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The Daily Cartoon: the senator is right about the machines

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Editorial cartoon: Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana leans into a microphone at a Senate committee bench, peering over his glasses at a sweating tech CEO at the witness table. A green parrot on his shoulder squawks TOUGH AS A BOILED OWL. Kennedy says: Problem with these things is they just repeat whatever they heard. Behind him, three framed newspaper clippings show the identical headline, dated 2018, 2021 and 2024.
Editorial cartoon: Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana leans into a microphone at a Senate committee bench, peering over his glasses at a sweating tech CEO at the witness table. A green parrot on his shoulder squawks TOUGH AS A BOILED OWL. Kennedy says: Problem with these things is they just repeat whatever they heard. Behind him, three framed newspaper clippings show the identical headline, dated 2018, 2021 and 2024. Illustration: FLUX.1-dev · rendered on the desk’s NVIDIA DGX Spark

There is a parrot on the senator's shoulder, and it is saying something the senator said first.

The line is his. CNN, February 2018: "Take, for instance, the way he called Arizona's Republican Sen. John McCain 'tough as a boiled owl'". That is one of the three walls. The other two are the drawing's invention — no span supports 2021, no span supports 2024.

The balloons paraphrase. The likenesses are caricature.

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'Tough as a boiled owl': Louisiana senator charms Washington with wit
https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/14/politics/john-neely-kennedy-quotes
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