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Wolverton, Monte."Super-Committee Failure" Cartoon. //Cagle Cartoons.//20 November 2011. //Daryle Cagle's Political Cartoons// .21 November 2011. <[]> Monte Wolverton, the cartoonist, in his cartoon "__Super-Committee Failure__" portrays the super committee as a plane crashing to the ground. Wolverton uses the words " time to eject" and "mayday!" to suggest that it is time for the super committee to end. His purpose is to show that the super committee has been a failure in order to inform the public that the countries debt problems have not been solved. His audience is the American public and he connects with his audience because debt is a major issue in America right now and people are mad that no one seems to be able to fix the problem. The super committee has not accomplished anything. Their purpose was to solve America's debt problem, yet nothing has been solved. The super committee has been paid to do absolutely nothing and it is very frustrating.
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Britt, Chris."Unemployment Line" Cartoon. //Creators Syndicate.// 26 November 2011. <[]> Chris Britt, cartoonist for the Creators Syndicate, in his cartoon " __Unemployment Line__" depicts long lines of unemployed Americans standing outside of the white house. Britt shows President Obama admiring what he thinks are his many supporters, but then his reality is crashed when Vice President Biden states that they are not his supporters, they are an unemployment line. His purpose is to show that the Obama administration has not helped the economy and has led to increased levels of unemployed Americans in order to support a new presidency in the next election. His audience is the American public whom have all been affected by the bad economy. I think the president has been weak concerning unemployment. President Obama did create some jobs, however the jobs that he created are only temporary such as construction. The quick fix jobs he put into place are just hurting the economy more because they don't make a profit, and they don't create long term jobs. The only thing it does is spend money that the government does not have and add to the debt crisis.
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Varvel, Gary. "Global Warming" Cartoon. //Frugal Cafe.// 28 November 2011. <[]> Gary Varvel, a political cartoonist, in his cartoon "__Global Warming"__ implies that the global warming issue has gone a little too extreme. Varvel depicts one of Santa's elves explaining to Santa that the reindeer are now required to wear carbon dioxide masks because the EPA is trying to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, which exaggerates the real life carbon dioxide restrictions that the EPA has been trying to pass. His purpose is to show how ridiculous the idea of global warming is in order to stop the spreading fear that people are killing the planet because they release too much carbon dioxide. His audience is the mainly the American public however, global warming is obviously a global wide topic, he relates to his audience by the humor brought through the idea of Santa's reindeer of causing global warming. I thought it was really funny, and did a great job of showing a new way to think about global warming. A lot of people are accusing humans of producing too much carbon dioxide and yet, it is a natural part of life and every animal produces it.
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Bennett,Clay. "Egypt Revolution" Cartoon. //Chattanooga Times Free Press.//2011. //Universal Press Syndicate.// 28 November 2011. <[]> Clay Bennett, cartoonist for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, in his cartoon "__Egypt Revolution__" shows the battling in Egypt over power and leadership. Bennett's cartoon illustrates that the pyramid cannot physically hold more than one top piece, and that the current top piece is being removed which symbolizes that Egypt can only have one type of ruling government, and that its current government is crumbling. His purpose is to show that Egypt's collapsing government has allowed different groups with different ideas to come fight in Egypt in order to transform Egypt's government into one that matches their own. His audience is the American public who are draw to the cartoon out of interest for Egypt's current turmoil. I wouldn't want to live in Egypt right now. It would be scary to be in the middle of all of that chaos and have an unstable government.
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<[]> Steve Breen, cartoonist for the San Diego Union Tribune, in his cartoon "__Wave of Illegals__" asserts that many illegal immigrants are leaving their home countries and coming to live in the U.S. To demonstrate this idea he drew a boat packed full of illegal immigrants rushing in from the sea. His purpose is to show that many illegal immigrants are entering the U.S. in order to make people see the importance of enforcing the current immigration laws. His audience is American public who are currently in a high unemployment time therefore relate to the cartoon because they need the jobs that are being taken by the illegal immigrants. There is nothing wrong with coming to America. America is a wonderful place to live. However if you come here you need to do it legally. I understand that it is hard to immigrate here and can take years to be able to come legally, but that is no excuse to come here illegally.
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 * CITATION:** Breen, Steve. " Wave of Illegals" Cartoon. //San Diego Union Tribune .//2011. //Creators Syndicate.// Immigration Cartoons. 28 November 2011.
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 Steve Sack, cartoonist for the Star Tribune, in his cartoon " __Russian Vote Fraud__ " conveys that Vladimir Putin, the previous President of Russia and current Prime Minister of Russia, helped rig the recent parliamentary election. Sack uses irony when he depicts a room full of stuffed animals hanging on the wall along side a box of votes that Putin "stuffed himself". His purpose is to mock Putin in order to show the corruptness of the recent Russian parliamentary election that has caused protests all through Russia. His audience is the Russian public who will be affected by the leaders of their country as well as the American public because America's President Obama has stepped in and agreed with the current Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that the electoral votes will be investigated. Politics is very messy. It amazing me what people are willing to do for power. I wonder what will happen if they do find that the votes were fraud.
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 * CITATION:**Sack,Steve."Russian Vote Fraud"Cartoon. //Star Tribune//.2011. C//reators Syndicate//. Political Cartoons of the Week. 13 December 2011.
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 Rick McKee, cartoonist for the Augusta Chronicles, in his cartoon "__The Dinner Menu is Tough Times__" shuns the federal government for abusing their power instead of doing what is best for the country. McKee shows the bare diets that represent the struggles many Americans are facing during this hard economic time, and then contrasts it with a feast representing the federal governments lack of suffering even though the bad economy. His purpose is to show how riduculous it is that the federal government is enjoying luxuryies that the common people do not have in order to inform the public that they are not being treated fairly. He gains his American audience's attention by making them feel like they are being abused which leads them to want to change so that they get better treatment. I find it ironic that the federal government salary comes from the hardworking American's tax money, yet they feel that they are superior and deserve special treatment. When in reality they wouldn't have any money if it wasn't for the people that they see as their inferiors.
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 * CITATION:** McKee, Rick. "The Dinner Menu in Tough Times"Cartoon. //Augusta Chronicles//. 2011//. Cagle Cartoons.//Conservative Political Cartoons. 13 December 2011.
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 Lisa Benson, a cartoonist for the Washington Post Writers Group, in her cartoon "__Cain's Rocky Road__" asserts that Herman Cain has struggled in his attempt to win in the 2012 republican primary race. Benson uses a pun with the words rocky road, with one meaning of the word being a type of ice cream and the other being a difficult struggle to create humor about Herman Cain's political campain. Her purpose is to enhance Herman Cain's weaknesses in order to discourage republicans from voting for him in the primary election. While her cartoon can be humorous to many Americans, her main audience is the republicans who are researching the current candidates and who will be voting in the 2012 republican primary election. I thought it was a clever pun. Considering Herman Cain has officially dropped out the race, I guess the campain road was to "rocky" for him.
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 * CITATION:** Benson, Lisa. "Cain's Rocky Road" Cartoon. //Washington Post Writers Group.// 2 November 2011 Right Wing Humor.13 December 2011.
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 Steve Breen, a cartoonist for the San Diego Union Tribune, shows how America's search for different energy sources besides oil and coal has led to a lot of wasteful spending. He shows one child with a traditional lemonade stand, and another child selling solar pannels, the one boy is selling lemonade for 25 cents and the other sells his solar pannels for 30 million dollars even though he didn't know how to make them which is used to represent the wastful spening that has been put into solar and other energy sources. His purpose is to show that the governments current spending on energy research is not efficient in order to persuade the audiece that the money should be spent differently and that the government's energy department needs to be reformed. His audience is the American public who are currently appauled at the governments deficit and are mad about the wasteful ways federal money is being spent. I think it is good to look for newer and cleaner energy resources, but not if it' s is adding to the debt. I think private corporations should pay for that kind of research not the federal government.
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 * CITATION:** Breen, Steve. "Energy" Cartoon. //San Diego Union Tribune//. 30 October 2011. //Creators Syndicate//. Energy Policy Cartoons. 13 December 2011.
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<[]> Adam Zyglis, a cartoonist for The Buffalo News, in his cartoon "__Obama the Page Turner"__ infers that America's troubles in the Mid-East are not over yet. Zyglis draws President Obama tuing a page labled Iraq only to see that the next page says Afghanistan symbolizing the never ending stuggle America has been facing in the Mid-East. His purpose is to inform the viewer that America is pulling out of Iraq, but is entering into Afghanistan in order to show that the conflicts in the Mid-East are not going away anytime soon. His audience is the American public who have family and frieds currently serving as soldiers in the Middle East, however this does not just affect American soldiers, but also the people living in the Middle East. War is a scary thing. No one wants to send soldiers off to war, but sometimes it's necesary. Without the sacrafices made by soldiers all throughout history the world would not be what it is today and we may not have been able to enjoy the freedoms that we just take for granted today.
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 * CITATION:** Zyglis, Adam. "Obama the Page Turner"Cartoon. //The Buffalo News//.2011.//Cagle Cartoons.// 13 December 2011
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