Cartoon of the Week | 11/04/2009 3:00 am
Liza Donnelly's Cartoon of the Week: An Assist by Obama
Liza Donnelly, noted cartoonist for The New Yorker, is also the editor, with her husband, Michael Maslin, of the book Cartoon Marriage: Adventures in Love and Matrimony by The New Yorker’s Cartooning Couple.
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- Dear Margo: When You Think You've Heard Everything ... You Haven't
- Liz Smith: The Apocalypse Arrives – Is It '2012' the Movie or Is It … Sarah Palin in 2012?
- Dear Margo: When Dad/Gramps Just Ain't Interested
- What's your viewpoint on a one-term presidency for Obama, no matter the reason?
- Political Cover Stars? Spare Me! by Mr. wOw
- Liz Smith: In a Concert Hall Far, Far Away
- Could Mammograms Fall Victim to Obamacare? by Liz Peek
- Liz Smith: Sharon Stone, Steve Tyrell, Sarah (You Know Who), Glamour, Lesley Gore – and More!
- Has your mother's style influenced your own? In what way?
- Queen Martha, by Cynthia McFadden
- Dear Margo: When Dad/Gramps Just Ain't Interested
- Did You Ever See a Book Cry? by Sheila Nevins
- Liz Smith: In a Concert Hall Far, Far Away
- Dear Margo: When You Think You've Heard Everything ... You Haven't
- LIZ SMITH FLASH! The Kennedy Conspiracy and the Mafia
- Liz Smith: Sharon Stone, Steve Tyrell, Sarah (You Know Who), Glamour, Lesley Gore – and More!
- What's the Best Business Advice You've Ever Received? (Contest)
- Liz Smith: The Apocalypse Arrives – Is It '2012' the Movie or Is It … Sarah Palin in 2012?
- Remember shopping pre-Internet? What era/memory in the evolution of shopping do you think of most fondly?
- What's your viewpoint on a one-term presidency for Obama, no matter the reason?
- What's your viewpoint on a one-term presidency for Obama, no matter the reason?
- Liz Smith: The Apocalypse Arrives – Is It '2012' the Movie or Is It … Sarah Palin in 2012?
- Political Cover Stars? Spare Me! by Mr. wOw
- Could Mammograms Fall Victim to Obamacare? by Liz Peek
- Dear Margo: When You Think You've Heard Everything ... You Haven't
- Dear Margo: When Dad/Gramps Just Ain't Interested
- Did You Ever See a Book Cry? by Sheila Nevins
- Has your mother's style influenced your own? In what way?
- Remember shopping pre-Internet? What era/memory in the evolution of shopping do you think of most fondly?
- LIZ SMITH FLASH! The Kennedy Conspiracy and the Mafia
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Somehow, some way, with all the news thrown at us daily by the media, it is so easy to let this "one day wonder" of a personal "tidbit" escape most of us. So, to help Liza out, this is what you missed:
President Obama drew heat last week for a story that surfaced outing his private White House male-only b-ball games. The story was that even though two female members of his cabinet were members of their basketball (!) teams in college, they were excluded, as were all women, from this most private of male-only clubs. The story became a metaphor for how the president views women generally and threatened to reveal some inconvenient truths about the man.
And now you know.
I’m sorry, what "inconvenient" truths? That he prefers to play baskeball with men? Seriously? I’m with Liz on this one….who he plays basketball with is not a measure of the man………what he actually does for women professionally is the measure of the man.
Joan - hoping you aren’t referring to me when you say "people who don’t watch the news". I am in tune with the news - I do not pay attention to the opinion-driven media.
The tidbits about b-ball - not news.
No problem, joan — I am new, so I’m not familiar with everyone yet. And, as you can tell the words irritated me in the first place — glad to know they were not your words actually. =)
Sometimes I have problems with "getting" cartoons — the cartoon Far Side almost always went right over my head.