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This 3 page paper analyzes 3 political cartoons that appeared in October 2009 in the Boston Globe. The cartoonist is Dan Wasserman. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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work of Dan Wasserman of the Boston Globe, and they deal with current events. Some of them are not particularly funny, because they hit too close to home. As is
often the case, there is an undertone of anger in them as well. The topic/issue of the first cartoon is the bank bailout, which is a national issue with international
implications, since changes in the financial picture of the United States cause repercussions around the world. Specifically it focuses on Goldman Sachs, the investment bank that took million of dollars
in "bailout" money, then turned around and paid its executives enormous bonuses. The entire country was furious, but theres nothing to be done about it, except perhaps to draws stinging
cartoons. This is a four-panel cartoon entitled Goldman Sachs success" and it contains two characters, a Goldman Sachs executive and a young woman, who is castigating him for not
learning any lessons from the crash. She accuses him of going right back to playing a "high-risk game" and that nothing has changed (Wasserman). He objects, saying thats not true;
when she asks whats changed, he says "Fewer competitors!" (Wasserman). He is quite right, of course, many banks have failed since the crash, which means that Goldman Sachs does have
fewer competitors. What Wasserman is doing is exposing the greed and corruption of the banking industry. Hes not so much poking fun at it as expressing outrage and disapproval at
their lack of ethics and their complete disregard of the welfare of their clients. The second cartoon is entitled "Obama health deal" and shows a health insurance executive stamping
CLAIM DENIED over President Obama, whos saying "Hey, I thought we made a deal!" (Wasserman). The executive is laughing as he smacks down the President. The cartoon is based on
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