Tag: Sarah Palin

  • Sarah Palin – Mother of the Year

    Sarah Palin – Mother of the Year

    Sarah Palin Mother of the Year Editorial Cartoon

    Sarah Palin is back in the news and has my vote to win Mother of the Year.  The day after her son allegedly was drunk and hit his girlfriend, Palin was on the stumping block announcing that she was backing Donald Trump for President.

    Rather than postponing that speech to be at her son’s arraignment on Tuesday, she went ahead.  And rather than keeping silent about her son’s legal woes, she decided to turn it into a political statement about how Obama doesn’t care about veterans especially those with PTSD.

    I do not disregard any soldiers issues with PTSD and don’t deny that Track could be suffering from that.  But the vast majority of veteran sufferers do not lash out like he is alleged to have done.  In fact one veteran’s organization has already come out saying it wasn’t fair thing to say.

    Sarah Palin is lucky enough to have the financial means and the connections to get her son the treatment he deserves.  I wish she would focus on that rather than using PTSD as a political tool to try and bring down the other side.

  • Bearman Cartoon: Bristol Palin’s Speaking Fees

    Bearman Cartoon on Bristol Palin and her Speaking Engagements

    I am a firm believer in allowing private family members of public figures to be removed from public scrutiny.  That is UNTIL they themselves decide to become a public figure.   It was announced last week that Bristol Palin (daughter of former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin) is going on the speakers tour to talk about “don’t screw up and have a kid like I did as a teenager”. 

    Reports are that she will get between $15-30,000 per speech.  That really busts my chops.  Why weren’t my parents more popular?  My life could be so much easier.

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  • Sarah Palin's Hand

    2 9 10 Bearman Cartoon Sarah Palins Hand

    I questioned myself as I thought of and drew this editorial cartoon.  Even now I understand the impact of the word “retard” or “retarded” but I don’t know if I am offended by every usage of it as others.  First some background.

    Former Vice Presidential candidate and former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin continues to make news this month.  This week she was a keynote speaker at the Tea Party Convention.   During a Q&A discussion she could be seen checking out notes written on her hand.

    And last week she called out President Obama to fire Chief of Stafe Rahm Emanuel for saying that some liberal activists are “fucking retards”  Yet when Chris Wallace confronted her about Rush Limbaugh’s similar use, she blew it off as satire.  So when someone uses the word “retard” or “retarded” in jest it is OK.  HUH??

    As someone with a close relative who has Downs Syndrome, I would have to be restrained if someone called her a retard.  But I don’t have the same visceral response if someone called me it or my ideas retarded.  So as I say, I struggle with whether or not “retarded” should be avoided in all speech. 

    For those who have an issue with using “retarded”, do you have similar issues with words like “idiot”, “moron” or “imbecile”??  If not, why not??  All of those words were used as IQ categories before the term “mentally retardation”  We now use terms such as “special” and “developmentally disabled”.  In 25 years, will those too be considered bad?

    What is your opinion??

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  • Bearman Cartoon: Celebrity Death Panel 6

    If you missed the beginning of our story…go here first.

    And the final episode of Celebrity Death Panel…

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    Originally I had in mind that Graham Reaper would be Sarah Palin trying to make money off “Death Panels” like Al Gore does off of Carbon Credits.  But then I figured you all needed something to do for two weeks while I am gone.  Just like the books when you were a kid where you chose the ending, I am asking the frequent commenters and lurkers of beartoons.com to comment on who they think the character should be and what he or she is saying.

    So I am calling out those who I see coming here from other sites and especially those who don’t comment.  Jeff Jena and his conservative friends at Big Hollywood.  Rhino and his Libertarian friends at the DailyPaul.  Jammer get the Prairie Progressives to chime in.  Even the 2012 conspiracy news guys need to put down their Playboy Magazines and chime in.

    It can either be someone you don’t like or someone you do…

    Here is the only thing I ask. If you want to comment beyond offering up the suggestion of the identity of Graham Reaper and what he/she should be saying…BE CIVIL. This site is about the funny. I am leaving comments open while I am gone so let’s all get along.

    Once I get back, I’ll pick the most popular or the one that I find funniest and draw it as the actual final panel of this series.

    Note 1 – I haven’t left you completely without something new to look at while I am gone the next couple weeks. Thursday as I have a series of great toonists lined up to share with us either what they think they will look like or their cartoon character will look like at age 100. I’ll have a new one every two days.

    Note 2 – Check out the story arc of the possible demise of the Frustrated Cartoonist as Nate Fakes hits the big time.

    Note 3 – Congratulations to George Ford on his one year Anniversary of the online comic Addanac City. After doing six toons in a row, I have new respect for all of you who hold down a full time job and still can crank out 3-7 new cartoons every week.

    I’ll be around to comment on Wednesday and Thursday morning but after that, you have to talk amongst yourselves.

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  • Bearman Cartoon: Real Reason Palin Quit

    Sarah Palin announced she is quitting her Governorship of the state of Alaska. Even after supposedly explaining her reasons, no one can figure it out. No one but of course ME.

    This editorial cartoon gives you a peek inside her head and shows the real reason Sarah is quitting.

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  • Bearman Cartoon: Sarah Palin "Pardons" Turkey

    Not one who jumped on the Sarah Palin is bad bandwagon but this faux pas was too funny.