Congratulations to Michael Ramirez for his second Pulitzer Prize in Editorial Cartooning. He is a Senior Editor/Editorial Cartoonist for Investors’ Business Daily and syndicates his cartoons to 400 newpapers. Ramirez is a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremount Institute, winner of numerous awards and fired by the LA Times, most likely for his conservative perspective of politics. Michael was born in 1961 to a Mexican-American father and Japanese-American mother. He discovered his editorial cartooning talents in college and became a full-time cartoonist thereafter, probably to the disappointment of his parents, whose other four children all became prominent physicians.
The subject of the hilarious cartoon above reminded me of the exchange that took place at Instapundit on Sunday. Glenn Reynolds wrote the following reponding to a reader’s e-mail comments on economic reporting by the MSM:
Which doesn’t mean that the economy is necessarily doing better than they say, since their bias is exceeded only by their laziness and ignorance. As I noted some years ago about their Iraq reporting, the fact that they’re transparently playing up bogus bad news doesn’t mean that there isn’t genuine bad news that they’re not reporting, because reporting that would require knowledge and effort. So you can’t just apply “Kentucky windage” and assume that things are better than the reports say. They may actually be worse, just in a different way than is reported ….
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Is there a print of it on ebay yet ? Congratulations Michael.
Ah, the elegance of simplicity driven deep into the bull’s eye. Congrats Michael on that, and on your badge of honor at being canned by LAT. Now you can wave your Pulitzer at them.
Wave it at them? I’d crown them with it.
(”Crown” being an olde timey term meaning ‘brain’ them with it)
(”Brain” being an olde timey term meaning ’strike’ them on the head)
does the chronicle warn you before banning you?
Don’t like it. Don’t like any cartoons. Don’t think he should be recognized with any kind of award.
Cartoons are for 6-year-olds.
I LOVE IT!!! I’d pay $10 for one of those!!!
#5 T-Hawkk
I agree.
But what really gets me are these talkie motion pictures, with color.
If I want to see something in color, I’ll look out my window.
And preacher’s sermon on Sunday is plenty yapping for my ears, thank you very much.
An interesting history tracing political cartooning back to Leonardo Da Vinci and Martin Luther/The Reformation:
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/PUCK/part1.html
Politics would be so much less interesting without political cartoons. I suppose there are those without appreciation for satire. I am glad I am not one of them.
#5 T-Hawkk
You are one of the rare breed who recognizes irony, satire and parody are useless diversionary devices foisted upon us by sinister forces obsessed with our destruction. Vigilance, eternal vigilance…
An interesting piece tracing political cartooning back to Leonardo Da Vinci and Martin Luther and the Reformation.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA96/PUCK/part1.html
Death to HAL!!
I like Martin Luther, he had spunk.
Here’s looking at you, Shannon…
http://76.30.250.37/HAL9000.jpg
#11, Take a stress pill, Shannon. He he he.
#13, Watch it, HAL.
#3 FourAlarm, Wouldn’t want to chance damaging the Pulitzer, like denting it.
#10 Shannon, Speaking of Martin Luther, one of his complaints nailed to the church door was the practice of Simony, selling indulgences. Martin Luther would find Al Gore’s carbon credit scheme equally bad and equivalent to selling indulgences.
Interesting theme for a cartoon: Martin nailing carbon credits to the church door.
Cartoons are interesting. It’s surprising how some of them cam be so myopic and of the mark.
I have to agree, somewhat, with #15. Ramirez was the editorial cartoonist for the school paper (University of California, Irvine–back in the 80’s) and I was none too happy when he drew a not-at-all-flattering cartoon of me. Of course now I could probably sell it on ebay (of course I STILL have it–it is good to be a pack rat).
Oh, I “get” the cartoon drawing alright… Financial reporters think any little bit of turbulance in the economic news means we’re all going to die. That financial reporters overreact to even a little bad news….
I still think its pathetic for a grown man to make black and white cartoon drawings.
Cartoons are for 6-year-olds.
#17 T-Hawkk
Vigilance…eternal vigilance…
And Trix is for kids.
(They still make that stuff?)
“Michael was born in 1961 to a Mexican-American father and Japanese-American mother.”
Isn’t that un american? The hyphens?