When the Editorial Cartoonist Is Smarter than the Editorial Board…

…you know something strange is going on. But that is the situation we find ourselves in, as Michael Ramirez packs more information and good sense into this cartoon than all of the formerly-mainstream media were able to muster with respect to Mitt Romney’s trip abroad. As Ramirez documents in the form of an editorial cartoon, all of Romney’s “gaffes” had one quality in common: they were true. And not inadvertently so, as the cynical definition of a Washington gaffe holds:

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