Rick McKee/Augusta Chronicle (2013)by KenI suppose we really need to take note of the day. And I think these guys can help us remember. (All of these cartoons should all be click-enlargeable. I think I've got the attributions and dates more or less right; apologies for any errors. Note that some of the links aren't to actual sources, but merely to other bloggers who've appropriated the cartoons.)On his blog, Chan Lowe, creator of our final cartoon tonight, from September 1, 2009, has this to say about it:
We were deep into 2002, probably five or six months after 9/11, before my editor would even entertain the idea of my drawing a cartoon that did not portray George W. Bush in anything but a favorable light."We're not ready for that yet," I remember him saying. He was probably right, as far as the sentiments of our readers were concerned.The terror was still fresh, the country had rallied around its president, and unbeknownst to us, Dick Cheney was quietly machinating behind the scenes to exploit our national myopia and expand executive power to unheard-of levels.It was a failure on the part of the media as much as anyone else, but consumers of news weren't ready yet for hard-nosed reporting, or commenting for that matter, about our leaders.These are different times, and the man who used to condemn the Bush naysayers as unpatriotic didn't even wait for the inaugural platform to be disassembled before he began loudly trashing the new president. It's his right. Too bad he didn't see it that way when he was on the receiving end.As for setting himself up as the world's authority on keeping us safe, let's remember that clever locution Cheney and his supporters like to use to justify their excesses: "The terrorists haven't hit us again since 9/11."As I recall, Dick Cheney had been running this country for almost eight months when the terrorists did hit us on 9/11.
Tom Toles/Washington Post (2003)Bruce Plante/Tulsa World (2013)Adam Zyglis/Buffalo News (2006)Pat Bagley/Salt Lake Tribune (2006?)Nick Anderson/Houston Chronicle (2005)Chan Lowe/South Florida Sun-Sentinel (2009)#
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