October 4, 2012
By Tony Auth
So many questions. Why did President Obama tolerate the bullying, interrupting, repetitive assertions by Romney without responding with passion, strength and facts?
Why did Jim Lehrer allow Romney to take over and run the show, rigging it so he got the last word on almost every exchange?
Will Obama bother to show up for the second round?
After 40 years as editorial cartoonist at The Philadelphia Inquirer, where he garnered more than his share of both awards and hate mail, Tony Auth decided that the time had come to broaden the range of his commentary. There is, after all, so much more to life than politics.
What he needed was a new venue. What he found was WHYY, and NewsWorks, where he is now its first Digital Artist in Residence.
Stay tuned.
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