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So I thought it would be funny to have Drooly fill in for hatemongering talk show host Laura Ingraham. Ms. Ingraham came to mind because her show preceded my recent interview on WINA, and the few minutes I happened to hear were horrifying (the subject, of course, was immigration -- she was sprayin' Rid-Mex all over the place).

Before doing the strip, I thought I'd take a gander at her website, and it did not disappoint. Laura is selling "P2TP" car decals -- that's "Power 2 the People," for those not in the know. Another instance of the ruling elites and their public emissaries posing as the grassroots (see earlier post about the "Web of Deception" cartoon, and "Notes from Down Under").

But it gets better. The "Need to Know" section on the front page delightedly picks up on a questionable Slate.com article about soccer's popularity among American "intellectuals." It reads:

WORLD CUP SEPARATES THE BRANIACS FROM THE REST OF US? An amusing piece about the latest elite obsession with the World Cup. From Slate.com: "'Many people would say that soccer is the latte or the Subaru of the sporting spectrum'... Taking an interest in soccer indicates a certain cosmopolitanism; the game is an international one. A rooting interest in a British club like Arsenal might indicate Anglophilia, which never hurts in polite society."

The page also includes a poll which asks, "If you could have great seats to one of the following, which would you choose?" -- the choices being the World Series or the World Cup. (Google cache of that day's page here)

So the World Cup appears to be the latest fodder in the ruling elite's efforts to demonize the so-called "liberal elite" -- something that never would have occurred to me in a million years. Note the header, "What separates the Brainiacs from the Rest of Us?" which implies Laura's listeners are "the rest of us." Or, as they might say, "the people."

Note also the implicit chiding of internationalism. As though an interest in other countries is deserving of mockery. I find this stuff frightening; many of the world's most terrible dictatorships have demonized (and executed) "the intellectuals," whose only crime was to be conscious of what was going on.

Another background note: I wrote part of this cartoon sitting in the Mudhouse coffee shop, which often displays the work of local artists. Directly in front of me were what appeared to be several large, blue, papier-mache vulvas. I found them disturbing, yet somehow appropriate to the task at hand.

And lastly, if anybody thinks I'm disrespecting the military with this cartoon, let me just say I have heard from The Troops. And I think they will like it just fine.