Ann Telnaes, WaPo editorial cartoonist, quits after censorship

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

Also this is no longer, you know, a country demanding equal opportunity antagonists. Both sides-ism bullship got us into this mess. But I suspect Alma knows and likes that.

 

[Alma]

Woulda liked some watchdoggin' in, say, 2024, related to Trump's competence and past actions.

You got that watchdog work. You got it on Vance, too. And Walz.

Not on Biden. The sitting congressperson who challenged Biden in the primary couldn't even get interviewed. It wasn't until that debate - and then Clooney of all people - that the media Who should've done that watch stock work, finally started to do it.

It was embarrashing.

Here's Ann Telnaes' cartoon from Feb. 13, 2024.



I suppose it is right about Trump, but of course it's not hard to be correct about him. but to describe Biden in such simple terms…well it's not journalism. It's moralism. Takes like that don't help "democracy," they burnish the moral portfolio of the person who has that take among that person's totally like-minded friends.

 

[Alma]

Also this is no longer, you know, a country demanding equal opportunity antagonists. Both sides-ism bullship got us into this mess.

Both sideism? The "evident to anyone covering the White House" struggles of a sitting president to carry out basic functions - which led to the worst debate performance in the history of said debates - would have been both sideism? To report that November '23?

At least consider what that inaction led to: The reelection of Trump.

 

[LanceyHoward]

You got that watchdog work. You got it on Vance, too. And Walz.

Not on Biden. The sitting congressperson who challenged Biden in the primary couldn't even get interviewed. It wasn't until that debate - and then Clooney of all people - that the media Who should've done that watch stock work, finally started to do it.

It was embarrashing.

Here's Ann Telnaes' cartoon from Feb. 13, 2024.



I suppose it is right about Trump, but of course it's not hard to be correct about him. but to describe Biden in such simple terms…well it's not journalism. It's moralism. Takes like that don't help "democracy," they burnish the moral portfolio of the person who has that take among that person's totally like-minded friends.

The cartoon is unfair and an oversimplification. I think virtually every editorial cartoon I have ever seen is oversimplistic and unfair. It is the nature of the what cartoonists do.

I agree Biden's cognitive decline was under reported. But I think Trump's cognitive decline is also. IN fact I think that Trump's recent press conference indicates he has completely lost it. .

 

[Alma]

The cartoon is unfair and an oversimplification. I think virtually every editorial cartoon I have ever seen is oversimplistic and unfair. It is the nature of the what cartoonists do.

I agree Biden's cognitive decline was under reported. But I think Trump's cognitive decline is also. IN fact I think that Trump's recent press conference indicates he has completely lost it. .

I don't think Trump's recent presser indicates that at all. I think it reinforces that he's a crank. But that was known and has been known.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

As do I. The blue font was once a sign the text within was sarcasm, though perhaps that convention has been too long out of fashion.

Sarcasm? Here? In this day and age?!?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I don't think Trump's recent presser indicates that at all. I think it reinforces that he's a crank. But that was known and has been known.

LOL.

 

[swingline]

Sarcasm? Here? In this day and age?!?

At this time of year, during the daytime, contained entirely within your kitchen?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

At this time of year, during the daytime, contained entirely within your kitchen?

Yes.

 

[swingline]

May I see it?

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

May I see it?

No.

 

[LanceyHoward]

I don't think Trump's recent presser indicates that at all. I think it reinforces that he's a crank. But that was known and has been known.

First term Trump probably was a crank. But where crank stop and dementia begin as one ages? I think the proposed annexation of Panama and Greenland, possibly through military force, means has we have crossed over into dementia territory.