Hell-Bent For Election Part One

Jones did work on this. According to co-founder Dave Hilberman they wanted Looney Tunes head Leon Schlesinger to finance the project since Jones was directing but found the project too political and turned it down. So the got their backings from the United Auto Workers. Reportably Jones got $150 for his services.

Remember that Hitler wasn't seen quite as the monster then as he is today. In 1944 not too many knew the Holocaust was going on. Here, Hitler is being presented as just "the enemy," not "the ultimate evil" like he is seen today.

Partisan political propaganda at its worst. The idea that the Republican party wouldn't have done everything necessary to carry out the war to its proper outcome is idiotic.

Er, what would political propaganda be if it wasn't partisan? And what would propaganda be if it wasn't political?

More Syllables=/=Better

You can NOT use this cartoon to justify the Iraq war! To begin with, Iraq wasn't Germany. And second, this cartoon is about more than winning the war- it's also about the social progress FDR's administration put together, which the Republicans have spent the last 70 years trying to undo.

Yea....considering the communists have the same programs in place; and we hate communism Id say we need to undo them.

Yup. And Germany isn't Japan.

I am so glad Truman nuked them instead of Dewey trying to make peace with them. Yes sir.

Those guys were psychos. Why, they weren't prepared to unconditionally surrender. Surely they would have rejected a conditional surrender that wouldn't have put American Military bases on their home soil.

Jim Crow car? Nice to see that people cared about segregation during the 40s.

You might think so if you didin't know your history. The inclusion of the "Jim Crow" was an intentional ambiguity by the sleazy producers of this film.

The Jim Crow car on the Republican train served to trick ignorant progressives into wrongly blaming Republicans for racist Dixicrat segregation laws, while also reminding racist southerners that the Republicans had been the original supporters of equality.

Two-faced and sleazy.

i really love chuck jones cartoon..