Chuck Asay died for your sins: batshit rightwing cartoonists 2009

im willing to believe that the cartoonist is so dumb and clueless he didnt think about the "monkey" bit--but for this to have gone thru the editorial wringer and emerged intact is just straight up wtf.

it bothers me that the gop has a sweet elephant and the dems get a poopy donkey - they should switch to a tiger or some such awzom beast

I remember someone on the Corner once complaining that libs are sweet, beautiful blue and conservatives have to be mad, evil red. For realz.

be curious to see what the posts cartoon editorial wringer looks like - bet it doent do so much wringing

blue is preferable to red def

I remember someone on the Corner once complaining that libs are sweet, beautiful blue and conservatives have to be mad, evil red. For realz.

― Mordy, Friday, February 20, 2009 9:45 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

looking a little red there, comrade

i imagine someone in the office bringing it up like, "you know this could probably be misconstrued as racist" and the post editors talking about it like a bunch of screaming 10-year-olds, "No he means THIS, STUPID!!"

you'd think with their rep as the party of geriatric, liver-spotted segregationists on their deathbeds the GOP might welcome a color as vibrant and alive as red

I assume they knew that it might be conceived as racist, but probably determined there was enough plausible deniability to run it anyway. Not that I think they *are* racist (though I have no idea), but I think they think of themselves as provocateurs, and anti-PC'ers, and so this is a good chance to tweak liberal noses.

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it bothers me that the gop has a sweet elephant and the dems get a poopy donkey - they should switch to a tiger or some such awzom beast

dUDE, I'll take a good farm animal over a circus freak any day of the week.

whats the matter w/arkansas

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thats a joke making fun of the white guy right

i don't know what's going on anymore. i'm scared.

has gary mccoy ever seen a picture of eric holder?

scared of HILARITY

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wrong nose, sorry

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sometimes these guys do a single "rednecks can be dumb about shit too" comic to prove.... something??? i remember bugging out in the old thread after posting a million far-right brian fairington comix to one where some gun nut is pontificating about the 2nd amendment and it was so close to being plausibly gun nut but i guess dude was showing hes a moderate when it coms to school shootings??

Looks like Richard Pryor with David Paterson's eyes.

I'm willing to buy that it wasn't created as a racist conceit. I'm not willing to accept that it made it into print without someone along the way realizing the obvious racial interpretation. I mean, this is a well-worn ploy of the right: Annoy the left by acting stupidly and then pretending not to understand what they could have pahwwwssssssibly done wrong when called on it. The Post's editors understood very well the lines of development of this type of juvenile drama, but they didn't quite realize that they would have a wider audience this time. At least, their 1/2-assed "apology" makes me think that they're a wee bit worried, though not too much, about the backlash. They've probably tripled their sub re-up for this month, tho.

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OH NO NOW THEY COMING FOR YOUR WHITE GRANDMAS PURSES

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Last one's kinda accurate isn't it?

I mean, dude's only been in office for about a month, but that's been the response thus far, no?

gma's mouth is AGAPE damn

i think thats her upper lip

Move the last one from 'batshit' to "unfortunately very accurate and realistic"

Well, firstly Europe's offer of help in Afghanistan occurred under Bush. And also http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/ukfs_news/hi/newsid_7900000/newsid_7901000/7901078.stm , combined with individual states (ie Britain wanting to increase their troop levels) makes the second part bullshit. I wish we'd said no to Bush, on both Iraq and Afghanistan, and I wish we would say no to Obama about more body bags coming home. But that's not 'accurate or realistic'.

There are 30,000 European troops in Afghanistan, which considering the people of Europe thought it was stupid is either commendable or deplorable depending on your point of view. But I live in a small village attached to a military base, from a military family, and most of my friends are in the forces, having served (usually multiple times) in Afghanistan, and I find this 'unhelpful Europe' meme to be insulting. Especially as I have yet to meet a member of our forces who thinks we should be there at all, yet are willing to leave their families to serve.

FWIW, I'm pretty neutral on the topic of commitment of European support for US (and world) interests in the current Afghanistan quagmire; the element that seemed accurate on that toon was that European political commitment and public opinion (as far as I can see from behind the US media wall) hasn't really shifted on that topic considerably since Obama has taken office, excepting the continued international extended honeymoon love for our fearless leader. Insinuations of the cartoonist were not what I was promoting as valid. I'll be honest and say I don't know what the fuck we, or anyone but the indigenous people of the region, are doing in Afghanistan or what the end game is and that I couldn't begin to start conceiving of how things can come to anything resembling a new beginning in this presidency.

"are doing in Afghanistan in the long run"; I kinda get why and how we got there, just not sure about what the long-term plan is.

So apologies for being insulting, not the intention.

u guys who the fuck would want to help george bush wise up

tony blairs

Ok so I just caught up on like two weeks reading of this thread.

Pity me, for I am a lost soul.

me too. i had forgotten how much the media loves to portray christians as nazis!

also the Post cartoonist is spreading terrorist propoganda

not batshit but

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oh how i wish some of you would go on the dole

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OLD WELFARE, NANNY

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bit disingenious, this one is

this week's SOTU strips are kinda weaker than usual, except for two:

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this one is just...

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Hopefully the pc police officer will put him in gitmo so he can grow large with food, but also get a nice tone and tan.

somebody wanna take "my aclu lawyers are true servants of allah's will" as a username please? I just got a new one.

What is he smoking, is what I wanna know.

hey kingfish, where's that racism 101 cartoon upthread from? It's genius.

NEW YORK (CNN) -- The chairman of the New York Post, Rupert Murdoch, personally apologized Tuesday for an editorial cartoon published by the newspaper that drew charges of racism.

"Today I want to personally apologize to any reader who felt offended, and even insulted," said the statement from Murdoch, who is also chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, which owns the paper.

"I can assure you -- without a doubt -- that the only intent of that cartoon was to mock a badly written piece of legislation.

"It was not meant to be racist, but unfortunately, it was interpreted by many as such. We all hold the readers of the New York Post in high regard, and I promise you that we will seek to be more attuned to the sensitivities of our community."

The cartoon by Sean Delonas referenced the mauling of a Connecticut woman by a chimpanzee who was later shot and killed by police. In the caption, one of the officers says, "They'll have to find someone else to write the next stimulus bill."

The cartoon was published on Wednesday, a day after President Obama signed the stimulus bill.

The Post issued a statement the following day, apologizing but noting that the cartoon was meant to mock what it called an "ineptly written" stimulus bill.

Many critics said the cartoon played on historically racist images by appearing to compare Obama, the nation's first black president, to the chimpanzee.

Leaders of the NAACP on Saturday called for the firing of Delonas.

Delonas called the controversy "absolutely friggin' ridiculous."

"Do you really think I'm saying Obama should be shot? I didn't see that in the cartoon," Delonas told CNN.

"It's about the economic stimulus bill," he added. "If you're going to make that about anybody, it would be [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi, which it's not."

gracious quasi apology

Those SOTU strips would be ten times funnier if the final panels were just a standalone one-panel on their own.

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why is obama in line at the unemployment window?

haw