Summary: This cartoon shows elephant dressed as robbers presenting their leader with Obama's stolen teleprompter which presents a negative message about the republican party. The top states "News Item: Obama's Teleprompter stolen" that explains the context of this cartoon.
Author: Clay Jones drew this cartoon for Creators Syndicate, an independent distributer for comic strips and syndicate columns for newspapers. Creators Syndicate is the second major syndicate for the country and has won more Pulitzer Prizes than any other. Clay Jones creates cartoons for over 400 newspapers across the country, and has been printed in USA Today, New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, and Time Magazine.
Context: The context of this cartoon is the event that President Obama's teleprompter was stolen. The exigence is that this was a recent event, and who stole it is still unknown, so the author is playing off that idea.
Purpose: The purpose of this cartoon was to create humor of who stole President Obama's teleprompter. He blames the republicans for the theft. I would say that the author accomplished this purpose because a reader clearly understands the references he is making and the humor he is trying to make out of the situation.
Audience: The audience is anyone who reads local newspapers which this cartoon was put into.
Rhetorical Elements:
Allusion- the elephants as members of the republican political party
Memory- reader memory of what robbers dress like and memory of the recent theft of President Obama's teleprompter
Juxtaposition- comparison of stealing tires and stealing the teleprompter to make a point
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