AOW 11/21: "Occupy" Cartoon

This weeks political cartoon shows the recent developments of police brutality in the "Occupy Wall Street" movements. The picture depicts an average looking protester setting up tents in a park. He says he is protesting against many of the evils in corporate America. The next box shows him being dragged away and shouting in distress of losing his things. It is then shown he has products from: Gap, Coca-Cola, Taco Bell, Nike, and McDonalds. The author, Brian Fairrington of Cagle Cartoons, shows irony because the protester is against big corporations, but he has many of their new products and spends money towards them. He places the large police officer higher than the protester to show the officer's power. Fairrington is puts him in there, because of the recent news stories of police brutality at many of the "Occupy" protests. He is trying to show that there is brutality, but that many of the protesters are acting hippocratic because of their possessions from many of the corporations they are protesting against. He is trying to show many of the people who watch the news and are learning about the brutality, that the protesters are not fully supporting their cause. He tries to elicit a person's pathos and logos to show the illogic and anger towards the protesters. His message is to show that these people are fighting against corporations, but they still support them by purchasing their products. The illogic arises because many protesters don the apparel of Nike, Gap, etc. He draws anger from the fact many people do not like them already and the fact many people do not like Hippocratic people. He accomplishes his purpose because he has clear irony and draws from current issues of police brutality and makes those issues minute in his message. He thinks the police are not the problem, but the problem is the protesters and their hippocratic views.