Has any US president been more ridiculed? (possible pictures)

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I'm interested to know if any US president has been more satirically ridiculed and reviled in the UK and elsewhere than George Bush. Given that satire normally comes from the the left in Europe its natural that George Bush would be turned over quite vigorously. He is most usually prtrayed as an imbicilic knuckle dragging monkey, barely able to write his own name or as a bawling spoilt child.

I'm asking because I'm too young to remember much Regan satire although I do remember him being portrayed in a wicked willie strip as the man with two willies and no brain, led to destroy the world.

Its great though that after the major and early blair years satire is having one of its typical revivals that come when the rise of the right.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 10:10 (twenty-three years ago)

George Washington maybe?

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 10:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I need evidence. George Washinton was doing his thing during a particularly virluent period in British Satire so he's a good candidate.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 10:24 (twenty-three years ago)

As far as I can remember Reagan was ridiculed just as much.

― RickyT (RickyT), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 10:24 (twenty-three years ago)

domestically, no US president has gotten it worse than Lincoln did.

― James Blount (James Blount), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 10:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah, Reagan, and pretty much for exactly the same thing (stupidity). Us Brits do have a superiority complex on that side. Of course the Bedtime For Bonzo reference was gold for Spitting Image.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 10:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Jimmy Carter actually got it much, much worse. Cause he was "working class", Southern, and a peanut farmer to boot. I can still remember the cartoon campaigns that portrayed him with peanut for head because he dared to try to concentrate on domestic issues at the expense of "foreign policy" (read: not sending troops in to Iran) when ironically he tried more diplomacy to end conflict in the Middle East than any other president in recent history.

So yer damned if you do, and yer damned if you don't, really.

― KATE, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 10:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Hoover was not much respected.
http://www.ecommcode.com/hoover/hooveronline/image/690.jpg

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Part of Carter's problem stemmed from the fact that one of his top underlings (cant remember who) was in a bar fight in Gerogetown. DC has all sorts of tourist attractions like this, I think.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Reagan was certainly the most mocked in music. I can't count the number of punk songs that address him by name!

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I mean, he was called RAY-GUN. What was he thinking?

― kate, Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:14 (twenty-three years ago)

That would make a good listing thread.

― Jon Williams (ex machina), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Even if any previous ones were more ridiculed, none have deserved it so much as Dubya.

I mean, the dude had the nerve to "call on all the nations to fight terrorism" at a press conference WHILE TEEING UP...finished his soundbite, paused, then said "NOW WATCH ME HIT THIS DRIVE."

In fact, honestly, nobody needs to ridicule Dubya to make him look bad; he's doing fine at that his damn-self.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, and, uh...

http://www.bushorchimp.com

PERFECT!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 19:35 (twenty-three years ago)

A more difficult question, really, is to pick a US president who hasn't been daily burned in effigy by cartoonists and the press. Anybody who actually makes important decisions is basically asking for it, especially if they have to sully themselves with the democratic process as a means.

― Millar (Millar), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 22:42 (twenty-three years ago)

satire is an important part of democracy I think. No one should be taken too seriously. But bush is truly ridiculed. Clinton got off fairly lightly. But satire in the UK comes from the left.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 5 March 2003 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.reuben.org/greenberg/.Toons/.Toons,%20political/qqxsgReagan%20vs.%20Nixon.gif

(Two of the bigger contenders for most ridiculed)

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 6 March 2003 11:33 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.pixunlimited.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2003/03/06/1bell.jpg

― Ed (dali), Thursday, 6 March 2003 11:34 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.thedent.com/nationtoon.gif

Clinton didn't get off that light from the left or the right, actually, at least in the States.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Thursday, 6 March 2003 11:34 (twenty-three years ago)

coolridge.
for being boring and for being a slut.
(best qoute, on being told that he was dead:
how could they tell-Dorothy Parker)

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

The cartoonists (esp. those of the anti-imperialist persuasion) had a field day with TR. TR is supposedly GWB's hero, although I suspect one of Dubya's aides just provided him with a precis of the recent biography; I wonder if Teddy's public image in Europe wasn't a bit similar to GWB's today though.

― Amateurist (amateurist), Thursday, 6 March 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

I was under the impression Ford got his fair share of mockery for being a physically clumsy dolt.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 6 March 2003 16:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Why couldn't Trudeau have been American and Nixon Canadian?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 6 March 2003 17:11 (twenty-three years ago)

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