He's A "Great Artist"

He does beautiful work, and I should know. I'm an artist. But unfortunately, he's not so great when it comes to truth in his editorial cartoons. A recent Mike Thompson cartoon in the Detroit Free Press showed a beautiful picture of a landscape somewhere, pretending it was the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge with Bush and his vice-president admiring a very small oil spout, their backs to the beauty and saying, "Breathtaking" about the tiny oil spout. The only problem is, ANWR is not like that where oil producers want to drill. There, it is a "wasteland" and represents only a small amount of land in the refuge. A little like a bar of soap in the corner of a football field. But that's not the image of ANWR the environmental extremists want to paint, so we get the "great art" represented by this lying editorial cartoon. (FREEP)