Since 1983, Bob Gorrell has been an editorial cartoonist in Richmond, Va. first with the Richmond News Leader and then, starting in 1992, with the Richmond Times-Dispatch. On January 1, 1998, he resigned from the Times-Dispatch to concentrate on syndicated editorial cartoons and comic panel features for Creators Syndicate.
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dtroutma
said, 5 months ago
Hmm, and Rupert just sold the NYSE, it hardly got a mention.
sw10mm said, 5 months ago
Ahh, al the hypocrite. Thanks for staying true to your roots.
What-D-Hey said, 5 months ago
@dtroutma
Don’t understand your reference. I just searched for Rupert and NYSE and got no relevant hits. Can you elaborate?
dtroutma
said, 5 months ago
Wall Street Journal,, NYSE, are llnked. Last week they announced NYSE had been sold, but didn’t mention who SOLD it, just who bought it. I didn’t realize it COULD be bought and sold until Murdoch bought it.
TJDestry
said, 5 months ago
Whoops. Now conservatives are AGAINST the free market.
Gosh, it’s so hard to keep up!
Tigger
said, 5 months ago
@dtroutma
Where is a link backing up your claim?
Odd how you ask us for links, yet you fail to provide links to back your claims.
DrCanuck said, 5 months ago
@TJDestry
It’s a requirement for conservatives to make vast profits in the free market but a sin if a liberal does. (Goes against the conservative mantra that if one is liberal, one must be a free-loader.)
coraryan
said, 5 months ago
So Gore the Bore has beliefs in common with Al-Jazzera! How interesting. And he’s going to be on the board. What a good thing he did not become President. We would have been Muslim long ago, instead of recently!
dtroutma
said, 5 months ago
Tigger: CBS, ABC, NBC, even Fox, WSJ, NYTimes, Washington Post, LA Times, or lots of other “financial” sections of those things called “newspapers” and “media”, ARE sources other than giving “links”, which I hate seeing, or doing,especially when so many cited are “frauds” and totally biased on these pages.
Libertarian1 said, 5 months ago
Rupert Murdoch had absolutely nothing, nada, zero to do with the NYSE. He never owned any part of it and obviously had nothing to do with selling it. One poster makes up things and thinks if he says them that makes it true.
The Gore reference was multi-purposeful. First as a “green” you shouldn’t encourage more dirty gas/oil usage and secondly he sold just before January 1, so he could pay at a lower tax rate. Both excellent business decisions but totally hypocritical. He should want to pay more taxes.
What-D-Hey said, 5 months ago
@DrCanuck
I think your comment is a tad off base. The toon is not about the butt load of money – it is about the facts that 1) Al Jazeera is owned by Qatar which is a dictatorship and is widely perceived to be of an anti-American bent, and 2) Qatar is one of the larger OIL producers – which should be the bane of fat boy’s existence.
DrCanuck said, 5 months ago
@What-D-Hey
^ Interesting comment. Perhaps you could explain to me how al Jazeera buying a newspaper will result in Qatar producing more oil. I fail to see the connection.
Second, “widely perceived” by whom? I find them quite fair and balanced. Could you give me some examples of their bias? Perhaps them showing the pictures of innocent women and children blow to bits by American bombs is anti-American, but most of the world sees it as reporting what actually happened, knowledge most Americans are deprived of.
What-D-Hey said, 5 months ago
@DrCanuck
You continue to interpret things which were not said/written. I made NO correlation between “buying a newspaper” and producing oil. I said Qatar was a DICTATORSHIP – and as you are well aware, those type of governments tend to slant their “news” in specific directions and may omit important details or fail to report relevant stories completely. Also, Al Jazeera is not just a newspaper – it is an entire news organization whose online presence is well known. I went to the Al Jazeera site and found it to be quite impressive and is certainly as fair and balanced as Fox. But what concerns people is that it can easily change because it is run by that Qatar government which is a dictatorship. You can easily find articles and sources citing that network as anti-American. I found them on the first page of a simple google search.
With regard to Qatar being a producer of oil, the argument is that Gore is profiting handsomely from the very substance which he has so demonized. People find the hypocrisy of that rather disturbing.
Corosive Frog
said, 5 months ago
A foreign broadcaster is allowed in the US, Get the holy water!
Net everyone in the World think like republicans. Live with it.
DrCanuck said, 5 months ago
@What-D-Hey
Roger said, " I made NO correlation between “buying a newspaper” and producing oil."
Hold the phone here. One of the reasons you gave for why it was a bad thing for Gore to sell to al Jazeera was because Qatar was a large oil producer. YOU linked the two. So if that was not your intention, then YOU tell ME why you listed it as a reason.