The Fiddle

Friday's Editorial Cartoon   —   Posted on September 20, 2013

Question(s)

1. Who is the man in the cartoon?
a) Dmitry Medvedev
b) Bashar Assad
c) Vladimir Lenin
d) Vladimir Putin

2. What phrase/idiom is the cartoonist illustrating?
a) to play someone like a fiddle
b) playing the world's smallest violin
c) he is fit as a fiddle
d) to play second fiddle

3. What is the cartoonist's intended meaning?