I put up
a new edition of my political column, THE
GREAT DISCONNECT, at Darkhorse2000 on Sunday. Then, lo and
behold, Monday morning I found this
article in Sunday's Washington Post which actually makes
the same point, but from the inside.
It, in
fact, references an even more-to-the-point piece (naming names) in a
recently released issue of the Columbia
Journalism Review.
Note that
Ceci Connelly, whom I chose as an example to end my column, is also
named in the CJR piece.
I love
it when I'm dead on target, I really do.
Makes me
wonder why I can't actually make a living at this political gig.
Hubris,
you say? Hey, I was, as far as I know, the first person to predict Bill
Clinton's victory in the 1996 election way back in the dark and dismal
days of Anti-Government. To wit, from the March 6, 1995 issue of the
Main Line edition of what is now Philadelphia Weekly, at a time when
Clinton was being dismissed as "irrelevant" and the Age of Newt seemed
inevitable:
"So let's
end the suspense. Remember you read it here first: "In November 1996,
William Jefferson Clinton will be reelected President of the United
States with a larger percentage of the vote than he got in 1992."
Point.
Set. Match.
Now I fully
understand that some of you may not choose to check out the links I've
provided here, so you won't know what I'm talking about.
So be
it.
Many a
rose is born to blush unseen...
Them as
do, however, should be assured that I knew nothing of those other two
pieces about Gore's press coverage when I wrote what I wrote.
Would I
lie?
Meanwhile,
CARTOON CAUCUS, the political cartoon series that I sorta loosely write
and then sit back and marvel at the way old pal Rob Davis turns it all
into gold, is hot, hot, hot.
No, really.
Check out
http://www.blueagle.com/index2.html#cartoons where you can click on
our names in the "Cartoonists With An Edge" listing (a few spots below
Tony Auth, just above Doonesbury and Dilbert, and entirely too far in
front of Tom Toles, except all this is alphabetical) to go to the latest
cartoon at our home base, Darkhorse 2000.
Even better,
click on the blue star next to our names to get the new cartoon, then
come back and click on the green star to get an archive of *all* our
cartoons. Live it up. Life is short.
I note
that this installment may well disconcert and befuddle those who have
already written us off as unrepentant liberals who exist merely to point
out the glaring weaknesses of the right wing.
We can
live with that.
We have
also this week committed to releasing a new cartoon weekly from now
until Election Day.
Along
the way, it's likely that our work will also available on some of the
several other sites who are emailing me (even as we speak) asking to
carry CARTOON CAUCUS.
Who can
blame them?
