Political cartoonists: Obama ‘hard to find fault with’
After eight years of plenty under the Bush presidency, liberal cartoonists from major newspapers are finding President Barack Obama and his administration a less bountiful subject for mockery.
Obama cartoons: "Not as funny as the Bush ones."
“It’s like asking a Christian to mock Jesus or something,” said David Hinkley, syndicated cartoonist and Obama campaign contributor. “I mean, with Bush it was like, put big ears on him and a sort of monkey face and you were good to go. But President Obama? Well I mean - well, obviously few would do that with President Obama.”
While newspapers across the U.S. continue to lose advertisers, readership and talent pool, editors like Harold Matthews of the New York Journal said political satire has devolved from the cutting, mocking, relentless hilarity of the Bush years to “boring ass-kissing.”
“It sucks now,” Matthews said. “Everything just sucks. It’s all over.”
Assistant editor Doug Prince had to help his dazed boss stand and walk toward the break room.
“How hard is it to make him laugh!?” Prince screamed. “I mean, is there anything NOT funny about Timothy Geithner? C’mon people!” (see NOT FUNNY page 12)
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