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by IMGoph on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 04:53:37 AM PDT
... want to tweak the headline -- to make clear the Post got slammed by its own cartoonist. That's a pretty stunning turn of events.
by Greg Greene on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 05:05:46 AM PDT
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thanks for the tip
by IMGoph on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:13:29 AM PDT
Felt really nice to add "recommended" to the tag.
Rabindranath Tagore-"Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it."
by joy sinha on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:23:02 AM PDT
i feel like i should have come up with something more substantial here, but i think the cartoon pretty much speaks for itself
by IMGoph on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:37:15 AM PDT
Toles knows that he isn't writing for Drudge. When will the WaPo editors.
Single payer universal healthcare coverage saves money and saves lives.
by freelunch on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 07:45:04 AM PDT
How do you know a Republican is lying? Ask one: If the Republicans can lower gas prices for 60 days before an election, why won't they do it all the time?
by ca democrat on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 08:03:19 AM PDT
Toles might as well be working for Drudge. This bullshit is Drudge 101. On the FRONT PAGE! Of the Washington Post! Mindblowingly horrible journalism. From now on, I consider the Washington Post to be worthless trash on the same level as Drudge.
miasmo.com If you're not a liberal, you're a dick.
by miasmo on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 08:06:34 AM PDT
toles is working for drudge???? don't you mean bacon? toles is the good guy here!
by IMGoph on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 08:54:27 AM PDT
to equate the WaPo with Drudge, not Toles himself.
-6.38/-6.26 Bush is studiously anti-science, a man of applied ignorance who has undernourished his mind with the empty calories of comfy dogma. - Richard Cohen
by mofus on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:33:51 AM PDT
Thank you.
Toles is great.
by miasmo on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 01:28:22 PM PDT
...but i just wanted to be sure ;)
by IMGoph on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:29:58 PM PDT
He's usually the first thing I look at; one of the reasons we still subscribe. His ability to get to the heart of every issue is amazing.
I remember when WaPo was looking to replace the late, great Herblock I thought they couldn't do better than bring Tom Toles down from Buffalo.
Can't imagine current bosses would hire him today.
McCain not Principled, just Wrong!
by VA Gal on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 02:51:06 PM PDT
I remember when WaPo was looking to replace the late, great Herblock I thought they couldn't do better than bring Tom Toles down from Buffalo. Herblock nailed Nixon perfectly (as did Pat Oliphant) but I think that even if he were alive and working, Herblock's sensibilities would have been unequal to the massive complexities and absurdities of life in the early 21st century with Dim Son in the White House.
Toles, by contrast, is entirely up to the job, and demonstrates it with almost every panel he draws. I can recall a few Toles clinkers, but most of them are dead on target. Usually on Dim Son. Who probably would not get most of the in-jokes.
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by marquer on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 03:45:23 PM PDT
Rupert Murdoch's media outlets
(refering of course to FOX news being constantly slammed by their organization's cartoonists)
by Roadbed Guy on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 07:30:11 AM PDT
Toles is awesome
Keep Netroots Nation Weird
by Nolan on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:40:53 AM PDT
dolphin777
by dolphin777 on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 06:54:54 AM PDT
"red hair and black leather, my favorite colour scheme" - Richard Thompson
by blindcynic on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:54:54 AM PDT
If I were a rival cartoonist, I'd be scared to read him every day.
If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for [its] survival, he's an imbecile.~ Umberto Eco
by Major Danby on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:57:37 AM PDT
IMHO.
"You can count on Americans to do the right thing after they've tried everything else." -- Winston Churchill
by bleeding heart on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 10:12:29 AM PDT
He is the best. And he's been creating brilliant cartoons for a long time. I remember buying one of his collections done around the time of Reagan.
I don't know anyone else who can create such superb work, on such depressing subjects. And leave me actually feeling better.
I am become Man, the destroyer of worlds
by tle on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 10:40:57 AM PDT
the advantages of waking up way too early.
by IMGoph on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 12:40:14 PM PDT
of Post's front page, irresponsible and shoddy journalism story. Does anyone know anything about this Bacon dude? What's his story, I wonder?
by dotster on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 07:51:27 AM PDT
or the so called "cleavage." That would have been real courageous.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities-Voltaire
by hairspray on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 08:06:24 AM PDT
the candidate you support? That's just silly. He might not have been able to find a satiric way to make fun of the situation. He is an artist, not a political shill for your candidate, or my candidate or anyone's candidate.
Your comment is as silly as if I said, "Pity that Toles didn't do one on "The Breck Girl" or "$400 haircut." " He didn't do those cartoons, I live with it.
by CeeusBeeus on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 10:33:52 AM PDT
by hairspray on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 10:43:36 AM PDT
I see another idea for a cartoon. I'm sure someone has done one to address the cleavage issue, the cackle, the haircut issue, all of them have probably been drawn by someone if not Toles. If that's silly, then there are people making a living being silly. Imagine that.
by marina on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 11:30:50 AM PDT
You know, most people's candidate preference doesn't guide absolutely everything they say or do.
"...and it's here the lonely say that the heart has got to open in a fundamental way." --Leonard Cohen, "Democracy"
by maralenenok on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 01:13:40 PM PDT
...is harsh, rare, and pretty much all you need to know about the quality of Perry Bacon's story. Perhaps we should email the Post's editors and ask them why Tom Toles, one of their own employees, felt the need to use the Post's pages to say that Perry Bacon, another of their employees, writes lies. Ask the editors if they believe Perry Bacon is a liar, and if not, why Toles was allowed to print that cartoon.
If they respond by saying "it's a difference in opinion," ask what Perry Bacon's fiction-based opinions are doing outside of the Op-Ed page.
To send a letter to the Editor by e-mail, please send to letters@washpost.com. Do not send attachments; they will not be read. If you prefer to send your letter by surface mail, please send to the following address:
Letters to the Editor The Washington Post 1150 15th Street, NW Washington, DC 20071
Ombudsman Deborah Howell can be reached at 202-334-7582 or at ombudsman@washpost.com.
by Nuisance Industry on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 08:33:14 AM PDT
directly yesterday after reading the FrontPage story yesterday. This story simply does not qualify as journalism. Greg Seargent said it best that if the intent was to debunk the rumors then Mr. Bacon should have said that these rumors were false directly.
by smartdemmg on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:32:49 AM PDT
ombudsman, to Bacon himself as well as commented on the article page itself.
I have been watching this paper go down the tubes....and it is not a pretty sight.
I asked them if their goal is to compete with the money losing Washington Times, for they are well on their way to accomplish that feat.
01-20-09: THE END OF AN ERROR
by kimoconnor on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 10:24:34 AM PDT
Since you have the stomach to read the Washington Post, IMGoph, would you do another diary to tell us the pleasant surprise if their ombudsman does indeed reprimand the paper for printing that story? Otherwise, I'd bet most of the 80-90% who don't expect a peep from him/her/it wouldn't know we should be pleasantly surprised.
We're all pretty strange one way or another; some of us just hide it better. "Normal" is a dryer setting.
by david78209 on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:10:28 AM PDT
the ombudsman (deborah howell) column usually comes out saturday evening, so i should be able to report on things by then.
by IMGoph on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:14:17 AM PDT
political cartoon I read in a magazine at the dentist's office back when Clinton I was trying to get elected. It read:
DAIRY FARMERS ENRAGED Exclusive Interview with Clinton's elementary school teacher reveals: "He once didn't finish drinking his milk".
Thou shalt not kill except for a long list of good reasons is like saying you should not covet your neighbor's wife unless she's hot.
by FudgeFighter on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 09:13:32 AM PDT
that would just encourage the rumors.
Mojito ergo sum.
by Uniter on Fri Nov 30, 2007 at 04:36:45 PM PDT
wide narrow
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