Local conservative talk-show host and Best of Tucson winner Jon Justice is, apparently of the opinion that this cartoon by Arizona Daily Star political cartoonist David Fitzsimmons is an indicator that he “needs mental health” (sic).
I’m going to assume that Mr. Justice means “mental help,” but hey, his mind was moving faster than fingers. I get it.
But let’s take a look at this with a less hyper-sensitive eye here, folks (I can’t believe I actually have to do this for some people) and we’ll break it down after the jump.
- David Fitzsimmons, Arizona Daily Star
We’ve got Big Bird, Pilgrim Mitt Romney’s Severed Head, and Pilgrim Mitt Romney’s Headless Body, which is a series of words I never expected to type.
PMR’sHB is stomping away angrily. I mean, just look at the cloud of smoke and the grumpy lines! Poor fella.
Meanwhile, PMR’sSH appears to be straight-up pissed, cursing up a storm about minorities, entitlement programs, the poor and the middle class—all people who were disparaged in his speeches this year, and (for the most part) people who voted against him. And we’ve got a relieved Big Bird, who Mitt promised to have on the chopping block in the first Presidential debate.
Now, from what one might infer, it appears that Pilgrim Mitt Romney was going to bring the ax down on Big Bird (as he promised!), ’til he messed up somewhere along the way, chopping his own head off through a feat of staggering ineptitude. Now he’s grumbling about how he screwed up, blaming everyone but himself. Seems accurate, considering it’s pretty much what happened in real life.
Now, it’s easy to poke fun at Fitz. I mean, if you’ve spent time in a room with him, you know that he’s a bit…wacky. (I mean, look at those eyes!) But hey, crazy is fun so long as it’s not “stab-you-with-a-fork” crazy, right?
But come on, Jon Justice. As someone who compared Obama’s administration to Star Wars here, with Obama as some sort of Darth Vader and Mitt Romney apparently as Luke Skywalker (Is Karl Rove Obi-Wan? Even better, considering the way he vanished near the end, I’m assuming Paul Ryan is some kind of Yoda, right?), you don’t have much room to be calling Fitz insane.
Besides, we all know that this election was closer to the plot of “Rocky III” (champion is basking in his glory; gets caught off-guard by challenger; trains harder than ever and takes advantage of his opponent’s mistakes to secure the win) than the “Star Wars” Saga—it just feels like it took six damn movies to slog through.
This article appears in Nov 15-21, 2012.
Gee Whiz! I think Fitz is funny!
But then, I’m not a highly paid, right wing talking head shill for Jim Click, Don Diamond and the rest of the local thieves, like Jon Justice is.
I’m just a flagburner!!
The material that Fitz puts out is the work of a brilliant mind. People with that kind of intellect are entitled to be a bit whacko. His depiction of Romney is a classic.
This just may be the only time I wil ever cede an acknowledment of a modicum of agreement with ( cough, cough) Jim. Damn hippies are like a broken watch, right twice a day.
Why is it that Jon Justice is always right and the rest of the planet and history is always wrong?
Am I the only one who keeps noticing this re-occurring theme?
I don’t do this often, but if a conservative made a similar cartoon featuring Obama or another prominent Democrat, you can bet there would be all sorts of liberals getting the vapors talking about the “culture of violence” blah blah blah… You’d better get the CPR ready for David Safier and the like…
I’ve never read Jon Justice. Who is he? Where are his columns published?
I frequently see Fitz editorial cartoons in a wide array of publications, even in a little local daily, the Democrat Herald, which is published in Albany, Oregon – mid Willamette Valley, where I now live.
At the last Tucson Festival of Books (my annual pilgrimage to Tucson), I watched Fitz draw a full body caricature of Big Jim Griffith in minutes. Then, in a short time, he drew another of Father Eusebio Kino arriving in Tucson on horseback with a set of golf clubs slung on his back, looking at the Santa Catalina Mtns and saying “Beautiful”.
Fitz is the most talented artist and satirist that I’ve ever seen. He illustrated Big Jim’s book “A Border Runs Through It”, which I highly recommend. http://www.amazon.com/Border-Runs-Through-….
I would love to see Fitz’s cartoon about Romney’s dog on the roof of a car.
Fitz is a radical left wing nut job and has been as long as I can remember. There were letters to the editor when I first moved to Tucson 16 years ago calling for his head on a plate. Unfortunately, someone thinks he is funny. I can remember only one or two of his cartoons that were funny or made sense.
There are those who do not understand irony, subtlety and satire and there are those who appreciate Fitz. The two groups are evidently mutually exclusive.
Fine, so a case can be made to defend this cartoon. It’s clearly only one of many in “The Most Appalling” list of Fitz’s work. But, liberals, be honest now, if Fitz drew a cartoon of Obama getting his head cut off, would you think it was as funny as you think this one is?
I understand satire and irony. I have to agree with a couple of the respondents, if Fitz substituted his majesty obama, there would have been a riot. Mike, I think you confuse bad judgement with irony and satire. But then, as a grade school drop-out or Tucson school system grad that would be understandable.
This cartoon is hilarious! It has everything and it works on several levels. The moronic Teabagging naysayers are missing the insight & sense of humor to see just how great it is, I’m sure they would prefer some sort of racist cartoon depicting President Obama viewing a burning cross on his lawn or being lynched from a tree. Jon Justice has his head up his posterior and he thinks Fitz “needs mental health”? Puh-leeze.
The conservative troglodyte’s LOVE to hate David Fitzsimmons political cartoons. I guess that they have nothing better to do than constantly rip on him. I hope he continues to have his cartoons published in the ADS forever!
The only thing wrong with it, is it wasnt THAT close
So, we have one cartoon complaining about another cartoon? Jon Justice is a joke that I rarely understand, but I get that some are entertained by him. But I prefer Fitz…
Jon Justice acts like a surly adolescent with acne.
The funniest things are those that are closest to the truth – Fitz has mastered the grasp of both.
I wish he would parody the Metro Water Tucson Scandal “Murky Matters – Tucson Weekly”, it would be hilarious! Go Fitz Go!