If You Had Any Initiative, You’d Go Out and Inherit a Department Store
Paul’s evisceration of Gene Marks’ Gilded Age-esque article telling poor black kids to be rich and white and blaming them if they are not, led me to this legendary Herblock cartoon from 1961 attacking Barry Goldwater for believing the very same thing:
….Herblock fans can find more at this Library of Congress online exhibit.
In your guts, you know he’s nuts.
In your head, you know he’s not.
No, no, I’m pretty sure Goldwater was, in fact, nuts.
And yet, by the time he died he seemed much more sane than the present crop.
Time wounds all heels. Or something.
I meant “not in his head”
There are damned few like Herblock left.
Not that Herblock is around anymore.
I miss the media. I hope they’re not suffering too badly in the gilded cage they put themselves in
Can you imagine the Post printing something similar today?
Is the great Herblock cartoon about “strict constructionists” and the Supreme Court online?
The cartoon I’d really like to see again is one Brockington had on his office door, that satirically told a gun-rights story of American liberty. (Guy with gun in front of African-Americans being told to take a literacy test: “I think they just passed.”)
There’s a whole Herblock archive on the Library of Congress page. I’ll put it in the main post too.
http://myloc.gov/Exhibitions/herblockgallery/Pages/default.aspx
That is outstanding.