Oh, JibJab, we hardly knew ye

By the way, if you’ve caught the latest JibJab creation, then you’ll know that they’re trying to repeat the success that they had last year with their election 2004 cartoon . No such luck. Here is what my colleague Tom Bowers has to say about it:

“This one isn’t funny, because it doesn’t really poke fun at anything. It basically says ‘Democrats are’ ” … insert the appropriate adjective here … “ ‘The French are stupid. World leaders are surprised that Bush won, but he’ll serve them beer and BBQ in TX and everything will be cool, especially after that party animal Dick Cheney gets them all wet with a cannonball dive into the pool. Clinton is an idiot . Bush plans to eliminate gay marriage, taxes, and bring freedom to Iraq. Yeehaw.’

“Boring. If Jib-Jab doesn’t provide biting commentary, then who will? What is this world coming to?”

Good question. Here’s another: Where is Jonathan Swift when we need him?