Jack doesn’t mean anything. No one comments on his cartoons in the Oregonian. In part because, thanks to minds like Jack’s, no one reads the Oregonian.
Michael Ramirez: visit his cartoons. He’s adult, sharp eyed, and lives in the present not in the era of the 1st Clinton administration or something as does Jack.
On the other hand, while the current outfit in power doesn’t respect its water carriers, it does require them.
I like Jack Ohman a good bit. He’s not as sharp a political commentator as Tom Toles (who I think is the best one in America today), but he’s often funny, and has a distinctive and quirky style I like. He can be goofily funny, which is refreshing when everyone is being deadly solemn.
Ramirez, on the other hand, is full of himself, and sleazy in his approach to the facts, and delights in a level of viciousness (rather than “nastiness”) I find difficult to read. He’s summed up well in his own title to his latest collection: “Everyone has a RIGHT to my opinion.” Well, no, I don’t have to read you. Contrast with this title from Doug Marlette, a contentious (and sadly departed) former favorite of mine: “If you can’t say something nice…” which showed a picture of him with tape over his mouth. A little humility is nice, dude.
motivemagus – Thanks for ratings. Thanks to the internet I can view 20 - 30 political cartoons a day, and I have my own opinion on a lot of them.
But when I write this down I see that we are a very strange group, we argue, sometime very heatedly, over something that most people never see, or if they see give it very little thought.
Maybe, like the cartoonist themselves, we are a dying breed that think ideas are important, and sometimes (in what we consider the wrong hands) dangerous, so we take them seriously – even though our favorites are the funny ones – I love the ones that have a small figure in one corner that makes comments.
Ohman most often gets it right. No, we do NOT have “Democracy”, never have, we, like many other oppressive regimes are actually a Republic. That is why citizens MUST REMAIN INFORMED, and vote at every opportunity, and participate in the republic. That means staying not just informed, but defying those who spread false propaganda.
Perhaps the chief reason, after years of disgust with the cheapness and party hackery of Ohman, that I am consistent in my attacks upon him is that he had had me banned from commenting on Oregonian stories and his cartoons.
Press creatures like Ohman like to dish it out, but they can’t take it: at all. He’s a little man pretending to be for the little guy.
smythe12 over 14 years ago
Jack doesn’t mean anything. No one comments on his cartoons in the Oregonian. In part because, thanks to minds like Jack’s, no one reads the Oregonian.
Michael Ramirez: visit his cartoons. He’s adult, sharp eyed, and lives in the present not in the era of the 1st Clinton administration or something as does Jack.
On the other hand, while the current outfit in power doesn’t respect its water carriers, it does require them.
Motivemagus over 14 years ago
I like Jack Ohman a good bit. He’s not as sharp a political commentator as Tom Toles (who I think is the best one in America today), but he’s often funny, and has a distinctive and quirky style I like. He can be goofily funny, which is refreshing when everyone is being deadly solemn. Ramirez, on the other hand, is full of himself, and sleazy in his approach to the facts, and delights in a level of viciousness (rather than “nastiness”) I find difficult to read. He’s summed up well in his own title to his latest collection: “Everyone has a RIGHT to my opinion.” Well, no, I don’t have to read you. Contrast with this title from Doug Marlette, a contentious (and sadly departed) former favorite of mine: “If you can’t say something nice…” which showed a picture of him with tape over his mouth. A little humility is nice, dude.
kennethcwarren64 over 14 years ago
motivemagus – Thanks for ratings. Thanks to the internet I can view 20 - 30 political cartoons a day, and I have my own opinion on a lot of them.
But when I write this down I see that we are a very strange group, we argue, sometime very heatedly, over something that most people never see, or if they see give it very little thought.
Maybe, like the cartoonist themselves, we are a dying breed that think ideas are important, and sometimes (in what we consider the wrong hands) dangerous, so we take them seriously – even though our favorites are the funny ones – I love the ones that have a small figure in one corner that makes comments.
Magnaut over 14 years ago
why should they have democracy…we don’t …..we lock the party that represents some of the people out of meetings
Dtroutma over 14 years ago
Ohman most often gets it right. No, we do NOT have “Democracy”, never have, we, like many other oppressive regimes are actually a Republic. That is why citizens MUST REMAIN INFORMED, and vote at every opportunity, and participate in the republic. That means staying not just informed, but defying those who spread false propaganda.
smythe12 over 14 years ago
Perhaps the chief reason, after years of disgust with the cheapness and party hackery of Ohman, that I am consistent in my attacks upon him is that he had had me banned from commenting on Oregonian stories and his cartoons.
Press creatures like Ohman like to dish it out, but they can’t take it: at all. He’s a little man pretending to be for the little guy.
Motivemagus over 14 years ago
smythe, hadn’t noticed Ohman being all that offensive, but I don’t read the Oregonian, being on the other coast.
NoFearPup over 14 years ago
The whole Moby Dick thing is so boring.
parkersinthehouse over 14 years ago
waal hey symthie
ya don’t just get kicked off a forum for spewin a few corkers luttle missey
maybe if yuh apolujized to the man you could sleep at night