Sacramento Bee’s JACK OHMAN ‘stunned’ by governor’s response to his hot-button cartoon

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By Michael Cavna


JACK OHMAN wasn’t just surprised by his satirical target’s response. He was stunned.

“Not just by the massive response,” Ohman tells Comic Riffs, “but to the willful misinterpretation of the cartoon.”

That willful misinterpretation, the Sacramento Bee journalist says, was by Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who in the cartoon (published last Thursday) is depicted as saying ”...Business is booming in Texas!” before a banner that reads: “Low Tax! Low Regs!” In the cartoon’s second “payoff” panel, Ohman renders the recent explosion at the fertilizer plant in West, Tex., that killed at least 15 people.

“Gov. Perry was being criticized in Texas and elsewhere for the Texas regulatory climate,” Ohman tells us Monday, “and he found a way to change the conversation in the media cycle.”
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[mbperrin]

1. Rick Perry is as useful as a condom turned inside out for a second use.

Worst. Governor. Ever.

[acmejack]

2. Much Higher Opinion of Rick Than My Own!

Perry is not much of a human being, either.