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00:00And action!
00:20Is Pat Oliphant really a threat to the American political system?
00:24His irreverent cartoons poke fun at the establishment and the credibility of U.S. leaders.
00:29You know, you could get thrown in jail for doing this stuff.
00:32If Pat Oliphant couldn't draw, he'd be an assassin.
00:36The most famous political cartoonist in the world.
00:41You haven't really made it in Washington until Pat Oliphant has made fun of you.
00:46He saw his father drawing and wanted to try his own hand at it, and quickly it became a passion for him.
00:53America called to him because that's where the art was happening.
00:57American cartooning had been looked down upon.
01:00It had seemed that the art had run down and it just wasn't doing its job anymore.
01:03So I felt that perhaps I could inject something new into it.
01:07With his satire and spiky caricatures, he helped create a whole new style of cartooning.
01:12You shouldn't think of the cartoon as a funny drawing.
01:15It's supposed to be a serious expression of political thought.
01:20He said, you're going to wake up every morning angry.
01:24Make people write to the editor, get mad, get mad as you are.
01:28I remember him getting death threats.
01:31You son of a bitch, why didn't you go back where you came from?
01:33He just didn't care what the political establishment wanted.
01:38Our country was born from political protests.
01:40Yet the financial picture of the media is making it harder and harder for that to happen.
01:44When the president of the United States every day does something that is newly offensive
01:50and an affront to democracy and civil liberties, for a cartoonist not to be doing that work
01:55is absolutely insane.
01:58Pat uniquely showed courage to go after folks that were beyond reproach or too dangerous to touch.
02:06Did you see your work affect public opinion?
02:12That's a good question, isn't it?