Friday, January 24, 2020

Mitch McConnell is a political cartoon collector... if they are cartoons of him

Mitch McConnell doesn't care what you think. He just wants to win. [political cartoons; in print as Beware of playing poker with a sphinx].

Ben Terris 

Washington Post Jan. 24, 2020 p. C1, 3

online at https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/mitch-mcconnell-doesnt-care-what-you-think-he-just-wants-to-win/2020/01/23/e8acc1d4-3deb-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html


Since the Post is firewalled, and this story isn't about cartoons really, here's a couple of quotes:


It's a subtle look, and one difficult to capture. In the many political cartoons drawn over the years, artists tend to focus on the jowls, the sunken eyes, or the thinness — rather than the trajectory — of his lips. There have been more than 650 of these comics, a fact known to McConnell and his staff because he keeps them all.

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Some he hangs gleefully from the walls of his Senate office for gawking visitors. The rest, which have been flowing in at a record pace in recent years, he keeps in an archive in Louisville. McConnell, who declined an interview request for this article, has discussed turning them into a coffee-table book and scoffed when one of his staffers suggested they might have to be censored.

"There were a ton during the Obama administration, and as you can imagine, in the age of Trump there have been a lot of insane ones," McConnell's spokeswoman Stephanie Penn said on a tour of his office, just hours before the Senate's impeachment trial of Trump. "But he has a good sense of humor about it. Better to have people talking about you and making fun of you than not talking about you at all."

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