Palin, Chapter 2
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Week two of cartoonists firing at Sarah Palin, and the gun-toting, would-be VP is a pretty, easy target. Mike Keefe wondered about the working mom and the founding fathers; Mike Peters played the library card; and Mike Luckovich’s pig-penmanship made something beautiful out of the mudslinging. But, given many Americans’ low opinion of the media, does all this media vetting just make people like her more? Hmm, I feel a Palin-drome ... . “Drawers harass, Sarah’s reward.”
Joel Pett
Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist of the Lexington Herald-Leader. His work also appears in USA Today.
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