Wednesday, August 15th, 2007
Concern trolling Ben Sargent
No, seriously. I shit you not. That’s what was in the paper today. Take a look (emphasis mine):
Sometimes it pays to shop around for the truth
Ben Sargent characterized Attorney General Alberto Gonzales as a fibbing Pinocchio in his July 29 editorial cartoon. I thought back to the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal and could not recall a similar artistic statement made by Sargent. In fact, his acerbic tendencies seemed to be on extended vacation during this protracted news story.
If one’s statements are consistently politically one-sided, and his are, then the message unfortunately is limited to barbs and ridicule targeting the same groups, and that becomes boring and predictable after a while. Instead, let’s see commentary transcending political affiliation and based on principle, such as pointing out the damage caused by lies and abuse of power in all situations where it occurs.
That type of artistic statement has world-changing potential.
Steve <REDACTED>, Austin
As much as I malign the Statesman for its anti-liberal bias, they actually did some decent journalism this time by pointing to a Ben Sargent cartoon that criticized President Clinton during the Lewinsky scandal witchhunt.
And in case you’re wondering, here’s the cartoon the letter writer was concern trolling about:
