December 27, 2013
Comedy as a Weapon of the Left
By Susan D. Harris

How is it that leftist mockery of conservatives became a staple of popular culture? One of the major sources of the attitude that now pervades the dominant media of our time is a man named Herbert Lawrence Block, aka Herb Block, aka Herblock.

As a political cartoonist, Herb Block used comedy and mockery with cunning skill. Throughout his seventy-two year career, he helped influence the political landscape through thirteen presidential administrations.

Born (not surprisingly) in Chicago, with a father and brother also involved in the newspaper business, Block projected his own brand of ideology for decades. Sometimes he stood on the right side of history -- crafting imagery attacking American instigators like Father Coughlin and Huey Long, and later standing in favor of the Civil Rights movement. Other times he was on the wrong side, supporting progressive policies and New Deal reforms. And in his true oxymoronic style, even while he was attacking McCarthy, he created his 1953 Pulitzer Prize winning cartoon on the death of Stalin which is lauded as one of his greatest works. It portrays the Grim Reaper telling Stalin upon his death, "You were always a great friend of mine, Joseph." Ironically it's even posted on the Democratic Underground website, where one commenter calls it "grave dancing," and another responds, "I'll keep that in mind when I grave dance over (Dick) Cheney...His victims, they were many."

After being drafted in WWII and spending two years in the army drawing cartoons and writing press releases, he joined that joyful glee club of liberal ideology, The Washington Post, where he remained until his death in 2001. A lifelong Democrat, he mostly used his creative powers to attack Republicans. He was in his glory during the Nixon years, winning a Pulitzer Prize that he shared with colleagues who conspired to bring down a president.

In retrospect, Block's greatest nationally inflicted harm was mocking America's response to Communism. Only six weeks after Joseph McCarthy announced he had a list of known Communists, Block began a propaganda campaign that would change American history forever. In a 1950 Washington Post cartoon, he officially mounted his campaign against McCarthy coining the term "McCarthyism." The cartoon depicted Republican senators pushing an elephant towards buckets of tar representing a platform consisting of a smear campaign.



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Liberals are like schoolyard bullies picking on the new kid. By skillfully employing baseless ridicule they eventually convince the entire school that the new kid is an idiot to be shunned.
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In this way, the greatest country in the world has been eaten from within by agitators that have the emotional maturity of second graders. The worst part is that we capitulated to these juveniles as we failed in what should have been our parental-like roles as defenders of our founding principles.

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Shrewd move infiltrating and taking over the media and msm. Many have no other source of information.