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1. Cartoon #1:  What recent news story does Steve Kelly’s cartoon illustrate?

2. Cartoon #2:  Describe the two news stories cartoonist Chip Box combined to create this cartoon.


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Cartoon by Steve Kelley


 

Cartoon by Chip Bok

Answers

1. Cartoon #1: Former FBI Director and vocal Trump critic James Comey posted a now-deleted Instagram photo last week of seashells arranged on a beach to form the numbers “86 47,” which he captioned “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.”
Presidents are often referred to by the number of their presidency (in Trump’s case 47). 86 is viewed by most (everyone but the media) to mean to kill. The media across the board have been assuring viewers that to 86 someone means to kick someone out of a restaurant or bar. Comey claimed he thought the same thing and had no idea 86 47 would be viewed as calling for violence against the president.

2. Cartoon #2:

  • In October 2023, Special Counsel Robert Hur interviewed then President Joe Biden regarding Biden’s handling of classified documents when he was vice president, which were found at his Delaware home and a former office in D.C.
  • Hur’s report concluded that Biden had willfully retained classified materials but did not recommend criminal charges, noting Biden’s memory lapses, describing the president as a “sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”
  • Biden’s attorney general then refused to release the tapes of the interviews.
  • The tapes were just released on May 16-17, showing how confused and cognitively impaired President Biden was, which led to questions about who was really running the country during the Biden administration.
  • The next day, Biden’s office announced his Stage 4 cancer diagnosis, which they said had just been diagnosed. Doctors said this could not be possible, and must have been diagnosed during or before he served as president.
  • Throughout Biden’s presidency, anyone who questioned his obvious cognitive decline was immediately shut down by the media. The media now claims Biden advisors hid it so they were not able to see it.