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Best of Bokbluster 2015
Here are 21 cartoons I kinda liked from Bokbluster 2015.
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Bill’s Speech Making
If this seems like a variation on a theme, it is.
Hillary is running as a feminist. Katherine Timpf calls her a fake feminist. Hillary says women who accuse men of rape should be believed. Timpf points out that Hillary intimidated women who accused Bill of sexual assault.
When a reporter asked her if Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, and Juanita Broaddrick should be believed, Hillary responded that women should be believed until the evidence shows otherwise. According to Catherine Timpf “absolutely no evidence” has turned up to show otherwise. In fact Bill settled a suit by Paula Jones.
So, it seems like a good time to change the subject.
Bills Speech Making
Bill is good with money. In fact he’s so good The Wall Journal says, “two dozen companies and groups and one foreign government paid former President Bill Clinton a total of more than $8 million to give speeches around the time they also had matters before Mrs. Clinton’s State Department”
As Hillary would say, no evidence emerged showing a link between Bill’s speech making and her job overseeing the State Department.
He just gives a hell of a speech.
Checks and Balances
Looks like he latest version of federal checks and balances includes the executive branch spying on the legislative branch.
The Wall Street Journal ran a story last week about the US spying on our allies. The main ally in question was Israel as Benjamin Netanyahu prepared to make a speech before a joint session of Congress criticizing the Iran deal. The kicker was that in the process of spying on Bibi the NSA listened in on confidential conversations between him and members of the US Congress.
It seemed a little surprising that Obama cares what the legislative branch has to say, considering his habit of going around it and ruling by executive order.
Happy New Year
Happy New Year.
The Navy says Iran fired rockets within 1500 yards of US ship in the Persian Gulf. Iran says the US is lying.
Campaign Families
Politicians love to drag their families into campaign ads. They also love to complain if anyone comments on the wife and kids. Ted Cruz did it last week.
This campaign ad showed the cute Cruz kids sarcastically reading about the Grinch who stole Hillary’s emails.
A candidate’s kids can be used against his/her enemies but not the other way around. It can be aggravating but the general rule is lay to off the kids.
The aggravation was too much for Ann Telnase so she blasted Cruz with this cartoon depicting him as an organ grinder with his daughters as monkeys. Cruz went ballistic. Ann’s editor, Fred Hyat, pulled the cartoon from the Washington Post’s website.
Enter Hillary, complaining that Donald Trump is sexist while announcing that she is launching husband Bill into the campaign to take him on.
By the way, a 1983 cartoon, portraying Jerry Falwells’s mother in a somewhat worse light than organ grinder monkey, became a Supreme Court precedent for press freedom.
