Comments on: This Week’s Cartoon: “Zero-Sum Speech” http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/this-weeks-cartoon-zero-sum-speech/ COMMENTARY BY CARTOONIST JEN SORENSEN Sat, 30 Mar 2013 19:58:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Bill Freese http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/this-weeks-cartoon-zero-sum-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-936 Bill Freese Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:51:16 +0000 http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/?p=460#comment-936 During Roberts' confirmation hearings, I kept waiting for someone to ask him about his worship of the rich. All anybody wanted to know about was his position on abortion. Let us remember this the next time a Supreme Court justice is nominated. The Supreme Court is not just the body that determines abortion rights. It does other things, too. During Roberts’ confirmation hearings, I kept waiting for someone to ask him about his worship of the rich. All anybody wanted to know about was his position on abortion. Let us remember this the next time a Supreme Court justice is nominated. The Supreme Court is not just the body that determines abortion rights. It does other things, too.

]]> By: John http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/this-weeks-cartoon-zero-sum-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-917 John Fri, 22 Apr 2011 12:17:10 +0000 http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/?p=460#comment-917 I almost gagged when I read the first panel, not having heard of this before. So government donations obstruct Exxon's free speech, but Exxon's donations don't obstruct mine? That wouldn't convince a 9-year-old. The fact that Roberts even entertains this mangled non-reasoning can only mean he is doing favors for his friends. He can't possibly be *that* stupid, or abstracted away from reality. I almost gagged when I read the first panel, not having heard of this before.

So government donations obstruct Exxon’s free speech, but Exxon’s donations don’t obstruct mine?

That wouldn’t convince a 9-year-old. The fact that Roberts even entertains this mangled non-reasoning can only mean he is doing favors for his friends. He can’t possibly be *that* stupid, or abstracted away from reality.

]]> By: Jen Sorensen http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/this-weeks-cartoon-zero-sum-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-916 Jen Sorensen Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:51:53 +0000 http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/?p=460#comment-916 @Tom - I actually drew that traffic cop gag in an early Slowpoke cartoon about campaign finance reform, but I don't think it's online. @Kevin - Not only that, but it's BLOOD LIBEL! @Tom – I actually drew that traffic cop gag in an early Slowpoke cartoon about campaign finance reform, but I don’t think it’s online.

@Kevin – Not only that, but it’s BLOOD LIBEL!

]]> By: Kevin Moore http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/this-weeks-cartoon-zero-sum-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-915 Kevin Moore Thu, 21 Apr 2011 17:25:35 +0000 http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/?p=460#comment-915 These are the same people who complain you are infringing on their free speech rights whenever you disagree with them or prove them wrong. Cf. Palin, Sarah. These are the same people who complain you are infringing on their free speech rights whenever you disagree with them or prove them wrong. Cf. Palin, Sarah.

]]> By: Tom http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/index.php/2011/04/this-weeks-cartoon-zero-sum-speech/comment-page-1/#comment-914 Tom Thu, 21 Apr 2011 14:04:54 +0000 http://slowpokecomics.com/blog/?p=460#comment-914 If money is "speech," then I shouldn't be penalized if I offer the traffic cop $100 in crisp new bills when I'm stopped for speeding, right? After all, I was just exercising my 1st Amendment right to speak to the traffic cop! :^) On a more proactive note: Someday I might be arrested and my case, like that of Gideon vs. Wainwright, could make its way to the Supremes. So I and all of us should start preparing now. Get a few envelopes and some stamps and start mailing $1 bills to the five justices who decided the Citizens United case. Politely explain that if and when you have to plead your case before the Supremes that you will have had a chance to exercise your free speech rights! Maybe it could be 20 or 25 years from now, but sending a dollar bill every week, you will have exercised at least $1,000 of "free speech!" If money is “speech,” then I shouldn’t be penalized if I offer the traffic cop $100 in crisp new bills when I’m stopped for speeding, right? After all, I was just exercising my 1st Amendment right to speak to the traffic cop! :^)

On a more proactive note: Someday I might be arrested and my case, like that of Gideon vs. Wainwright, could make its way to the Supremes. So I and all of us should start preparing now. Get a few envelopes and some stamps and start mailing $1 bills to the five justices who decided the Citizens United case. Politely explain that if and when you have to plead your case before the Supremes that you will have had a chance to exercise your free speech rights! Maybe it could be 20 or 25 years from now, but sending a dollar bill every week, you will have exercised at least $1,000 of “free speech!”

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