Drawing Our Times -- Dec. 26, 2004

  -- A weekly feature on This Week.

On our last broadcast of 2004, we refresh your memory of events from an extraordinary year in a conversation with Bob Mankoff, cartoon editor of The New Yorker.

In the Sunday "Funnies," we take a look at a couple of our favorites from 2004.

Saturday Night Live:
(Original "This Week" air date: Oct. 3)

Jim Lehrer impersonator: Each candidate will now make a brief closing statement. Senator Kerry?

Sen. Kerry impersonator: You know, this president likes to talk about how I called the war in Iraq 'the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time;' that a few days later, how I said that anyone who doesn't think the world is a safer place without Saddam Hussein is not fit to be commander-in-chief. But what he doesn't tell you is that when I denounced the war in Iraq, I was speaking to an anti-war group, and when I endorsed the war, I was addressing a pro-war delegation from the U.G.A. The fact of the matter is, I have consistently supported the war in front of pro-war audiences and condemned it in front of groups that oppose it. That is not flip-flopping; that is pandering. And America deserves a president who knows the difference. Thank you.