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SMALL MOVEMENT OF RIGHT ARM
Quite aside from how revolting this Leunig cartoon is, note that the characters are presented sitting in bean bags. Michael Leunig is too lazy to draw chairs.
Revolting cartoon from a revolting person. I can’t believe Leunig is still upset over the death of his favorite wheelchair bound terrorist, Sheikh Ahmed Yasin.
On another topic, this photo of our ABC in action should cheer us all up, via: Legless in Perpetuum
Does “Small movement of right arm” refer to Ariel Sharon, or the effort required of Leunig to draw this piece of crap?
Posted by HisHineness on 2006 01 10 at 11:12 PM • permalinkPerhaps for his next cartoon in the moral-equivalence series, Leunig can draw wheelchair-bound Leon Klinghoffer being pushed over the side of the Achille Lauro by Palestinian terrorists, shouting “I deserved this” on his way down.
Hilarious.
While we’re all on the whole ‘year end’ theme, here’s a relevant quote from Tony McAdam in Crikey.
A close competitor on the local pitch, for sheer puerile spite and what comes over as an almost pathological hatred of America, must be the Melbourne Age’s “cartoonist”, Michael Leunig, a seriously unfunny misanthrope if ever there was one, curiously considered something of a sage by Age fans.
And a relevant end of 2004 prediction for Leunig. He met the challenge nicely.
http://timblair.spleenville.com/archives/005556.php#044646While I don’t think that there are instances where Israel is totally blameless, it beggars belief to see a group of supposedly intelligent people, ie, journalists at The Age, totally unable to recognize that the Pallestinians are not blameless either.
It starts with the scant attention given to last weeks attack on Egyptian border guards by our friendly Palestinians and continues with the glowing report of the kidnapped Australian teacher.
If you read the teacher’s answers, they are quite frank, though the Age chose to diminish the fact that the entire school has closed and staff have left Gaza,but rather, to trumpet, whilst wetting themselves with pleasure that the kidnappers were ‘so kind’.
Its almost Pythonesque in its stupidity. Do Leunig and his pals at Spencer St really think that we are so similarly stupid?
Disgusting but to be expected from the lobotomised moonbat.
Even worse from Scott Burchill at the Australian
Orgasm of hatred
Is this the drivel that issues forth out of our universities to brainwash the next generation?It starts with the scant attention given to last weeks attack on Egyptian border guards by our friendly Palestinians and continues with the glowing report of the kidnapped Australian teacher.
The scant attention was simply because when Arabs shoot other Arabs, it’s often difficult to pin on the Jews. Did you know that many more Palestinians were killed by other Palestinians in 2005 than by Israel? If you read the press, of course you didn’t…
#9
Is this the drivel that issues forth out of our universities to brainwash the next generation?
Yes. Yes it is. Have a look at the blog of Evan Jones, of Sydney University which is http://alertandalarmed.blogspot.com/
See if you notice a consistent theme in his blog. See also this post which has a go at yours truly, spurred on by Antony Loewenstein.
Lets be polite about him: Leunig is a wanker.
Posted by WeekByWeek on 2006 01 10 at 11:30 PM • permalinkHmm at least those saudi cartoonist’s could do more then draw stick figures with their hatred.
http://anthonycbates.blogspot.com/2006/01/something-rotten-in-denmark-cough.html
That’s disgusting, but I wonder, why do Leunig’s characters always look so sad. It makes me want to force feed prozac down their throats; or surgically alter their faces so that they can’t frown ever again.
Alternatively, the editors could just fire Leunig. Something like that might make me want to, you know, actually consider buying another copy of The Age before I die.
Drop the little parasite a note…
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Posted by Jay Santos on 2006 01 11 at 12:02 AM • permalink11
i sent a selection of Loewenstein’s comments to the AJN saying that the Churchill of Israel not only fought all his life against the arab exterminationist but had to hold at bay a host of treacherous Jews such as Loewenstein ( who should volunteer as a suicide bomber for the ISM, BTW).
One wonders if the AJN is not just another Jewish appeasement publication.I can demonstrate a small movement of one finger for Mr. Leunig…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 01 11 at 12:06 AM • permalinkSheikh Ahmed Yasin was in a wheel chair; so was Dr Strangelove. Both of these guys got off on death. Perhaps as the Israeli missile headed his way, the good Sheikh rose suddenly from his chair and cried, ‘Mein Allah, I can walk!’
Leunig’s farm in eastern Victoria must be pleasant so what entitles him to the irrational hatred of those who live and suffer in Israel and the Palestinian territories? Leftie ‘victim’ chic - but it must be an approved victim.
And how does he do it - these miraculous cartoons? Leunig explains:
“My week of cartooning work involves four basic cartoons, sometimes it can be more. I guess I go to the news sources on the Internet. I read the papers on the Internet. The BBC. I read various sites that emanate from America. ‘Al Jazira’. And just contemplate that. And I think I’m ruminating and contemplating constantly. It’s my nature. I’m just reflective with whatever I’m doing. I can be in a vineyard, or anywhere like this, and I’m thinking about that thing that John Howard said, or that terrible tragic thing that has happened, and I’m trying to make sense of it. I’m trying to think, How can I distil this into some little poetic moment that awakens people to other possibilities?”
Spare me.
Inurbanus,
I’m trying to think, How can I distil this into some little poetic moment that awakens people to other possibilities?”
Ah! I see. He’s not just any no-talent leftist political hack, he’s vomit-inducing pretentious to boot!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 01 11 at 12:17 AM • permalinkSomeone’s done a great bio job in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Leunig
Posted by Jay Santos on 2006 01 11 at 12:19 AM • permalink“I go to the news sources on the Internet. I read the papers on the Internet”
I posted this on the 1st of Jan
Do you think that the man who launches missiles at helpless kindly holy men in wheelchairs would think twice about stripping safety measures from US mines for his personal profit?
Even now in a coma, he still manipulates the Cabal of right wing death beasts!
MMM?
WHo is the Michael Lonnie who replied to my post?
NAH can’t be alias Michael LoenigWow, thats actually pretty darn good artwork for a 2 year old. I’m very impressed!
He’s not two? He’s HOW OLD?! Nah, you must be kidding. No one older than 2 or 3 could have that little drawing talent. Or so simplistic a world-view, for that matter. This kid could have talent when he grows the hell up!
Posted by MikeTheLibrarian on 2006 01 11 at 12:44 AM • permalinkSpiny Norman, I couldn’t agree more.
“I’m trying to think, How can I distil this into some little poetic moment that awakens people to other possibilities?”
‘Poetic’? It sure ain’t art. As a cartoon it’s witless. The bottom rung of propaganda maybe - promotion of unthought.
I love “... I’m thinking about that thing that John Howard said, or that terrible tragic thing that has happened…”. Earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes and that thing that Howard said.
Don’t these people listen to themselves? The preciousness and posturing come from left group think and a mutually reinforcing sense of superiority - their bubble-like exile from reality. It’s all so sad ... in a whimsical kind of way.
Check out the fawning ABC interview from which I got this quotation and you’ll see what I mean:
http://www.abc.net.au/gnt/profiles/Transcripts/s1103411.htm
What the hell do they know about ‘other possibilities’? Leunig’s ‘wisdom’ could not be more conventional and derivative.
The free ride left culture gets in Australia produces this kind of indulgence and narrow-mindedness.
But we have Tim Blair, Deo Gratias!
Why doesn’t “Mr. Leunig” draw something like the political cartoons that have caused such a fuss in Denmark? see for examples: http://weekbyweek7.blogspot.com/2006/01/danish-anyone-its-not-halal-jyllands.html#links
Posted by WeekByWeek on 2006 01 11 at 01:10 AM • permalinkJay, bit of a tussel going on over there at wikipedia. I had to look in history to find what you were on about, glad I did…
“Most are quite juvenile in depiction and intention, often being confused with the work of a Down’s Syndrome child.”
And the rest, haha.
I went and had a look at the Wikipedia entry ... it says that Loonig is a living national treasure ... I only thought Chairman Gough was one ... but there are 115 of the fockers listed here ... what’s the National Trust doing printing lists of actors, liberals, communists, artists, politicians and a few sportspeople thrown in for balance ... looks like preserving old buildings isn’t good enough for the National Trust ... you beat me to it Dano ...
How different from Negus’s interview of Margaret Thatcher!
This is indeed a “nudge nudge say no more” society where art and talent are the exclusive domain of those who belong to the club of the progressive enlightened neo libs.
it is quite nauseating especially when one considers that its players are firmly rooted in the alternative centrelink culture of the public funded neo marxists.“The decision to educate the children at home – there were many things that informed it. But suddenly it dawned on us what a great, great luxury this is that we could afford because we have space. And there’s a great Australian tradition of distance education.”
Are these the words of an uninformed right wing death beast elitist?Not the only nit-wit cartoon going at the moment.
Looks like Mushtaq Heidelberg may have been outed again this time on his own blog.Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 01 11 at 02:07 AM • permalinkif you like your politics with comedy or vis versa, might I suggest:
http://dukemcgoo.blogspot.com/
Beware: Canadian ContentPosted by Go Canucks on 2006 01 11 at 02:18 AM • permalinkBTW, Canada’s Liberal Party is liberal, unlike your Liberals and their coalition. (And Belinda Stronach isn’t a PETA member doing an ad on the right-hand side of the page, but a former Conservative MP who crossed the floor and was rewarded with a Cabinet Ministry for helping to keep the Lieberals’ minority government alive through a non-confidence motion.)
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 01 11 at 02:45 AM • permalinkpaco: And why is the person on the right holding what looks like a giant peanut?
It looks like a moray eel to me.
I’m not sure if I’m being Southern-Californiastan-centric, but it’s a disgusting looking huge eel-thing. In the sea.
And it looks exactly like that, (at least the head part).
What I’m wondering is: why do only Paco and I wonder Double U Tee Eff that thing is supposed to be?
Posted by zeppenwolf on 2006 01 11 at 03:26 AM • permalink#45, I think your first impression in correct, like Alfred Hitchcock appearing in his own movies.
Posted by Susan Norton on 2006 01 11 at 04:49 AM • permalinkO/t New Zealand’s “Air Force” is monitoring clashes between Greenpeace and the Japanese whalers….I thought they sold their airforce -and the abc site says they even have (gasp) a frigate.Maybe the term Sea Shepherds gave them the wrong fantasy -um idea.
Don’t go fretting about that New Zealand navy -he’ll be perfectly safe wherever he and his rowing boat are.Leunig’s non-political stuff used to be pretty good, in a melancholy sort of way. Shame he’s such a dickhead now.
Posted by closeapproximation on 2006 01 11 at 05:01 AM • permalinkThe fact that Leunig might disagree with me about who the real baddies are in Israel and ‘Palestine’ is neither here nor there.
I may feel that Israel is more sinned against than sinning but I can see too that neither side is guiltless. Leunig paints the conflict as a bald melodrama.
If he wants a political cartoonist’s licence to play it that way, he needs to think in images and not just have a couple of guys on bean bags being sarcastic. Lazy stuff.
Real political cartoons look like this:
http://www.coxandforkum.com/
‘Cirque de PA’If he wants a political cartoonist’s licence to play it that way, he needs to think in images and not just have a couple of guys on bean bags being sarcastic. Lazy stuff.
Inurbanus, I don’t think it’s just lazy, it’s cowardly. Leunig uses fictional characters, fictional situations, and glib one-liners as a means of communicating his political views to others. He grossly misrepresents George Bush, John Howard, Israel and, in this cartoon, Ariel Sharon, but he gets away with it. Why? Because he’s ‘a cartoonist’; because he’s ‘making art’; because he uses ‘metaphors and allegories’, because he means to ‘challenge us, to make us think’.
If he put these views across in an article, he would be labelled a liar or a propagandist. But because he’s a cartoonist, he’s able to put his views across and escape from any serious criticism.It’s clear that his cartoons have become a mere vehicle for his political views. The self-styled ‘gentle, shy, loving philosopher’ has become nothing more than a hateful propagandist. He should be fired.
an incidental point: look at The Age stable of cartoonists—Leunig, Petty, Tandberg,
Spooner, and the rest —- every one of them apostles of Howard-hating, far Left views and economically, they are protectionist (free trade = devil-devil) and generally considerably more socialism-sympathetic than the Labor Party. When any of them attack the Labor Party, it is invariably from the Far Left standpoint. it is curious that although The Age espouses a sham creed of ‘balance’ with its columnists
(allowing one column in about five or ten to espouse a rightist viewpoint), it doesn’t even pretend to any kind of balance in its cartoonist stable.
Given these cartoonists’ overt sympathies for the poor and deprived, can anyone provide a steer as to what Leunig and Petty get paid by The Age? Just wondering.#49 Crash you are right in saying the NZ airforce is “monitoring” the situation as they have no strike capacity!.
Just cruising around that Wikipedia entry for the NZ airforce. One would think that the symbol emblazened on a nation’s military aircraft should convey potency, grace and intimidation, right? An eagle or something is appropriate, right? Check out New Zealand’s incredibly apt airforce roundel!
A small, ungainly, weak, flightless bird. Enough to make the enemy quiver in fear.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 01 11 at 06:41 AM • permalinkThe Secret of Michael Leunig’s success.
http://humbugonline.blogspot.com/2006/01/secret-of-michael-leunigs-success.html
TimT #54
Don’t disagree but cartoons are not essays. When Cox and Forkum show Hamas as a hyena preying on Israeli corpses they are using the image as ‘vehicle for their political views’ but the hyena is ‘poetic’, if you want to get fancy, because it delivers a moral judgement in a single powerfully resonant picture.
‘Cirque du PA’ is political and the Leunig ‘merely’ political, to use your word. The difference lies not just in the quality of the judgements but also in the potency of one image and the poverty of the other. It’s the combination that makes the art.
Leunig does that existential pathos thing well and can be a witty bugger. Maybe the ‘The Age’ is going for broke with its narrowing readership and want him to feed the prejudices of its far left audience by letting him air his own. He shouldn’t fall for it.
“I’m trying to think, How can I distil this into some little poetic moment that awakens people to other possibilities?”
“And damned if I have any idea how to do that after decades on the job.”
Anyway, the main thing I usually notice about Leunig cartoons is how they’re invariably 90%+ whitespace once you take away the ample amount of text. Not a particularly good cartoonist who needs to use more ink on the explanation than on the drawing, but what do I know.
Davo, may I suggest a reduction in your caffeine intake, or whatever else it is that is driving up your paranoid tendencies? Treasured commenter Michael Lonie most assuredly isn’t Michael Leunig. Sheesh.
I do think Michael missed the sarcasm in your post. I can’t say I blame him, though, given that you’re not exactly the most intelligible commenter here even when you’re not on a rant…
#60. James:
A small, ungainly, weak, flightless bird.
But does it taste like chicken?
Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2006 01 11 at 11:47 PM • permalinkJono, if you think that was a great image then you should look at the post I wrote about Leunig’s cartoon!
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