tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post1897294059514714776..comments2024-03-24T19:55:32.537-05:00Comments on The View from This Seat: Political Cartoons: Helpful or Harmful?LKSeathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-11898102562371222312017-06-07T06:03:53.719-05:002017-06-07T06:03:53.719-05:00Thanks, Dr. Hinson, for your comments.
I have enj...Thanks, Dr. Hinson, for your comments.<br /><br />I have enjoyed looking through "Hugh Haynie: Perspective," a book of and about Haynie's cartoons published by The Courier-Journal in 1974.LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-53840422700748980802017-06-06T07:01:46.128-05:002017-06-06T07:01:46.128-05:00Thanks for reading and responding, Larry.
As Ed C...Thanks for reading and responding, Larry.<br /><br />As Ed Chasteen said in an earlier comment, good political cartoons are "conversation starters." So I think he, and I, would agree with you that the way to view a political cartoon is to ask "Is there some truth here?" or, "Is this helping me to see something that I have been overlooking."<br /><br />But for the life of me, I haven't been able to see anything in some cartoons, such as those by Glenn McCoy, except exaggerated untruths that tend to be conversation stoppers rather than conversation starters. Those are the cartoons that I think are most unhelpful.LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-80246881793626702942017-06-06T06:52:18.350-05:002017-06-06T06:52:18.350-05:00Thanks for your meaningful comments about good, he...Thanks for your meaningful comments about good, helpful political cartoons, Craig. Cartoons such as those you mentioned are helpful in changing public opinion for the good, I think.<br /><br />Last night June and I watched "The Gangs of New York" again. I hadn't remembered a lot about it as it was nearly 15 years ago I saw it the first time. And I hadn't remembered at all the way "Boss" Tweed was prominent in the movie. This made be realize, and appreciate, afresh the importance of Nast's cartoons in opposition to Tweed.LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-26831200291297706082017-06-05T20:52:50.211-05:002017-06-05T20:52:50.211-05:00What goes around comes around. Some are funny and...What goes around comes around. Some are funny and/or make a point. Some do not. Not just in the United States.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-63043503139788654812017-06-05T17:59:28.102-05:002017-06-05T17:59:28.102-05:00My response is a paraphrase of an old philosophica...My response is a paraphrase of an old philosophical adage: Whatever is received is received according to the capacity and receptivity of the receiver. <br />The cartoon sender creates a caricature to shock our thinking box, either by humor or by some gruesome aspect. Instead of reacting with “I like it” or “I like it so much (because it represents my views), I will share it with a million others on Facebook”, our receptivity might better ask: is there some truth here? What is it? Is it something I haven’t paid enough attention to?<br />The cartoon may also be seriously distorting some truth, in which case, do with it the same as you would with an untruthful paragraph, or the essay of a thousand words if the picture is worth that.<br />PS—I like cartoons of many different kinds, like them a lot.<br />Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13146622876379785156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-83251177019199106312017-06-05T15:19:03.183-05:002017-06-05T15:19:03.183-05:00Local Thinking Friend Wade Paris makes this astute...Local Thinking Friend Wade Paris makes this astute comment about today's article:<br /><br />"Leroy, I truly enjoyed this blog. With regards to are political cartoons helpful or harmful my answer is yes."LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-20315289968276658252017-06-05T13:00:11.005-05:002017-06-05T13:00:11.005-05:00Political cartoons are very powerful, and they ran...Political cartoons are very powerful, and they range from openly inflammatory to forgettable to iconic. Two that have stuck with me for years, although by now I no longer know the authors, were one that showed Jesus with a crown of thorns made of TV antennas (from back in Jimmy Swaggart and friends televangelist scandal days), and another with a proposed answer to the WWJD? about the early days of the child abuse by priests scandal in Boston. Jesus only slightly paraphrases one the "millstone" quotes such as Mark 9:42 to suggest that anyone who hurt children should have a millstone put around his neck and be thrown into the sea. When one of the first priests to be jailed was brutally murdered by a fellow inmate, I learned about the high percentage of inmates who are child abuse survivors, and the intense anger they often display to convicted child abusers who end up in jail with them. As the scandal widened and deepened my awe at that cartoon just grew with the years.Craig Dempseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00033176451913108084noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-90459378913456331432017-06-05T09:24:31.723-05:002017-06-05T09:24:31.723-05:00A couple of minutes ago I received (by email) the ...A couple of minutes ago I received (by email) the following comments from Thinking Friend Glenn Hinson in Kentucky:<br /><br />"I remember Hugh Haynie fondly, too, Leroy. I haven’t seen many cartoons that match the detail he gave. The Courier-Journal republishes the one about Christmas every year: “Now, let’s see whom I have forgotten” depicting a gift-giver with gifts piled high and Jesus looking over his shoulder. <br /><br />"Our current cartoonist, Marc Murphy, a Louisville attorney, draws a much simpler cartoon that often leaves one wondering what he intends to say, but he sometimes packs a powerful punch. <br /><br />"Distortion of the truth happens often in many cartoons I see such as the one to which you object. I’ve been carrying on an exchange with a Clinton/Obama hater; his caricature of them sounds like that cartoon. Maybe cartoonists need to think more about civility and truth."LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8355086750486200439.post-57569081089543675752017-06-05T08:36:56.284-05:002017-06-05T08:36:56.284-05:00The first, and to this point the only, comment rec...The first, and to this point the only, comment received is from Local Thinking Friend Ed Chasteen:<br /><br />"I love cartoons. They make me think. But they are only conversation starters."LKSeathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08860725174433173015noreply@blogger.com