Michael Patrick Ramirez was born on May 11,1961 and is an American cartoonist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
17 Facts About Michael Ramirez
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Michael Ramirez graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 1984 with a bachelor's degree.
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Michael Ramirez worked for The Commercial Appeal of Memphis for seven years and then for the Los Angeles Times.
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Michael Ramirez again won the Pulitzer for editorial cartooning in 2008.
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Michael Ramirez is a three-time winner of the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for excellence in journalism in 1995,1997 and 2007.
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Michael Ramirez was the co-editor of the Investor's Business Daily editorial page.
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Michael Ramirez initially planned to study medicine in college and considered journalism a hobby.
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Michael Ramirez became seriously interested in that field when his first cartoon for the college newspaper, lampooning candidates for student office, had the student assembly demanding an apology.
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Michael Ramirez was a regular guest on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
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Michael Ramirez has been on CNN, CNN International, Fox News Sunday, BBC Television, BBC Radio, NPR, and The Michael Reagan Show.
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Michael Ramirez's cartoons have been featured on CNN, Fox News, The O'Reilly Factor, and The Rush Limbaugh Show.
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Michael Ramirez is the author of two books, Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion and Give Me Liberty or Give Me Obamacare.
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Michael Ramirez denied singling out Jews, claiming that the wall in the cartoon was not meant to suggest the Western Wall, and that while there was a Jew worshiping at the hate wall, there was a figure bowing before it wearing a kaffiyeh.
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In July 2003, the Los Angeles Times published a Sunday editorial cartoon by Michael Ramirez that depicted a man pointing a gun at President Bush's head; it was a takeoff on the 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Eddie Adams that showed Vietnamese general Nguyen Ngoc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner at point-blank range.
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In September 2007, the Columbus Dispatch published a Michael Ramirez cartoon depicting Iran as a sewer, with cockroaches spreading from it over Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries of the Middle East.
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Michael Ramirez defended his cartoon, stating that "[i]ts focus is on a specific individual [senior Hamas official Ghazi Hamad] and the statements he made on behalf of a specific organization he represents".
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Michael Ramirez's cartoons were carried in the Los Angeles Times until the end of 2005.