Another day without Mallard. Hillary Clinton is, again, the sole focus. This edition is almost exactly the same as yesterday. Hey, don't pick on Tinsley for re-running cartoons. It's hard work for him to make this stuff up, and he obviously needed a break. You may want to read my explanation of yesterday's cartoon first for more background but let's look at the new nonsense.
Today, again, Tinsley portrays Hillary as a moron who he imagines would believe lingerie in her husband's pants pocket must have been planted by a "right-wing conspiracy."
GET OVER IT BRUCE! We all knew that Bill and Hillary Clinton's marriage wasn't perfect before we elected them the first time. The cartoon printed today was topical when, mid 1980's? This isn't even news from this decade! Unlike Newt Gingrich who served his wife with divorce papers while she was hospital-ridden, our first-family has made a commitment to themselves to work out their problems in private.
The good part of today's nonsense (aren't you surprised that there actually IS a good part?) is the last panel. Here Tinsley claims that if you play the Gennifer Flower's tape backwards (What tape? I don't know.) it says "Get U.S. out of the United Nations." Is that clever or what?
Maybe Tinsley is sharper than I have been giving him credit for. This clearly pokes fun at the years and years of goofy fundamentalist preachers who claim that secret messages (only intelligible when played backwards at slow speed, over and over and over again) were influencing their flocks. And using the ultra-right battlecry about the United Nations, Man, that's sharp! Take that Jessie Helms.