Would it be the latest Obama Nation comic by James Hudnall and Batton Lash:
Or this painting of Batman stabbing a shark with a lightsaber:
The fact that this is even arguable speaks volumes about the current state of political discourse on the right today.
They're both bad art, but the second one is intentionally funny.
Posted by: Ahistoricality | Sunday, 14 March 2010 at 04:14 PM
I don't even understand the first one, though. I mean, what does that even mean? Are the doctors behind him threatening him because he's insane? Presumably not, since they're his political props. Are they threatening him because he's saying too much? Maybe, but that would mean he's working for them, not the other way around, and since now of them is George Soros, etc. etc. etc. I can't parse it.
Posted by: SEK | Sunday, 14 March 2010 at 04:20 PM
I think you were right the first time: though they may have started as political props, they've realized that Obama's irrational and dangerous and are taking necessary action. Or, it's possible -- if we're assuming the best of the cartoonists (it took two people to do that?) -- that the first image is part of his delusional belief that the doctors are there to support him, when they're really coming to take him away, ha ha.
Posted by: Ahistoricality | Sunday, 14 March 2010 at 04:37 PM
FYI: Hudnall's over at LGM informing me that I'll "get it" when I "grow up." Presumably, its meaning is transparent and we're just dolts.
Posted by: SEK | Sunday, 14 March 2010 at 04:49 PM
That cartoon is stoking fear about giving control over to the self-proclaimed smartest guys in the room. In the first panel Obama the technocrat is bragging about the plan he is going to implement. In the second panel, the plan has allowed nefarious doctors have to take control. Obama the technocrat, already suffering but failing to understand why, is undeterred and begins articulating another foolish technocratic solution to a non-problem.
Posted by: dr | Monday, 15 March 2010 at 05:58 AM
Why did they draw Dubya's ears on him though? Is this a subliminal message?
Posted by: era | Monday, 15 March 2010 at 08:17 AM
Well, they're assumed to be his political props in the first panel, but in the second they're really "the men in white coats" coming to put him away because he's talking crazy.
By the way, when was the golden age of political discourse?
Posted by: Fritz | Monday, 15 March 2010 at 05:52 PM
Fritz: The time period that ends with the emergence of language.
Posted by: J.S. Nelson | Monday, 15 March 2010 at 07:00 PM
Everyone else here probably knows this already, but I just discovered that the second image is a takeoff on an existing image -- the version I encountered in Batman RIP is clearly a memory from before, so it may have had several incarnations before this one -- though the shark anatomy isn't quite so bad.
Posted by: Ahistoricality | Monday, 15 March 2010 at 08:21 PM
J.S. Nelson,
Trick question. We're living in it right now.
Posted by: Fritz | Monday, 15 March 2010 at 09:26 PM
You have to remember that it's James Hudnall who wrote the first cartoon [1] and political or not, he has always been a godawful writer and a Dunner-Kruger effect sufferer, in that he thinks he's much smarter than he really is. Telling you to grow up is entirely in character.
[1] though it saddens me to see Batton Lash involved; he used to be better than this.
Posted by: Martin Wisse | Tuesday, 16 March 2010 at 05:29 AM
actually its DunnING-Kruger effect not Dunner.
Posted by: Anon. | Thursday, 15 July 2010 at 04:53 PM
The second one is the one that doesn't make sense. The shark is missing his pectoral fin.
Posted by: Bob Jones | Friday, 29 April 2011 at 03:21 PM