Comedy This Morning: The Sotomayor hearings -- "And they say Al Franken is the comedian in the Senate" (Matt Davies)

Absurdist Theater*


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*You'll recall that Matt Davies posts his cartoons on his Lower Hudson Valley Journal News blog with some bit of background commentary on the creation of each. Here's what he has to say about this offering:

"A bunch of powerful white males lecturing a Hispanic female judge on racial sensitivity is rich. And they say Al Franken is the comedian in the Senate."


JUST ONE QUESTION ABOUT THE GOP
SENATORS' DISGRACEFUL PERFORMANCE

As I've already noted, "It's always possible that Judge Sotomayor's opponents will tell the truth about something (anything), but don't hold your breath." So far, I'll stand by that. Still, I can't help wondering, is there any reason why the earth doesn't simply open up and swallow these blobs of protoplasmic filth?

Okay, maybe one more question, about professional racist Jeff Sessions. Given that every word that comes out of his mouth is an out-and-out lie, how is that his toxic carcass isn't simply dragged out of the hearing room and deposited in Liars' Prison? At the very least, shouldn't he be sent to sit in the corner with the biggest dunce cap that can be found?


UPDATE: THE CARTOONISTS HAVE HAD THEIR SAY,
SO BRING ON THE COMICS. ENTER ANDY BOROWITZ!

Noah passes on this gem from Huffington Post today:

Andy Borowitz
BorowitzReport.com
Posted: July 15, 2009 10:37 AM

CNN Urges Senators to Ask Sotomayor
More Questions About Michael Jackson

CNN criticized the conduct of the Senate Judiciary Committee today, arguing that the senators were spending too much time probing Supreme Court nominee Sonya Sotomayor about her legal philosophy instead of asking her questions about Michael Jackson.

"Our viewers want to know who's going to have custody of Blanket and the other Jackson children, and none of that is being addressed in these hearings," said CNN's Larry King. "Frankly, our viewers are watching these proceedings in disbelief."

On his "Situation Room" program yesterday, Wolf Blitzer echoed those sentiments, adding, "It's hard to believe that Sonya Sotomayor has been grilled for two days straight and the subject of Debbie Rowe hasn't come up once."

CNN is also demanding that there be additional autopsies of Michael Jackson and additional funerals, if possible. More here.

Andy Borowitz is a comedian and the author of Who Moved My Soap?: The CEO's Guide to Surviving Prison: The Bernie Madoff Edition.

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Comedy Tonight: A depression cartoonucopia

Hurry Up And Wait

"Nothing wrong with a little free market incentive to deny people health care in exchange for profit…"

The Middleman

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by Ken

Or as Howard Dean put it talking to Keith Olbermann on Countdown Monday night, "This is a battle between the insurance companies and the American people."

Note that the Lower Hudson Valley's Journal News has its London-born editorial cartoonist, Matt Davies, post his cartoons (which you'll note are somewhat unusual in having titles) on a blog on its website with a brief explanatory note about each! Obviously an editorial cartoon doesn't need explanation or amplification, or it's one suckitacious cartoon. Still, it's neat to have a tiny extra glimpse into the artist's thought process.

Yesterday I added this cartoon of Matt's --

Above And, Um, Beyond

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to Howie's post about the political decline of America's Princess. Matt's blog note for this cartoon was:

Sheesh. Every so often, a situation arises wherein the cartoonist wonders how you draw a cartoon about something already so ludicrously cartoonish? Sarah Palin became famous for, among other things, shooting at stuff that didn’t stand a chance -- from helicopters, so here you go…

His note for the cartoon "The Middleman" above:

"Nothing wrong with a little free market incentive to deny people health care in exchange for profit…"

This one's for you, Dr. Dean! Note that I am standing by the position I announced last night:

From now on, no one should be allowed to participate in any way in the drafting of health care legislation without proving that they've read Dr. Dean's book, Howard Dean's Prescription for REAL Healthcare Reform. Proof that they've understood it would be nice too, but that may be beyond the reach of proof.


DWT SCHEDULE NOTE

We have a proper post coming up at the next regular posting time, 10am PT/1pm ET [oops, these are the correct times; it kind of defeated the purpose of giving them to give them wrong] -- yes, Howie has more to say about health care reform denier Sen. Blanche Lincoln!

Note that on the subject of health care reform I got some stuff off my chest last night (including the above quote from Howard Dean on Countdown), and later Howie added an 11pm PT post (well, remember, halfway around the world it was already today yesterday) on the Indonesian election.

By the way, now that you know Howie's traveling, don't forget to check for entries on his Around the World blog. [Note: The link should be good now. Just goes to show that a person really ought to be asleep in bed at the hour when the original version of this post was done.]

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