Bile Fascination: The only reason some people read it. There are a number of blogs devoted solely to reading Tinsley's strips just so they can mock them. Mocking Mallard Fillmore was in fact the genesis of SomethingAwful's political cartoons thread, which has seen expanded to include other editorial cartoons and resulted in a number of off-shoot blogs. (On the other hand, The Comics Curmudgeon site specifically bans ANY discussion of Mallard Fillmore; merely mentioning it is grounds for banishment.)
Don't Shoot the Message: To some politically-moderate readers, Tinsley's viewpoints are on occasion quite reasonable, but his method of delivery distorts them so horribly that they despise the strip anyway.
, a parody strip originating from America (The Book) used to sum up how many feel about the strip.