"Chip" Bok has been the staff editorial cartoonist for the Akron Beacon Journal since 1987. Through Creators Syndicate, his cartoons appear in over 100 publications, including the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Time, and Newsweek. He is also a regular contributing cartoonist for Reason magazine and serves as a member of the steering committee for The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press in Arlington, Virginia.
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onguard said, 6 months ago
It’s the Chicago way.
DrCanuck said, 6 months ago
What a GREAT conspiracy theory. Let’s repeat it endlessly. Maybe we can make THIS one stick.
dtroutma
said, 6 months ago
The stupidity of the right is like feral horses on the range, unbridled.
Radish
said, 6 months ago
Its the Fox way to keep flogging a dead horse.
onguard said, 6 months ago
Dem Libs are getting nervous……….No one died in Watergate.
Radish
said, 6 months ago
@onguard
Nervous over what? The election was won.
onguard said, 6 months ago
@Radish
Not surprising, You’re not paying attention…..You just keep spouting the Line…..spouting the line….spouting the line.
Radish
said, 6 months ago
@onguard
You’re not worth responding to.
MortyForTyrant said, 6 months ago
@onguard
No one died except the trust of the American people in their government, but for Republicans that’s always an item for sale to the highest bidder, right?
TJDestry
said, 6 months ago
Howard Hunt’s wife died in Watergate.
Problem here is the GOP is determined to damage the administration, even if it means outing our field agents and undercover allies in Libya, at which point the death toll will rise above four. Gotta admit, when Scooter Libby outed an operative in order to promote Bush’s re-election chances, she didn’t die. Of course, McCain wasn’t elected, so maybe the GOP figures killing a few agents is necessary to make it work.
Respectful Troll said, 6 months ago
Richard Clark, a high ranking member of the intelligence community during 9/11/2001 had warned both the Clinton and Bush administrations of airplanes being considered as “missles” on US targets. Afterwards, he was called to the Bush White House. Clark then says Bush took him into a private room, got very close to him and said, “I want to know how Saddam Hussien is connected to this.” Clark began to tell him there was no evidence Saddam was involved, but before he could finish, Bush poked him in the chest and said, “I want to know how Saddam is connected to this.”
This cartoon is implying that Obama is doing the same thing to Petraeus. The Richard Clark story shows how badly blackmail fails when a man with principles stands up to threats. Petraeus will not lie to protect the administration. He cheated on his wife, but he did not lie to investigators and there is nothing this administration can do to him at this point. He already lost his job.
Mr. Bok’s cartoon might reflect the feelings of a lying administration, but it may also be making a false accusation against people who sincerely did the best they could in the situation that occurred.
Respectfully,
C.
onguard said, 6 months ago
@Radish
Then don’t do it.
onguard said, 6 months ago
@TJDestry
Do your research, Libby outed no one. Richard Armitage outed your hero……….No one died in Watergate.
drybones
said, 6 months ago
Lies like this might work in the trailer parks, but they won’t work with retired diplomats like me who served in embassies in the Middle East, East Africa, and Southeast Asia for 25 years, and who by dint of luck survived numerous terrorist bombings, shootings, and rocket attacks. However complex the ties between such attacks and long-term U.S. policy domestic policy (burning energy like there’s no tomorrow, e.g.), in no case was the attack the fault of a sitting president or any politician or appointee. Don’t believe me? Read Ambassador Crocker on the incident and other matters <http://backchannel.al-monitor.com/index.php/2012/11/3164/crocker-defends-petraeus-urges-us-approach-syria-opposition-with-caution/>.
I would also suggest that Bok displays a lot of hubris in doing a number on any subject that he knows nothing whatsoever about because he has never been in a situation like Benghazi or Beirut or the African embassies. But hit-and-run cheap shots are the right wing stock-in-trade.
The right’s politicization of this tragic incident, the fault of no politician, to attack a president for whom they have a seething hatred, is characteristically despicable.
lookinside said, 6 months ago
@drybones
Well said! I’d love to buy you breakfast, and hear about your experiences “over there”. Due to my own situation, I’ll never leave the U.S., but I do enjoy hearing about the rest of the World.