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The winner:
"I would have caught Bin Laden if he ever came out of hiding!"
-- David Scovill, Mooresville
The runners-up:
"I did not have relations with those 72 virgins!"
-- submitted separately by Larry Monroe, Charlotte and Chris Folk, Huntersville
“I may not have taken out Fox News, but at least I TRIED.”
-- Arthur Fisher, Hickory
"You know, It's those ultra-right-wing fundamentalist religious types that are the problem."
--Bart Cracraft, Charlotte
"You Fox News guys are terror-fying!"
-- Jibril Hough, Charlotte
Thank you for all your entries. Here's a selection of some of the other better lines we received this week:
"Not funny, Chris."
“Now I know the CIA concluded that you wanted Bush to win the last election, but taking a job with FOX News is just going too far!”
“Knock that smile off your face, or I’ll have to do absolutely NOTHING about it!”
"I hope you are more "fair and balanced" than that Wallace guy!"
"We'd like to hire you to write a comprehensive plan on dealing with terrorists. Oh, and it should be dated January 2001."
"This must be a setup, you know that I'm allergic to Flowers!"
"It depends on what your definition of 'tried' is."
"Nobody tried harder than ME to root out the right-wing media!"
"I did not have sexual relations with Whitney Houston!"
"Listen, Osama, if I didn't have to destroy Ken Starr first, I would have gotten to you sooner or later."
"So now you are doing conservative hit jobs for Fox."
“Now repeat after me, with feeling, ‘I did not have political relations with Bill Clinton!’”
"Admit it. All this Jihad nonsense is just another part of the right wing conspiracy against me."
"I did not lie to that reporter".
"No one takes the media spotlight from William Jefferson Clinton!"
"Pull my finger!"
Got another caption to add to the list? Want to judge these yourself, and let us know your winners? Feel free to click on the little blue "Comments" link just below this post to discuss or comment on any of this. Please visit us again Monday for a new cartoon caption challenge.
Kevin, obviously you're the award winning cartoonist so I have to assume that you know what's funny. I have to admit that sometimes I just don't get it. I have to wonder if political correctness or political preference doesn't sometimes enter the equation. I would really like to know whether my reference to Hillary Clinton as a holy terror was out of bounds or simply not funny. Please let me know so I can continue to participate in this contest. It's a lot more fun when you're sure of the rules.
Posted by: Kenneth Irving | October 06, 2006 at 01:10 PM
I notice the only captions you posted are negative toward Clinton, we know where your misguided sentiments lie.
Posted by: Bruce | October 06, 2006 at 02:35 PM
We at the Observer Cartoon Caption Contest try, and sometimes fail, but at least we try, and no one tries any harder than us, to provide equal opportunities for satire. And satire is usually at someone's expense. The selection of captions posted above is a pretty good sample of what we received this week -- if there was a pro-Clinton one among them, I can't remember it off the top of my head. A number of them seem to be anti-Fox News, which is balance of a sort, if not exactly the same thing as being pro-Clinton.
As to Mr. Irving's concerns, I don't consider an anti-Hillary caption or cartoon off-limits -- I've done many of them myself. I also can't claim to know "what's funny", I can only claim to know what's funny to me at a given time. So that means there's a third possibility why your caption wasn't included above (for the record, it was, "I can handle you. After all, I've lived with a holy terror for 30 years!"). That is, while wading through all the submissions we received this week, perhaps I didn't give it the consideration it was due. I still stand by our choice of winner, but yours was definitely a clever play on words. You know, though, if you won EVERY week, we wouldn't continue to get everyone ELSE to participate in this contest. I hope this answers your concerns, and I look forward to future submissions from the both of you.
Posted by: Kevin Siers | October 06, 2006 at 03:52 PM
What, did I miss the deadline?
Thanks Kevin,
John
"So, if I DON'T find you, I'm looking at seven levels, times HOW many virgins?"
Posted by: John Harder | October 10, 2006 at 03:59 PM