I’ve posted the ten most ass-backwards-lame cartoons from the last week after the jump. To earn the ass-backwards-lame award, you have to deftly combine the unfunny with the hideously stupid in one cartoon. These Bush apologists will amaze with their tenacity, their undying commitment to avoid anything smacking of self-criticism, their consummate skill at resourcefully seeking out the vicious Democrat who is causing the world’s disasters unbeknownst to thinking men and women everywhere. You’ll admire the rigor, the creativity, and discipline of these cartoonists as they methodically sift through skyscraper-sized haystacks of truth to find one needle of delusion. So kudos, most ass-backwards cartoonists, for doing the impossible: making the lie a hero and the truth a goat. Welcome, Dailykossacks, to cartoon bizarro world. Follow me to the "other side."
The Ten Most Ass-Backwards-Lame Cartoons of the Week
Pages could be written about the many levels at which these cartoons fail. Please feel free to count the reasons in comments. And please post links to assbackwards-lame cartoons you've found this week.
For the ten best cartoons of the week, along with a digest of cartoons of candidates, see the Week in Cartoons (10 best + candidates).
- Michael Ramirez, Investors Weekly, Global Warming Inquisition
Bizarro world cartooning at its finest: here science becomes illogical, inquisitorial and fanatical religion, and poor little persecuted religion becomes victimized science. A round world is awful tough for poor, persecuted flat-worlders. So is a logical world.
- Michael Ramirez, Investors Weekly, "The Roadside Bomb"
Ramirez, you've done it again! Congress has been ruled by Democrats for three weeks. Obviously, they’re the ones killing our soldiers in Iraq. We better get ready for this Bizarro-world take on the war, bec ause it will shortly become the new reality for the Rush Limbaugh listeners of the world. "We’d have won this war, the Sunnis would have loved Shiites, Israel would have been happily accepted by its Arab neighbors, the lion and the lamb would together have opened a McDonald’s in Baghdad, and the millennial vision would have been achieved. . . had it not been for Nancy Pelosi! Those Dems. . . they’re worse than terrorists!"
- Stephen Rustad, Petaluma Argus-Courier, "Rear Eschelon Warriors"
Bush goes to war over W.M.D.’s that aren’t there, botches the invasion, botches the occupation, presides over a burgeoning civil war, and watches as over 3,000 Americans die in Iraq, standing by as countless tens of thousands of Iraqis die. And when Afghanistan slips into chaos because of the bloody diversion? Blame the French, Italians, and Germans. I mean, you gotta hate someone, right?
- Tbloom (Dean Turnbloom), Self-Syndicated, Sobering Comparison
If you can’t blame the French for 3,000 soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis killed, blame Ted Kennedy. This exquisitely awful cartoonist seems not to have read the news that many in the army don’t support an escalation of the war–that Bush had to do a bit of searching to come up with brass who publicly support his plan. But in Bazarro world, Bush yet looks 9/11 valiant, flanked by Generals who apparently have hatched his latest plan for Iraq.
- Mike Lester, Rome News Tribune, W.M.D. Tires
Some cartoons mystify me with their stupidity, and this is one. There’s a near exquisite bankruptcy of imagination going on here: the cartoon is so bereft of logic as to almost approach camp.
- Stephen Rustad, Petaluma Argus-Courier, "Partisan Pyromania"
In the Bizarro-world of this cartoonist, Bush is a diligant and manly fireman putting out the fire in Iraq. And his plan would have worked too, had it not been for those meddling Democrats!
- John Hopkins, "Generally Speaking."
I’m pretty sure this cartoon was drawn by a three-year-old meth-addicted Sean Hannity addict.
- Scott Stantis, Birmingham News, "The Left’s Knee Jerk Dilemma"
The cartoonist’s dilemma: racist or sexist, racist or sexist, racist or sexist. . . .
- Milt Priggee, Botched Execution
And the weekly WTF award goes to Milt Priggree for his cartoon approval of hanging decapitations.
- Monte Wolverton, Cagle Cartoons, Inc., "Smelling Blood."
Happy Democrats love when troops die because they feast on blood.