{"id":4094,"date":"2008-01-16T08:23:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T15:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/16\/tom-toles-versus-pat-oliphant-on-clintons-emotional-moment\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T08:23:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T15:43:27","slug":"tom-toles-versus-pat-oliphant-on-clintons-emotional-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4094","title":{"rendered":"Tom Toles versus Pat Oliphant On Clinton&#039;s &quot;Emotional Moment&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More proof that Toles is the best mainstream political cartoonist&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/toles_clinton.gif' alt='Tom Toles Cartoon' \/><\/p>\n<p>In contrast, see <a href=\"http:\/\/pandagon.blogsome.com\/2008\/01\/12\/hed-make-fun-of-a-man-for-pms-too\/\">Pat Oliphant&#8217;s very sexist take<\/a> on the same material.<\/p>\n<p>My friend Kevin Moore, another cartoonist, <a href=\"http:\/\/nevikmoore.livejournal.com\/273404.html\">criticizes Oliphant as well<\/a>, and discusses my criticism of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webcomicsnation.com\/kevinmoore\/incontempt\/series.php?view=single&#038;ID=94747\">one of his own cartoons about Clinton<\/a>, which I had told him was sexist. Kevin seems to have come part of the way to my view on his cartoon: &#8220;The image itself &#8211; Clinton sobbing in the arms of her husband &#8211; resonates far beyond my own intentions and serves to subvert my criticism.&#8221; I agree with that; it doesn&#8217;t matter how what the cartoonist&#8217;s <em>intentions <\/em>were, when the image used plays so powerfully into sexist stereotyping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More proof that Toles is the best mainstream political cartoonist&#8230; In contrast, see Pat Oliphant&#8217;s very sexist take on the same material. My friend Kevin Moore, another cartoonist, criticizes Oliphant as well, and discusses my criticism of one of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4094\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,27,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cartooning-comics","category-elections-and-politics","category-feminism-sexism-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}