MALE journalist under the desk is rather disturbing in the context of this fabulously progressive blog.

    There is plenty to mock amongst the wingosphere without resorting to fevered imaginings.

  61. 61.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Clime Acts: son, that shit is just old. you should get over yourself. but of course you won’t, because that’s the kind of shit house troll you are.

  63. 63.

    Clime Acts

    @pragmatism:

    saying “that’s all you got” is humorless and scowling? things must look strange through firebag tinted glasses, klymaxx.

    noooooo…pretending that the art is bad and that there is not a shred of amusement in this cartoon is “humorless and scowling.”

  64. 64.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Clime Acts: you are already humorless and without a shred of amusement, clime ass. go ahead, call me a groupie, you humorless POS

  65. 65.

    pragmatism

    @Clime Acts: having a subjective opinion on the quality of art and/or whether it is funny that doesn’t comport with your own is “pretending”? well, then. the only way that humanity can comply with your requirements is if you tell us how to feel about everything. how about you take your own advice and lighten up? opinions can and will vary, ya jackalope.

  67. 67.

    Clime Acts

    @RP:

    Why does anyone respond to Clime Acts?

    Hmmm…because they want to?

    As I’ve noted before, he’s obviously a paid rightwing troll.

    and you are obviously incredibly and willfully stupid.

    The idea that I am right wing only illustrates how wackadoodle your perspective is.

    There really ARE some of us who push from the left to offset your genuflecting from the center right.

  68. 68.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Clime Acts:

    Where in the cartoon is the implication of gayness?

    In the minds of the broomstick-up-the-ass wingtards, anything but man on top missionary vaginal sex for reproduction purposes only is gay.

    You figure it out.

  70. 70.

    Clime Acts

    @Mark S.:

    Okay, you’re just trolling. That’s an absolute horrible drawing by any standard.

    I completely disagree. The rendering of Obama is an amusing cartoon, reminiscent of the old Warner Bros. stuff.

    God, blind tribalism is the dumb. If it were a cartoon of Romney, most of you would be going off about how hilarious it is.

  71. 71.

    Clime Acts

    @Mark S.:

    It’s so horrible it makes Ted Rall seem competent by comparison

    Ted Rall is awesome. The slapdash drawings are part of the schtick.

  73. 73.

    Clime Acts

    @Brachiator:

    Speaking of actual humor, Ellen DeGeneres has won the Mark Twain award for American humor this year. One, well deserved although she is technically a bit too nice for a Mark Twain award, and two, fuck you again, Million [sic] Moms against Ellen.

    Ellen is beyond awesome. And her mom is just as cool.

    Also, too: JCPenney is awesome for keeping her as spokesperson. Go shop there!

  75. 75.

    Clime Acts

    @jayackroyd:

    Yeah, I don’t get the criticism of the art either. It’s evokes Ren and Stimpy, and posing Obama with his head tilted at that angle he so favors isn’t that bad a caricature.

    I did not get that Ren and Stimpy connection on my own, but you are absolutely right. Good catch.

    I looked at a few of the guys other cartoons and found them unfunny also. There was one involving dog being served in place of turkey at Thanksgiving that made me laugh because it’s so awesomely juvenile. :D

    BTW: Prepare to be hammered here for your heresy.

  76. 76.

    Clime Acts

    @Dave:

    y’all know it’s an article of faith among the rightwing idiots that obama is gay, right?

    Dave, I’m gay and I do get a low level reading on my gaydar from Obama at times. Seriously…but not ALL the time.

    My gaydar is very accurate, time tested and reliable, so I’m guessing he’s straight but veering a bit toward gay on the sexual continuum.

    Why? Surely you don’t feel, as do wingnuts, that being a bit gay or all gay is a bad thing?

  79. 79.

    4tehlulz

    a Watergate reference, the Washington Post as the exemplar of liberal media, and a Lewinski/blowjob joke.

    What is a Jay Leno monologue?

  80. 80.

    elm

    @schnooten: It’s slightly funnier if you read it in a Daffy Duck voice as a parody of an out-of-touch right-winger bitching about fake problems.

  85. 85.

    Nellcote

    @Dave:

    odds are just as good someone will call him a queer or whatever.

    Tina Brown/Newsweek first out of the gate.

  86. 86.

    Horrendo Slapp (formerly Jimperson Zibb, Duncan Dönitz, Otto Graf von Pfmidtnöchtler-Pízsmőgy, Mumphrey, et al.)

    @Dave:

    Yeah, I recall some wacked-out nut, Larry something-or-other, who called a press conference to tell the world that he and Obama had had sex, only he was wanted for check fraud or something, so some police showed up and arrested him.

    If I recall rightly, this was back before the end of the primaries in 2008, and the PUMA losers were frothing at the mouth that Larry whatever’s arrest was just Obama using his “Chicago-style thug” superpowers to stifle any dissent. You know, since a one term senator had somehow gotten control of the Washington, D.C. police force.

    And now all of those fucked up PUMA assholes are shilling for Rmoney. Since, well, any good liberal who honestly backed Hillary Clinton for president would naturally understand that Rmoney is soooo much more like Clinton politically than Obama is. Idiots. Liars.

  87. 87.

    ThresherK

    @SatanicPanic: …which itself sounds like it could be a solid four minutes on “Portlandia”.

    Not funny to happen to you specifically, but possibly hilarious in the proverbial third person.

  88. 88.

    A Humble Lurker

    @Clime Acts: Are you admitting that you’re a rightwing idiot? ‘Cause that’s who that post was talking about. You can’t possibly be shocked said rightwing idiots could be wrong or lying, can you?

  89. 89.

    mclaren

    This does raise the point that obots have repeatedly made: namely, that Obama doesn’t get near enough credit for the things he has done.

    Obama hasn’t been involved with any sort of scandal, sexual or otherwise. And none of Obama’s appointees, not a single one, has been caught stealing or whoring on a yacht paid for by some giant corporation or buying crystal meth from gay hookers while railing against homosexuality, or taking bribes while pontificating about “law and order,” etc.

    Compare the squeaky-clean Obama administration with the orgy of thieving and corruption and bribe-taking of the Nixon administration. Or the frenzy of cronyism and outright smash-and-grab stealing in the Reagan administration. Or the maggot-infestation of thieving and con jobs and rampant stealing that went on in the maladministration of the drunk-driving C student and his thief torturer sidekick, who piled up billions in sweetheart contracts and outright bribes for Halliburton while Vice president, then went back to working as its CEO as his reward for all this crass theft.

    Nobody seems to notice or praise Obama (or Clinton, or Carter) for running administrations as clean as hounds’ teeth. No brown paper bags filled with cash bribes, no getting caught with strippers in love nests paid for by giant corporations, nothing like that.

    But who has praised Obama for this? Who has even noticed?

  91. 91.

    Clime Acts

    @A Humble Lurker:

    Not really sure what this comment of yours is supposed to mean…I meant what I wrote.

    I get a slightly gay-ish vibe from BO; big deal. Acting like anyone who picks up on that is ipso facto a wingnut is just stupid.

    Oh, never mind.

    I’m gay. I like gay people. I like bisexual people. Straight people too.

    What’s your problem this evening?

  93. 93.

    AxelFoley

    @Clime Acts:

    I don’t agree with the gist of the cartoon, but the caricature of Obama itself is damn good for the style this cartoonist favors. Spot-on, I’d say.

    Of course you’d like it, fuckwad.

  96. 96.

    Clime Acts

    @AxelFoley:

    Goodness gracious.

    Why don’t you explain to me what is artistically objectionable about the caricature of President Obama in that cartoon?

    Not the content of the cartoon as a whole, but of the Obama rendering.

    Do you not think it calls to mind Mr. Obama? Did you not think it is humorous? Do you think it insulting/degrading/sloppy/hackish/what?

    Do you allow yourself ANY opinions that are not firmly lashed to your Botulism?

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