Republican Oklahoma County Roads Commissioner’s comic book
Fresh from the You Can’t Make This Shit Up Department, Allen at The Whited Sepulchre pointed out that Oklahoma County Roads Commissioner Brent Rinehart has employed a novel technique in his bid for reelection. He sent out comic books.
Reading like a badly drawn Jack Chick tract, the comic book features two concerned Oklahoma County voters, toga-wearing gays, trench-coated henchmen, a devil opposing Rinehart’s election, and an angel for the forces of good (otherwise known as Rinehart). The comic also alludes to a conspiracy by homosexuals and “good ol’ boy liberals” to keep Rinehart out of office. You see, last year Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson filed felony charges against Rinehart alleging that Rhinehart’s 2004 campagin had violated campaign finance laws.
Sheriff John Whetsel, also targeted by Rinehart’s comic book, calling it, “extremely pathetic and very bigoted. I was taken back that in 2008, a candidate would use that type of inflammatory material and do it under the name of being a Christian.”
University of Oklahoma political science professor Keith Gaddie called it one of the strangest things he’s ever seen. Gaddie noted, “I’ve never seen a comic book with the phrase ‘anal sodomy’ in it before. That was a new one for me.“
Rhinehart’s fellow Republican, Oklahoma County Assessor Leonard Sullivan, expressed his concern. Sullivan said, “I’ve really encouraged him on more than one occasion to get professional help. He really needs it.”
Allen, on the other hand, thinks differently,
If Brent Rinehart were to receive professional help, he’d be like Faulkner without alcohol or Hunter S. Thompson without drugs. Would Van Gogh have done any interesting paintings if he had gotten professional help? I hope Rinehart declines any treatment so the world can have more of his work. God made plenty of talented writers, gifted artists, and people who can spell.
But he only made one Brent Rinehart.
While it might be fun to laugh at Rinehart, I’m really given to wonder if Oklahoma voters are really so intellectually impoverished as to be swayed by Rinehart’s graphical delusional rantings and conspiracy theories. I know there’s probably at least a few, but I have to think that the majority of Oklahoma County voters will be insulted by Rinehart’s bigoted comic book. At least I hope that’s so.
If you’d like to see Brent Rinehart’s full comic book, you can download a PDF.
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Okay, I read it. All 16 pages. And it seems to me to say more about Oklahoma and the people who live there that this guy got elected to begin with. Do you think maybe we could convince them to secede?
Hah! It’s a real piece of work isn’t it? I wonder if he was this blatantly bigoted before, or if he’s suffered some kind of breakdown while in office.
Thanks for the link !
And when you get a chance, try to explain the female narrator’s hair/sideburns.
This was an amazing document. I’m still trying to get a signed copy.
Allen
Personally, I thought the female narrator looked a lot like Brent Rinehart.