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well, until jon stewart and colbert and bill maher, the best political satire was basically cartoonists. just simply drawing someone in a ludicrous way in and of itself brings them down. of course, those things influence people, because most of us aren t good readers. we like a little grab. it s the pin in the balloon that s puncturing pomposity, showing the emperor has no clothes, things of that sort. herb block did much more than just puncture pomposity. he illuminated hypocrisy. during the watergate years, they were very incisive, very intelligent cartoons that herb block wrote. and being from d., running from washington post that broke that story made it even more important because it s one of the few places in a newspaper where you can tell it like it is. so, in the end, herb block had a great deal to do with nixon coming down.