Tuesday, March 11, 2008


So I was just looking over my blog and apparently my political cartoon never posted... On my welcome page it says I have 5 posts and on my site I only have 3. I'm going to go ahead and post it again just because I have no idea what's going on. The photo came from www.politicalcartoons.com.




This cartoon is a picture of the baseball pitcher, Roger Clemens, who is being portrayed as Pinocchio. Roger Clemens was accused of using steroids, however, he denies it. His former trainer, Brian McNamee told investigators that he provided Clemens with anabolic steroids and human growth hormone. McNamee claims he personally injected Clemens at least eight to ten times. Clemens was first accused of taking steroids when the Mitchell Report came out. Senator Mitchell had started an investigation on steroids in baseball. He found out a man named Kirk Radomski who is accused of being a ‘steroid dealer’ who sold to Clemens trainer, Brian McNamee. McNamee was the trainer for two other baseball players and they both admitted to steroid injections, while Clemens said it was not true. In this picture Clemens is getting portrayed as Pinocchio because in the Disney movie Pinocchio each time the little boy tells a lie his nose grows longer. This is supposed to show that Clemens was lying and continues lying still. I really like this cartoon because I find it really funny. The little kid’s line just makes the cartoon even better.

1 comment:

Greg D said...

I'm a Yankees fan, so I'm hoping that somehow someway he didn't take them (or only took them on the Sox haha), but i really do like this picture. The metaphor is to the point and is one that everyone can relate too