Obama too handsome for good satire: caricaturist

Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | January 21, 2009 | Staff

[Loyalist]

New US President Barack Obama is too good-looking to provide inspiration for cartoons in the same way former president George W Bush served as fodder for some of their most biting commentary, a caricaturist says.

"It's never a gift for a caricaturist to draw a handsome man," said Pierre Kroll, from Belgium, which prides itself on its comic book culture, including Tintin.

[Loyalist]

When political correctness meets idolatry, this is what results.

Comedians won't tell jokes about Obama. Cartoonists refuse to caricature him. Satirists put away their poison pens at the mention of his name.

This is the sort of reverence one would expect for a deity.

His is the new Holy Name, not to be taken in vain.

(Off topic: Would these same cartoonists say that Sarah Palin is too attractive for caricature?)

[DustyMoment]

This should have come with an uber Barf Alert!

[Doogle]

yeah right

[maggief]

[Past Your Eyes]

If you can’t tell that just by reading the headline, there’s no hope for you.

[airborne]

Riiiight!

Pay no attention to those ears.....

...and those gigantic nostrils, made even bigger because he always has his nose in the air!

[maggief]

[svcw]

Obama who? GW Bush is at least manly as opposed to girly. Barry's ears are huge and he has no muscles what's not to do caricatures of?

[maggief]

" Pay no attention to those ears.....

...and those gigantic nostrils, made even bigger because he always has his nose in the air!"

[70th Division]

He still looks like a sock monkey to me

[A Strict Constructionist]

Obviously, the statement of a caricaturist with zero talent.

[nmh]

What?

He looks like a smiling monkey!

Obama isn't “handsome”.

[nmh]

Now that’s more like it.

You should be a “ghost writer” and pen some more of that. There is a HUNGRY market for it. I say, a “ghost writer” because you might be audited and and harassed.

[sneakers]

Uh.

Ick!

[sneakers]

Now THAT is a great caricature of the One!! lolol!!!

[reagan_fanatic]

God, please make it stop.

[DYngbld]

The neighbor girl wanted her parents to vote for him because “he is cute”. Got to love her (she is 14 and goes to public school)

[Le Chien Rouge]

Comedians won’t tell jokes about Obama. Cartoonists refuse to caricature him. Satirists put away their poison pens at the mention of his name.........

With 30 years of political correctness run amuck, these people haven’t got a clue on how to mock Obama and quite frankly, most are terrified at being labeled a racist:the kiss of death for their careers.....

[ari-freedom]

[rollo tomasi]

Self imposed censorship by the likes of Stewart, Letterman, Leno ect... is the epitome of hypocrisy. White guilt/fear/acting cowardly is no way to go through life.