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1. This cartoon was drawn by Jeff Stahler.


2. It was published in The Columbus dispatch  on January 15, 2010.
3. The issue/ event the cartoon deals with is Sarah Palin and her new job on Fox News as a political corispondant.

4. The overall message the cartoon displays is that this event is very comical. "I can see all the red states from here" the quote in the cartoon is similar to the the "I can see Rusians from my backyard" comment during the election. Basically that it was a bad idea for Fox to hire her.
5. I agree with Stahler. Palin is either someone you love or you hate, and I do not think that there are many who love her enough for this event to help fox news. In the cartoon, Stahler makes out Palin to be kind of ditsy and as someone who doesn't really know how politics works. As Stroud mentioned in class, this is posssibly Palin's attempt to stay in the media, so we will not forget who she is come the 2012 election. But as someone who leans more on the conservative side, I think Palin hurt McCain's campaign, and that she will hurt Republicans in general, if chosen to be the Republican nominee.