Tuesday, October 05, 2010

WTF? "Treehouse O'Love?" Art Imitates Life... Again!

Today, Tom Tomorrow bases his toon upon the exploits of James O'Keefe, the Dumbo-agent provocateur. The fount of all knowledge on the Net tells us:

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James O'Keefe

...In September 2010, news outlets described a failed attempt by O'Keefe to lure CNN correspondent Abbie Boudreau onto a boat "filled with sexually explicit props", where he planned to make suggestive comments and "seduce" the reporter while the encounter was recorded on hidden cameras.

O'Keefe's first big scam involved hidden camera videos which purported to expose wrongdoing by the community group ACORN. From the ACORN-caper, O'Keefe went on to impersonate a phone-company worker with the aim of installing a wiretap on Senator Mary Landrieu's (D-LA) phone lines. Most recently, O'Keefe launched his "love boat" scheme to compromise a CNN correspondent. Tom Tomorrow has taken note of this Dumbo dumbass and gives us another "Conservative Jones & Moonbat" adventure in today's "This Modern World." If this is (fair & balanced) contempt for Dumbo antics, so be it.

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This Modern World — "Under The Spell Of The Boy Detective"
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)

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Tom Tomorrow/Dan Perkins
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[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow". His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Salon and Working for Change. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly.

Perkins, a long time resident of Brooklyn, New York, currently lives in Connecticut. He received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002.

When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political weblog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001.]

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