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This cartoon grew somewhat out of my frustration at the recent spate of overhyped media spectacles (Schiavo, the Pope) which have rendered invisible all the truly sick crap that's going on (Darfur, the bankruptcy bill, refusal to raise the minimum wage, the threat of absolute Republican power, appointing that flaming nutball John Bolton to the UN, etc). Tens of thousands of people die of pollution from coal-fired power plants every year, yet those victims don't make the news at all.

Rather than address overplayed subjects directly (I was loath to even reference them here), I thought it would be more interesting to ponder the efficacy of the regressives' media machine. Now, I know they weren't exactly responsible for the Pope-a-thon, but the ease with which their BS floats from blogs to Limbaugh to Fox to the mainstream press (or some other sequence involving Rove or Norquist or some dippy think tank) is remarkable.

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