http://blog.cagle.com/jones Taylor Jones' blog Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:40:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over a long career drawing caricatures and editorial cartoons, I can report that Sarah Palin is one of the greatest gifts ever to our profession! She's more fun than Bill and Hillary combined. She has the intellectual wattage of George W. Bush coupled with the paranoia of Richard Nixon! And ... http://blog.cagle.com/jones/2009/11/18/sarah-palin-up-up-and-away/ Here’s what Dick Cheney’s daughter, Liz, believes: A committee of five Norwegians awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to President Obama because he represents a weaker, more pliant America. An America that can no longer “go it alone” when necessary. Dear old dad, of course, wholeheartedly agrees with her. Are Cheney & ... http://blog.cagle.com/jones/2009/10/19/obamas-booby-prize/ My view on health care reform will outrage many: I support a single-payer system. There, I said it. BUT, for those of you who’ve just written me off as a “socialist,” please bear with me for a few paragraphs before you...pull the plug. Or call me a LIAR! At this point in ... http://blog.cagle.com/jones/2009/09/12/obama-health-care-and-me/ The Obama administration is mired in the swamp of health care reform. Perhaps it's time to change the subject? Time to stand up and shout, "IT'S AFGHANISTAN, STUPID!" Will Afghanistan be Barack Obama's Vietnam? NO. It will be his... Afghanistan. And that's trouble enough! First, a bit of background: The Reagan administration liked ... http://blog.cagle.com/jones/2009/09/03/obamas-hurt-locker/ Here's the only "nice" caricature I've ever drawn of Ted Kennedy. Can't publish the nastiest one. Don't get me wrong: Like nearly everyone else, I regarded Edward Moore Kennedy as the greatest legislator of our time --  ranking right up there in American history with Daniel Webster and Henry Clay. ...You know, ... http://blog.cagle.com/jones/2009/08/28/ted-kennedyand-then-some/ Yep -- this is a cheap shot! I make a living at it, however measly. But, come to think of it, I have something in common with the esteemed professor Henry Louis Gates: Nineteen years ago, I was held at gunpoint by three policemen right outside my own studio door. And ... http://blog.cagle.com/jones/2009/07/26/wazzup-with-henry-louis-gates/ In December of 2008, Tribune Media Services, my syndicate at the time, commissioned me to draw an illustration featuring Barack Obama and several of our other presidents, for a special Inaugural Edition to be published by The Chicago Tribune. Recently, I've been asked why there are two versions of this illustration? ... http://blog.cagle.com/jones/2009/07/16/anatomy-of-an-obama-cartoon/ I've discovered that I have something in common with Sarah Palin: The ability to ramble incoherently. So, permit me to blather away! If you get bored, multitask while you're reading, or skimming, this blog. That's what I'm doing as I write it. But don't worry, I won't talk about Bristol Palin ... http://blog.cagle.com/jones/2009/07/08/sarah-palin/ Something must be wrong with me. Three giants of showbiz died two weeks ago, yet I wasn't a big fan of any of them. Ed McMahon? He was a very talented pitchman. But I preferred the hilarious send-up of McMahon, in the guise of "Hank Kingsley," on "The Larry Sanders Show." ... http://blog.cagle.com/jones/2009/06/29/faces-of-michael-jackson/ Well, so much for Barack Obama cozying up to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. At least in the foreseeable future. Still, I believe the Obama administration is right to seek dialogue with its adversaries, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney having shown the limits of America's go-it-alone, my-way-or-the-highway "diplomacy." I suspect the hardliners in ... http://blog.cagle.com/jones/2009/06/27/faces-of-iran/