Jules Feiffer has described Tony Auth best, "His perspective is that of a bemused and often angry comic historian. Irony, never a favorite form with Americans, is his meat and potatoes. He is not smug, and though he can be mean, he is never mean-spirited. Auth is a moralist and an optimist. He insists, even in this day and age, that hope is more than the name of a right-wing comedian or the shtick of a reactionary president."
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BrianCrook said, over 2 years ago
And who could blame Lincoln?
sjc14850 said, over 2 years ago
Auth’s most brilliant and succinct cartoon.
james yeager
said, over 2 years ago
inanimate object triumphs over brainless biped…
pavlov said, over 2 years ago
Wonder if Beck hit Sharpton on the way out.
reggery said, over 2 years ago
What specifically was there about yesterday’s rally that Lincoln would object to?
motivemagus said, over 2 years ago
^Well, reggery, how about noted bigot John Hagee, who thinks the Catholic church is “the Anti-Christ” and a “whore”? Or for that matter noted bigot Glenn Beck who called Obama a racist who hated white people (including, evidently, his mother) while belonging to a Christian sect that taught black people were cursed for 150 years, and only allowed them in after 1978?
reggery said, over 2 years ago
Sorry, what I meant to ask was “what specifically was there about yesterday’s rally that Lincoln would object to?”
bob875m
said, over 2 years ago
Typical liberal left-wing tripe. They just can’t handle the truth.
Bruce4671 said, over 2 years ago
Motive, were you among the 300K + (according to the New York Times) or the 120K + watching on facebook or the uncounted number watching on c-span? NO? Why not? If you had been you would have seen and heard something far different than you are characterizing as having happened.
Where’s your love, brother?
Tigger
said, over 2 years ago
It is fact and in Lincoln’s own hand written orders that Lincoln had ordered Ships to be on stand-by as he had ordered for all Blacks to be rounded up and brought to the ships for deportation back to Africa and banned from the USA forever. The Democrats blocked The Civil Rights Bill, Al Gore Sr., a Democrat, Voted against The Civil Rights Bill. The Democrats are against Civil Rights, not Republicans One of King’s own Relatives stated MLK would be right beside Beck supporting him. Why didn’t Sharpton reserve The Lincoln Memorial for this day to reflect on King’s Speech? He knew when the day was and he could have locked in the Day long before Beck did. Seems Sharpton does not care about 1/28/1963, else he would be at the Lincoln Memorial every year on this date to celebrate MLK’s Historic Speech. Sadly, we are far from MLK’s Dram as Al Sharpton has proved this with his actions. Sharpton said Blacks own 1/28 and no one else can have any kind of protest on this day except Blacks, this is not what MLK wanted.
Justice22 said, over 2 years ago
Tigger, What kind of juice have you been sipping? Nice to see a smile on Abe’s face.
Corosive Frog
said, over 2 years ago
“Restoring Honor”, in other places, they kill in the name of that. Usually, it’s just a pompous name for “obnoxious pride”.
What is that “honor” you imply has been put down? Your ego? Your capacity do do anything you want around the World? You feel so “humiliated” now that when something goes wrong you have to send people negotiate, like every nation?
Having to negotiate and compromise your way through life, I call that being normal. Other nations have to negotiate (except isolated political chihuahuas like Libya and North Korea), therefore they must have no honor?
dtroutma
said, over 2 years ago
Beck uses his microphone and pulpit to repeatedly speak AGAINST everything this nation, and Lincoln, stood for. A short distance east of the Lincoln Memorial, and north of the reflection pool is another monument- it is called “The Wall”, or the “Viet Nam Veterans Memorial”. It lists the names of over 150 men I knew- many were close friends- it is my memory of those men that makes folks like Beck sicken me. It is why Sarah Palin is an equally sick joke on the American scene, why I despise Dick Cheney and his “friends”, and find “W” a sad, cowardly, error of history.
There is NO “honor” in those who cast slurs and lies to offend the senses of every thinking human, playing instead to the base fears and ignorance of the emotion-driven mob.
That is the essence of Beck.
Tigger
said, over 2 years ago
Justice, no Juice at all, It’s documented Fact Lincoln was ready to Ship the Blacks back to Africa. It’s also fact The Democrats did indeed Vote against The Civil Rights Bill, you can’t deny History.
Tigger
said, over 2 years ago
@dtroutma,
What about Al Sharpton and his ilk doing the same, why do you give them a Pass? Why are you not critical of them?