Here’s a photo that our local hard-right blogger Russ Steele has posted on his blog. (Russ also is a former county transportation commissioner, ERC board member and currently, a consultant for the Gold Country Broadband Consortium, administered by the Sierra Economic Development Consortium.).
There is no credit given for the photo-shopped illustration on Russ’ blog, but I found it on a website called IHateMedia.com. This comes as another hard-right blogger and CABPRO founder Todd Juvinall asked “are the local left purple people funded by George Soros?”
Is this constructive political dialogue? Does our county’s Republican Central Committee think this is funny?
My “significant other” is a registered GOPer. I voted for some registered GOPers in this recent election. But I don’t find this funny.
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So, vote for Democrats in the next election.
LOL!
Talk about lamestream! Looks like an student exercise in Photoshop.
I’m glad to see that Barry Pruett is seeking an end to political vitriol:
http://barrypruett.blogspot.com/2012/06/vitriol-in-public-debate.html
Hey, Nate Beason, Doug LaMalfa, and Tom Anderson, you’ve got to start somewhere!
I bet Nate Beason and Doug LaMalfa will not be posting on Barry Pruett’s blog in response considering all the bad mouthing, vitriol Barry sent their way prior to election day… where they both won by a LOT.
I wonder which winning Republican primary election candidate took Mr. Pruett to the woodshed and taught him some temporary manners?
Hopefully all of them. This guy has screwed up local GOP politics for years. The D’s are raising money off of him.
Obama supporters find no humor in the cartoon because it ridicules the prez for his latest mistatement on the economy, where he’s done such a wonderful job. If James Carville’s dictum (“It’s the economy, stupid”) holds true in November, there won’t be much purple in DC come January.
Let’s not forget the role of Congress in reviving the economy — or not. Where’s that mortgage relief legislation, for example? Or how the cartoon personally ridicules the President, not just his ideas. Did small business owners blame Bush for their failures? Seems there’s more at play here than the actions of a President. Very simplistic.
Yeah….well I don’t find this photo all that offensive. This is the world we live in today, anyone with photoshop can make a statement. Eventually this access to new tools and increased interest in freedom of speech can only benefit democracy and our repubic.
But, of course, I don’t agree with the photo, or many of the comments here. President Obama inherited an economy in worse shape than at any time since 1933. Economic historians will look back on this time as equally as disruptive as the Depression, and it is going to take a long time to dig out. And the policies of both Republicans and Democrats are responsible for the situation–but the lions hare of the problem can be laid squarely at the Republicans feet.
I’ll be 65 soon and thinking back, my generation’s comedians–since Lenny Bruce–Carlin, Pryor, Maher, SNL alumni, etc., seem to be overwhelmingly non-rightwingish. Perhaps they are just able to see the absurdities present in everday life that the right are so hell bent on wanting to CONSERVE. I look at the cartoon and just say to myself, “Huh?”