Cartoons 3/10-3/17

"A Little Too Late"

• These words are being used to describe this cartoon to show how it's too late fr Obama and the democrats to repair any damage they've caused in the White House.
• All of the rubble and trash piled in front of the white house with Obama is supposed to represent all the problems he has caused during his terms. The artist means so much has gone wrong that it's too late to try and turn it around.
• Obama is peeking out from the huge piles of trash saying it's finally time to get help from the Republicans.
• The message in this cartoon is that Obama and the Democrats have only caused damage to the White House, and they are in need of assistance from the Republican party. The ideology of the cartoonist is definitely conservative. 
• This cartoon relates to our discussions about ideology and how some people are on completely opposite ends of the political spectrum and this artist clearly has opposite views to Obama's. This cartoon doesn't relate to any current event or issue.
• There is satire in this cartoon because Obama is almost jokingly suggesting he needs help when there is chaos all around him. 

"Crying Wolf"

• These words are used to describe this cartoon because the government took the sequester and blew it up as a huge emergency "to see what happens," as if they're crying wolf. 
• A huge ship with tanks and helicopters is representing the pentagon, while a flying chicken with a 'sequester' sign is symbolizing congress.
• The chicken is falling down and alerting the pentagon of the sequester. A speech bubble from the pentagon ship, which is MUCH larger than the chicken says they are going to call an emergency just see the results, when it really isn't that significant. 
• The message of this cartoon is to show how the government blew up the sequester when really it wasn't a huge issue, and they called it an emergency just to see what would happen.
• This cartoon relates to the sequester that his been taking over the news, but not much to what we talked about in class.
• The satire is that the pople in the pentagon decided to call an emergency on something as insignificant and miniscule as a chicken with a sign.