Political Cartoons

[hube1236]

I was searching the net looking for reference to a animated cartoon that I had seen many years ago as a child. It takes place during WWI, the main characters are squirrels, set during Christmas Eve; the action culminates in a German sniper in a gas mask getting shot (and killed) in the end and slumping over into his hole. Any help in finding the name or any reference to this one is appreciated.

During the search I came across a political cartoon site that chronicals different eras of cartoons. Most cartoons upto the Korean War show some sort of firearm in them, Uncle Sam being relly pi$$ed, and the enemy always as a skeleton or goblin of some sorts.

911 cartoons (at least on this site) all depict the US as being a bunch of fat, bloated war mongers and that the enemy is reduced to rats or bugs- no guns except for this one...

http://www.authentichistory.com/images/attackonamerica/cartoons/91130.gif

Even so, it really does not seen, just implied. Does this represent a consious shift in how we see ourselves, from the right doers to a bunch of hacks. I realize that there is a certain degree shift to the left and leftism is hatred of the Country first, tax second...

Whart are your thoughts in relation to this and where do you see our (Americans) view of ourselves in 50 and 100 years? Will there be an America for which to have guns? After all, when is the last time you saw kids shooting each other with water pistols on a hot day? Or played cops and robbers or cowboys and indians?

[Blackhawk]

To survive, political cartoonists have to sell their stuff, typically to the media, which has become more and more liberal. It's no wonder most of them have a decidedly leftward, socialistic slant.

It's not the country, it's the media, which found out it could shape "public opinion" in the '60s by selective reporting and tight camera angles. No wonder the cartoonist's reflections you see are distorted....

[45 Long Colt]

In terms of media bias, it's really bad. But I suspect the underlying reason includes media stupidity as well as sheer sheep-like political correctness.

The media report the rantings of PETA as though PETA consisted of rational people. In fact, PETA is a bunch of completely crazy left-wing whack jobs. Most of their "spokespersons" are surgically enhanced, supposedly attractive women like Pamela Anderson Lee, who couldn't think her way out of a wet paper bag with a freshly honed Kabar.

Reading the newspaper is becoming an ordeal. I saw a headline last week that claimed three members of a family were "killed by an SUV."