Mike Luckovich

By DavidU

April 17, 2006 03:40 PM | Link to this

Congratulations Mike! Love your work.

By FIRE

April 17, 2006 03:40 PM | Link to this

Congratulations!! This confirms that you should not concern yourself too much of your critics on your blog. They hate you and your work so much yet they continue to visit your web site EACH DAY! This is your affirmation that you are doing a GREAT job.

By JTG

April 17, 2006 03:41 PM | Link to this

The liberal media just love this guy. Just goes to show you that if you create 300 cartoons, of which 270 are about George W. Bush, you can win a Pulitzer.

By getalife

April 17, 2006 03:45 PM | Link to this

Congratulations Mike!

I did predict this on your blog.

You deserve it!

By Mara

April 17, 2006 03:48 PM | Link to this

Wow!! isn’t this gonna make the wingnuts even more crazy!? Watch out for the flying lip-foam as they launch into a wild frenzy of “liberal media” bashing. LOL!!! Poor little wingnuts!

Congrats Mike. You deserve it.

By Walt

April 17, 2006 03:49 PM | Link to this

JTG,

Grow up nancy-boy.

By Cliff in Suwanee

April 17, 2006 03:49 PM | Link to this

Congratulations, and please keep making the hippocrites, the self-important and the fools in high places uncomfortable. I’ve been enjoying your sharp wit for years now and wish you many more.

By Mack

April 17, 2006 03:49 PM | Link to this

Congratulations on #2, Mike. Keep up the good work.

By getalife

April 17, 2006 03:51 PM | Link to this

Speech!

By sleigh

April 17, 2006 03:52 PM | Link to this

Congrats Mr. Luckovich! I first encountered your work in the Times-Picayune (thanks to my NOLA best friend) and we still email your cartoons back and forth. Keep up the good work!

By Sam

April 17, 2006 03:54 PM | Link to this

Congragulations on being OVERATED. You hit the mark on 50% of your cartoons, the rest SUCK. * (In other words you are ready for Management at Krogers!!)*

(Thank Goodness I gave up my subscription to the AJC when I quite Drinking!)

By Hammerlibs

April 17, 2006 03:55 PM | Link to this

What’s news about this? Lukovich almost daily prints Bush slander rhetoric. Mallard Fillmore is a great cartoon, but it slants right of center, so naturally the liberal fish-wrapper rag AJC won’t print it. That’s one reason myself and many others in the metro area couldn’t be PAID enough to read that liberal sh!tfest.

Someone winning a Pulitzer for Bush trashing is about as surprising as willing an Oscar for Republican bashing.. or loony leftist Jimmy Carter winning a Nobel Prize for “peace.” What a crock.

BAH!!

By getalife

April 17, 2006 03:58 PM | Link to this

Sam,

Why did you “quite” Drinking?

Just like Tom, you should go back to drinking.

By J. J. Chambers

April 17, 2006 03:59 PM | Link to this

Congrats! You really are the best. Newsweek shows the best every week, you almost always have one and sometimes two. I have been a fan since you were with the New Orleans Paper. Atlanta is very fortunate to have you at AJC. 98% of your cartoons are excelent and the other 2% are still better than the rest of the cartoonists. J. J. Chambers Destin, Fl.

By sct

April 17, 2006 03:59 PM | Link to this

JTG is most certainly right! Its a farce that the total number of cartoons about Bush wasn’t 298 out of 300. Mike please pay more attention to whats happening in this country!

and, CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

By Michael

April 17, 2006 04:00 PM | Link to this

I have been a fan of your work for many years! Many CONGRATS on your second Pulitzer. Don’t mind the troll posts. They’re being exactly what they are: trolls.

Keep those wonderful editorial cartoons coming for many years to come!

By getalife

April 17, 2006 04:02 PM | Link to this

Listen to the wingnuts.

Bah!

They really are W’s sheep!

By Brian

April 17, 2006 04:02 PM | Link to this

This proves once and for all, that like the Nobel prize, the Pulitzer prize is meaningless.

By Dave

April 17, 2006 04:03 PM | Link to this

It’s getting too easy to win a Pulitizer or even a Nobel Prize these days. All you have to do is be anti-American, anti-Bush, anti-Republican, and anti-Christian and you’re in the running.

By clark

April 17, 2006 04:04 PM | Link to this

“oh, I hate the AJC”

“Oh, I would never read that useless liberal newspaper”

“Mike your cartoons suck so much, I never even look at them”

“You are Overrated, I would not waste a minute of my time on you”

Yet, here they are: at the AJC site, looking at Mike’s cartoons, and commenting on his art day in and day out. Makes you kind of wonder.

By Michael

April 17, 2006 04:05 PM | Link to this

I have been a fan of your work for many years! Many CONGRATS on your second Pulitzer. Don’t mind the troll posts. They’re being exactly what they are: trolls.

Keep those wonderful editorial cartoons coming for many years to come!

By adam

April 17, 2006 04:05 PM | Link to this

Never been a fan, still not. You can probably get cleared to move to Iran/Iraq if you’d like. Someone who hates the US and our culture so much should simply leave, oh, and take the 1 million illegals with you.

By Brian

April 17, 2006 04:05 PM | Link to this

This proves once and for all, that like the Nobel prize, the Pulitzer prize is meaningless.

By lovejones4

April 17, 2006 04:09 PM | Link to this

Wow. Congrats, Mike! This really is in an-your-face to all these right-wing know-nothings and nut jobs who comment on your blog a lot. You’re in really tall cotton now but I see your stuff so often in Time, other newsweeklies and USA Today and such that many of us already knew that you have few peers in the business. I know you don’t pay attention to those blinded to Bush’s incompetence, hatred or whatever limits their vision. But keep sharing yours, brother, keep sharing. You’re an Atlanta treasure. Much love. We’re proud of you! From one journalist to the next, you make me proud to go to work and think that we in the Fourth Estate can make a difference. Keep sticking it to The Worst President Ever! You’re the Michael Jordan of your business and you’re dropping constant triple doubles on the hapless and overmatched Bush!

By hh

April 17, 2006 04:11 PM | Link to this

Congrats ML.

Even though your cartoons have pretty much sucked lately.

By Carl T. Savage

April 17, 2006 04:11 PM | Link to this

Keep them coming. If the people don’t like em, then you know you hit the spot….I like them and I still think you hit the spot (most of the time).

By hh

April 17, 2006 04:13 PM | Link to this

Congrats ML.

Even though your cartoons have pretty much sucked lately.

By Margret

April 17, 2006 04:14 PM | Link to this

I’m very happy to hear this good news! There are a lot of people who understand what good editoral cartooning is, they are just chastized by the right for saying so! I appreciate your candor and insight into how you see our world today! Congratulations!

By Mark

April 17, 2006 04:14 PM | Link to this

Congrats Mike! Keep the heat on the powers that be. Anyone who follows you’re career knows you’ve skewered Republicans and Democrats equally… unfortunately the mouth-breathing Bush lovers have short memories, stunted senses of humor and their heads in the sand about Bush’s many blunders, half-truths and outright lies. People are dying for lies (at least no one died when Bill Clinton lied), people… wake up. Keep up the great work!

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 17, 2006 04:15 PM | Link to this

It just goes to show you how far Pulitzer has sunk…

By Mike Jones

April 17, 2006 04:15 PM | Link to this

Congragulationis on your award Mike. Personally I cannot stand your catoons Mr. Luckovich. Your cartoons are left wing biased against the current administration. If you started to lampoon a wider scope of the Americian political landscape,it would be more entertaining. I would recomend that you have more of an open mind and look at the whole picture. Hillary Clinton would make a great cartoon don’t you think?

By HH

April 17, 2006 04:16 PM | Link to this

Congrats ML.

Even though your cartoons have pretty much sucked lately.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 17, 2006 04:16 PM | Link to this

Hey, since the prize don’t mean nothing anymore, you think they could keep it and give him a server for his blog instead?

By Carl T. Savage

April 17, 2006 04:17 PM | Link to this

Can you please do something to bring Colin Powell out of hiding!

By In your eye, synchopant Repubs!

April 17, 2006 04:18 PM | Link to this

Satirists 1, Reactionary-head-in-the-sand-synchopant Repubs 0…

By getalife

April 17, 2006 04:19 PM | Link to this

Told you it was a mental illness.

Just look at the hate they spew.

Reminds me of this guy

By In your eye, synchopant Repubs!

April 17, 2006 04:19 PM | Link to this

Satirists 1, Reactionary-head-in-the-sand-synchopant Repubs 0…

By Talon News

April 17, 2006 04:20 PM | Link to this

Are you kidding me another Pulitzer??? Whatever happenened to journalistic integrity?

Jeff O~O

By gttim

April 17, 2006 04:20 PM | Link to this

Way to go Mike! Fantastic!

Exploding wingnut heads

Awesome as well!

By Robert

April 17, 2006 04:22 PM | Link to this

Mike, With 2 Pulitzers use your clout at the AJC and see if they can finally FIX THIS BLOG so that comments appear on a timely matter and it doesn’t go to a white screen. Thank you.

PS: FIX THE SERVER ON THE BLOG

By Robert

April 17, 2006 04:22 PM | Link to this

Mike, With 2 Pulitzers use your clout at the AJC and see if they can finally FIX THIS BLOG so that comments appear on a timely matter and it doesn’t go to a white screen. Thank you.

PS: FIX THE SERVER ON THE BLOG

By CLAX

April 17, 2006 04:24 PM | Link to this

I subscribe to Newsweek which publishes three political cartoons on its editorial page each week. I cannot begin to count the number of times that two of the three cartoons were Mikes and can count on one hand the number of times one of his cartoons was not included on that page! What a great testament to a National Treasure right here in our hometown!

By bijones@ajc.com

April 17, 2006 04:26 PM | Link to this

CONGRATULATIONS MIKE! - Your Brilliant!!!! You call em like you see em - and usually are dead on in the most hillarious ways…… Wish the world had a million more just like ya.

By Jim

April 17, 2006 04:27 PM | Link to this

He does not deserve it! He is a fake, a racist, and a coward who never drew an anti-clinton cartoon in his life. He is anti-military, anti-US and I am embarrassed that he draws for the newspaper I subscribe to. Unfortunetly the leftist AJC is the only newspaper in town.

By Robert

April 17, 2006 04:27 PM | Link to this

Mike, With 2 Pulitzers use your clout at the AJC and see if they can finally FIX THIS BLOG so that comments appear on a timely matter and it doesn’t go to a white screen. Thank you.

PS: FIX THE SERVER ON THE BLOG

By Barbara

April 17, 2006 04:27 PM | Link to this

CONGRATULATIONS MIKE!!!!! YOUR WORK IS FANTASTIC!

By Eric

April 17, 2006 04:27 PM | Link to this

Congrats to Luckovich. He does what he is supposed to do… make people think and make people talk. Unfortunately, MOST of the talking is done by a bunch of spineless, no-solution liberals or a pack of Bible thumping, racist wingnuts. So nothing good ever comes of it.

But congrats to Mike for at least getting the two sides talking.

By Jim

April 17, 2006 04:27 PM | Link to this

He does not deserve it! He is a fake, a racist, and a coward who never drew an anti-clinton cartoon in his life. He is anti-military, anti-US and I am embarrassed that he draws for the newspaper I subscribe to. Unfortunetly the leftist AJC is the only newspaper in town.

By Mike Garcia

April 17, 2006 04:30 PM | Link to this

Let’s see - newspapers winning Pulitzer prizes for Bush-bashing, and a leftist cartoonist winning one for Bush-bashing as well. Wow! How unexpected and shocking! Didn’t Green Day win an award for Bush-Bashing also? I guess the whole notion of a “left-wing media” really is just paranoia…

It should also be noted that public opinion of the news media is at an all-time low. As such, what does a Pulitzer award really mean? That the public doesn’t trust you, but that’s ok because you’re still really really good?

By Robert

April 17, 2006 04:30 PM | Link to this

Mike, With 2 Pulitzers use your clout at the AJC and see if they can finally FIX THIS BLOG so that comments appear on a timely matter and it doesn’t go to a white screen. Thank you.

PS: FIX THE SERVER ON THE BLOG

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 17, 2006 04:32 PM | Link to this

Oh, O.K. I’ll give kudos where kudos are due. Congratulation cartoon boy, you’re in the company of Yasar Arafat and Jimmy Carter, other famous fake pinko prize winners.

Like CLAX sez, BushSucksWeek publishes our boy damn near every issue, that’s proof of something alright….

By A fan

April 17, 2006 04:33 PM | Link to this

Congratulations.

A few years ago, my teenaged son was hospitalized at Scottish Rite. You were visiting there one evening, and even though my son couldn’t get out of bed to meet you, you drew a get-well cartoon for him. He still has it (although, to be fair, it’s hanging in his bathroom.). We appreciated your taking the time to spread some cheer.

Keep up the superior work, and don’t let them wear you down.

By @@

April 17, 2006 04:35 PM | Link to this

It appears that congratulations are in order. You won “The Pulitzer” is it?

I have to be honest though, while a couple of your cartoons have given me a chuckle, there have been other political cartoonists who have been far more creative in their satire and art. Even the ones that bash Bush.

Call it constructive criticism. I’d like to see the public vote on these things. We are, after all, the consumers.

By Aaron

April 17, 2006 04:35 PM | Link to this

Good job Mike, the liberal AJC rag needs an award for something, might as well be humor.

By John

April 17, 2006 04:35 PM | Link to this

Congratulations to Luckovich! The Pulitzer is fully deserved.

By KB

April 17, 2006 04:36 PM | Link to this

Congrats Mike! I started reading your cartoons on/after 9/11. The powerful emotions you can evoke and the political humor you so often show says so much about your character. Don’t pay a split second of attention to the wing-nuts that berate your work daily (and you know who you are, ya tools!). Like clark pointed out earlier, if they aren’t going to deign to read the AJC then they sure need to stufu already. I think you certainly deserve this award and I’m so proud of you when I open a national magazine and see one of your cartoons prominently displayed. BTW, by all means, continue to spear Gee-Dubya’s “ba-dee-ba-dee” government we are now ensnared within. With three more years of this crapola, you are most certainly guaranteed work! ;]

By babs

April 17, 2006 04:36 PM | Link to this

I LIKE MIKE!!! (All the time!) Figured I’d better get this in before the righties (who have canceled their subscriptions and don’t read this paper) clog the blog for the next 12 hours. Congratulations, Mr. Luckovich, on your prestigious award and well-deserved recognition.

By Stephen Bowers

April 17, 2006 04:38 PM | Link to this

Mike:

You must be doing something right. Your work engages those who love you and those who hate you. I don’t always agree but when some national crisis occurs I always enjoy seeing your take on it.

By KB

April 17, 2006 04:39 PM | Link to this

Congrats Mike! I started reading your cartoons on/after 9/11. The powerful emotions you can evoke and the political humor you so often show says so much about your character. Don’t pay a split second of attention to the wing-nuts that berate your work daily (and you know who you are, ya tools!). Like clark pointed out earlier, if they aren’t going to deign to read the AJC then they sure need to stufu already. I think you certainly deserve this award and I’m so proud of you when I open a national magazine and see one of your cartoons prominently displayed. BTW, by all means, continue to spear Gee-Dubya’s “ba-dee-ba-dee” government we are now ensnared within. With three more years of this crapola, you are most certainly guaranteed work! ;]

By Pinko Liberal

April 17, 2006 04:45 PM | Link to this

Satirists 1, Reactionary-Delusional-Synchophant Repubs 0…

By Dennis

April 17, 2006 04:48 PM | Link to this

Hmmmm. Dave “The Right Wing Nazi” says you’re anti-American. He ought to know…his rhetoric is reminiscent of all the senseless followers who let the corrupt run this country. THAT is anti-American!!!! Not standing up for the downtrodden is anti-American (and anti-Christian)!!!! Not remembering that the Statue of Liberty ever-so-eloquenty states “Bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost, to me. I life my lamp beside the golden door.” Did you understand that, DAVE? Are you really that dim to not realize the scope of work you are so poorly criticizing??

EXCELLENT JOB, MIKE!!! Your work portrays the ideals of the intelligent masses perfectly!

By Brian

April 17, 2006 04:52 PM | Link to this

A good cartoonist working for a really terrible newspaper. Too bad because I used to like to read the AJC.

By Marion of Texas

April 17, 2006 04:53 PM | Link to this

Congratulations, Mike Luckovich! This is a well deserved honor. I quit posting on this blog because some of the regulars use the blog to spew their hate-mongering and make personal attacks. But I had to post again today to tell you I am very happy that you received this award. You do an amazing job of zero-ing in on the absurdities of our times, particularly the powerful, and this is exactly what a newspaper should do. “Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.” Keep drawing! I remain a true blue fan!

By Bushwhacker

April 17, 2006 04:53 PM | Link to this

Great job ML. Keep up the good work. We love ya.

By getalife

April 17, 2006 04:55 PM | Link to this

Check out Mike on the home page of the AJC breaking out the bubbly.

By Pinko Liberal

April 17, 2006 05:00 PM | Link to this

Satirists 1, Reactionary-Delusional-Synchophant Repubs 0…

By Republican Family Values

April 17, 2006 05:00 PM | Link to this

Fantastic job Mike. AJC ROCKS!!!

Jury Finds Former Ill. Gov. Ryan Guilty of Racketeering and Fraud

George Ryan (Republican Governor, Illinois)

Ryan’s term in office was marked by a scandal involving the illegal sale of government licenses, contracts and leases by state employees during his prior service as Secretary of State; in the wake of numerous convictions of former aides, he chose not to run for reelection in 2002. In December 2003 he was indicted on 18 federal racketeering, fraud and conspiracy charges. His trial got underway in September 2005. The scandals are widely believed to have hurt the chances for Republicans to hold the governorship; Attorney General Jim Ryan (no relation) lost to Rod Blagojevich in the 2002 election, ending 25 years of Republican governorships.

Bye, bye, to more Rupubliscum!

By Pinko Liberal

April 17, 2006 05:01 PM | Link to this

Satirists 1, Reactionary-Delusional-Synchophant Repubs 0…

By WJSmith

April 17, 2006 05:01 PM | Link to this

Regardless of whether one agrees or disagrees with your cartoons, they are provocative and absolutely necessary! That you and the AJC provide them so regularly is great; that you’ve been twice-recognized for your skills is incredibly wonderful.

Keep provoking conversation! It’s truly a vital part of the democratic process!

By tarmar

April 17, 2006 05:01 PM | Link to this

Richly deserved, Mike. I get a good chuckle from you and Doonesbury on a daily basis. And I get a good belly laugh from the bozo bloggers on this site denouncing your every observation in such pitiful, close-minded ways.

Keep doing your thing, Mike. The madder you make ‘em, the happier I’ll be.

By Steve

April 17, 2006 05:03 PM | Link to this

I can’t name any major newspaper that doesn’t have a liberal slant, nor can I name a TV news station, with the exception of FoxNews, that doesn’t also suffer from the same liberal bias. Since it is common knowledge that the news media is leftist, why are these righties surprised that a leftist cartoonist should win a journalism prize? Remember when Michael Moore’s (now almost completely debunked) Bush-bashing movie received a standing ovation in FRANCE? Need I say more?

By Anthony

April 17, 2006 05:03 PM | Link to this

Good job Mike. Your cartoons bring insight and humor to the everyday things in the news. Keep up the good work.

By Pinko Liberal

April 17, 2006 05:03 PM | Link to this

Satirists 1, Reactionary-Delusional-Synchophant Repubs 0…

By Eric Deming

April 17, 2006 05:04 PM | Link to this

Mike stole my tie!

By B. Daniels

April 17, 2006 05:06 PM | Link to this

Congratulations, Mike - VERY well deserved and keep up the great work! We love you …

By Jenn

April 17, 2006 05:08 PM | Link to this

Congrats! Keep it up!

By getalife

April 17, 2006 05:09 PM | Link to this

Your welcome.

By Lynne

April 17, 2006 05:12 PM | Link to this

Mike, You are the best! Congratulations to you the AJC, and Atlanta. Looking forward to many more.

The wingnuts who don’t subscribe and don’t read the AJC yet bash what they haven’t seen, just continue to amaze the rest of us with their illogical arguments.

By Midori

April 17, 2006 05:13 PM | Link to this

Mike,

you are one class act.

funny AND talented!!!

rock on, Brother!!!!

By Angela Gittens

April 17, 2006 05:14 PM | Link to this

Mike: I have lived in a lot of places and read a lot of newspapers. No one deserves this more than you do.

Congratulations!

By Chuck

April 17, 2006 05:15 PM | Link to this

I think I’m gonna puke!!!

By Dave

April 17, 2006 05:17 PM | Link to this

The fact that this blog resembles the left-wing fanatic Huffington Post should indicate that intelligent conversation is not to be expected here. Conservatives noting that journalists are decidedly liberal (ooooh, what a shock!), and liberals congratulating the cartoonist for daring to bash President Bush. Whooah - that’s truly unheard of in the news media!

By Kurtis R.E. Segars

April 17, 2006 05:19 PM | Link to this

What a joke. Mike is one of the least talented political cartoonists ever. Only hard core Democrats enjoy this guy. Wow! He makes fun of Republicans and Bush everyday. That takes talent? No. Why not make fun of retarded kids too Mike? The shots he takes at right wingers are often a cheap shot and not very clever. The cartoons aren’t well drawn either. It’s the same thing everyday. Bush lied, the war is a failure, bush lied. We got it in the first 500 cartoons Mike. You don’t like Bush. My opinion of the pulitizer really went down the crapper. What’s next? Wooten, Tucker, and Booman win best op/ed staff?

By Midori

April 17, 2006 05:20 PM | Link to this

Hey Steve,

STFU Moron.

Moore’s movie was NOT debunked. It was lied about by cretins like you and your ilk. It was misrepresented by your goon squad. It was picked apart by you feces slinging idiots.

As for the movie garnering a standing ovation in France, I could have sworn I was in Chamblee, Ga when I watched it and it got a standing “o” at the end.

Fox News is for LOSERS.

By @@

April 17, 2006 05:24 PM | Link to this

I can barely read the text on the screen for all the drool. I really find it amusing that people can become so excited over celebrity status.

Giving celebrities all the accolades that are deserved by the hard-working American citizens. I’ve never understood it. But it’s funny to watch it.

By Bill

April 17, 2006 05:27 PM | Link to this

Hey, I have a terrific Pulitzer-winning idea. I’ll just write an article that bashes GWB for three paragraphs, and put one of these titles on it:

“Bush is a Woman/Minority-Hating Nazi Bigot”

“Lies of the Bush/Cheney/Hitler Administration of Satan”

“The Demise of the KKKonservatives”

“George W. Bush is a Stupid-Head”

“Republicans Kill Negros and Take Away Their Medical Insurance”

“Sadaam May Have Killed Hundreds of Thousands, But Bush is a Christian Bigot from Racist Texas”

By jc

April 17, 2006 05:29 PM | Link to this

Way to go Mike! Atlanta is lucky to have a local producing such satirically cutting cartoons - please keep it up!

By Big Dark Willy

April 17, 2006 05:32 PM | Link to this

Mikes got nothing on Horsey…

By Big Dark Willy

April 17, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this

Mikes got nothing on Horsey…

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 17, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this

Dana Priest of WASHINGTON POST wins for beat reporting on secret prisons and U.S. counterterrorism campaign…

For disclosing the locations of secret CIA prisons and endangering the lives of agents at those locations. Totally unreal, there’s no hypocrisy here at all, nope, none.

This is great, keep it up libs, shove your agenda down the throats of the consumer, continue watching those ratings fall. Thank you.

By terry

April 17, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this

mike keep doing everything the same way you have been doing, please don’t change

By Lynne

April 17, 2006 05:34 PM | Link to this

To Adam who wrote “Never been a fan, still not. You can probably get cleared to move to Iran/Iraq if you’d like. Someone who hates the US and our culture so much should simply leave, oh, and take the 1 million illegals with you.”

Since you are such a fan of US efforts in Iraq/Iran, why don’t you move there and leave the immigrants here? The USA would be a much better place and I’m sure the Iraqi/Iranian people would be glad to listen to your political beliefs.

By RW-(the original)

April 17, 2006 05:47 PM | Link to this

When did ml learn how to type? Congrats mike and thanks for allowing both sides a forum here. Even if Midori tells everyone that isn’t currently slobbering over their computer screens to STFU we’ll take you up on your invitation and continue to point out the fallacies in your assessments.

By candide

April 17, 2006 05:50 PM | Link to this

Congratulations Mike! You are brilliant. And you have the right enemies. Republicans, Christian Fascists, Plutocrats, Warmongering Imperialists, and George W. Bush, undoubtedly the most idiotic president we have ever had.

Keep up the brilliant good work.

By Benin Dakar

April 17, 2006 05:54 PM | Link to this

AWESOME! Take a bow, Mike. You deserve the win. I am certain that everyone at the AJC is proud and happy for you and the newspaper to have won such a prestigious journalism award. I am inspired. Enjoy your win and tune out the jealous people.

By Bobby

April 17, 2006 05:55 PM | Link to this

I despise Lukovitch with every ounce of Southern blood in me. In all his cartoons he has never posted a positive image of the South or our heritage. He should take his awards and go back from the rock he crawled out under. Since Delta’s pilots are no longer threatening strike he has several options to leave.

By rme

April 17, 2006 06:05 PM | Link to this

Hear! Hear! Well deserved accolades for the nation’s most brilliant and insightful political cartoonist!
After Marlette left, I never thought we’d get a cartoonist as good…shoot, we got one profoundly better.

We may not have the best basketball team, our baseball team fizzles in the playoffs, and our football team been to the superbowl a whole one time…but we kick butt in the political cartoonist department!!!

Congrats on the 2nd Pulitzer, here’s to many more! Go Mike!

By thos

April 17, 2006 06:05 PM | Link to this

Congratulations. Your wit and perception deserve the award. Cheers!

By Jackson Handmacher

April 17, 2006 06:05 PM | Link to this

Mike Luckovich’s cartoons are NOT funny. On the contrary, they are silly, disrespectful and childish. I cannot believe that he has won awards for his work. This is what is called the “dumbing down of America.” How sad for Atlanta.

By Jackson Handmacher

April 17, 2006 06:06 PM | Link to this

Mike Luckovich’s cartoons are NOT funny. On the contrary, they are silly, disrespectful and childish. I cannot believe that he has won awards for his work. This is what is called the “dumbing down of America.” How sad for Atlanta.

By N-GA

April 17, 2006 06:07 PM | Link to this

Mike,

You have shone in the same light as Benjamin Frankin, Thomas Nast, and Joseph Keppler. You walk tall among men of courage and patriotism.

Thank you and congratulations.

By rme

April 17, 2006 06:07 PM | Link to this

Hear! Hear! Well deserved accolades for the nation’s most brilliant and insightful political cartoonist!
After Marlette left, I never thought we’d get a cartoonist as good…shoot, we got one profoundly better.

We may not have the best basketball team, our baseball team fizzles in the playoffs, and our football team been to the superbowl a whole one time…but we kick butt in the political cartoonist department!!!

Congrats on the 2nd Pulitzer, here’s to many more! Go Mike!

By clark

April 17, 2006 06:09 PM | Link to this

Bobby;

I despise Lukovitch with every ounce of Southern blood in me.

You might want to get a job or a hobby, because that statement is just sad.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 17, 2006 06:12 PM | Link to this

I appreciate all of you coming to my site, and posting your thoughts on my cartoons or on current issues. I think this is one of the few blogs where people on both the right and the left get together and actually interact with each other. So thank you all for continuing to make your voices heard on this blog.

An honest tip of the hat for providing the forum for an open discussion and debate, that takes guts. Even though some people in here hate it and work so hard to shut it down.

By susan

April 17, 2006 06:14 PM | Link to this

Obviously, this is well deserved. It’s not if you or I agree or disagree, but rather that the cartoon resonates and brings you and I to consider the information available and hopefully weigh that carefully to decide whether to agree or disagree. That is the point of democracy, that I will defend to the death your right to openly agree or disagree with me or others - and discuss it.

By Alex

April 17, 2006 06:14 PM | Link to this

The media has a liberal bias? Really?! Wow. That certainly should be fixed. Gee I wonder why that is… It couldn’t be because members of the media are paid lots of money to be constantly in tune with current trends and events, and are therefore in better positions to make educated judgements….. I mean, it’s not like that’s their job or anything….

Because personally, I read the bible every day, and take it literally, too. That’s what’s REALLY important when it comes to making judgements and decisions about today’s world.

In all seriousness, congratulations Mike.

Maybe if we’re lucky, the GOP will run a Pat Robertson/Jerry Falwell ticket in 08. That way, everyone will be happy: the religious right fundie zombies will finally have an administration to annihilate all of the evil, non-protestant religions of the world, while simultaneously sending our nation’s moral compass back to the 17th century, and Mike will have quite possibly the easiest targets ever…..

By bob jackson

April 17, 2006 06:14 PM | Link to this

It appears it takes no talent to win one of these in this arena. Only crass and cruel comments at the expense of others. My only hope is that you get back in spades the misery you so gleefully heap on others.

By viktor

April 17, 2006 06:16 PM | Link to this

Hmmmmm. Liberals giving an uber-liberal acclaim and pasting it on the front page of the AJC. Kinda like Al Franken kissing George Soros’ butt on Bill Maher’s HBO show.

By Midori

April 17, 2006 06:26 PM | Link to this

hey Vik,

you can always find another blog to visit.

you can always find another newspaper to read.

you can always kiss Richard Scaife’s butt.

you can always watch a conservative comedy show (does one exist?)

I’m just sayin…….

By clark

April 17, 2006 06:29 PM | Link to this

Sucky just made a decent comment to another human being that is on the political left.

I need to get myself a drink and go think about what just happened.

Later

By Sharon

April 17, 2006 06:31 PM | Link to this

Congratulations Mike. You deserve all kudos earned. Cheers.

By getalife

April 17, 2006 06:32 PM | Link to this

My treatment is working but is ongoing.

By Doug Cheshire

April 17, 2006 06:33 PM | Link to this

Congratulations Mike… You are the best in your business and a national treasure.

By N-GA

April 17, 2006 06:33 PM | Link to this

Viktor,

I think you would be more accurate if you were to use the analogy of “President” GWB giving the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Tommy Frank, George Tenet and Paul Bremer. At least Mike L. represents REAL America!!

By sam

April 17, 2006 06:35 PM | Link to this

Terrific cartoons, but I wish you’d spelled “alot” correctly in your introduction.

By rustylynn

April 17, 2006 06:48 PM | Link to this

Maybe I can squeeze a comment in between all the AJC staffers who tell Leftovich how great he is (these are the same people who sit around and vote for him every hour in the “like mike or not” poll).

If all that needs to be done to win a pulitzer is blame any and every problem in the world on our President, George W. Bush, the pulitzer no longer has any credibility nor does it reward creativity.

By Midori

April 17, 2006 06:55 PM | Link to this

Rustylynn,

those grapes don’t get sourier than that.

Must be how you keep up that pucker when kissing Bush’s know-nothing, do-nothing, doesn’t amount to nothing a$$.

By riley

April 17, 2006 06:56 PM | Link to this

Well hot damn and yee-haw, Mike! Congrats-you earned it!

By Stephanie Scoggin

April 17, 2006 06:57 PM | Link to this

Keep fighting the good fight. We need your voice. Congratulations. Your prize was well-earned.

By Peggy K

April 17, 2006 06:57 PM | Link to this

Let the scoffers scoff, let the ranters rant, your Pulitzer award acknowledges that you speak for the majority of us (US). Thank you, congratulations, and keep ‘em coming!

By viktor

April 17, 2006 06:59 PM | Link to this

N-GA, I see that there are 13% fewer “real America” subscribers to the AJC these days. The Pulitzer: a liberal trophy for liberals by liberals. Next year it will be Katie Couric receiving a Pulitzer for her insightful “take” on her fight to overcome her case of terminal perkiness. Serious journalism is dead…long live reality TV and cartoons.

By Midori

April 17, 2006 07:02 PM | Link to this

Next year it will be Katie Couric receiving a Pulitzer for her insightful “take” on her fight to overcome her case of terminal perkiness.

wrong again — Katie Couric is hardly a “liberal”.

matter of fact she’s a Bushbot thru and thru.

She’s even dating one.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 17, 2006 07:08 PM | Link to this

Midori: You blew a gasket on this one:

matter of fact she’s a Bushbot thru and thru

You might want to call an ambulance.

By viktor

April 17, 2006 07:15 PM | Link to this

Couric is a “Bushbot?” You neo-commies are an endless source of grins.

And, and, and, well, “she’s even dating one.” God, what a moron. You’re almost as big a moron as W. Yeah, I think W is a moron, you moron. I’m no suck-up partisan like you, you leftist lemming.

By Shoop

April 17, 2006 07:19 PM | Link to this

I haven’t seen Midori hang around this long in awhile. She thinks Mike might still be watching and she’s hoping to get noticed.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 17, 2006 07:21 PM | Link to this

Yes it will:

Tuesday April 18, 5:06 AM Rumsfeld says of resignation calls ‘This too will pass’

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed calls for his resignation by a group of retired generals, telling conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh that “this too will pass.”

By rushncap

April 17, 2006 07:23 PM | Link to this

Congrats again, Mike. Richly deserved. I never read the ajc (I live in NC) and the only reason I visit the site is to see your cartoons (oh, and to skewer some neocons while at it). Your fans congratulate you.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 17, 2006 07:23 PM | Link to this

Yes it will:

Tuesday April 18, 5:06 AM Rumsfeld says of resignation calls ‘This too will pass’

US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed calls for his resignation by a group of retired generals, telling conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh that “this too will pass.”

By fred

April 17, 2006 07:27 PM | Link to this

Congratulations!!!! Another Pulitzer, heckof an accomplishment. Glad you are in Atlanta, please stay.

By Shannon

April 17, 2006 07:28 PM | Link to this

Awesome news! Congratulations, Mike; congratulations, AJC, for employing him. I know the rest of the news and editorial staff works very hard… but maybe the AJC can pour some more resources into the newsroom so we can get a few more of those shiny trophies and prove that you don’t have to be in the northeast to do some great journalism!

By getalife

April 17, 2006 07:29 PM | Link to this

This is great news

Sorry, I had a sudden urge to pimp my blog.

By Mrs Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian

April 17, 2006 07:31 PM | Link to this

Congratulations! You make Atlanta proud.

And from the looks of this page, it appears that you are annoying ALL the right people, dear.

By Buy Danish

April 17, 2006 07:33 PM | Link to this

ML,

You’re welcome! I found your blogsite during the cartoon wars and I’m still here battling insurgents.

I betcha didn’t know that in addition to being a political cartoonist, you are also a dating service for hapless liberals.

American entrepreneur-ism is alive and well!

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 17, 2006 07:35 PM | Link to this

Clueless Joe Wilson- How did the CIA’s special envoy miss Zahawie’s trip to Niger? By Christopher Hitchens Posted Monday, April 17, 2006, at 3:14 PM ET

WTF, how many times will this get posted?

By whynot

April 17, 2006 07:35 PM | Link to this

Thats pretty bad when your own baby killing ex generals turn on you

congrats mike

By Buy Danish

April 17, 2006 07:37 PM | Link to this

getalife,

Try again - the link failed.

By @@

April 17, 2006 07:40 PM | Link to this

So that was the extent of ml’s blogging. Way up ^^^ there, above all of his ardent fans. When conservative Mark Steyn blogs, he gets down in the trenches, talks to people individually, answers questions and asks them too.

My kinda guy, Mark Steyn. I think all of ml’s fans just got snubbed.

Congratulations Mike.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

April 17, 2006 07:49 PM | Link to this

Way to go Mike! Keep them coming!

By SmartMoney

April 17, 2006 07:50 PM | Link to this

Well one thing is for certain: liberals can only look forward to movies winning Oscars and cartoons winning Pulitzers when it comes to slamming the Right in this nation.

I surmise that that’s the only world that liberal neo-marxist terrorist appeaser democrats can actually score a victory and gather around the pseudo spoils of victory, because they sure as hell can’t do it at the vote booth in the REAL WORLD.

Keep going further left, ya candyassed limpwristed liberals. And stick up for McKinney and support neo-commie agnostics like Dean and arrogant holier-than-thou northeastern liberals like Kerry. Please.

By getalife

April 17, 2006 07:51 PM | Link to this

BD,

Try again. It is getting a lot of traffic due to this nut.

By N-GA

April 17, 2006 07:53 PM | Link to this

Yup @@, just like GWB, Cheney and Rumsfeld attending the funerals of soldiers killed in a war started by fascists…they really care.

By Jesus

April 17, 2006 07:59 PM | Link to this

IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!

By N-GA

April 17, 2006 08:01 PM | Link to this

Hey Dumbmoney,

Can’t you read the papers….listen to the radio…watch TV????

Every poll shows you neo-fascists sucking wind. I doubt we will see you and your fellow chicken hawks on this (or any other) blog after November. You’ll spend your evenings at the local KKK cross burning.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

April 17, 2006 08:04 PM | Link to this

“By Liberals Suck And Lie April 17, 2006 05:33 PM | Link to this Dana Priest of WASHINGTON POST wins for beat reporting on secret prisons and U.S. counterterrorism campaign…”

My guess is that the CIA’s secret prisons are as useful as Stalins gulags, and anyone who would argue in favor of their merit must genuinely love the United States as much, if not more, that Stalin loved the Soviet Union. Sleep well my freind, you’re in good company.

By Midori

April 17, 2006 08:05 PM | Link to this

Smart Money,

I hope you don’t bet on yourself. you’ll lose every time. Course, all you back are losers.

You are so wrong, and so LEFT field that it’s ridiculous.

P** that YOUR side doesn’t win anything? Is that it? Could it be that YOUR side has little or no talent?

Other than swiftboating, sliming and rigging elections?

You can steal elections, you can get your folks in office, but you sure in hell can’t lead. Or govern. Or tell the truth. Or win literary awards. Or talent honors.

that’s the REAL world.

You just plain suck.

Why don’t you do something about it?

Other than groan, moan, and cry about “mean ole liberals”?

smuck.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 17, 2006 08:10 PM | Link to this

LTD: There are other ways to correct the world’s wrongs other than endangering the lives of CIA agents by outing them in the “news”paper. You could like win some elections and then make your spinelessness American policy. You could be the appeaser in chief, chief.

By Rob

April 17, 2006 08:11 PM | Link to this

This latest award to Lukovich for his 90% Bush slamfest cartoons bespeaks yet again why the AJC has another name:

The Atlanta Urinal-Constipation.

It’s worthy only for lining a bird cage or a toilet.. those articles they reprint from the New York Slimes notwithstanding of course.

And to think these idiots wonder why their circulation is down and why lib-slanted newsrag circulation is down in general nationwide, including the AJC’s sugardaddy, the New York Slimes.

Nothing is so sweet as seeing the bottom line dwindle from a bunch of wacko liberals in charge of choosing what to print. What was that? Nobody in the mainstream media wanted to ask those thousands of other retired generals what their opinion was on Rumsfeld or of ACTING generals and soldier grunts? Didn’t think so.. it wouldn’t fit the Bush-slam template.

By Liberal Lucy

April 17, 2006 08:12 PM | Link to this

Congrats Mike, you have just catapulted yourself into the moonbat wax museum to join Moore, Dean, Gore and Hillary. I thought it was getting cloudy out, but it appears the skies have blackened out with all the moonbats blocking the sun. Or maybe that was just Midori’s fat a*!

By Karl Leuba

April 17, 2006 08:14 PM | Link to this

CONGRATULATIONS. You sure have demonstrated a talent for Spear Fishing, If you ever need to change careers. By the way, I loved the Pottery barn cartoon too.

Keep Up the good work, forget Aunt Martha’s advice about not saying anything if you can’t say something nice. IT IS NOT PART OF THE CONSTITUTION.

By N-GA

April 17, 2006 08:22 PM | Link to this

Rob,

You and the rest of your neo-fascist comrades still don’t get it.

Virtually all newspapers have declining readerships because more people get their news from the web or television. However you can spin it how you choose since your attention span matches the sound bites of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O’Reilly.

BTW…the 6 generals slamming Rummy are RECENT retirees. There are not THOUSANDS of recent retirees who have first-hand knowledge of Rummy’s ineptitude. Do the math…if you can. If you can’t, have a liberal do it for you.

Seek the truth…IMPEACH BUSH!!!

By SmartMoney

April 17, 2006 08:25 PM | Link to this

@N-GA

“Every poll shows you neo-fascists sucking wind. I doubt we will see you and your fellow chicken hawks on this (or any other) blog after November. You’ll spend your evenings at the local KKK cross burning.”

You assplug neomarxist liberals said that in the last three national elections too. Polls are like @ssholes.. everybody has one to use at their descretion.

And I’d refrain from mentioning the KKK their jackass, because it’s not the REPUBLICAN party that has a former KKK member in Congress. IDIOT.

By lol

April 17, 2006 08:26 PM | Link to this

Hey Rob, the circulation of the daily conservative newspaper in Atlanta is ZERO!

LOL.

By Big Al

April 17, 2006 08:26 PM | Link to this

Jean, well of course you are correct in all things said.

How dare these inferiors 1)Speak out when not first spoken to. 2)Attempt to exit the lowly social/mental status in which they exist. 3) Attempt to speak on subjects of which they know nothing and have/will never be exposed to. Time to once again round them up and place them back where they rightfully belong.

By SmartMoney

April 17, 2006 08:29 PM | Link to this

@Midori:

Or should I just call you Midorki?

I hope you don’t bet on yourself. you’ll lose every time. Course, all you back are losers.

Yet we continue to spank the sweat out of you liberals at election polls. Being an ignoranus is fine. Being an idiot is fine. Being OUT OF TOUCH with mainstream American voters is definitely fine.. with me.

Suit yourselves, bedwetting liberal jackasses.

By Ede

April 17, 2006 08:31 PM | Link to this

Way to go Mike!! Keep up the fabulous work.

By RepubliMonkey

April 17, 2006 08:33 PM | Link to this

Everything is good

Everything is fine

Bush is in charge

and Cheney is Sublime

Come November

We will win and win

If you believe this silly banter

I give a great big grin

By Rob

April 17, 2006 08:36 PM | Link to this

Hey N-GA,

“Virtually all newspapers have declining readerships because more people get their news from the web or television.”

Yet you fail to comprehend why mainstream America has turned away from the mainstream media. FoxNews continues to hand CNN their collective asses on a silver platter.

“BTW…the 6 generals slamming Rummy are RECENT retirees.”

You’re a regular liberal boy genius. So why didn’t these generals speak up BEFORE hand? Oh I know, there were no imminent book deals or anything.

“There are not THOUSANDS of recent retirees who have first-hand knowledge of Rummy’s ineptitude.”

So WHERE ARE THEY???* How about Meyers? Did you catch him on Stephanopolous on Sunday’s show and his comments reacting to this? Nah, it didn’t fit the liberal Bush bash mold, so your beloved New York Slimes, and hence, the AJC, didn’t mention anything about it.

Bush will be impeached soon after we land some men on Mars. Get overyourselves already. Actually, forget I said that, just go further LEFT, bunghole neomarxist liberal pigs.

By @@

April 17, 2006 08:38 PM | Link to this

N-GA:

Yup @@, just like GWB, Cheney and Rumsfeld attending the funerals of soldiers killed in a war started by fascists…they really care.

I know, it would have been far more touching to have Kerry in the Oval Office insulting our allies while the battle rages. But wait, he’s not President, he voted for the war before he voted against it and then insulted our soldiers and allies during battle. He’s such a stand up guy.

I won’t even talk about the once potential Al Gore. I’m getting ready to watch my favorite liberal on T.V.

Do you have access to the countless letters that Bush, Cheney or Rumsfeld writes to the families of fallen soldiers? Many grieving families have been touched by those letters and still support Bush.

It’s a helluva comparison you make N-GA. Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld are expected to attend thousands of funerals all across the country and ml can’t even take the time to sit at his computer and blog amongst, not above, his fans.

Believe me when I say, I don’t feel at all snubbed. Just thought his fans should.

By Chris

April 17, 2006 08:39 PM | Link to this

What a joke. And that’s the nicest thing I can say about this person.

By Mark Kelly

April 17, 2006 08:48 PM | Link to this

This is a tremendous honor for you. The first thing I do every day is check your work on the web. It makes my day, and I often e-mail your work to friends and co-workers.

Yours is a difficult and often misunderstood role. Always remember that you are communicating to a larger audience than daily readers, and that your work is important to the long term health of our Republic.

Congrats!

By Old Geezer

April 17, 2006 08:53 PM | Link to this

Why, oh why can’t both sides be truthful. Why can a newspaper with such a large base (AJC) show both sides? When did the first amendment start to say that freedom of the press only applies to those who oppose a sitting Administration? And why is it a requirement that our press be liberal?

I seem to remember when Americans supported its leaders. Maybe it’s just a dream.

Lew Moore

By Midori

April 17, 2006 09:05 PM | Link to this

I know, it would have been far more touching to have Kerry in the Oval Office insulting our allies while the battle rages.

not so much “touching” but it would make a lot more sense. Bush isn’t qualified. Period. It’s showing. big time.

But wait, he’s not President, he voted for the war before he voted against it and then insulted our soldiers and allies during battle. He’s such a stand up guy.

yeah, unlike Bush who leaked before he didn’t leak. or negotiated with terrorists before he didn’t negotiate with terrorists. or worked with OPEC to encourage more output before he didn’t work with them. I hear that Saudi prince is a swell kisser.

wonder if he’s still shaking it off? much like he shook off the guard and went AWOL.

Poser.

Where does he get those cod pieces that he stuffs in his crotch when he dons his flight suit? I’ll bet we know who cleans them off when he’s done with them.

We can be sure that it isn’t Kerry.

By Midori

April 17, 2006 09:06 PM | Link to this

Nick, Nick, Nick.

Betcha you have a whole bunch of awards sitting on your mantel.

yeah.

that’ll show Mike!!!

By Nick Robinson

April 17, 2006 09:08 PM | Link to this

This is just another sad reminder that journalism has fallen to the point it can’t discern between fantasy and reality. Go ahead and enjoy your “award”. You know, as does everyone else, that this is just another case of liberal stupidity honoring liberal stupidity. It is why the AJC is now a slowly disolving joke and will eventually go away. Big media makes you stupid and if you believe otherwise, they have succeeded.

By Midori

April 17, 2006 09:12 PM | Link to this

wow, Nick.

so nice you had to say it twice.

that how you earned all your “awards”?

By Jean

April 17, 2006 09:18 PM | Link to this

Way to go, Mike! Contratulations.

By Old Geezer

April 17, 2006 09:19 PM | Link to this

@midori I wish I were bright enough to understand your shrewd inuendos!

By finch

April 17, 2006 09:21 PM | Link to this

Congratulations again to ML, an artist with insight and an infallable rangefinder that hits the neocon fearmongers in Washington every time!

Even without Mike’s cartoons, folks would be realizing that they’ve been lied to about Iraq, 9/11, Osama, eavesdropping, Katrina… and the “hits” just keep on coming!! But with Mike’s pen, the truth SHINES!!

Have you heard the one about how Halliburton under Cheney helped Iran acquire nuclear weapons technology? Or the one where the Bush White House ignored the Iran threat for years while it focused on Iraq, which was not a threat?? You will, you will!!!

And how ‘BOUT all those excuses for invading Iraq? 9/11?? Not responsible! WMDs?? None there! Iraqis WANT us!! WOW how ‘BOUT those exploding flowers and candy!!

Keep it up, guy!!

By Artful Dodger

April 17, 2006 09:28 PM | Link to this

Luckovich hosts a blog and the “guests” come in and insult his highly acclaimed work on his day of honor. Suck, Nick, @@, Danish, Smart Money, Geezer, etc must be the kind of folks you invite to dinner and they come over to puke Mad Dog wine on your new white rug. What wonderful people Republicans are. NOT!

By DavidU

April 17, 2006 09:31 PM | Link to this

What finch said plus the enormous deficit.

By SmartMoney

April 17, 2006 09:41 PM | Link to this

Hey Midorki:

Where does he get those cod pieces that he stuffs in his crotch when he dons his flight suit?

Before you start mouthing off on stuffing things down pants, perhaps you should address democRAT Clintoon hero Sandy Berger stuffing classified documents down HIS pants (and in socks) stolen from the National Archives that related to pre-9/11 intel, eh jackass?

And don’t give me that liberal bullsh!t excuse about them having copies elsewhere. They were the ORIGINALS that had hand-written notes on them only AFTER copies were made for the record, you pathetic neomarxist muslofanatic terrorist-loving liberal pig.

By SmartMoney

April 17, 2006 09:46 PM | Link to this

Hey FArful Dodger:

“Luckovich hosts a blog and the “guests” come in and insult his highly acclaimed work on his day of honor.”

Lukovich is a political cartoonist that leans left based upon his HISTORY of cartoons and Republican-bashing, so he opened it up, not US.

Typical bedwetting liberal candyass: can dish it out, but can’t take it. Wah wah wah!

http://www.tech-sol.net/humor/democratic_seal.jpg

By getalife

April 17, 2006 09:50 PM | Link to this

Wow, they call the left angry ^^^^.

By SmartMoney

April 17, 2006 09:54 PM | Link to this

Check that… they were copied BEFORE the handwritten notes were written. National Archive witnesses testified so. Guess that ‘splains why ole Sandypants decided to pay the fine instead of go to court.

But alas the mainstream liberal media didn’t want to pursue the issue. God forbid somebody would actually make the do-nothing-against-terrorism Clintoon administration look bad or anything.

Stupid liberals.

By Scooter

April 17, 2006 10:03 PM | Link to this

Congrats mike, I’m sure it means a lot to you.

By SmartMoney

April 17, 2006 10:06 PM | Link to this

@ getalife:

Wow, they call the left angry

Retaliation and standing UP for one’s principles is NOT being angry, you liberal hypocrital freak.

When your boy Howard Scream said he “hates all Republicans and everything they stand for” you people said that wasn’t hate speech. You people on the wacko left said that was merely “passionate” speech.

I’ll give you one thing however: you definitely need to do what your forum alias name is. Idiot lemming liberal.

By Dusty

April 17, 2006 10:18 PM | Link to this

THE PATRIOT OF AJC

Who wants to celebrate on this day?

Patriotism has lost its way.

Draw Bush ugly. Draw outright lies.

Luckovich wants to win a prize.

By @@

April 17, 2006 10:24 PM | Link to this

Well I see Midori responded to something I addressed to N-GA. Dammit, I’m right in the middle of CSI Miami. I’ll leave you with this and finish up tomorrow after work.

You bet, Kerry couldn’t clean up his own mess during the election. He’s got his head so far up Teddy’s rear that Teddy’s brain is Kerry’s brain.

By finch

April 17, 2006 10:27 PM | Link to this

Smart, I think you need a brain transplant!

Sandy’s socks at their worst just can’t hold a candle to the insitutionalized, systematic, sanctioned-from-the-top malfeasance of George Bush and his happy henchmen! They define hubris!

And if those are the kinds of principles that you stand up for, do the nation a favor and sit down! You’re in the light!

(Shameless plug for getalife!)

By Former AJC Customer

April 17, 2006 10:40 PM | Link to this

I really try to be amused by Mike’s work, but I cannot muster even a chuckle. I usually grimace. His work is flippant and sarcastic regarding President Bush and W’s effort to defend our nation. GWB is trying to protect us from obvious evil and ML chooses to firebomb him like the terrorist cowards with their IEDs in IRAQ. I assume that ML was beaten up on the playground a lot as a kid and this is his lame attempt to get back at “the man.” I stopped buying the AJC because of this kind of goofy drivel.

By SmartMoney

April 17, 2006 10:44 PM | Link to this

Hey finch….

I see you don’t want to address SandySocks and what he did. No surprise. Idiot liberal sheeple.

Why don’t you axe yourself the million dollar question: WHY haven’t you assplug liberals won an election in the last THREE national elections?

Oh please put your hero Hillary in the fray for ‘08 as the RAT candidate. PLEASE.

Stupid p** off liberal neomarxist islamofascist appeasing gutter democRATs. DAMN you people are stupid. But then again, that’s why you ignoranus liberal jackasses on the left are liberal gutter RATs.

By Crazy Canuk

April 17, 2006 10:44 PM | Link to this

Congratulations Mike. You may be a little “left” for my liking, but I like your cartoons a lot. See..you even have fans in Canada, eh? Keep ‘er goin’!

By PNAC

April 17, 2006 10:45 PM | Link to this

wow, i can’ believe there are this many stupid people who still support Bush. I mean just the stupidest most ignorant people imaginable. i’m so sick of it. he’s immoral, unchristian, and a coward. The Project for the New American Century. Just look at it.

By Luna

April 17, 2006 10:49 PM | Link to this

Congrats Mike! Your comics are my favorite, right up there with Tom Toles and Herblock. Keep up the great satire.

By Belinda Fender

April 17, 2006 10:59 PM | Link to this

First, congratulations, Mike. The Pulitzer is well-deserved, in spite of what the Bush apologists say.

Speaking of which, I continue to be amazed at how the Bushites continue to make excuses for this sorry administration. Well, boys, you can to varnish this turd all you want, but it still stinks.

By Best

April 17, 2006 11:01 PM | Link to this

Mike, the Al-Jez-Cons may love the marriage, but I “break-with-thee, break-with-thee, break-with-thee…and throw dog poop on your shoes…!!!”

By SmartMoney

April 17, 2006 11:13 PM | Link to this

Another idiot liberal shows hypocrisy. This time from Luna the looney lib:

“wow, i can’ believe there are this many stupid people who still support Bush. I mean just the stupidest most ignorant people imaginable. i’m so sick of it. he’s immoral, unchristian, and a coward. The Project for the New American Century. Just look at it.”

So now Bush is immoral and UNCHRISTIAN according to the freaks on the loony left. Then at the same time we have these same a* hat liberals on the left saying that Bush & Co. are attempting to push a Christian theocracy down America’s throat.

Well I would hope these liberal socialist jackasses on the left would at least stay consistent in their own arguments. But alas, they can’t.. that’s what happens when you base an ideology on emotions and not REALITY.

Liberalism truly IS a mental disorder.

By finch

April 17, 2006 11:20 PM | Link to this

“WHY haven’t you assplug liberals won an election in the last THREE national elections?”

Smart, I guess math isn’t your strong suit??

By Howard Kelman

April 17, 2006 11:28 PM | Link to this

Congratulations, Mike. Your’s is the best stuff in the AJC!

Keep pounding the morons in the White House, especially the Supreme Moron!

By finch

April 17, 2006 11:29 PM | Link to this

Smart, you really should look into that brain transplant!

You completely miss Luna’s points… countless genuine Christians are at a loss to explain Bush’s version of their faith… meanwhile leaders of his party are trying to sell the nation some warped dogma that bears only a passing resemblance to that embraced by the Prince of Peace.

Seek professional help!

By SmartMoney

April 17, 2006 11:32 PM | Link to this

@ fichlips

Smart, I guess math isn’t your strong suit??

Well I’ll admit I’m no PhD in math, but condsidering you @ss pirates are the hell out of power for the last three national elections, EXCLUSIVE of Bush winning the 2004 re-election with over 50% of the populate vote (unlike your wonderbody hero Clintoon who “won” with 42% in 1992), and not to mention the CONGRESSIONAL election results in 2002, then all I can say is that I feel sorry for you being an ignoranus liberal. Really.

Stupid is as stupid does.

• or says.

By Dave

April 17, 2006 11:54 PM | Link to this

The fact that liberals love Mike is good news because it further qualifies him as a predictable puppet of the desperate left.

I’m thankful for Mike. There’s a quiet comfort in knowing that whatever the issue, Mike will respond in his typical, dependable, knee-jerk way. I can read a news story today and know that I can check back tomorrow to find the exact cartoon I’m expecting.

It’s a daily reassurance that the left has neither substance nor creativity.

Keep up the good work, Mike.

By rushncap

April 18, 2006 12:31 AM | Link to this

No, money, math is not your strong suit. And, judging from your last post, neither are English or logic. Just saying…

By WashingtonState

April 18, 2006 02:32 AM | Link to this

SmartMoney,

You are making a common mistake in confusing religion with morality. The Spanish Inquisition and the Salem Witch Trials are prime examples. There are many religious people who are immoral and vice versa. We are all sinners, the difference is that some of us try to pretend that we aren’t. Whitened sepulchres is Jesus’ name for those.

By Larry Brooks

April 18, 2006 04:05 AM | Link to this

Making people think: Priceless.

By Miguel de la familia Robinson

April 18, 2006 05:38 AM | Link to this

I love it how people nowadays can’t give a normal “congratulations”, they always have to be bitter crybabies when things do not go their way. I notice that as soon as someone from the left wins something, the right has to start crying and moaning about how that win was “meaningless”, and vice versa.

Some of you here are really pathetic. Really, now. It’s called opinions for a reason. The Pulitzer jury thought that Mike’s cartoons were worthwhile and they chose him as the victor in his category. Boo hoo, things didn’t go your way and now you have to belittle his accomplishments due to his O-P-I-N-I-O-N.

Thanks everyone, you have shown me why I really dislike the “mature adults” in Georgia. Rock on.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 05:58 AM | Link to this

Hey! If cartoon boy got a pulitzer for “provoking strong reaction from readers” then where is mine at? I should get one for blogging, which causes legions of pinkos to get upset. Protest!

By spankmonkey

April 18, 2006 06:39 AM | Link to this

I love this quote from the posts above, jobless Nazi Right Wing nutbag quotes:

“Wow! He makes fun of Republicans and Bush everyday. That takes talent?”

Then jobless Nazi Right Wing nutbag offers his own answer to his question:

“No. Why not make fun of retarded kids too Mike?”

Actually by poking fun at the right he IS making fun of the retarded and mentally impaired.

How many rewards for ANYTHING have any of you rabid righties won? (that best hood award from your last Klan rally really doesn’t count…)

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 06:52 AM | Link to this

SpankYourMonkey: Maybe we don’t need to give ourselves any awards:

The Rush Limbaugh Show. His show was first nationally syndicated in August 1988, and as of 2005 (according to Arbitron ratings surveys) its audience was estimated at between 14 and 20 million listeners per week, making it the largest radio talk show audience in the United States. Although Limbaugh’s audience is not monolithic, he does attract the highest percentage (56%) of hard news consumers relative to all other television and radio programs in the United States.

Whining little jack off in the box.

By Liberal Texas Democrat

April 18, 2006 06:52 AM | Link to this

“By Liberals Suck And Lie April 18, 2006 05:58 AM | Link to this Hey! If cartoon boy got a pulitzer for “provoking strong reaction from readers” then where is mine at? I should get one for blogging, which causes legions of pinkos to get upset. Protest!”

In my opinion, “Cartoon Boy” demostrates talent and skill at his craft. You, on the other hand, have for the most part only the ability to parrot the writings of others with cut and paste and add saucy comments from your potty mouth. If there is indeed an award for that, I’ll personally take 30 seconds out of my day to nominate you.

By Steve

April 18, 2006 06:57 AM | Link to this

Yeah, another bur under the saddle of the righties!!!!!!

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 06:59 AM | Link to this

By Liberal Texas Democrat April 18, 2006 06:52 AM If there is indeed an award for that, I’ll personally take 30 seconds out of my day to nominate you.

It’s on you now Mr. pulitzer.

By Steve

April 18, 2006 07:00 AM | Link to this

Yeah, another bur under the saddle of the righties!!!!!!

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 07:05 AM | Link to this

You get the awards, we get the power:

Conservatives might be angry with Bush for being too liberal on issues like spending and immigration. It is unlikely that they will move into the Democratic column. Moderates and independents might be upset because Bush now seems to be incompetent - but this does not imply a lasting increase in electoral power for Democrats. This is an evaluation of Bush’s person that we cannot assume affects his party’s electoral fortunes. These explanations are just as reasonable as Morin’s. Many more are equally reasonable as well. Thus, to infer that it is the decline of conservatism or Republicanism is invalid.

Enjoy the consolation prizes, hahahaha.

By seeker

April 18, 2006 07:09 AM | Link to this

LTD,

I’ll be happy to second that nomination. All suck does is toe the neocon line. Calling people gay is his idea of creative thinking. And he’s such a good Christian!

He actually thinks he’s changing peoples minds with his links to his fringe websites! Oh, the irony!

By the way, let me shake your hand, ml! A toast to a genuine truth-teller!

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 07:30 AM | Link to this

Here is a pinko that cast his sight upon the beauty of a rare hawk’s nest, raising their young in the midst of the human bustle of Manhattan, a rare treat for a lover of nature, and he tossed it off the ledge of his loft because the bird’s were crapping on his little pinko sidewalk. Today, he want us to believe he cares about nature, especially if it will get the Mad Scientist back in the White House:

April 18, 2006! A Campaign Gore Can’t Lose!! By Richard Cohen!!! Boring Al Gore has made a movie.!!!! You will see the Arctic and Antarctic ice caps melting. You will see Greenland oozing into the sea. AAAAaaahhhh!

Hypocrite.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 07:35 AM | Link to this

If anything should be controversial, it is Hollywood going AWOL while its country fights the scourge of our time, Islamic totalitarianism. For five years, America has been battling people who are dedicated to destroying every value that Hollywood claims to care most about — freedom, tolerance, women’s rights, secular government, equality for gays — and Hollywood has yet to make a film depicting, let alone honoring, this war.

The only people likely to object to this film are those who don’t want Americans to become aware of just how conscienceless, cruel and depraved our enemy is, or those who think that our enemies can always be negotiated with and therefore object to depicting Americans actually fighting back.

In the meantime, go and see “United 93,” to see why some Americans still take “Home of the brave” seriously; and to see why we have to win this war more than any since World War II. That’s how bad our enemy is. You have an unfortunately rare chance to see that enemy at work when you see what happened to everyone who boarded United Airlines Flight 93 that left Newark on September 11, 2001.

By Liberal Elite

April 18, 2006 07:43 AM | Link to this

Congratulations, Mike! TWO PULITZERS!

Thank you for drawing life like it really is in the Fox-free No-Spin-Zone!!

By Liberal Elite

April 18, 2006 07:46 AM | Link to this

Hey, Look! It’s Pinko’s Worst Nightmare, the only white trash idiot who still uses the word “Pinko” in the 21st century!!

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

Next election, your world’s gonna crumble.

By Filster

April 18, 2006 07:52 AM | Link to this

Well, considering that all the dems have to offer in 08’ are Billary, McKinney, Dean, Pelosi, and other similar extremist losers , I expect that you will have plenty of time to continue your bland, biased doodling for at least one more republican dministration. Pulitizers used to go to real journalists like Woodward and Bernstein. They fact they go to frustrated little twits like Luckovich only goes to show it’s like the Oscars… nothing more than self-grandizing fluff.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 08:01 AM | Link to this

By Liberal Elite April 18, 2006 07:46 AM | Link to this Hey, Look! It’s Pinko’s Worst Nightmare, the only white trash idiot who still uses the word “Pinko” in the 21st century!!

Really?

happy thanksgiving to all you wingnuts and pinko libs! By Mike Luckovich Thursday, November 24, 2005, 10:25 AM The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Another lib opens their mouth, out comes a lie.

By Kerry

April 18, 2006 08:14 AM | Link to this

Mike, You ROCK!! I just went back through the ones you won for and got another chuckle. The “Who Would Jesus Assassinate” is a pure jewel. Congrats…!

By Liberal Elite

April 18, 2006 08:17 AM | Link to this

That’d be sarcasm pointed at you, idiot… Jeez.

By Dusty

April 18, 2006 08:37 AM | Link to this

Hey, the “party” is over. Back to work.

I’m sure the next cartoon will be HOW TO WIN A PULITZER. Here’s how it will look.

There’s a grinning Luckovich , patting himself on the back with one hand and drinking champagne with the other. In the background is a shredded American flag and a picture of the president with knives stuck in it.

That’s the way to win a Pulitzer. Maybe Sheehan will get one for HER political work.

By Wild Sects

April 18, 2006 08:39 AM | Link to this

I often post your work on my blog and a reader from Texas informed me that you won the Pulitzer. Congratulations Mike!

By Sue Briss

April 18, 2006 08:41 AM | Link to this

Way to go, Mike! Congratulations and thanks for your wit and wisdom!

By N-GA

April 18, 2006 08:44 AM | Link to this

Filster….thanks for mentioning Bernstein. He just called for a congressional investigation of the entire Bush administration. Just a few of their criminal acts:

• the war in Iraq

• selectively leaking classified info

• wiretaps with no court order

• “K” Street corruption

• Halliburton no-bid contracts

Mike L. walks tall and proud with courage and patriotism, characteristics you and your fellow fascist wing-nuts lack.

By Grace

April 18, 2006 08:56 AM | Link to this

Congratulations- nobody deserves it more! You make me laugh and cry- you are a rare talent.

By Saddened

April 18, 2006 08:57 AM | Link to this

Mike, you obviously have creative talent. However, I’m sad to see it used to spew the wacko, the kind leftist propaganda that Hitler used to belittle his enemies. Our political dialog is lacking in facts and historical perspective. Your highly charged and wickedly slanted images only worsens our polarized culture and hightens misunderstanding. So, congratulations on being everything you espouse to hate and getting rewarded for it.

By Steve Madden

April 18, 2006 08:58 AM | Link to this

Thanks for maing us laugh and cry at the same time. You always make my day.

By Dusty

April 18, 2006 08:58 AM | Link to this

Well,N-GA,

Back to the chicken plant for you.

Sounds like Bernstein decided to try for a Pulitzer too.

Have you sent in Sheehan’s nomination yet?

By Ashamed of the AJC

April 18, 2006 09:08 AM | Link to this

The high school girl who wrote Freedom out of the 2000+ names is a more deserving recipient than the runny nose, whiney, bed-wetting old man that can’t even thank those that protect his rights. No respect for the cartoonist here.

By Republican Family Values

April 18, 2006 09:17 AM | Link to this

Poor Suck has a tummy ache this morning. No one listens to his tin-plated whistle anymore so he must have swallowed it. Not only are Republicans pompous over bearing windbags but bad sports as well. Then there’s that significant percentage of Republican perverts and crooks…

Former Republican Illinois Governor, George Ryan, found guilty on fraud/corruption charges. Oh, that’s right Suck told us yesterday that Ryan was really a Democrat who was just posing as a Republican (now that he has been convicted that is).

But wait, Suck must be hearing those pesky Hillarycopters again. They have their pinko mind ray focused on this blog and he’s trying to save us all from a fate worse than death- having freedom of speech and thought.

Hillarycopters

By Natalie

April 18, 2006 09:23 AM | Link to this

Mike, I have been enjoying your editorial comics for a few years now. You cover all sides of the issues and are not afraid of stepping on toes that need to be stepped on. Hooah! Keep em’ coming!

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 09:23 AM | Link to this

A proud liberal speaks his mind! He should be on the Pulitzer Prize Committee too!

By Ray - April 18, 2006 01:34 AM

Danish. I’ll answer for Jean lest she not view this crap. You are a piece of s—t. Real proud of it too. Wrong author, wrong book, you complete imbecile. It has everything to do with mansions, large houses, manor houses, and those who lived/still live within them, plus the very essence of their lives and styles. You’re too grossly ignorant to learn these things, and I shan’t direct or help you. You ARE a living pigstye. No - hold that - pigs have strong morals and ethics within their society. You are less than 6th grade material, punk. I’d shove your very own fist up your rectum. “Bet”?? What would a lifetime loser like you have to bet?? “Show (your) hand”??? You HAVE no hand. You’re a coward, a boor, a bitter buffoon without a job or a life. You’re of no further interest to me - if I wanted your “hand,” within 20 minutes I’d have, you, your location, your entire dishonorable family and its background. Like they say, “Stay in your proper place.” And the “MANOR” is assuredly not it. Your type has never even been permitted to pick up the “droppings” within the manor. You are an insult to the white race, whitetrash. You little people need to learn to talk strictly…among yourselves. I’m all for segregating the white race - from the lower portion of the white race wherein we find such as you. We had that not long ago. Eat your heart out, hillbilly. You’re NEVER going anywhere other than your current stench. You can’t outrun that.

I’m not sure if Ray wants me to show my hand or not, but I’ll just go ahead and reveal it shortly so I can collect my one million cyberdollars.

But first I want to make sure that Jean is awake before I cruise off in my cyber limo to my cyber manor.

Jean? Are you awake yet?

By barbara

April 18, 2006 09:24 AM | Link to this

idon’t remember a nose-running old man, cogratulations Mike on winning the big one again. Glad to call you “friend” the bookmans in florida

By Patrick

April 18, 2006 09:24 AM | Link to this

Congrats, Mike. Well deserved, indeed. Keep up the insightful commentary (in bite-size comic form!)

By Wilbanks Izzatard

April 18, 2006 09:30 AM | Link to this

oh, the Reich wingnuts are in full-blown whiny-a* t*tty baby squeal today, aren’t they?

Way to go, Mike! Us real Americans LOVE YOU!

By Dusty

April 18, 2006 09:40 AM | Link to this

Republican Family Values,

You are the tin plated phony here.

You are not Republican. You probably don’t have a family and your “values” are very dubious.

I’m not too familiar with hillarycopters. Are they the same as kerrycopters, those funny little nose-diving planes that are fueled by hot air?

By N-GA

April 18, 2006 09:40 AM | Link to this

Well Dusty….there you go again, shooting off your mouth to prove your ignorance. You said: “Sounds like Bernstein decided to try for a Pulitzer too.”. I hate to break this to you, but he already won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on another corrupt GOP administration. Of course you will try to cover your stupidity by suggesting that you forgot to put the word “another” into your statement.

Get back in the unemployment line, fool.

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 09:41 AM | Link to this

Wilbanks,

Frankly, I’d be embarrassed to be a lib. Your side has displayed their deepest emotions, and revealed that ML makes them laugh (normal reaction) and cry (you’ve got to be kidding)! Why cry??

I’d sure hate to be in a room with these emoticon wussies during a legitimately tearful occasion. It could get ugly.

By Wild Sects

April 18, 2006 09:49 AM | Link to this

I often post your work on my blog and a reader from Texas informed me that you won the Pulitzer. Congratulations Mike!

By N-GA

April 18, 2006 09:50 AM | Link to this

BD….the problem with using words bigger than you are is that it emphasizes your lack of intelligence, thus weakening any point you are attempting to make.

Main Entry: emo·ti·con Pronunciation: i-‘mO-ti-“kän Function: noun Etymology: emotion + icon : a group of keyboard characters (as :-)) typically representing a facial expression or an emotion or otherwise conveying tone or attitude that is used especially in computerized communications (as e-mail)

By GINA

April 18, 2006 09:51 AM | Link to this

MIKE, I LOVE YOU CARTOONS—EVEN THE ONES I DON’T UNDERSTAND. I DON’T LET MY DAY GO BY WITH OUT CHECKING YOU OUT. I ALSO THOUGHT YOU WERE KINDA CUTE ON GOOD DAY ATLANTA THIS MORNING.

By Wild Sects

April 18, 2006 09:52 AM | Link to this

Why are all you wingnuts so critical of anyone who dares to bash Bush? He deserves the bashing and so much more. If Clinton had pulled half the crap that Bush is pulling you would have stormed the the White House like the villagers stormed Frankenstein’s castle.

By N-GA

April 18, 2006 09:55 AM | Link to this

BD…the saddest thing about your post is your position that laughing and crying are weaknesses. That is the same attitude as Zacarias Mouusaoui showed in his trial. But we sensitive liberals have always been accutely aware of your resemblance to him.

By Dusty

April 18, 2006 09:58 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Now you’ve done it.

AJC will rush right out and try to HIRE Ray and Jean.

Granted that they will fit right in with the present staff. But I was hoping this plague would not spread any farther.

Have a good cruise in the limo. I’m off for a bit of fresh air myself.

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 10:03 AM | Link to this

I win! I win! I’m cyber rich!!

From The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002.*

To the manner born - A person who is “to the manner born” is one who has acquired genteel tastes and habits by virtue of having been born into a privileged class: “Rachel is charming at dinner parties—as if she were to the manner born.” This expression is sometimes mistakenly rendered as “to the manor born.” The phrase is from Hamlet, by William Shakespeare.

Another source, if cultural literacy is not your thing. Judging from Ray’s rude rant, this is another good bet:

*“To the Manor Born” was the punning title of a popular BBC comedy, which greatly increased the number of people who mistakenly supposed the original expression had something to do with being born on a manor. Perhaps because of the poetically inverted word order in “manner born” the expression tends to occur in rather snooty contexts. Nevertheless, the correct expression is “to the manner born.”

Or consider this:

It could be considered a punning use, which is possible only if you think that the writer knows his or her Shakespeare and is being deliberate. It could be considered an error, if you think that the writer is ignorant of Shakespeare. Or, you could consider it a new use in a different sense from the original. Most commentators call it a mistake.

Nope - Jean did not mention Shakespeare, so there was no punning use, just ordinary ignorance.

By Dusty

April 18, 2006 10:04 AM | Link to this

N-GA,

Go chew on a chicken leg. Fry the semantics.

Bernstein is trying for a Pulitzer—second, third, or fourth. He’s trying.

So are you. Trying, that is. But not getting very far.

By Dahlonega Cadet

April 18, 2006 10:09 AM | Link to this

Hoorah Luckovich! Georgia is “lucky” to have you! ! ! ! !

By N-GA

April 18, 2006 10:10 AM | Link to this

That’s the best you can do, Dusty? What a limp wristed response. Typical of all you chickenhawks. Send someone else’s sons and daughters to do your fighting and dying. Thankfully you and your ilk will not be around much longer. You and this administration will join Hitler and Mussolini in the dustbin of history.

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 10:14 AM | Link to this

N-GA,

Gosh, you found my post SAD? You really do sadden easily. No wonder so many of you went into therapy when BUSH WON.

I don’t think that crying is a weakness, unless you cry at MLs cartoons.

BTW, Your Zacarias comparison is pure idiocy and only serves to prove MY point about weirdly inappropriate emotions.

By Jackie

April 18, 2006 10:16 AM | Link to this

Congratulations Mike! Your cartoons continue to be, and have always been, awesome and thought-provoking. Keep up the good work!

By Jackie

April 18, 2006 10:17 AM | Link to this

Congratulations Mike! Your cartoons continue to be, and have always been, awesome and thought-provoking. Keep up the good work!

By N-GA

April 18, 2006 10:21 AM | Link to this

Hey BD….it looks like I struck another nerve. I say that with pride since you have so few. Yup, wouldn’t want anyone to see you emotional. I think you and Zacarias Moussaoui will have all of eternity to discuss your similarities.

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 10:21 AM | Link to this

N-GA,

I know what an emoticon is you twit. My point was that it is an emotion felt by people in cyberspace.

Just a little punning use of a word, this time not from Shakespeare. :]

By N-GA

April 18, 2006 10:28 AM | Link to this

There you go again, BD. Always on the defensive. Always back on your heels. When you foul up your use of the English language, you find that you then need to explain the point. The attempt at making a pun was lost.

By getalife

April 18, 2006 10:34 AM | Link to this

OMG Mike just pimped this blog on CNN. He has taken blog pimping to a whole new level.

He said this is a good place for both sides to argue the issues.

By rhoda

April 18, 2006 10:37 AM | Link to this

Hey Mike. Congrats. Yours is a voice in the wilderness, though maybe that is changing. Thanks for the insights and many aha moments.

By Dusty

April 18, 2006 10:40 AM | Link to this

N-GA,

You’re still cackling and crowing away.

All wrong as usual. My son served honorably for many years in the military. Glad you brought that up.

Clear thinking and patriotism do not lead me to compare our government with Hitler and his regime. You have missed those qualities and follow the liberal path. Split the country so you can get a Dem vote. Anyway. Anyhow.

Sizzle and fizzle away fruitlessly, N-GA.

I really have to leave this time.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 10:41 AM | Link to this

I don’t want to cause you weepy libs to burst into tears (good call Danish) but here is what Pat Buchanan, notable Bush critic, thinks about the alternative:

And what do the democrats offers? Taxes, censure, amnesty, Cynthia McKinney and a four-year rerun of “The Clintons.”

Now that would make me want to cry, hahahahahaha.

By Brady

April 18, 2006 10:43 AM | Link to this

Mike,

Congrats on your award. Even though I am a hardcore conservative and disagree with pretty much every single point you make, I want to thank you for making everybody who sees your cartoons think. You made it a point on CNN that this is why you make your cartoons. I commend you on accomplishing that, and thank you for at least making people use their brains for a change.

Thanks and Congrats

By jayell

April 18, 2006 10:45 AM | Link to this

Cartoon idea: The GWB presidential library, located in south Florida, half-submerged due to global warming.

By Garrett Durfee

April 18, 2006 10:46 AM | Link to this

Mike Luckovich

Many congratulations on your Pulitzer Price. It is well deserved.

By finch

April 18, 2006 10:49 AM | Link to this

Suck, what little credibility you have sinks every time you link to realclearpolitics; a site that makes Rush Limbaugh seem moderate.

We’ll just look at two from today:

“For five years, America has been battling people who are dedicated to destroying every value that Hollywood claims to care most about — freedom, tolerance, women’s rights, secular government, equality for gays — and Hollywood has yet to make a film depicting, let alone honoring, this war.

All those values weren’t around in Afghanistan under the Taliban, and they certainly aren’t today. Try being a Christian there! Or a girl who wants to go to school! The people the US are fighting against, and the ones the US are fighting for are two peas in a pod!!

And things have gone from bad to worse in Iraq! Saddam was truly evil, but under his Baathists, there was religious freedom, no official persecution of gays, and some women even owned property, businesses and held political offices. All just memories in Iraq today. Under Saddam, Iraq’s government was secular. Now, it’s just a question of which Muslim leaders will call the tunes.

And Suck, since you revile gays so much, it’s amusing to think of you defending them!

“In the meantime, go and see “United 93,” to see why some Americans still take “Home of the brave” seriously; and to see why we have to win this war more than any since World War II. That’s how bad our enemy is.”

Suck, how many times do you and your fellow cretins have to be told?? IRAQ AND SADDAM HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 9/11!!

You’re proving that the cliche, “repeat a lie enough and people will believe it” is itself a lie.

Why do you hate America?

By Robert Dohrenburg

April 18, 2006 10:49 AM | Link to this

I have an idea for a cartoon.

Donald Rumsfeld and Mike Luckovich.

Rumsfeld. I hear that you made a WHY cartoon with the names of 2000 dead soldiers?

Luckovich. Yes.

Rumsfeld. Since I’m staying as the Secretary of Defense I’m going to give you another 2000 names to add the word NOT to your WHY cartoon.

By RE

April 18, 2006 10:58 AM | Link to this

The rest of Buchanan:

“What the polls are saying is that neoconservatism has failed and we wish to be rid of it, that Davos Republicanism has failed and we wish to be rid of it, that the open-borders immigration policy of the Wall Street Journal is idiotic and we wish to be rid of it.

This is not only understandable, there would be something wrong with Americans if they did not seek to regurgitate the fruit of such failed policies. Yet, when one looks at the large Republican field of presidential hopefuls shaping up, not one has broken with, and all seem to stand behind, George W. Bush. None so more than John McCain”

“But by 1968, Great Society liberalism had been tried and had transparently failed. The no-win war in Vietnam and the urban riots bespoke a failed philosophy and policy. Today in 2006, it is neoconservatism and Wall Street Journal Republicanism that have failed as badly as had Great Society liberalism by 1968”

I like Buchanan, he is a real conservative who has values that do not change with each situation and are not dependent upon one man

By finch

April 18, 2006 10:58 AM | Link to this

The wingnuts still cling to the lie that Iraq and Saddam and Iraq were terror lynchpins that had to be destroyed!

Whatever happened to Osama… hmmmm??

“You might have thought that Mr. Bush, in the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, would have used all the forces at his disposal to capture or kill the man responsible for the worst attack on the United States since Pearl Harbor. But if you thought that, you would have been wrong.”

“The man Mr. Bush really wanted was Saddam Hussein. And he pulled out all the stops to get him.”

“It is time for the American people to wise up. From the very beginning, the so-called war on terror was viewed by the Bush crowd as a magical smoke screen, a political gift from the gods that could be endlessly manipulated to justify all kinds of policies and behavior — including the senseless war in Iraq — that otherwise would never have been tolerated by the American people.”

Truth is such a priceless thing!

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 11:01 AM | Link to this

N-GA,

Sorry you didn’t get my little pun.

Why are you so angry? You’re emotions are running away with you again.

AAMOF I’m not on the defensive in the least. I am very happy! I’m cyber rich!!

BBFN

By Rosalie Taylor

April 18, 2006 11:08 AM | Link to this

Just saw some of your cartoons for the first time — I like, I like! (I live in Canada). I have an idea for a cartoon which I think you would like and which I need for a forthcoming book. You could use it yourself and then let me use it in the book — that is, if it appeals to you.

By Lj. Medakovic, Europe

April 18, 2006 11:11 AM | Link to this

Mike, many congratulations on your 2nd Pulitzer Price! If only more aware and 21st century vs. 18th cent. conscious people were in the US Government today, people more like you and director Michael Moore… USA would be the most liked country in the world, and in the very US of A itself! And, for all those of you anti-liberal right-christian mind-blind folks… You’re no different from and Taliban that ever lived, that’s how we outside of US see you!

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 11:15 AM | Link to this

N-GA,

I have to run out. Hope you have a full box of tissues handy.

In my absence, you can always go here for help

Or if you are anti-meds, help may be found here

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 11:18 AM | Link to this

getalife,

Did ml mention when he might get back to scribbling? He might time to work on that extremely detailed cartoon idea from Rosalie Taylor.

By John

April 18, 2006 11:31 AM | Link to this

As someone who has been to both Iraq and Afghanistan I have to say I think your cartoons are the definition of treason, “Giving aid and comfort to the enemy”. If you don’t think that the insurgents and Al Qaeida are not seeing what is going in this country with nothing good being reported from either combat zone you are wrong. And there are a lot of good things going on. I’ll bet you didn’t do any cartoons when the Iraqis under the threat of the insurgents went out and voted in the millions. Maybe Usama was right when he said that Americans will not have the will to stay and fight. With people like you out there I’m starting to think he may be right.

By finch

April 18, 2006 11:35 AM | Link to this

“How U.S. inaction led to rise of militias”

*”BAGHDAD - U.S. officials were warned for more than two years that Shiite Muslim militias were infiltrating Iraq’s security forces and taking control of neighborhoods, but they failed to take action to counteract the threat, Iraqi and American officials said.”

“Now American officials call the militias the primary security concern in Iraq, blaming them for more civilian deaths than the Sunni Muslim insurgency.”

That’s right. It’s not Al Qaeda, or ‘foreigners’ like Zarqawi causing the carnage in Iraq. It’s Iraqis. Unleashed by the most ill-planned, misbegotten US military action in a generation.

Why am I NOT surprised???

By getalife

April 18, 2006 11:35 AM | Link to this

RW,

Canada and Europe.

I hope they know that around 70% of Americans do not approve of our current government.

Maybe she can send me some Monte Cristo #2’s and I will try to get her some cartoons.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 11:46 AM | Link to this

finch: You don’t have to cry about it.

I like the way you just dismiss Real Clear Politics and then five minutes later post your own “facts” from Topple Bush, that’s neat they way you libs can’t keep your hypocrisy under the radar.

And then five minutes after that here’s RE posting from Real Clear Politics.

Whatever you guys want to make up, I’ll discredit it. Why bother?

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 11:54 AM | Link to this

getalife,

They may not take so much comfort in that 70% when they find out that a considerable portion of that number (not that that is a real number but I digress) is made up of people that don’t think we’re being tough enough.

If Ms. Canada knew that you were the cartoon master you would swimming in those illegal communist cigars.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 11:57 AM | Link to this

I don’t want to cause you weepy libs to burst into tears but:

April 17, 2006, 6:40 a.m Iraq Is the War on Terror As the administration stays curiously mum, the evidence that it was right mounts.

As Michael Ledeen recounted here on NRO a few days ago, President Bush’s claim that the Iraqi regime had sought uranium in Africa was not only true and, as the British parliamentary investigation later concluded, “well-founded”; it was probably an understatement. Christopher Hitchens observes — based on the Duelfer Report — that Iraq’s efforts to acquire uranium from Niger stretch back a quarter century. Unless you are inclined to believe Saddam was interested in procuring goats in 1999 when he dispatched a high-ranking emissary to that cash-starved but uranium-rich African nation — a nation with which he had previously done uranium business — there can be little doubt that nuclear-weapons development was the impetus.

direct contacts between high-ranking Iraqi regime officials and both Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri (bin Laden’s top deputy); an apparent payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars by Iraq to Zawahiri in 1998; elaborate mentions of Iraq in bin Laden’s infamous 1998 fatwa calling for the murder of all Americans, anywhere they could be found — the fatwa that presaged the bombing of the U.S. embassies five months later;

Whatever you say, I discredit, pinko.

By getalife

April 18, 2006 12:02 PM | Link to this

RW,

It was a funny interview. Mike said he was drunk for the first Pulitzer.

He had a problem finding the word “lifeguard” describing the New Orleans cartoon, and the anchor helped him out.

His why? cartoon was in there. I think “finch” is still looking for the answer. We will find out one day to get some credibility back from places like Canada and Europe.

The blog pimping was outstanding.

By Proud Atlantan

April 18, 2006 12:06 PM | Link to this

GO MIKE!!!

We are so proud of you!!!

America is proud of people like you who are not threatened by all the BS that is fed to this country by the current administration.

Americans needs to wake up to the fact that we are not really fighting terrorism but only adding to the monstrous profits of the corporate criminals.., energy, pharamaceuticals and defense industry.. to mention a few..and killing our own kids or destroying their future in the process..

By getalife

April 18, 2006 12:07 PM | Link to this

Andy,

You forgot this one, with the “freedom” drawing

By Easter Bunny

April 18, 2006 12:09 PM | Link to this

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

The liberals hate easter!!!

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!

I can prove it, I only got 2 yellow peeps in my easter basket!!!!

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Christ died so you can have chocolate bunnies!!!

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Blue colored eggs out numbered red colored eggs by a 2 to 1 margin.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaa.

By lol

April 18, 2006 12:13 PM | Link to this

RW, any idea when you, Buy Danish and Andy (alias Lsal) will get back to work? lol.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 12:14 PM | Link to this

Don’t be afraid to spell it out getalife:

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Mike Luckovich, who drew this anti-war cartoon on the occasion of the 2,000th U.S. military fatality in Iraq (to which Georgia teenager Danielle Ansley provided this response).

This is not to detract from the deserving winners, such as the Gulf Coast papers that won in the Public Service category. It’s just to point out that the major journalism awards this year went to reporting based on anonymous sources who sought to damage the Bush administration or to commentary that shared the same goal. Sadly, the Pulitzers were no exception.

Don’t get weepy.

By Ryan

April 18, 2006 12:21 PM | Link to this

Great job! Don’t let the Negative Nancies (Reagans) get you down.

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 12:21 PM | Link to this

lol,

As soon as I get back from the beach and get a job. Thank you for your interest, but I can only answer for myself.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 12:22 PM | Link to this

lol: Don’t burst into tears but, O.K., let’s play 3 questions:

a- You must have a job, being that you carp about others not having, when you going to quit goofing off on the clock?

b- Why is what other people do any of your business? Are you some blue haired biddy, spying on the neighbors with a high powered telescope?

c- This may be a surprise but did you know all people don’t have to be utter, complete failures like you are? They could either be successfully retired or so bloody rich that they don’t have to work. Moron.

By getalife

April 18, 2006 12:23 PM | Link to this

Andy,

Actually I am laughing out loud, lol if you will.

This website contributes to the mental illness along with Ann, Rush, Hannity, etc..

Opinions are not facts, try posting some actual AP news to fight the demons in your head.

By getalife

April 18, 2006 12:33 PM | Link to this

RW,

How is the weather?

Better yet, see any thongs?

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 12:36 PM | Link to this

getlife,

AP news? AP/news?? AP=news??? I haven’t laughed this hard in years. Please stop!!!

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 12:46 PM | Link to this

getalife,

I’m not there yet, I’ll probably be leaving Thursday or Friday and I’ll hang out the gone fishing sign at my place. Buy Danish has already promised to send Pina Colodas by the pitcher and it’s a mandatory accessory that a babe in a thong rides out of and in to the marina on all watercraft.

The thing I won’t be doing is blogging.

By RE

April 18, 2006 12:47 PM | Link to this

The hysteria is getting to RW. Uncontrolled laughter, continued support of a failed president, clearly he is going over the edge

By getalife

April 18, 2006 12:48 PM | Link to this

RW,

Your welcome. Did you bring your camera to the beach?

By stites

April 18, 2006 12:53 PM | Link to this

Congrats on your award ML! I don’t remember when I started reading your cartoons, but I know it was young (like in primary school). In response to some of the posts that I have read, engaging in a nation wide debat and giving voice to political dissonance IS American, not anti-American. KNOW YOUR HISTORY!

By Nel

April 18, 2006 01:01 PM | Link to this

Way to go Mike!

Obviously many people here don’t understand the grand tradition of political humor or understand it when they read it…..but they keep coming back every day so they probably are hoping that the proverbial penny drops at some point and they finally “get it”. Hummh!!

By lol

April 18, 2006 01:01 PM | Link to this

LOLlolLOLlolLOL!

So RW, you want ML to end his celebration early to give you something to blog about while you are on YOUR vacation!!!You need ML’s work to babysit you even on vacation. lol.

Please Mike, if these people have nothing more in their lives but you, GET BACK TO WORK! Andy and RW NEED YOU!! LOL.

Mike Luckovich- Two time Pulitzer Prize winner AND babysitter.

By Conservatives Molest America's Children

April 18, 2006 01:06 PM | Link to this

“By Liberals Suck And Lie April 18, 2006 11:57 AM | Link to this I don’t want to cause you weepy libs to burst into tears but:

April 17, 2006, 6:40 a.m Iraq Is the War on Terror As the administration stays curiously mum, the evidence that it was right mounts.

As Michael Ledeen recounted here on NRO a few days ago, President Bush’s claim that the Iraqi regime had sought uranium in Africa was not only true and, as the British parliamentary investigation later concluded, “well-founded”; it was probably an understatement. Christopher Hitchens observes — based on the Duelfer Report — that Iraq’s efforts to acquire uranium from Niger stretch back a quarter century. Unless you are inclined to believe Saddam was interested in procuring goats in 1999 when he dispatched a high-ranking emissary to that cash-starved but uranium-rich African nation — a nation with which he had previously done uranium business — there can be little doubt that nuclear-weapons development was the impetus.

direct contacts between high-ranking Iraqi regime officials and both Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri (bin Laden’s top deputy); an apparent payment of hundreds of thousands of dollars by Iraq to Zawahiri in 1998; elaborate mentions of Iraq in bin Laden’s infamous 1998 fatwa calling for the murder of all Americans, anywhere they could be found — the fatwa that presaged the bombing of the U.S. embassies five months later;

Whatever you say, I discredit, pinko.

The article ends with the following: “Most important for present purposes: The evidence is there, as it has always been, to prove that removing Saddam Hussein’s regime from power was a significant advance in the war on terror. But all the evidence in the world proves nothing unless the administration gets out and makes the case. Publicly. Those who have given their lives to a noble cause deserve nothing less.” So it could be the admoinistration doesn’t wish to get caught “cherry picking” intelligence, yet again. But it doesn’t really matter as it comes from a conservative source and their respect for the truth when imparting facts to liberals was summed up by this, just yesterday: ” April 15, 2006 08:24 AM | Link to this “By Little Pinko Angels, So Innocent, So Sweet April 14, 2006 09:22 PM | Link to this Why give cash? The libs will believe anything you tell them, anyway.”

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 01:14 PM | Link to this

lol: What’s up junior, did they preempt the soaps this afternoon? Did your neighbors put up a security screen to block your prying eyes? Can’t you hold the gossip about other people or is it the focus of your existence?

These busy body nag libs are a trip, all the damn time worried about what other people are doing. Could you imagine living with Hillary, the thought makes me wretch, no wonder she can never “find” her “husband.”

By everysandwich

April 18, 2006 01:14 PM | Link to this

Congrats. It sure is nice to see real talent recognized. It makes me think all is right with the world — until I read the actual news.Well done Mr. L!

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 01:15 PM | Link to this

lol,

I answered your snarky little question in a civilized manner. I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that the delay caused your last unfounded outburst because I actually thought your snarky question was moderately humorous. (A difficult task for a moonbat, making it worthy of recognition)

By Voice of Reason

April 18, 2006 01:18 PM | Link to this

I see the geniuses are out. “Aid and Comfort to the enemy” has NOTHING to do with speaking against the govt. Do some homework and maybe a little reading to find out what it really means.

There are definately some newer and dumber faces around.

By getalife

April 18, 2006 01:23 PM | Link to this

Speaking of Hillary and mental illness

RW,

I will look forward to see some beach pictures on your blog when you come back. I will post some for the upcoming bear er beer festival.

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 01:24 PM | Link to this

This comment from “everysandwich” is far too rich to let pass.

Congrats. It sure is nice to see real talent recognized. It makes me think all is right with the world — until I read the actual news.Well done Mr. L!

ml draws the world as a horrible disaster that is being rapidly destroyed by the evil torture master and the little child with big ears.

everysandwich delights in that and finds that all is right with the world until our hero reads the real news and finds out things are actually going pretty darn well, then he gets depressed. Welcome to the tiny minds eye of a lib pretending to be lunch.

By WashingtonBigfoot

April 18, 2006 01:26 PM | Link to this

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an overview of the first months of the Medicare drug plan. It makes for interesting reading. For those of you who want to go beyond the self-serving press releases of the administration, here is the link.

By WashingtonState

April 18, 2006 01:29 PM | Link to this

The New England Journal of Medicine recently published an overview of the first few months of the Medicare drug plan. For those of you wishing to go beyond the self-serving press releases of the administration, here is the link.

By finch

April 18, 2006 01:36 PM | Link to this

Suck,

If you had bothered to click my link from “topplebush”, you would have seen that it’s a Bob Herbert column from Monday’s New York Times, which would otherwise only be available to TimesSelect subscribers.

Now, you may not LIKE “topplebush”. But the NY Times is certainly a much better original source than the fringe “realclearpolitics”.

Okay?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 01:40 PM | Link to this

As with every government program people that don’t deserve are grabbing what they can and it is harming those “entitled” to part D:

Under the law establishing the drug benefit, the secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services can call for extending open enrollment into Medicare Part D by declaring a “special enrollment period” for exceptional circumstances.

In early April, HHS said people who qualify for the low-income subsidy meet that exceptional circumstance, and they will be allowed to enroll in plans after the May 15 deadline. Those seniors must have an income below 150 percent of the poverty line and have limited assets.

The exception, Norwalk estimates, could affect about 2 million people. But to grant that exception to all 43 million eligible Medicare beneficiaries “undermines what Congress put into place.”

And also, as always, libs whine and b-itch at the first sign of discomfort, lying like rugs. Real upstanding citizens you pinkos are.

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 01:44 PM | Link to this

finch,

The New York Times foibles notwithstanding, are you really going to the mat with Bob Herbert’s journalistic integrity? I’ll take Real Clear politics any day over Herbert. Look up his coverage of the “racist” elections officials in Orlando and compare it to the facts sometime.

By Lois Upham

April 18, 2006 01:44 PM | Link to this

Deserved congratulations on your 2nd Pulitzer. I always look forword to getting your “take” on current affairs. You provide a breath of fresh air.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 01:45 PM | Link to this

Oh, O.K. Bob Hebert, that makes it much more believable, yea, right. Why do you think he’s on “Topple Bush?” Kooks who seek other kooks?

Credible news sources won’t touch him?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 01:48 PM | Link to this

By Brian Curtis April 18, 2006 09:22 AM It seems the Pulitzer committee still remembers the point of journalism: to expose uncomfortable truths instead of serving as a cheerleader for those in power.

Well, thank you Brian, for proving my point exactly. The pulitzer prize is a partisan political sham.

For once we agree on something.

By WashingtonState

April 18, 2006 01:54 PM | Link to this

Suck,

I knew I could count on you to come up with a perfect example of a self-serving press release. As for the part about liberals whining at the first sign of discomfort, the article is written by doctors who are concerned about the well being of their patients, not liberals trying to score political points. I guess we can add the infirm and the elderly to your list of people you hate.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 01:57 PM | Link to this

By Brian Curtis April 18, 2006 09:22 AM It seems the Pulitzer committee still remembers the point of journalism: to expose uncomfortable truths instead of serving as a cheerleader for those in power.

Here’s a list of pulitzer prize winners by year. Let’s see if we can find which year it was that the prizes went to those who “expose uncomfortable truths instead of serving as a cheerleader for those in power.” Care to guess which year? Example, 1996:

Robert B. Semple, Jr. of New York Times For his editorials on environmental issues.

They were just all over those in power during that certain time period, gosh, it’s not too obvious.

By RE

April 18, 2006 01:59 PM | Link to this

We all bear witness to Andy losing his mind.

Lets see, so far in your mind the media, democrats, liberals, gays, illegal immigrants, all foriegn countries, “activist judges”, muslims, hollywood, cartoon writers, and retired generals are all working together to bring down this country.

par·a·noi·a ( P ) Pronunciation Key (pr-noi) n. A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution with or without grandeur, often strenuously defended with apparent logic and reason. Extreme, irrational distrust of others.

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 02:02 PM | Link to this

Why does WashingtonBigfoot sound like a wordier version of WashingtonState?

Not to mention the deja-vu feeling to the whole topic.

By WashingtonState

April 18, 2006 02:04 PM | Link to this

RE,

Your list is far from complete, but unless Suck chooses to open that particular door again, I’ll let it be.

By WashingtonState

April 18, 2006 02:10 PM | Link to this

Hey RW,

You are right, I got my nicks mixed up. As for the deja vu all over again, I posted the link last night in the dead thread and thought it deserved reposting here.

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 02:29 PM | Link to this

By RE April 18, 2006 01:59 PM Lets see, so far in your mind the media, democrats, liberals, gays, illegal immigrants, all foriegn countries, “activist judges”, muslims, hollywood, cartoon writers, and retired generals are all working together to bring down this country.

Now don’t go bursting into tears on me but your paragraph would be far more credible and seem less hysterical, panties in a wad, if you didn’t include people that are trying to bring the country down.

Unless, of course, you think 9/11 was meant to help us in someway?

By Daniel

April 18, 2006 02:30 PM | Link to this

Congratulations Mike! It doesn’t get much better than a Pulitizer.

By RE

April 18, 2006 02:35 PM | Link to this

Did I miss any?

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 02:35 PM | Link to this

Don’t go tearing up on me but it doesn’t take much to find the truth amongst all the lies:

A Washington Post-ABC poll, released last week, found that nearly two-thirds of seniors enrolled in the program (medicare part D) said they were saving at least some money. But less than a third said they were saving a lot, and 26% said they had seen no savings, according to the findings, which were based on a subsample of 147 enrollees nationally.

Experts say the program clearly can benefit chronically or catastrophically ill people who take many costly medications, provided they carefully choose a plan that covers the drugs they need. Low-income people stand to benefit as well; a key provision of the Part D plan waives most premiums and co-payments for low-income people who earn up to 150% of federal poverty levels.

By getalife

April 18, 2006 02:44 PM | Link to this

Mike win in 1995 and here are his toons

By getalife

April 18, 2006 02:50 PM | Link to this

Oops Clinton.

By Suck is a Sweety

April 18, 2006 02:58 PM | Link to this

With Randy Andy/Suck/LPA/and his many other multiple personalities you are much better off listing those things he doesn’t hate- Bush, hostess twinkies, & used Tampax (thinks they are breath sweetners with attached dental floss).

Isn’t that a lot easier?

By PFC Benjamin Rosser

April 18, 2006 03:04 PM | Link to this

Mike, I met you a long time ago when I was a student at HIES, you were friend’s with one of my 8th grade teachers. I just wanted to say thank you, and congratulations on your award. I loved what you did, we as the rest of us, and I’m pleased to finally see people asking that question, “Why?”. Thanks Mike, God Bless.

-Ben

By Liberals Suck And Lie

April 18, 2006 03:09 PM | Link to this

By getalife April 18, 2006 10:34 AM He said this is a good place for both sides to argue the issues.

By Suck is a Sweety April 18, 2006 02:58 PM With Randy Andy/Suck/LPA/and his many other multiple personalities you are much better off listing those things he doesn’t hate- Bush, hostess twinkies, & used Tampax (thinks they are breath sweetners with attached dental floss

By getalife

April 18, 2006 03:20 PM | Link to this

We were discussing having both sides posting is better than posting on chat rooms here

By Tom Daschle

April 18, 2006 03:30 PM | Link to this

Dear N-GA,

I just wanted to let you know that Sen. Harry Reid and I are thinking of you. We are so sad that you are saddened by the sad idea that it is sad to cry over a funny cartoon.

Life is sad and nothing is funny anymore since Bush is our President, so you are right to be saddened. Only crazy neo-con polluters can find humor anywhere anymore.

The sky IS falling there IS global warming and the ice caps ARE melting, and there will be more hurricanes, so it’s just hopeless.

Now I’m sad too! Darn. I wanted to cheer you up, but I can’t! What’t the name of those meds again?

Fondly,

Senator Tom “I’m saddened” Daschle

By Lord Help Us

April 18, 2006 03:37 PM | Link to this

Congratulations ML!!! Without you to relentlessly fume at day after day after day after day, a lot of people (you know who you are) would probably be out molesting farm animals.

It’s the Competence, STUPID!

By Liberal Texas Democrat

April 18, 2006 03:38 PM | Link to this

The National Enquirer at the HEB today has a headline about the Bush marriage “exploding” It seems they’re reporting that Laura (“Pickles”) Bush is “livid” with George. I figure this has got to be true because just last week they were reporting on Chelsea Clinton’s problems with cocaine. If ya’ll don’t mind I’ll stick with the liberal media, that Enquirer is too conservative for my tastes.

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 03:42 PM | Link to this

I’m gonna’ need a better pimp!

Geez getalife, What would be wrong with pimping the main site?

By getalife

April 18, 2006 03:42 PM | Link to this

Tom,

Just ask Rush for the “oxy’s” and everything will be ok.

By getalife

April 18, 2006 03:49 PM | Link to this

Now, I wiil pimp the [national enquirer](http://www.nationalenquirer.com/celebrity/63569

Shees.

By getalife

April 18, 2006 03:51 PM | Link to this

Now, I will pimp the national enquirer

Shees.

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 04:03 PM | Link to this

China Using Artificial Rain to Clear Dust

I guess we’ll just have to take their word for it because there is no explanation as to how China will perform this miracle

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 04:09 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

Oxycontin causes is a pain killer not an anti-depressant, and depression is a side-effect of the drug.

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 04:19 PM | Link to this

RW,

I forgot to ask - what kind of rum do you like in your Pina Coladas? I want to make sure that they’re exactly how you like them.

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 04:36 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

Any dark non-spiced rum will do, the important part is making sure the mix is Coco Lopez unless you are making them from scratch.

By Souldrift

April 18, 2006 04:42 PM | Link to this

Great work Mike! Love the fact that your work motivates the left and the right to interact, and questions conventional wisdom.

Also, thanks for keeping people’s thoughts on New Orleans.

By Dusty

April 18, 2006 05:01 PM | Link to this

err..RW

What’s the difference between pina coladas and rum & coca-colas?

OK, so I’m a Manichevitz connoisseur. I confess. I like the finer things of life. (To the manner born?)

By Carole Ashkinaze

April 18, 2006 05:01 PM | Link to this

I’m so proud of you, Mike! Two Pulitzers — and so well deserved! Carole

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 05:26 PM | Link to this

RW,

I’m glad I checked because light rum is usually recommended.

As for the mix, that will be Coca Lopez, but there will be so much rum in them that you won’t be able to tell that they aren’t from scratch.

I’m getting thirsty!

By getalife

April 18, 2006 05:43 PM | Link to this

Well, at least Bill left out Mike.

By @@

April 18, 2006 05:50 PM | Link to this

I’ve been waiting for my mood to sour so that I could finish up my response to Midori. The weather is too perfect, the pool is open and the water temp is 80. Why spoil a perfect day? It would be an exercise in futility anyway.

Two of my kids have progressed to the point that they are ready to be mainstreamed into public school. Now that is an accomplishment. Their accomplishment. Congratulations little fellas, Miss * is proud of you!!!!!!!

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 05:53 PM | Link to this

Getalife,

I agree with Bill Bennett.

And here’s some background on the shameful Pulitzers and The Times (which owns The WaPo):

1932 Pulitzer: CORRESPONDENCE Walter Duranty of New York Times - For his series of dispatches on Russia especially the working out of the Five Year Plan.

Tens of millions died under Stalin, and Duranty purposely deceived the world and lied about what was really happening.

In 1933, at the height of the famine, Duranty wrote that “village markets [were] flowing with eggs, fruit, poultry, vegetables, milk and butter. … A child can see this is not famine but abundance.” Reports such as these were crucial, historians say, in the decision of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to grant the Soviet Union diplomatic recognition in 1933.

Here’s the Pulitzer Board’s pitiful explanation of why it won’t rescind the disgraced Duranty’s Pulitzer

By @@

April 18, 2006 06:01 PM | Link to this

Getalife:

Bennett said that he had no problem with “liberal” journalists getting awards so I guess he did mention Mike.

By Puh leeeze

April 18, 2006 06:07 PM | Link to this

AJC said people love you or hate you. That’s not true. I just quit reading you when you picked sides. I like my news, editorials and cartoons to be agnostic. Pick on both sides.

For those of you that claim this is validation, just remember who’s doing the validating. I’m sure if the senate picked the Nobel prize, Bush would have won 5 straight by now.

Puh leeze

By finch

April 18, 2006 06:09 PM | Link to this

Danish,

The Times does not own the Washington Post. Never has.

By Super Dude

April 18, 2006 06:17 PM | Link to this

Congratulations Mike!

As a hardcore Consevative you make me the most mad when I can’t help but laugh at your cartoon. As hard as I try, sometimes I can’t hold back the laughter.

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 06:17 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish,

I like the dark rum for the flavor just in case somebody gets heavy handed with the mixer. It sounds like I’ll have no such problems with yours. I actually make mine with light and dark mixed, but I didn’t want to be a pain.

Dusty,

ARRRGGGHHHH!!! Would you let someone put coke in your Manichevitz?

Cuba Libra .

Pina Colada, although it seems the Webtender hasn’t figured out the virtue of mixing in dark rum.

By getalife

April 18, 2006 06:27 PM | Link to this

What a load of crap.

Take a half gallon of Captain Morgans silver, a bucket of ice, one coke.

Fill glass half full of ice, fill rum almost to the top, splash of coke and guzzle.

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 06:37 PM | Link to this

Yea Danish,

It’s not important that the New York Times and their disgraceful reporter lied to support the Russian government at the expense of millions of lives and a drastic change of course by the US government in dealing with the problem.

No, the only thing that’s important is WaPo ownership. (Besides, finch is obsessed with newspaper ownership. See: Washington Times)

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 06:39 PM | Link to this

Forget “culture of corruption” we have figured out how to really start getalife ranting.

Don’t screw with my Captain and a splash!

By getalife

April 18, 2006 06:43 PM | Link to this

I stand firm on my stand of Captain Morgan silver and coke.

I will not bend or waver, I have resolve and will stay the course.

Don’t drink and drive.

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 06:49 PM | Link to this

finch,

Mea Culpa about the Times ownership. Unlike the mad libs on this page, I admit my error.

By Dusty

April 18, 2006 06:59 PM | Link to this

RW

One brave day I shall try Coca-cola with my Manichevitz. I guess that would make it a Mani-Coca or Manic for short.

Getalife’s recipe sounds tempting. It is surprizing that he can remember how it tastes after drinking it.

But I guess I will stick with the nectar of the gods embellished with a serving of celestial fruitcake. That is soooo good.

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 07:05 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

I don’t think getalife ever really said what it tastes like. I’m with you, after drinking it he wouldn’t have any idea.

I’ve heard fruitcake is the only thing that makes Manichevitz palatable and vice versa, is that true?

By @@

April 18, 2006 07:06 PM | Link to this

Cold beer in a bottle in the summer, outdoors and “Slippery Nipples” in the winter. That was the preferred name on the latter as bad as it sounds. The other option would be censored.

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 07:07 PM | Link to this

RW,

I guess I better not let out that I am Sun Yung Moon’s long lost illegitimate daughter.

@@,

Three cheers for your students’ great success. I admire your dedication, patience and optimism. I wish those character traits would rub off on some of our fellow countrymen.

By finch

April 18, 2006 07:12 PM | Link to this

Danish,

No problem. We all make mistakes. Even me. (ducks!)

RW,

I’m only obsessed with newspapers owned by cults.

Enjoy your pina coladas. Although I like getalife’s basic rum and coke. Cuts to the chase with the 3 basic food groups. Sugar, caffeine and ethyl.

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 07:13 PM | Link to this

Dusty,

Warning:

Do NOT mix Coca Cola with Manichevitz. It is even more poisonous than Manichevitz mixed with nothing but manichevitz.

However, It would make the perfect potion to serve to the inmates under interrogation at Guantanamo Bay as it includes both American and Jewish ingredients.

We must hurry before the International Red Cross find out.

By getalife

April 18, 2006 07:19 PM | Link to this

@@,

Slippery nipples sounds good, you would probably like this

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 07:31 PM | Link to this

@@,

Your Slippery Nipples sound like they’d be great on ice cream, but no so fine to drink.

Who knew that they had “butterscotch Schnapps”?

Getalife,

Dittoes for your recipe as a great ice cream topping.

I think I’ll invite the neighborhood kids over.

By @@

April 18, 2006 07:37 PM | Link to this

Ooohhh Getalife:

Actually, I had a couple of those once. They looked harmless enough, but on an empty stomach they turned out to be potent. When my food came, all I did was play with it. Embarrassing for me, but fun for everybody else.

By @@

April 18, 2006 07:49 PM | Link to this

Buy Danish:

I’ll tell my kids you’re proud of them too.

What can I say about my preference in drinks. I’m a sissy in the winter.

By WashingtonState

April 18, 2006 09:01 PM | Link to this

@@,

Sounds like a special day for you too. Congrats to your students.

By tim

April 18, 2006 09:03 PM | Link to this

CONGRATS! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK.COMFORT THE AFLICTED. AFLICT THE COMFORTED EQUALLY.

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 09:21 PM | Link to this

WashingtonState,

Any news on what happened here?

By Henry

April 18, 2006 09:24 PM | Link to this

Mr. Luckovich

By Henry

April 18, 2006 09:38 PM | Link to this

Mr. Luckovich I read your cartoons and I enjoy them very much. They’re whitty, hilarous, and political. Plus, you really get me thinkin about the topics that you bring up in your cartoons, you know? Keep up your awesoome work man.

Henry

p.s good job on your award

By @@

April 18, 2006 09:42 PM | Link to this

WashingtonState:

Thanks, they’re going to a school where I know their teacher. She’s awesome.

By Midori

April 18, 2006 10:13 PM | Link to this

Perhaps you bush bots can enlighten me: what the hell is a “decider”?

Or is that something he’s been drinking?

By RW-(the original)

April 18, 2006 10:20 PM | Link to this

Decider n. One who decides. Any more requests from the peanut gallery?

By getalife

April 18, 2006 10:29 PM | Link to this

W is decidable.

By Paul

April 18, 2006 10:45 PM | Link to this

Mike: Your priest cartoon (“does this make me look gay?”) was offensive to practicing Catholics, and your other cartoons show you have no tolerance for the military (always fat sinister-looking senior officers) or conservative Protestant Christians.

I’m no fan of George Bush, but your unending ridicule of him (the big ears got old a long time ago)looks more like hate than good satire.

I love classic political cartoons - - but you are simply short on the talent that constitutes a great cartoonist. The Pulitzer people obviously go for extreme PC views over great talent.

I no longer subscribe to the AJC. Your management has chosen liberal orthodoxy over financially growing your paper in a metro area of 5 million. I give your paper another 10 years before it becomes insolvent.

By Dusty

April 18, 2006 10:51 PM | Link to this

Friends, Romans & Countrymen—-

I just got back and what fun to read your comments.

@@ loves her darling children.

Getalife does not drink and drive. Just drinks.

Buy Danish is the illegitimate daughter of Sun Young Moon. WHO? (Never eat ice cream with topping at her house.)

RW wants Manichevitz & fruitcake for Christmas. Also a big bottle of Coca-cola and instructions for CPR.

Finch has developed the ideal dietary pyramid;sugar, caffeine and ethyl. Who’s Ethyl?

Until tomorrow, pleasant dreams all. G’nite.

By Buy Danish

April 18, 2006 10:55 PM | Link to this

Paul,

I thought the Priest cartoon was one of his better ones. Very New Yorker-y.

I hate vulgar P** Christ Christian-bashing, but that cartoon just did not bother me.

By BILLY

April 18, 2006 11:12 PM | Link to this

HEY MIKE :HERE’S A GREAT IDEA FOR A CARTOON DRAW A PICTURE OF A CROWD OF PEOPLE REPRESENTING THE ENTIRE PALESTINIAN NATION,THEN DRAW A PICTURE OF A BOMB BELT AROUND THE WHOLE GROUP WITH ONE GUY IN THE MIDDLE WITH HIS FINGER ON THE BUTTON! {CAPTION} “EVERY BODY READY” [ ANSWER TO ISRAELS PROBLEM ]

By WashingtonState

April 19, 2006 01:31 AM | Link to this

RW,

There are Starbucks coffee shops in all the terminals at Sea-Tac. My guess is that everyone was taking a coffee break. I was down on the Florida panhandle watching them get ready to start bringing up all that oil sitting off the coast. Seriously, the hurricanes did a lot of damage all over the panhandle this year. You can’t see it from the street, but when you walk down the beach, you see all these half houses dangling off the dunes. They are trying to shore up the defenses around Destin by bringing in big piles of, you guessed it, sand. That should really work well.

By WashingtonState

April 19, 2006 02:33 AM | Link to this

Those foreign terrorists in Iraq are just getting bolder and bolder.

By Jud

April 19, 2006 03:00 AM | Link to this

I disagree with Paul, who said your cartoons are too hateful now. He clearly doesn’t understand what cartooning is all about. The fact that your cartoons have been edgier and darker lately makes them even better. Good political cartoons are not for the squeemish or weak-hearted; it’s for those with testicular fortitude.

The haters hate you because you are the best, Mike. Congratulations.

By Ricky

April 19, 2006 07:29 AM | Link to this

While I am no huge fan of Bush(I think he is a big government Republican, not in tune with my personal beliefs) the hate that comes from his critics is amazing. If they would spend more time trying to find a candidate that could beat him instead of just bashing him they might actually beat him in an election instead of just whinning about it for the last six years. The Democratic Party needs to gets its head together and focus on some issues. Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, and Hillary Clinton are killing your party. You are going to be in huge trouble if McCain, Guilani, or Romney get the GOP nomination. I am personally pulling for McCain. Either way it should be a very interesting election with neither party having a preordained candidate.

By Buy Danish

April 19, 2006 08:00 AM | Link to this

Jud,

May I say that I hate you for using terms like “the haters”?

You sound pretty hateful and clearly hate people who don’t agree with you, so what’s up with your hypocrisy?

By AntiRadical

April 19, 2006 08:03 AM | Link to this

Congratulations ML. Wow, two Pulitzers is no small feat. Where’s the next ‘toon? Ha, ha- just kidding; have a well earned rest!

By Buy Danish

April 19, 2006 08:56 AM | Link to this

From Mark Steyn

…Kofi Annan framed it rather more soothingly:

“The offensive caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad were first published in a European country which has recently acquired a significant Muslim population, and is not yet sure how to adjust to it.”*

If you’ve also “recently acquired” a significant Muslim population and you’re not sure how to “adjust” to it, well, here’s the difference: back when my Belgian grandparents emigrated to Canada, the idea was that the immigrants assimilated to the host country. As Kofi and Co. see it, today the host country has to assimilate to the immigrants…

And -

The cost of de-nuking Iran will be high now but significantly higher with every year it’s postponed. The lesson of the Danish cartoons is the clearest reminder that what is at stake here is the credibility of our civilization. Whether or not we end the nuclearization of the Islamic Republic will be an act that defines our time.

By Scooter

April 19, 2006 09:06 AM | Link to this

Who is this “we” Kofi speaks of, liberals and their UN?

“Whether or not we end the nuclearization of the Islamic Republic will be an act that defines our time.”

The UN, what a joke.

By Buy Danish

April 19, 2006 09:31 AM | Link to this

Scooter,

Sorry, that may not have been clear. That was Mark Steyn talking there, not Kofi.

Kofi is the one who thinks we have to appease muslims and assimilate to their demands.

By Scooter

April 19, 2006 09:37 AM | Link to this

Buy Danish, that makes more sense, thanks.

By Buy Danish

April 19, 2006 09:48 AM | Link to this

Scooter,

You’re welcome. Kofi would be in the camp that is for censoring “offensive” cartoons and a bureaucratic enabler of these dangerous Islamists.

By JEWELL ROLLEN

April 19, 2006 12:44 PM | Link to this

MIKE, YOU ARE TRULY THE VERY BEST. I HAVE LIVED IN NASHVILLE,TN, SAN FRANCISCO, AND HOUSTON, AND NO COMPARES TO YOU. YOU MAKE PEOPLE SIT UP AND THINK. YOUR 2ND PRIZE IS WELL DESERVED. KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!!!

By Christy

April 19, 2006 01:09 PM | Link to this

Congratulations Mike. You do a wonderful job!

By S Hartsock

April 19, 2006 08:04 PM | Link to this

Congratulations on the Pulitzer!! Heard your interview on NPR/Fresh Air and am now a subscriber to the AJC website. Looking forward to seeing more of your work. The world could use more chuckles— and pauses—now and then.

By Roger

April 20, 2006 03:55 AM | Link to this

Fantastic interview on NPR. Congratulations, the Pulitzer prize was totally deserved

By Michelle Payer

April 20, 2006 03:18 PM | Link to this

Mike - i heard your interview on Fresh Air last night and loved it. Your cartoons are witty and thought-provoking… oh, and the Harriet Meyers one may have been “sophomoric” as you call it, but anyone who ranks Animal House as one of their favorite films of all time will certainly appreciate the humor. Keep up the good work and a hearty congratulations for pulling in the Pulitzer for a second time….you are brilliant.

By EC

April 20, 2006 05:57 PM | Link to this

Mike L,

Congratulations! I’ve admired your work for years. A prize well deserved. May you have many more successes.

By Chuck Dobbs

April 22, 2006 01:37 PM | Link to this

Congrads Mike- Keep up the good work. Don’t let anyone get away with anything!!!!!!!!!

By M.H. Ellet

April 22, 2006 10:06 PM | Link to this

Congratulations on the Prize, Mike, & thanks for seeing & telling! Please take a look at Mary McCarthy, whistle-blower re the secret prisons of/for/by the CIA - ordered by puppet El Presidente, no doubt.

Yeah, I hate him!

M. H. Ellet

By akawillie

April 23, 2006 12:47 PM | Link to this

Congratulation Mike. Periodically your cartoons appear in my Houston Chronicle, but not often enough for me. I have you on “my comics page,” which comes to my e-mail every day, so I won’t miss any of your offerings. I also get Pat Oliphant who I admire very much. Hope both of you will keep up the good work for years to come.

Akawillie

By JB

April 23, 2006 02:40 PM | Link to this

Mike, Congratulations on taking a stand.
In the bad old days of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall of NYC, Boss was never worried about the written word of columnists because most of his constituents couldn’t read. It was the cartoonists that he hated because people could see the corruption in pictures, which speak volumes. Even W, with his limited command of the English language, could get your messages if it weren’t for the silver spoon coated with oil and coal in his mouth(possibly a cartoon image worth exploring). If only the Dems showed some spine they might win back legislative and executive branches. John Keary had his chance and couldn’t decide, Hillary Clinton is great but too polarizing. Joe Biden is intelligent, well spoken and sensible but not well known.

By E Darryl Barnes

April 24, 2006 11:12 AM | Link to this

Luckovich’s Pulitzer is well deserved-hope he keeps up the good work!

By LaVonne Otwell

April 24, 2006 01:29 PM | Link to this

No one deserves the Pulitzer more than you! This city should be extremely proud to have you among us. Your insight is amazing and besides being entertaining, your cartoons are very thought provoking and speak to the issues of the day in a most intelligent way. Keep up the good work, you are our treasure.