Pat Oliphant for March 02, 2010

Ewwwww!!!! I would not like to see that woman naked!

Mrs. Palin’s best selling point!

Her real common sense stands her in good stead with “fly-over country” men and women.

Look at what “Intellectuals” have done for the country so far.

T’ain’t pretty, y’all!

Your Back Eastie Haahvaad/Yalie elitism is showing, Mr. Oliphant.

Please come out here to the “fly-over” country and get an education outside the DC/Boston axis. You might be pleasantly surprised how smart and educated we are in regimens other than your pseudo Conservative snob elitism.

Hmmm… a Bull Moose. Could it be history repeating itself?

I’m from “fly-over” country, and we think she’s an empty shell, too.

BE: You mean that stellar intellectual W? The biggest disaster this country’s government has EVER seen. Who knew that being ignorant could be such a patriotic virtue. Give me a break. Read a book (not hers) and pull your fetid eyeballs away from America’s biggest losers.

Here, here, cd.

Most folks I know here in Indiana think she’s a joke. She may very well have dragged McCain down enough to let Obama win Indiana in ‘08. (Indiana had not voted for a Dem for Prez since 1964.)

She does have millions in the bank and Fox News and hundreds of thousands of fans in her back pocket. Cannot argue that!

Since when is being smart, well-educated, and well-informed a bad thing, Mr. Ewing? And since when is aggressive ignorance of the world a good thing? Republicans like to demonize the intelligent and thoughtful people by calling them “elitists,” but they are happy to push for the rich elite, who show far more signs of corrupting our democracy for their own purposes, and the resources to do it.

Alaska has more than 400 YEARS of nat gas, jus WHERE is the gas pipeline SHE promised? (that she spent hundreds of millions on…). or, as she is a quitter, do we alaskans forget her promises?

ubetcha. is there anyway to sue her for her lack of work as governor? how she took alaskans $$ for a job she never did? ubetcha. if yr boss treated u the way the voters treated her… YOU”D be fired. ubetcha

Bill Ewing says: “Her real common sense stands her in good stead with “fly-over country” men and women… Your Back Eastie Haahvaad/Yalie elitism is showing, Mr. Oliphant.”

Bill, Mr. Oliphant never went to Harvard or Yale (instead, he spent the past two decades exposing the Bush family members who did). Oliphant’s first job was in Denver, Colorado, and he now lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico – the American West. Or, as you call it: “Fly-over country.”

Oh, and as for “back East,” Oliphant is from Adelaide, Australia. (He’s a naturalized American.) Really Deep South, eh?

In that big hockey match between the U.S. and Canada, I think they were using Palin’s brain as the puck. It should be noted with respect to that gas pipeline and jobs- Canada won that too.

Those who think Sarah Palin is the “real thing” believe the “Pillsbury Dough Boy” is a real baker. He IS brighter and made of more real substance however.

With all that is going on, you’d think Oliphant would stand up to fight the mess in Washington instead of going backwards to the Palin well.

Run,Sarah run! Please please pretty please, let’s get Sarah nominated for the Republican candidate for Prez in 2012!!

C’mon, conservatives and tea people and moral majority and Christian crusaders and all the right thinking people registered to vote! Time to put up or shut up. We’ll see once and for all whether or not our glorious Republic cares about Truth, Justice and the American Way!!

You betcha’s gonna come and getcha!

If Sarah Palin looked like, say, Madeleine Albright, nobody outside Wasilla would ever have heard of her or listened to her.

Funny how not even the right-wingers have commented on Oliphant’s implication that Sarah Palin is sleeping with a moose…

zekedog, as a democrat, where do i send my money to get her on the ticket?

Oh Ed, you nailed it. Madeleine Albright had more of everything a president would need in her little finger than Ms. Palin has in her whole body. Well, except for electability because we Americans like looks better than performance & credentials. That’s the price we pay for self-government. If things don’t get any better at all (& they will) Obama would still bury her at the polls in 2012. America isn’t that far off of the beam.

Pat, sorry your life is this unhappy.

If you’re not ignorant, you’re elitist – all part of the dumbing down of America.

Don’t holt with no book learnin’. What my grandaddy knowed was good enuf fer him’n, and it’s good enuf fer me’n.

Why, I hear tell that some of these slick Eastern Establishment types kin actually talk in French. I say if you cain’t speak God’s own English you should just shut up. If’n it’s good enuf fer King James, it’s good enuf fer me.

Bill Buckley would be appalled.

We can see that the Karl Rove and Lee Atwater school of political winning (you only need 50% plus one) at any cost is still working.

Divide and conquer worked in ancient times, and we still fall for it. Pick a wedge, any wedge, and you can split your opponents into two camps, and go happily about raiding the treasury unhindered.

I get a real laugh out of the clowns here who voted for an idiotic fool like Obama who literally isn’t qualified to manage a convenience store. But, these same folks vilify a woman who has achieved more in her lifetime already than they will ever hope to…and she has more intelligence and courage that the whole bunch in DC….put that in your hash pipes and smoke it.

Yeah, and I get a laugh out of the idiots who voted for a man who couldn’t make a profit running an oil company. They voted for a man who turned a state budget surplus into near bankruptcy. They now vilify a former college professor and idolize someone who dropped out of three different colleges and quit her elected post 1/2 way through her term. Why? Because a few loud mouth partisan pundits on TV tell them to. Put that in your moonshine jug and swig it.

^^ Can’t put anything new in my bong, it’s already filled with pot!

No, wait, that’s catnip! Dammit, Sooky!

“They now vilify a former college professor and idolize someone who dropped out of three different colleges and quit here elected post 1/2 way through her term because a few loud mouth partisan pundits on TV tell them to.”

“I get a real laugh out of the clowns here who voted for an idiotic fool like Obama who literally isn’t qualified to manage a convenience store. But, these same folks vilify a woman who has achieved more in her lifetime already than they will ever hope to…”

Actually, I’d say there isn’t that much difference between the experience Obama has and the one Palin has. He’s been an Illinois senator, she was a mayor. He was a US Senator, she was a state governor. Hardly an incredible gulf there. Obama has the edge in education, and for all the jokes about his time in community organizing, Sarah Palin wasn’t doing something particularly noteworthy at the time either (late 1980s), unless being a sportscaster is some impressive political qualification.

On the other hand, what in the name of Kopyrka is the deal with Sarah Palin sleeping with a moose? I like that woman about as much as I like the common cold, but unless there’s some context there that borders on the offensive.

Dang skippy! We be the patriotic convenience store shoppers that gotta give our American money to all them slant eyes and red dots at that there cash register! (‘Course, ain’t no black man qualified to manage that kinda store.) We just gonna hafta get Sarah bein’ President and then we can get to work with First Man Todd and commence to secede America from the United States of America! I’m headed back to my farm to fertilize my “medical” marywanna crop…Hyuk, hyuk.

Aww, don’t be such a killjoy, McFactoryFarm - as is my quip, I drive better baked than those knobs with D.A.R.E. license plates on their domestic terrorist tanks~

Apparently John (Puppy maybe?) doesn’t understand the meaning of the word “literally”.

Canookie, as I said I’m not a fan of Palins, but marital infidelity with a moose is a bit too much. Why are you so defensive about it anyway… is the moose a national animal of Canada?

she is a quitter, just like US senator jimmy bunning.

He’s a good looking moose, but what does he see in her?

It’s well drawn, but pretty vicious.

@lonecat:

As a fan of the majestic moose, I am offended that anyone would insinuate that a moose would sleep with her.

(My sister was bitten by a møøse, once.)

Doc,

A drunken friend in Yellowstone in ‘63 decided to ride a cow moose. Well, it didn’t turn out well, of course. She stomped him, and then DID BITE HIM- coup de gras I believe on her part.

^M Kitt – here’s something positive about Sarah – she inspires wit in others. How’s that?

Judging from the nasty ad hominem comments this woman has received, I wonder why they are so afraid of her if they think she’s such an empty head?

I guess the fear is that other empty heads might elect this empty head.

Mynd you, møøse bites Kan be pretty nasti…

Less møøses! ¡Más LLAMAS!

¡La llama es a quadruped que vive en los ríos grandes como el Amazon! ¡Tiene dos oídos, un corazón, una frente, y un pico para comer la miel! ¡Pero se proporciona las aletas para la natación!

¡Las llamas son más grandes que ranas!

Las llamas son peligrosas, así que si usted ve uno donde la gente está nadando, usted grita… “¡Mire hacia fuera, allí son llamas!”

¡Olé!

What a bunch of low life losers…hey any of you ever have an original thought? You think Obama is so great…that is a real laugh. He is an empty suit with nothing but a teleprompter to give you the talking points you all enjoy so much.

President Bush was the last great American President we are likely to have, so enjoy the war boys and girls…we’s coming.

Studies show that all children born after 1970 have innate knowledge of Beatle lyrics and Monty Python routines. Alas, I was born in 1964, so I had to learn both the hard way.

Well, fritzoid, I knew all of your lines, and I was born in 1963. But my children (14 and 11) have already been exposed to all of the Monty Python shows (not the movies yet) and the Beatles – the younger one particularly is a big fan of Spamalot and is learning to play Beatles and Monkees songs. One must bring your children up right, my friends.

motive, 14 and 11 is probably not too young for “Holy Grail”, depending on how far along they are in cusswords. Anything there they probably already know, but “Life of Brian” and “Meaning of Life” might teach them some new ones you’d rather they save for later.

I’m initiating my wife onto the Python movies this weekend! I started it all off with a little Cleese in “Fawlty Towers” (which I compared to my own escapades in northern England when I was younger).

She’s keen, she’s asked (I didn’t push!), I think we might have a new convert… :-D

MM: “Life of Brian” now has 15+ classification in the UK (initially banned in a few places all over Britain and in some countries and not for its language. So funny that it was banned in Norway!) I agree with Fritzoid’s advice.

(btw, from ‘69 myself)

omQ R, your wife’s “keen”, eh? I bet she is, I bet she is! Nudge nudge, wink wink. She’s “asked” for it, has she? No pushing necessary! I bet there wasn’t! Say no more! Say. No. MORE!

That’s one “initiation” I’d like to see, nudge nudge! Always willing to welcome a new “convert”, eh? Because you know what they say about converts, don’t you? I BET YOU DO! Nudge nudge, wink wink. Know what I mean? Know what I mean? Say no more!

Fawlty Towers makes me so nervous I can hardly watch it. A true work of (collective) genius.

^^ lol ! ( I had that coming)

Soon she, too, will be able to get the “in” jokes ;-) I’m imagining a Germanic accent trying out the “Spanish Inquisition” sketch. (This might be even better than …foreplay!)

Lonecat: …Fawlty Towers has nothing on what went on in a Portuguese owned British pub/restaurant in a small, sleepy village in Lincolnshire in the early ’90s. And yes, patrons would always refer to it (“Manuel!) when they learned most of the waiters were Portuguese. Fortunately, my brother and I knew Fawlty Towers very well and started hitting back.

Jode07, if you think the ad hominem attacks at Sarah Palin are bad, take some notes on what words right-wing posters here use on, say… Nancy Pelosi. If the venom in those accusations had any basis in her political ability, that woman would be the new Hammurabi, Jefferson and Lincoln, all rolled into one…

Ok, ok, I exaggerate. Only Jefferson and Lincoln.

I remember Life of Brian being controversial here because people thought it was blasphemous. Nope - just making fun of what has been done to a perfectly sensible philosophy by “true believers.” “You must all think for yourselves!” “We must all think for ourselves!” Of course, where I grew up (NC), some people thought Oh, God was blasphemous! (My Catholic school, by contrast, took us all there to see it on a field trip.)

Hmmm, “Black Knight” is a Palin supporter? (Sarah, not just Michael)

Doc- the moose hung around our cabins all the time- it shows the extreme danger of “habituating” wild creatures to close proximity to humans- hmm that would include Dick Cheney and maybe Palin also.

“Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery–none but ourselves can free our minds…”

I read M Kitt’s fact filled post and thought to myself…how on God’s green earth can anyone claim “W” was a great president? C’mon, Farm dude!! Enjoy what war? The hot-shot Tea Revolution? You and your isolationist ilk couldn’t organize a Tupperware party with weapons as party favors.

I for one know how strong our Republic is–we survived 8 years of Dub-ya and his Masters of War three ring circus!

As opposed to you and /your/ negative stereotypes spoon feed to you by partisan pundits? Get real.

Reasons–I was after JohnnyMcFarm dude…he popped in with a bit of teeth gnashing tough guy drivel. Because after all, like the big-shot from Kennebunkport said…”If you’re not with us, you’re against us.” No time for funnin’ around with fancy- talk comedy–we got a revolution to tend to!

she had the balls to attack the messiah in the campaign……so she becomes a target, she was accurate and that scares the followers and fellow travellers

Ooooh, riiiiight. Suuure, no one, ever, attacked Obama during his campaign. Not McCain, not Hillary Clinton, not Edwards… heck, probably even Biden did.

Yeah, yeah, accurate. I guess that’s why HRC, Pelosi, Reid, Obama, and every notable democrat has been given every insulting nickname people here can think of.

Hey Reasons-I’m new to this…how does the gocomics ump toss you from the game? And what is all this yammering about the “messiah”? For the love of God, Mr. and Mrs. Uber- Conservative! Since when does doing justice, loving mercy and walking humbly with your God prompt such foolish sarcasm? President Obama is an American success story. “W” is a ne’er do well born into the wealthy white elite class. How very ironic the Hannity disciples brand President Obama an elitist.

Dude, it’s an old game. Invent some absurdity, pin it on the other side, then ridicule it. It’s not only conservatives doing it, but… well, that’s a textbook scenario.

Well allriiigghhtty then…now I can’t get the “Rawhide” tune out of my head, dagnabbit!

I do enjoy how the postings link and travel. On occasion we can take part in some rather sophisticated free association.

Oliphant sure has gotten mileage from his last toon—wonder when his next will appear?

this to be a “nature” film, Disney? discovery channel? Nat geo? some deep voice helping us believe animals can talk…something where we can take our children too… Or is it bullwnkle? sarin sold out to lord murdocks foxnoose corp rather than develope the Nat gas or oil in alaska, great job! sarin the quitter. (women, on cue! can protest shes not getting what glean beck does-you betcha). time to have a new one, rather than continued cover up we have wars a going…

That drawing of Palin kinda looks like Johnny Depp on that new movie, Alice in Wonderland :))

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Anyone out there know the record # of comments for a single cartoon?

“hope more”

When did the GOP become the Know-Nothing Party? Intelligence and quality education is now a NEGATIVE? Eight years with a sock puppet figureheading the show - which turned America into a Third World nation - and now they want a bobble-head. Or is that bubble-head?

An insane Roman emperor (Caligula) named his horse to the Senate; now we have an empty-headed candidate who’ll probably nominate a moose to the Senate. The more things change….

<======…The more they stay the same! You betcha!

100 comments of cheer on the screen, 100 comments of cheer…

so what is the all time record?

Open Page 3!

jssst… cuz

Thanks, rikoshay. I’ll look up the cartoon you describe. I agree with how you feel about Oliphant.

So back to the moose–I will try and ask old O himself by e-mail what the large horned one symbolizes.

Hey Doc! Our international team of skaters beat Pittsburgh’s international team of skaters last night in OT!!

Since we are praising Oliphant, and rightly so, may I add that Barstow should take a look at the drawing of Palin here and learn how to draw a human body.

Well, blow me over, a 3rd page!

Yeah, I like Oliphant. Sometimes, very rarely, I think he gets it wrong but meh.

Sorry everybody but I have to ask:

HEY SENOR! WAS SHE ANY GOOD?

hmm…

Hey Blazing B(ung)—excess? As in the number of times you re-invent who you are? You want a clear example of excess,go youtube Bush missteps and malapropisms. Wow, what a mother lode. Such a deep thinker. He had no time for that fancy talk. Seems you two are kindred spirits.

He does seem to devolve. Both my (now graduated) daughters met some neo cons and young conservatives in college…they were truly bewildered with the way the young right leaning ones behaved.

parks:

Your effort reminds me of the Styx lyric:

Too much time on my hands, it’s ticking away with my sanity I’ve got too much time on my hands, it’s hard to believe such a calamity I’ve got too much time on my hands and it’s ticking away from me Too much time on my hands, too much time on my hands Too much time on my hands

I compliment your perseverance.

Parker…was that list typed by your hand? Or do you know some “computer tricks” that did the heavy lifting (listing)? Pretty freaky, Dude!

Whoa! Parker left out Obamessiah or whatever puppy/stripper calls itself now a days.

Wonder what happened to thinginthebasement and oldlego?

That’s very sad to hear fennec. I hope oldlego is alright. Not sure about Radish being thinginthebasement though. Thing was a little bit more political than Radish.

Parker… not that I miss being in the top 3, but why did you bother :) ?

Looks like he went numbers first, letters next, to me.

Maybe he likes you 4uk4ata.

I think you missed a few.

Better recheck.

Lots of comments yes?

I want a new cartoon.

You’re right about Radish fennec. Sorry for doubting you.

whoa … go away a few days and almost missed parker creating a list of posters … dang, girl, you good!

Could Oliphant be seriously physically ill?

We’re running on fumes here, Mr. Oliphant, sir.

Could we have some more, please?

Well frankly, that toon appears to be rated MATURE for Beastiality.

We’re dying here, Pat! Come back!

I truly hope Pat Oliphant returns, sooner than later.

wait a sec 4, you’re in the top 3

numbers first and my-choice-type alphabetization after

charlie - back at christmas i wanted to say “merry” to everybody

just to be sure i made a list (at the time it was about 400)

so for grins i add the newbies (oldlego please take note), many of which are the poopster, as we go along

and as of today (don’t worry - i ain’t postin’ the list again), we have a decorative, quantitatively whopping 565 posters - and counting

thanks poops - you’re a real sport for dancin’ with this

Blazin!!! the ones with TWO ** are striper, not you

i am clear-headedly focussed on whom (heh heh) is whom

those guys, as they say in the country music sector, ”cain’t hold a caindle too yoou …”

love and honor

fritzkringle was me, just using a holiday-themed handle for a week or so. It wasn’t an actual alter-ego or anything…

Gee, Mr. Ewing, Pat Oliphant is from Australia. He made his U.S. reputation working for a newspaper in Denver. And now, last I heard, he was living in New Mexico. Are all those places too Ivy League for you?

And hey, syndicate people, is Pat OK? This same cartoon’s been up for almost three weeks now.

Gee, Mr. Ewing, Pat Oliphant is from Australia. He made his U.S. reputation working for a newspaper in Denver. And now, last I heard, he was living in New Mexico. Are all those places too Ivy League for you? And hey, syndicate people, is Pat OK? This same cartoon’s been up for almost three weeks now.

I say we send out a search party!

Yup. We have a puppy but we’re not sure how reliable the nose is. Maybe Sooky can help?

Sara Palin, our national joke and cheerleader for the right wing ignoramuses in this country which pose a real threat to the democratic process which as a result is in real peril.

‘nuff said

594

The last shall be first.

Really?

So we can finally put this to rest! OOOOOOOOOOHHHH!!!

Thanks for the quick story, riko! Ah, the days of little W and uncle Dick…Pat had a blast with them!

Maureen is a gifted gal–and a foxy redhead to boot.

If you could find out Mr. O’s status, that would be great. I’ve heard nada out east.

Well, at least we finshed this before we hit page 4.

Yep, three pages of comments is QUITE enough, thank you.

And now that a new cartoon has been posted, there’s no danger of…

D’OH!

Congratulations!

I’m not even going to dignify that with a response.

If it’s true that nice guys finish last, I really ought to take myself out of the running, but I hear that Fox is eyeing this as a possible reality show, so…

Actually, M Kitt, since neither Reasons nor I have “Genius” status, all you have to do is wait until we no longer have access to this strip. Of course, that means neither of us will be able to witness your triumph, either…

This will be my last post on this cartoon.

Dammit, I’m the youngest of three children, I was born on December 31, and my surname begins with “Z”. Being last is my BIRTHRIGHT!

Could this be considered “Ultimate Fighting”?

Whoa there, Bunny-boy! At least buy me dinner before you try to screw me out of my BIRTHRIGHT, huh?

And I expect something better than a mess of pottage, too…

<=======Sorry you dumb animals but I hear by “liberate” you from the burden of being the las comment.

That’s so thoughtful…

Howdy! Sorry about my extended absence…

Yessir, rikoshay– looks as if fritz and Reasons are hell bent on being last!

OOPS….

(This is a blast for a Gocomics rookie such as myself!)

Keep up the good effort, zekedog!

<=====What about me?

wherefore art thou, rikoshay?

<=======Finally last! No dumb animal is gonna outlast the Bushmeiser.