I hate it when I suck at being a moderator
My deepest apologies to Newswire/2MinHate readers
What do you think of the Onion's editorial cartoons?
Yeah, one of the things I'm supposed to do is moderate the comments. And these have been sitting for days. Mea maxima culpa.
Look below the fold ----> for the comments as they arrive!
Posted by: laura | November 18, 2006 01:33 PM
Huh. The Onion's editorial cartoon is actually one of my favorite bits in the paper. I always thought they were satirizing conservative editorial cartoonists like Chuck Asay from the Colorado Springs Gazette [representative sample link below, link to gallery at Slate-- bewarned! his work is stomach-turningly conservative -- and sincere].
Inasmuch as The Onion has been on course this year to make itself look more like a real newspaper [online readers miss out on the (kick-ass) event listings, cartoon page, classifieds and sudoku!], the addition of an editoral cartoon isn't out of line, and what other take could they have on it than to come up with an outrageously offensive bit every week? Maybe it was a little more obvious to me because i live in a city where i read The Onion in paper form, but I think their editorial cartoon is just an outsized conservative view, in keeping with other The Onion headlines "Bush Urges Expanded Drilling Of Alaskan Wildlife" or "I Should Not Be Allowed To Say The Following Things About America"
http://images.ucomics.com/comics/crcas/2006/crcas061113.gif
http://cartoonbox.slate.com/chuckasay/
Posted by: travis | November 19, 2006 01:16 PM
interesting point, travis, but i'm going to have to say you're hella wrong. the difference between the conservative things that make it into the headlines on the front page and this comic is that the headlines are funny. to each his own, i know, but based on many conversations i've had about this topic (total radness to you, poormojo, for making me and my friends feel like allstars when we saw you were also debating this), i think you may be in the minority (which is not neccessarily a bad thing, but i would caution you against this status as you may soon end up the butt of an unfunny joke in a usually great paper). i've tried to look at it from a sarcastic point of view, and i am hard pressed to see how these cartoons can function as such. i also am able to read the onion in print form (because milwaukee is awe-some!), and i can not, no matter how hard i try, find the humor in this offensive dither. and i guess that's the part that hurts the most - offensive material can be used to make a person think, and it can be hilariously on point. this, on the other hand, is just painful. i think it's serious, and that makes me sad.
Posted by: Susie | November 22, 2006 12:34 AM