As
the world comes to terms with the reigning of Sepp Blatter for the 5th
term at FIFA, everybody is in a off the pitch protest.
Now, to the surprise of
absolutely no one who’s been paying even passing attention, FIFA — which re-elected embattled prez Sepp
Blatter — is newly
embroiled in international scandal about as scaldingly hot as the surface
temperature on Qatar.
Or,
as a well-lunged futbol announcer might bellow now, over the Zurich arrest
footage: “Stooooole!!!”
Amid
the growing phalanx of Patakis and Santorums (Santori?) and Sanderses now
filling out the presidential-race bingo card, sometimes the nation’s (and
world’s) political cartoonists just need to take a one-day timeout and take out
the red-carded (and perhaps caught red-handed), freshly indicted FIFA officials
— who, the DOJ evidently contends, were more concerned with kickbacks than
corner kicks, looking more at off-the-books than offsides, and were more
focused on the greedy sales pitch than the green of the soccer pitch.
Ok, OK, we’ll stop with the tortured sports
metaphors — but only because these cartoonists did it much better:
