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I meant to do this sooner, but here are the 15 cartoons that I submitted for my Pulitzer Prize entry. These were all done in 2009 and are now all embeddable youtube videos.
Like my other animation, these are all drawn with a brush dipped in ink, on paper first, then scanned into the computer and animated in Flash.
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Thank you beyond words Mark
Thank you beyond words Mark Fiore and my congratulations for the Pulitzer Prize !
I have been enjoying your incredible work for the past years and will come back regularly.
From Germany, Angelika
Mark you are always a joy to
Mark you are always a joy to view. Editorial cartooning has been an integral part of American political discourse, be it on the printed page or the internet.
Too bad you're on the left
Too bad you're on the left Mark. You wouldn't need stuttering simpletons to represent those against "Obamacare" and you wouldn't have to pretend that the scientists wanting to prove our culpability in supposed global warming have credentials like the greats. Weak. Scientists are like Priests to the left. Anyway I do love your artistic style.
Yes... I use to love Mark's
Yes... I use to love Mark's Animations when Bush was in office and believed him to be a tell it like it is no nonsense type of guy... much to my chagrin, all that changed when Obama got into office. All he does now is articulate ultra left propaganda through his cute little animations... no objectivity, no concern for telling the truth.. Just the typical MO of all of the guys on the left (Olberman, Maddow, etc)... continue to perpetuate left leaning propaganda, make not just conservatives, but any who disagree seem like idiots, uncultured, unlearned. Present those on the left through Smarmy attitudes and dry witty jabs as intellectually superior to anyone who disagrees.... When did you sell your sould Mark, and was it worth it if all you got was these little we cartoons??? you could've held out for more... ask Bill and Melinda...
If you don't want to be
If you don't want to be portrayed as an idiot, don't act like one.
Right-wingers have no problem with unprovoked war, indefinite detentions, torture, warrantless wiretaps, racial profiling, and so on, but consider it an imposition against their freedom if the government tries to provide health care to people.
Right-wingers want to give religious lore equal (or even greater) precedence in our schools over carefully researched science, and rewrite history to suit their own biases.
In the face of a catastrophic oil leak likely to poison huge sections of the world's oceans, right-wingers are *still* calling for more drilling.
And now you accuse Mark Fiore of being biased, but can't articulate one fact he got wrong or misrepresented.
If the shoe fits....
By the way, I think the word you want is "soul." Not that I want to claim intellectual superiority or anything....
Gary, you talk as though
Gary, you talk as though everything has been settled. The way I see it:
The war was provoked, the detentions definite, the torture was not torture, the wiretaps are warranted (and chosen using "carefully researched science"), racial profiling is what it is and to ignore it and pat down Grandma with equal zeal is willful ignorance.
Religious "lore" is often more "carefully researched" than science. In fact these days science has become a religion. If an "educated" person throws out enough big words the people will believe anything it seems. Who has rewritten history? My emotions run high on this one,.. I'll just move on.
Yes, drill. The more the better. People die in car crashes, I still drive mine.
Lastly if our sweet government was only trying to provide health care for the people then why not just pay the insurance costs for the 15 million (not 40) that can't afford it? "ObamaCare" is based on false promises. It's a fantasy. Government involvement is what has created the current mess and what has made a mess of healthcare worldwide.
If you want to dispute the
If you want to dispute the facts, that's fine, but it would kinda help if you came up with some actual arguments on your side. As the smart Palin would tell you, an argument isn't just saying "no it isn't."
If the war was provoked, what was the provocation? Certainly none of the stories given by Bush and cronies was true. There were no weapons of mass destruction. Iraq had nothing to do with the attack on the World Trade Center. If there was a real reason for the war, why keep it a secret?
If the definitions are definite, when are all those people held in Guantanamo going to be released or tried?
If the wiretaps were warranted, where are the warrants?
"Racial profiling is what it is" isn't even coherent enough to address. To "pat down" anybody in the absence of evidence that that specific person is likely involved in a crime is evidence of either ignorance or an ulterior motive; this is true regardless of the color of that person's skin.
"Religious 'lore' is often more 'carefully researched' than science." Rubbish. In thousands of years, religion hasn't produced any evidence whatsoever that any deities exist, let alone that their faiths provide any sort of accurate characterization of said deities. If you want to take your beliefs on faith, fine, but don't use public money or public schools to promote those beliefs.
The census ten years ago put the number of uninsured Americans at forty million. As much as you'd like to deny it, it's true. That's people with no insurance throughout the whole year, not counting the even greater number with only sporadic coverage. And the numbers are doubtless substantially higher now after the Republicans have wrecked the economy. And, of course, the problem isn't just the uninsured. A lot of people are technically insured but with so many limitations, co-pays, deductibles, etc. that a serious illness or injury can bankrupt them anyway. And just about everybody on private insurance is a pink slip or cancellation away from joining those forty-plus million uninsured.
No, government isn't the problem. The problem is profiteers who game the system by cherry-picking people who aren't likely to need expensive care, avoiding everyone else. If we got rid of for-profit insurance and made health care a public service, available like police or fire protection to everyone who needs it, we could provide complete coverage to everyone for less than we're spending now. Virtually every other industrialized country has done this, and it works.
Don't know what reality
Don't know what reality your living in : Iam looking at a MAN-MADE CATASTROHE in the Gulf of Mexico!!! Where are the teabaggers when U need them ?? It's Big Gov. vs Big Oil ... Maybe we should use little gov. Mark is right as he usually is !!
I wonder if this is worth
I wonder if this is worth it. I'm trying to be brief.
Saddam had already gassed 5000 Kurds with WMD. So he had WMD. He refused to get out of Kuwait. He was funding suicide bomber families and promoting terrorism. I don't agree will how we dealt with the power vacuum we left, but I agreed with the need to go to war. International affairs is a Machiavellian arena. That's how you play it.
Non citizens don't have the same rights as citizens. It's up to the military to either shoot'em or detain'em. It's ugly. That's what military action is. I think our military shows greater respect for life than any other on the planet. The guys in Club Gitmo should thank Allah that they are there instead of shot. (I hear they even have an arrow pointing to Mecca on the floor for just that purpose.)
Do you understand how the wiretapping works? Computers searching select international calls for keywords out of billions of spoken words? How are you going to get a warrant for that? I said that wiretapping is warranted. Look, I'm not worried about being listened to by the government, it's when the government makes choices for me that I would rather be able to make for myself that I get angry.
When it comes down to it, all science can do is predict more or less how atoms are going to bounce around. That's it. Nothing more. And the lists or erroneous scientific beliefs is at least as long as the list of fairy tale deities. Just as careful thought will unveil the mysteries of science, careful thought will unveil everything outside of science. Why are you self-aware, why do you think and feel and hold concepts and ideals in your mind? Science will never have the answer to that. Science can measure the influence of thoughts, but not the thought itself. Don't dismiss religious ideas. It's perfectly appropriate for public schools to expose kids to both the objective and the subjective.
It occurs to me that each sentence in the following disjointed paragraph could be a chapter title in a book. (Hey, I'm doing my best to be brief!)
Both NPR and the podcast "This American Life" have made very good shows on healthcare. Insurance companies work on slim margins. The government doesn't because it has free access to your wallet. The most powerful companies on earth are easier to reign in or correct than the government. The more decision-making power we turn over to the government, the more dysfunctional healthcare will be. And there will be no force left to correct it. Wealth and resources will be managed by bureaucrats. Ambition and innovation will be traded away for the facade of fairness. Look at Greece! Politicians will always over-promise. Are we going to resort to riots when it becomes clear that the government can't keep the absurd healthcare promises they are making now??
Everyone knows that the country that has contributed more by far and away to advancement of healthcare than any other is the USA. And everyone knows (including that sicko Michael Moore) that the best healthcare in the world is here. If we turn it over to government bureaucrats, it will soon be gone. It will have been traded away for a Utopian fantasy.
The gassing of Kurds took
The gassing of Kurds took place back in the '80s when Hussein was buddies with Reagan and Rumsfeld. So yes, he HAD weapons -- at one time, but not when Bush decided to conquer the country, and nothing like the kind the Bushies claimed he had that could've threatened us on the other side of the globe.
No, rights aren't limited to citizens. Kidnapping non-Americans is still a crime, ESPECIALLY if you invade THEIR country to do it. But this is beside the point as far as your claim that the detentions weren't/aren't indefinite, which is false.
Government can be voted out. How exactly are we supposed to "reign in" (I think the word you want there is "rein") big insurance? They have no interest in covering people who are likely to require expensive treatment. That means either those people don't get treatment, or you need a two-tiered system where the government provides coverage for the unprofitable, or the public subsidizes private insurers. If private companies won't take major risks, why should they be entitled to major profits? Why are they there at all?
The "best healthcare in the world" claim is just false, as you can prove by looking at the numbers. Per the CIA World Fact Book, not exactly an organ of liberal propaganda, infant mortality in the USA is triple what it is in countries like Sweden. In terms of life expectancy, or just about any other relevant statistic you could name, we lag far behind the countries with what you'd call socialized medicine, while spending far more per person than they do.
Sounds like four loose ends
Sounds like four loose ends to go,.. ;)
Yes it was the 80's. But it was the same man, same country, and same power, only more time. He was busy building a nuclear reactor too. It's easy for you be critical Mr. Monday Morning Quarterback, but with a background like that and world intelligence thinking he had WMD it wasn't unlikely. (Also in a Machiavellian arena there are no "buddies" only chess moves.)
Yes, some rights are limited to citizens. And who is "kidnapping"? "I think the work you want there is" capture. It's not a crime to capture. Capturing is actually preferable to killing as long you can keep them definitely detained.
Once a government program has begun, it's nearly impossible to "vote" it out. We start to refer to the handouts as "entitlements". Again look at Greece. Private insurers have laws and regulations to abide. The reason private insurers are far more trustworthy than the government is because they are caught between governments laws on one side, and profitability on the other. The government is caught between the "entitled" needy on one side and the indefinite detention of our wallets on the other.
What has infant mortality (6.22 is not triple 2.75) and life expectancy got to do with healthcare? NOTHING. Since I last wrote here a young neighbor of mine just died immediately in a car accident. I've got a 30 mile commute each day. Maybe the Swedes drive less. Black infants continue to die at twice the rate of white infants, according to a new report from the National Center for Health Statistics. http://library.adoption.com/articles/infant-mortality-rates-vary-by-race... What percentage of Sweden is black?
And why do you suppose other countries spend less? Because it's rationed. They get less.
Argue over word choices all
Argue over word choices all you want, but it doesn't address the point: While Iraq did have some nasty weapons fifteen years earlier, that doesn't necessarily mean they had them when we invaded, and they certainly didn't have the kind of weapons that Bush claimed could lead to mushroom clouds. So again, if the war was provoked, what was the provocation?
Yes, "capturing" people against their will is a crime. If you try to call them prisoners of war, then you run up against the fact that the war itself is a crime. And I guess you just don't understand what "indefinite" means. Hint: If the detentions were definite, then you could identify when or under what conditions they'll end.
And yes, that's the problem (from a wingnut perspective) with government programs: They work. People like them. Before they're established you can fear-monger people into thinking that they'll lead to "death panels" and such. Once they're in effect it's harder to convince people that they'd be better off letting their needs be held hostage by profiteers.
Fine, it's not *quite* triple. But the idea that infant mortality and life expectancy have nothing to do with health care is too stoopid for words. Yes, some people die for unrelated reasons. Lots more (44,000 per year, according to one study; that's about the equivalent of a 9/11 every hundred days) die from lack of access to health care. Many more lose limbs, go bankrupt, and a lot of other things that should concern anyone possessing a modicum of basic human decency.
No, the reason they spend less is that the money they spend actually goes toward care, not to support insurance company bureaucrats, their stockholders, bill collection agents, provider billing specialists, etc. -- all of whom do absolutely nothing to improve the quality of care. The USA has the MOST RATIONED health care in the world; but it's rationed not according to greatest need, but according to ability to pay.
You've finally convinced
You've finally convinced me.
Let's not ever capture people, because it's a crime.
Let's plug all the needy people into the teat of big government.
If anyone adds too much value to the world, capture their wealth, label them a profiteer, and assume the worst of them. After all, they are wealthy and not everyone is wealthy. Hate them.
The power of the individual to choose is not sacred. Power should be centralized so that everyone can drone on comfortably.
OK, I'm done with the sarcasm. I think what's at the root (for me anyway) is this: At the end of my life all that I will have and all that I will be is the sum total of all my choices. If I've helped those in need, or stood up to bullies, or protected innocence or done anything whatsoever it will only matter if I made the choice to do so. If I'm compelled by a government or by some ideological do-gooder group to do something against my will, it means nothing. Protecting liberty is worth risking every hazard. (Apparently God thinks so, he's not jumping in to fix every injustice, He let's us make our choices.) Healthcare is not a right. It's a service provided by other presumably free people who should be able to dictate the terms of their services. If money means more to them than it should; so be it.
Oh, you poor guy. Imagine
Oh, you poor guy. Imagine not being allowed to hold people's basic needs hostage in order to make a few bucks. Surely one of the great hardships of all time. Fortunately it's easier to whine about how people hate you than to honestly face up to the harm you cause.
Adding value? The insurance "industry" adds no value to anything. They do nothing to improve the quality or accessibility of health care, and in fact they generally impede.
Power to choose? Sorry, that ship already sailed. Generally the health plan we get is dictated by our employer, or by what insurance companies are willing to sell us. Under the kind of system I'd like to see, you wouldn't have a choice of plans -- everyone would be fully covered for all medically necessary services -- but you would have complete freedom to choose any accredited provider, which is a better deal than you get from HMOs and such under the current system.
And, of course, none of your ideological ranting addresses the facts that contrary to what you claimed in an earlier post, other countries get better health care than most Americans, with better results to show for it, while spending far less than we do.
Oh yeah wow: 'sould' rather
Oh yeah wow: 'sould' rather than 'soul.' Must be a moron.
All the things you said about right-wingers: true true true. But those aren't the only issues. Obama has proven to be, rather than a man of the people, an apologist for Big Industry, and certainly isn't impelling the kind of change that will serve succeeding generations. I have heard that the elders of the Sioux Nation made tribal decisions based on the impact those decisions would have on the next ten generations. You really think that Healthcare bill was designed with that aim.
I don't.
Also, wtf are we still doing killing indigenous in at least six countries? really
Jacob
The typo wouldn't be that
The typo wouldn't be that big a deal, except that it really undermines his argument which kind of boils down to "We're not as stupid as people say we are."
I don't disagree with your points about Obama. He's an improvement over Bush, but that isn't a very high standard.
An improvement of several
An improvement of several orders of magnitude, which is all the more unsettling! Lol I voted for him, and I still have hope that he will take on the ultra-limited and hyper-pervasive/persuasive interests which are depleting our natural wealth and cooperational capital. I think Jon Stewart's guest last night, May 5, 2010, put it well when he said, "It is time for the American ppl to decide if they want to get what they pay for."
Blessings,
Jacob
"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." -Andre Gide
"So absolutely
"So absolutely intellectually dishonest. You have a stage, but I would be a bit more impressed if you would somehow display a tiny bit of honesty. I think that your really funny characterization of Obama buys you a little credibility..."
I realize my comments are somewhat redundant given the nature of the comments I am responding to, but I just wanted to say this persons comments display their own intellectual dishonesty while at the same time the Obama comment removes any doubt they lack the objectivity and intellectual honesty to make such pronouncements...
I've been on your mailing list and have been a fan for about five years now. Congratulations and keep up the good work!!!
Love Mark's animations,
Love Mark's animations, always makes you smile and think!
Most people are burnt out already. It's nice to see and
recognize what's really what! It seems this, "Age of Lies"
confuses reality and makes survival more difficult. Glad
for Mark's work!
I couldn't quite get the
I couldn't quite get the above comment - it was somewhat vague. You have thousands of fans all clapping for you and tuning in to see you newest animation.
Keep up the good work - and congratulations for the icing on the cake award.
A Philadelphia Fan
Mark, You are absolutely
Mark,
You are absolutely brilliant. Guess that covers it. Oh, not quite...Congratulations on your Pulitzer.
Regards,
A Fan In Colorado.
Congratulations on your
Congratulations on your prize, Mark! No one deserves it more. May your success continue!
So absolutely intellectually
So absolutely intellectually dishonest. You have a stage, but I would be a bit more impressed if you would somehow display a tiny bit of honesty. I think that your really funny characterization of Obama buys you a little credibility, but to treat anyone questioning chicken little's "sky is falling" global warming scenario as being nasty little people is completely beyond the pale. You should perhaps make it clear that you hate and despise people who hire people.
and speaking of
and speaking of intellectually dishonest... if you don't like the cartoons because they don't agree with your world-view just come out and say it.
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