Tag: campaign

  • Editorial Cartoon: Obama and Romney Censor Reporters

    The Cartoonist Studio Editorial Cartoon Contest continues and I made it to week SIX!  Thanks to all for voting.  Click the image above or here to go to the voting.  You should do a search of “Bearman” and my cartoon will come up front and center and then vote.  Some people were clicking the link and then accidentally voting on the first thing that popped up.  Unfortunately no way to direct link to my cartoon.  Again, as long as I stay in the contest, there will be two editorial cartoons a week to vote on – Mondays and Thursdays.   Oh and you can vote multiple times in each round if you want (resets every six hours) until EOD Saturday.

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    Today’s editorial cartoon was inspired by an article in the New York Times, that said that in exchange for access to the candidates or their campaign advisors, the media/reporters must provide any on the record quotes to the campaigns to censor or redact.   So essentially if I am a reporter for the Times, in order to be able to talk on the record with either candidates advisors, I have to agree to send them the quotes I want to use in my story and allow them to agree to them, remove them completely or just remove certain words.  Any reporter that fails to do so is left out in the cold when it comes to top level meetings including those with the candidates.

    WHAT??  Ridiculous.  At the point that an entity can determine the course of a story it is no longer reporting, it is PR!!!  Shame on any media outlet who agrees to abide by these rules.

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    BONUS TOON:

    Normally I would post this cartoon as a regularly scheduled update.  But since I am in the middle of the editorial cartoon contest, I didn’t think it would fit in.  But sharing it with you anyway given the timing of the latest Batman movie coming out “The Dark Knight Rises”  Of course I had to go there with the title – Erectile Dysfunction.

    Bearman Cartoon The Dark Knight Rises Erectile Dysfunction

  • Editorial Cartoon: Obama’s Wedding Chapel

    Editorial Cartoon: Obama's Wedding Chapel

    The Cartoonist Studio Editorial Cartoon Contest continues and I made it to week THREE!  Thanks to all for voting.  Click the image above or here to go to the voting.  You should do a search of “Bearman” and my cartoon will come up front and center and then vote.  Some people were clicking the link and then accidentally voting on the first thing that popped up.  Unfortunately no way to direct link to my cartoon.  Again, as long as I stay in the contest, there will be two editorial cartoons a week to vote on – Mondays and Thursdays.   Oh and you can vote multiple times in each round if you want (resets every six hours) until EOD Saturday.

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    Today’s editorial cartoon was inspired by our President Barack Obama.  Seems a few weeks back the President’s staff came up with a genius way to raise funds for his reelection campaign.  He started a gift registry on his site.

    Got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up?

    Let your friends know how important this election is to you—register with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift. It’s a great way to support the President on your big day. Plus, it’s a gift that we can all appreciate—and goes a lot further than a gravy bowl.

    So yes, a donation goes further than a gravy bowl….unless of course you need to serve gravy.  So if you are rich enough will the President officiate at your wedding too assuming you drop enough cash?  I am sure there are some billionaires out there would pay several million for that chance.

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    On a separate note, I had the fortune of scoring some great tickets to the Opening Ceremony of the World Choir Games held in Cincinnati and for the first time in it’s seven year existence, held in the United States.  Very enjoyable experience but I was a little disappointed in the choice of music.  They had the world renowned Cincinnati Pops and the Cincinnati May Festival star in the last half of the show after all the formality and speeches were done.  It was indeed a great concert but it seemed like just another July 4 (Independence Day in the US) Concert that I have seen before.  I would have preferred they use the choir groups from multiple countries to highlight some of the different types of choral music that we could be exposed to over the next 10 days of competition.  But my hat still goes off to the organizers as overall it looks like a well thought out competition and I need to find some time to get to some of the many competitions each day.

    World Choir Games Opening Ceremony

  • Editorial Cartoon: California Winds and Herman Cain

    Editorial-Cartoon Herman Cain California Wind

    So the winner’s of the Editorial Cartoon Caption Contest are Bo Lumpkin and Scott (Jynksie) Jenkins. Pairing up the devastating wind storms in California with the demise of Herman Cain’s campaign was both funny and timely.

    Gentlemen, your prize is a tshirt of the design of your choice from WackSack.com.  So go pick your design and email me your shirt size and address.

    For the losers, you can still get to visit WackSack and drool over the prize you didn’t win.

  • Bearman Cartoon: McCain, Palin, Bush – Blame Game

    I believe it was John McCain who I heard say weeks before the election that if he won, they would say how brilliant he ran his campaign but if he lost they would start pointing fingers. Well it didn’t take long for his staff to blame Sarah Palin and in turn she has since blamed George Bush.

    Well it didn't take long for his staff to blame Sarah Palin and in turn she has since blamed George Bush.

  • John McCain's Sinking Ship

    10 16 08 McCain Needs a Bigger Life Preserver copy