St. Snickerous
Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the Lexington Herald-Leader. His work also appears in USA Today.
Nothing says holiday jeer like an editorial cartoon. I suppose since Jesus was tortured, Tom Toles’ yuletide electric display is not only festive, but historically appropriate. (Personally, I don’t think prisoner abuse is complete without tinsel and angels.) Signe Wilkinson wonders if modern Christmas has been made over, all glitter and gloss, no foundation. Armed with weapons of mass communication and spewing faulty intel-evision, Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, Sean Hannity and the rest of the Fox squad have been ginning up their “war” on Christmas. For this display of seasonal spirit, O’Reilly deserves a thousand John Coles in his fishnet stocking.
--Joel Pett