Barack-Nobel Cartoons: As Bad as The Prize Itself?

Nick Gillespie | October 13, 2009

Yeah, I don't get it either, but here's a Dutch editorial cartoon on the topic of Barack Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

For a mug's gallery of other equally inscrutable and/or awful cartoons on the same there, go here.

And for Reason.tv's rapid-response video, originally released last Friday around 2pm and has already pulled over 80,000 views, just click below.

For past Reason disquisitions on the fine art of editorial cartooning, go here.

Comments

Minister Of Silly Light Bulbs|10.13.09 @ 7:40AM|#

other equally inscrutable and/or awful cartoons

Some of them were quite good, I thought.

|10.13.09 @ 7:45AM|#

The one with the tank was spot-on.

Minister Of Silly Light Bulbs|10.13.09 @ 7:57AM|#

As was the one featuring the albatross.
Extra credit to the artist for not writing "Albatross" on the bird.

|10.13.09 @ 2:18PM|#

I liked the moon people cartoon:

http://news.cincinnati.com/app.....s=Itemnr=5

|10.13.09 @ 7:44AM|#

Those 80k hits were mostly people that heard Nick wasn't wearing a leather jacket and they had to see it for themselves.

Warty|10.13.09 @ 8:00AM|#

I kinda dug the knock-knock one.

Warty|10.13.09 @ 8:03AM|#

Extra credit to the artist for not writing "Albatross" on the bird.

The dam cartoonist, on the other hand, has been sentenced to be drawn and quartered.

Xeones|10.13.09 @ 8:14AM|#

Re: the one with Linus in it, i hope Zombie Charles Schultz claws his way up from the grave and eats the cartoonist's face while he screams and begs for someone, anyone, to put a bullet in his head and end the pain.

Xeones|10.13.09 @ 8:15AM|#

Still, it has to be said that they're almost ALL funnier than the Friday Funnies.

Art-P.O.G.|10.13.09 @ 8:29AM|#

Burn!

Art-P.O.G.|10.13.09 @ 8:35AM|#

Actually having read them now, most of the cartoons were funny. It was only the pitcured one and maybe 1 or 2 others where I don't see where the "joke" was.

Art-P.O.G.|10.13.09 @ 8:36AM|#

Damn, pictured*. They put the "preview" button back in, and it's like I think I'm too good for it.

|10.13.09 @ 8:45AM|#

Wow, that is just totally insane!

RT
www.true-privacy.net.tc

Xeones|10.13.09 @ 9:06AM|#

If Anonymity Guy really is the face of the embryonic Singularity, should i be less worried, or more worried?

Art-P.O.G.|10.13.09 @ 10:23AM|#

Both, if possible.

Wicks Cherrycoke|10.13.09 @ 9:23AM|#

After yet another posting and more editorials about Obama and the peace prize, is it now obvious that the real reason he got the award was publicity, pure and simple. Who else could have been given the award that would have given the the Peace Prize Committee more than a single news cycle's worth of attention?

Citizen Nothing|10.13.09 @ 9:38AM|#

George W. Bush?

Wicks Cherrycoke|10.13.09 @ 11:11AM|#

Nah. That would be a one-day story. The Right would say nothing and the Left would laugh it off.

|10.13.09 @ 9:26AM|#

Maybe the cartoons were good, maybe they were bad. I don't know, because I was too busy ogling the chick in the "denim TREND - Dillard's" ad.

http://cincinnati.com/sponsors.....Denim.html

I hope she develops a drug problem and has to do porn someday.

|10.13.09 @ 9:30AM|#

I hope someone introduces her to the concept of shampoo.

Minister Of Silly Light Bulbs|10.13.09 @ 9:36AM|#

Are hippies back in style? Again?

|10.13.09 @ 9:48AM|#

As long as she's lice- and odor-free you should be careful what you ask for. Shampoo can lead to porno-bleaching, fake boobies and tattoos.

Minister Of Silly Light Bulbs|10.13.09 @ 10:23AM|#

Shampoo leads to Hollywood?

|10.13.09 @ 9:52AM|#

You want a hilarious video in response to the prize? I like The Onion's Obama to Enter Diplomatic Talks with Raging Wildfire video.

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Polyester Mather DD|10.13.09 @ 1:01PM|#

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than Nobel effrontery

( With apologies to Ambassador Egas Moniz, President of the Delegation of Portugal to the Paris Peace Conference )

http://adamant.typepad.com/sei.....nship.html

|10.13.09 @ 1:11PM|#

The Nobel jury is on the defensive:

OSLO – Members of the Norwegian committee that gave Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize are strongly defending their choice against a storm of criticism that the award was premature and a potential liability for the U.S. president.

"We simply disagree that he has done nothing," committee chairman Thorbjoern Jagland told the AP on Tuesday. "He got the prize for what he has done."

"Alfred Nobel wrote that the prize should go to the person who has contributed most to the development of peace in the previous year," Jagland said. "Who has done more for that than Barack Obama?"

LarryA|10.13.09 @ 4:03PM|#

Yeah, I don't get it either,

Alfred Nobel is gazing far, far to the left.