My "Tribute" to Tony Auth

Tony Auth has been a political cartoonist for the Philly Inquirer for decades. Today they have two pages showing his work and an article praising him. Strangely, they didn't include this particular drawing that made it past the editors and into the paper one Sunday:

Auth is a hard-core liberal and always has been. We've had more than enough material to make fun of him and his work over the years and it will be sad to see him go. Now the Inquirer's lefty bias will not be as evident and who will they get to portray their veiled anti-Semitism like Auth did above?

Auth has used lies, outright lies, distortions and smears over the years too cement his liberal street cred.

It leaves me to wonder where will the Inquirer go to get another lowlife douchebag on the par of Auth? I'm guessing they could always put an ad in the Inquirer jobs section (about two pages long since Obama took office), but then, no reads the inky anymore.

So, as a blogger and one of the few who actually pays attention to the Op/Ed page of the Inquirer, let me be the first to say "don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out you liberal dick".

Reason #345,707 the Inquirer is Failing Miserably

It's a funny thing about liberals; they seem to think that the reason people don't like their opinions or ideology is simply because they don't know enough about it.If they disagree with a particular policy initiative, just explain it over and over again. If they still don't get it, they are ether too stupid to grasp it or are just loser right-wingers.

With that in mind, let's look at the Currents section of today's Inquirer. Everyone reads the Sunday paper and one would think they would have something in the opinion section for everyone. One would be wrong. Considering that the paper's owners have been in bankruptcy, they should have taken a different approach, one that has been shown to work with papers like the Wall Street Journal that always makes a profit.

Here's what we have today in the major Philly broadsheet:

-Uber-liberal and Obama sycophant Cynthia Tucker blaming Wall St. for everything without once mentioning Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or the Democrats policies that led to the failures.

-A piece on the power of Gaia and her will to do us harm with all the volcanoes and such. At least they didn't pull a CNN and blame earthquakes and volcanoes on global warming.
-Carlos Dews telling us that any policy disagreements we have with Obama are purely because he's black and we're racist. This was front page of the section with a nice drawing of a burning cross on the Whitehouse front lawn in case we were to ignorant to get the gist of his words.

-And finally, our old buddy, the vile Tony Auth. He drew this ridiculous cartoon that is wrong on every single level:

Get it? We're supposed to be bummed that things are looking better for the country and it will hurt us come November. The fact that the bailout loans were paid back with funds that were from the bailout pot seems to have escaped Mr. Auth. It was the equivalent of taking money out of one pocket and putting it into the other and saying you paid something off. Also, the only auto company in the US that is turning a profit is the one that didn't take a government handout.

Home sales did indeed increase by 27%. The truth is that there was only one way to go and that was up because we hit bottom. The percentage increase still leaves us far, far below the 2005 highs. Add to that the fact that the government is pumping money into the system just as they did with the Cash for Clunkers deal so the increase is not steady but is likely people trying to get some "free" money before the program ends. These are people who probably would have waited so expect next months numbers to go down.

As for the stock market, of course the market rebounded and it did so in site of Obama, not because of him. Lately, they got a return on the investment they made in him by getting a bill on the floor that effectively encourages them to take risks with our money because it effectively codifies Too Big to Fail. If they fail, Obama's slush fund will bail them out. AIG, GM and the others should been allowed to topple as the business world needs an ocassional enema. Obama allowed them to live on.

Funny that Auth did this cartoon when he never did one when libs were cheering every death in Iraq, every bad economic report and generally cheering anything bad for the country. Auth could have drawn the same thing with a donkey sitting in a chair and the up arrows labeled SURGE WORKS, HOUSING SALES AT HIGHEST LEVELS EVER, STOCKS HIT RECORD LEVELS & BUSH POLICIES SAVE MILLION OF AID-STRICKEN AFRICANS. But he's a liberal hack so he just invents good news now instead. I guess he couldn't find anything anti-Semitic or racist to draw today.

Specter-Bashing as National Sport

It's the new national sport: pick on the traitorous weasel:

First Chip Bok:

Tony Auth, he of the anti-Semitic cartoons is even getting in on the action.:

Libs Turning on Dodd

When the uber liberal and, at times, anti-Semitic Tony Auth turns on you, it's time to give it up, Senator Dodd:

Here's another example.

Helping Editorial Cartoonist's Find Something Funny About Obama

Consider it a public service and a help to my friends in the dead-tree, dying media who, gosh darnit, just can't find anything funny to draw about Obama.

Here's the gist:

After poking fun at George W. Bush for eight years — often drawing him with big ears and a severe overbite, or as a gung-ho Joe College type, or simply as a clueless doofus — political cartoonists are finding Barack Obama a more elusive target.

Bush's emotive facial expressions, easy-to-caricature physical features and, most of, all his deeply unpopular political decisions were fodder for liberal-leaning cartoonists. But the cool and detached Obama enters the White House at a time of considerable economic anxiety, bolstered by wishes of goodwill even from some political opponents.

"I had all my villains in place for eight years and they've been taken away," lamented Pulitzer Prize winner Pat Oliphant, one of the most widely syndicated cartoonists. "I don't know that I've ever had this experience before, of a president I maybe like. This is an antagonistic art. We're supposed to concentrate on finding things wrong. There's no point in drawing a cartoon that's favorable."

Oh Pat, don't kid yourself, you found Condi an easy target and didn't even give a damn you were being racist:

Now if Oliphant can conjure up that cartoon of an admirable former provost at Stanford who was the first African-American National Security Advisor and SecState, he sure as hell can come up with something about Obama.

Let's see what he can draw...how about we start with the dudes ears. He's got ears that would make Baby New Year laugh. Take a good look at these wind-catchers:


I mean come on, the guy can hear Nancy Pelosi's face cracking from Nepal with those otic receptacles.

Plus he smokes so that should make it easy. I imagine if Bush smoked, he'd have had a burner in every one of your smirking chimp cartoons.

Perhaps you can call Tony Auth, he can find a way to portray the Jews in a light that shows them as perpetrators of a new Holocaust, I'm sure he can give you some material to use drawing Obama, although he generally only deals in anti-Bush and anti-Semitic motifs. Plus, you can always go after Henry Waxman, if there's anybody who is right out of central casting for an editorial cartoonist, it's him:

So consider this a public service, Pat. You are part of a dying industry that just died a little more thanks to you.

An Auth Picture Says a Thousand False Words

Tony Auth must've gotten beat up by a few Republicans in his day because the dude has gotten to the point where it's not only acceptable for him to equate Jews and Nazi's, now he has to paint all Republicans as xenophobic zealots:

This is Auth's modus operandi, he draws a cartoon that gets his point across regardless of the fact that the truth is being knotted in a pretzel. He knows that the GOP is only against illegal immigration, not those people who follow the laws of the US and go through the arduous process to become citizens. He knows that Republicans are talking about our southern border and the influx of illegal aliens from Mexico and South America, not those who come into the country legally as they did when they passed through Ellis Island a century ago, but hey, why let facts stand in the way of an idea that came to him while holding his crayons? In the Auth paradigm, protecting our southern border means that we hate all immigrants because we're Republican's--we hate everyone including the homeless, gays, women, the poor and minorities. That's the simplified world that old Tony lives in.

As I alluded to before, he's got no trouble submitting drawings that have no basis in truth but go only for the shock factor. He's like Ted Rall with better sketching ability and a few more brain cells.

Liberals are such angry and bitter people. I always thought it was because they were completely out of power but they now hold the House and Senate for a year (however unproductive it has been) and remain the same pissed off with the world bastards they've always been.