I get a cable TV channel that lets me see a view of four news networks at once, and I regularly switch back and forth between CNN, BBC, MSNBC and Fox News.
Fox News is a completely different world, especially the past couple of days as it has obsessed over the Michael Flynn story while other news focuses almost exclusively on the COVID-19 pandemic.
One thing I wanted to do in the cartoon was to draw the screaming Democrat donkey with a mask, and the daydreaming, pandemic-disinterested Republican with no mask.
It occurred to me: What if I wanted to draw the elephant with a mask? How would I do that?
A mask is supposed to cover your nose. Would the elephant have a mask the size of a bed sheet? Would its mask have a hose-like extension for its trunk? If I drew anything like that, would it even look like a mask?
These are important questions for Republicans, but only if they are going to wear masks. Wearing a mask is effective in protecting others, not yourself, so it makes ideological sense why Republicans would not want to wear them … still, if MAGA Republicans did want to wear them, I’d be in cartoon trouble.
Here is the rough sketch for this one, that I drew on a piece of Cagle Cartoons letterhead.
Notice that I thought about drawing the elephant in a Fox News T-shirt, but I decided against it. FoxNews.com used to be a great subscriber to CagleCartoons, but they recently canceled their subscription. That’s very disappointing and a giant step in their descent into hell.
This post got me to thinking, so I drew this …
— Editorial cartoonist Daryl Cagle lives in Montecito and runs the CagleCartoons.com news syndicate, distributing editorial cartoons to more than 850 news sites and newspapers around the world, including Noozhawk. Contact him at editor@cagle.com, follow his blog at www.darylcagle.com and follow him on Twitter: @dcagle. Click here for previous cartoons. The opinions drawn are his own.