Expert Advice

November

Putting aside the fact that Republicans were complicit in the demise of Detroit by protecting them from progressively higher MPG standards – The Big 3 being lectured by newly electorally challenged Republican leaders on the subject of responsibility for one’s actions, and building a product that people want is an interesting concept. Not that they aren’t 100% correct, mind you.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 at 8:48 am by Matt Davies.
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9 Responses to “Expert Advice”

Lalas November 19th, 2008 at 10:28 am
Funny (well… not really) but Sean InHannity keeps using the same talking points even though the election is over. Even if (big IF) the Party took the hint that their crap is stale, the friends of the Party (Faux News, Michael Savage [Weiner], Mann Coulter etc…) may well never get it. Then again, why would they choose to be unemployed?
Feo Amante November 19th, 2008 at 11:13 am
You forgot the “Evangelical” and “Creationism Is Science” buttons.
Matt Davies November 19th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Feo,
I ran out of room…So “Culture war” was sort of a parenthetical device to cover those and many others.
Purity November 19th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
And also…”Globalization”
It’s what happens when everybody in the world shares a marketplace.
They all catch a cold at the same time, but not before laughing at the stall selling the rubbish cars.

Also RIP “competition”...it’s what you tear up when it’s your stall.
MikeinAlbany November 19th, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Hey, Kettle! C’mover here—I want you to meet my friend, Pot. Pot, this is Kettle. You two have a lot in common.
havn't had my coffee yet November 20th, 2008 at 10:15 am
maybe it’s just me, but you all sound like your speaking a different language. I can tell by your big words that you are clearly all very smart. I just think that an elephant in a suit is funny!!
Matt Davies November 20th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Uncaffeinated guy,
Funny you mention it. The elephant in the suit is a source of rabid discussion among certain sectors of the political cartoon world. In this case, I chose to use it ironically (as the GOP talking about stale brands) in full consideration of the practitioners of self-described “alternative” cartooning, who consider the image of the elephant as GOP to be stale itself. Which is fair enough. But I am a practitioner of the “retro post-stale” era of political cartooning in which the ironic use of a stale image (y’know an elephant or, even more hilariously, a donkey) in a suit is both permissible and potentially humorous, so long as this is successfully offset by decent writing and that elusive creature, an original idea.
MikeinAlbany November 20th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
The metaphoric icons of the elephant and donkey originally came from political cartoons.
Matt Davies November 20th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
That’s correct, Mike. Thomas Nast (another “foreign born” cartoonist) is widely credited with adopting them as symbols for the Democrat and Republican parties over a hundred years ago. Hence the “stale” charge. I don’t really care how old they are though, I personally use the symbols only because the parties still use them, and they are fun to draw.

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