# Please explain this Onion editorial cartoon.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-this-onion-editorial-cartoon/461416>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 27, 2008, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-this-onion-editorial-cartoon/461416 "2008-08-27T14:03:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-this-onion-editorial-cartoon/461416/41 "2008-09-03T13:48:13Z")

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And Tony Soprano: [The Onion | America's Finest News Source.](http://www.theonion.com/content/cartoon/jun-18-2007)  
And Paula Zahn: [The Onion | America's Finest News Source.](http://www.theonion.com/content/cartoon/jul-30-2007)  
And television: [The Onion | America's Finest News Source.](http://www.theonion.com/content/cartoon/oct-15-2007)

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**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-this-onion-editorial-cartoon/461416/42 "2008-09-03T13:59:39Z")

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I don’t think that the cartoonist is a jingoist xenophobe so much as he hates anything that reminds him he doesn’t live in the popular conception of the 1950s.

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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [September 3, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-explain-this-onion-editorial-cartoon/461416/43 "2008-09-03T14:14:49Z")

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> [@Lemur866](#):
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> And Tony Soprano: [http://www.theonion.com/content/cartoon/jun-18-2007](http://www.theonion.com/content/cartoon/jun-18-2007)  
> And Paula Zahn: [http://www.theonion.com/content/cartoon/jul-30-2007](http://www.theonion.com/content/cartoon/jul-30-2007)  
> And television: [http://www.theonion.com/content/cartoon/oct-15-2007](http://www.theonion.com/content/cartoon/oct-15-2007)

These are funny but the election ones I didn’t find funny. 'tis all subjective though.

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