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| How to Draw John Kerry - As Instructed By Teresa Heinz Kerry | ||
| 2003-06-27 | ||
| Post-Gazette cartoonist Rob Rogers invited Teresa Heinz — wife of a Democratic presidential hopeful, Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry — to speak to the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists here last week. Heinz instructed the 150 cartoonists from around the country on how not to draw Kerry in the coming months, using an overhead projector to display cartoons she already disliked: "My husband should not be confused with Punxsutawney Phil. He isn't a basset hound. Please resist the impulse to use Heinz products when drawing my husband & " Concentrate, she said, only on "his noble chin, focused gaze and & smile. In other words, draw him like this." Up on screen flashed a cartoon of John F. Kennedy. More on the cartoonists convention: "Whoever the government is, we should never agree with them," syndicated columnist Ted Rall told his colleagues.
(I guess I shouldn't be surprised. At this point we should all say together "What liberal media bias?") likely did nothing to change Kelley's impression. "Looking at the faces here, I have to applaud you for not letting this affirmative-action nonsense" affect the profession, Franken told the group. He cruised through his take on recent history ("The hijackers of 9/11 ruined it for the normal hijackers. Normal hijackers watched that and went, 'Ah, shit.'"), then he launched into the Bush administration and right-wing media in preview of his fall book, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right. He decried conservative television commentators stringing news clips together selectively against the Democrats: "Why is that different than Jayson Blair? Can you explain it to me?" Should the country's terrorism alert level ever rise to red, Franken said, the only sacrifice we can expect George W. Bush to ask of us is "to shop online." | ||
| Posted by:ColoradoConservative |