Cartoonist calls Condi Rice 'murderer' – again

WorldNetDaily ^ | 01/27/2004 | Paul Sperry

[Constitutionalist Conservative]

WASHINGTON – He did it again, but this time on national TV.

Aaron McGruder, a black syndicated cartoonist who's getting his own prime-time TV series on Fox, called National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice "a murderer" for her role in the Iraq war.

He made the remark as a guest on the nationally syndicated TV show "America's Black Forum," hosted by syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Juan Williams.

The creator of the popular "Boondocks" comic strip reportedly caused some discomfort at an anniversary dinner for the Nation magazine here last month when he told the mostly anti-war audience, "I've met Condoleezza Rice and called her a murderer to her face."

In a Sunday broadcast of the "Black Forum" show, McGruder, speaking from Los Angeles, repeated the epithet, arguing that Rice, as one of the administration's "biggest hawks," advised the president on a war that led to the "slaughter of innocent people in Iraq."

Some of the black panelists assembled in the Washington studio winced at the remarks.

Conservative syndicated columnist Armstrong Williams rebuked the cartoonist, whose strip is syndicated in more than 250 newspapers.

"I can't get over the fact you labeled Miss Rice a murderer," he said.

The low-key McGruder, 29, asserted that he has a right to his opinion.

"She's a murderer because I believe she's a murderer," he said coolly.

NAACP chairman Julian Bond, another panelist, wrote it off to "satire," but added, smiling, "I agree with his politics."

Late last year, McGruder made Rice's love life the topic of his comic.

"Maybe if there was a man in the world who Condoleezza truly loved, she wouldn't be so hell-bent to destroy it," one of his "Boondocks" characters speculates in a strip.

The Washington Post pulled the series on Rice, which ran some five days. The Cincinnati Enquirer dropped the strip altogether.

McGruder, who voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, claims Rice, also black, asked him to write her into his strip.

"Boondocks," a hip-hop version of Doonesbury, is distributed by Universal Press Syndicate.

McGruder, who graduated from the University of Maryland with an African-American studies degree, has written a best-selling coffee-table collection of his strips called "A Right to be Hostile."

He's reportedly developing with Sony a prime-time animated series based on "Boondocks" for Fox. It's slated for the fall.

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Paul Sperry is Washington bureau chief for WorldNetDaily and author of "Crude Politics."

[Old Grumpy]

"She's a murderer because I believe she's a murderer,"

He's an SOB because I believe he's an SOB.

[Darksheare]

"She's a murderer because I believe she's a murderer," he said coolly.
Ohh.. THAT'S logic... NOT!

Just because he believe's it is so doesn't mean it is so.
I believe that there is no gravity.
How about he steps out teh 14th story window to test my theory?
*shaking head*
What an idiot.. and he thinks he's a cartoonist?

[little jeremiah]

Boondocks is so saturated with anger, hatred, nastiness and general ill-temper that the writer just HAS to be an a**hole.

What a smirking bag of puke he is. There's such a thing as objective reality. That puke can "believe" Condoleeza Rice is a murderer but that doesn't make it so.

That kind of crap just makes black people hate white people more, which is apparently his cup of tea.

[Darksheare]

I'm laughing about the "popular" designation.
In my local Communist Rag newspaper, they've had LOTS of letters to the editor asking to at least move Boondocks to the editorial page, if not drop it entirely.

[Darksheare]

But with Hillary there's an air of truth about it.
Vince didn't quite kill himself the way they claim.
And that's just one body out of man.

[JoJo Gunn]

I do too, and they can't stand that.

Who needs to worry about slave owners, when your own kind keeps you down? You'd think they'd cheer her on.

[little jeremiah]

Sorry, you're wrong. He's an SOB because he really, truly IS an SOB. It's not just your opinion, it's the truth.

[Old Grumpy]

Thanks for setting me straight, pal. I should have said, "He's just an SOB, plain and simple."

[solitas]

I've already written the relevant media outlets (and will also the relevant advertisers) that if that Boy's show ever makes it to the air they've lost my viewership and my custom. I've also written the local fishwrap with the same declaration if they decide to carry his strip.

[sauropod]

Is Ron Waters at UM? Bummer. That's (one of) my alma maters.

[saul goode]

Still not quite right...He's an SOB because his mom was a B.

[Trueblackman]

Yes he is the head of African American Studies there.

[Kirkwood]

Condi's done her part to STOP the senseless murder of innocents in Iraq.

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"McGruder, who graduated from the University of Maryland with an African-American studies degree...."

That says it all. A job at the New York Times awaits, no doubt....

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"McGruder, who graduated from the University of Maryland with an African-American studies degree...."

That says it all. A job at the New York Times awaits, no doubt....

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"McGruder, who graduated from the University of Maryland with an African-American studies degree...."

That says it all. A job at the New York Times awaits, no doubt....

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Problem with "Post" button??

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The irony is that a whole bunch of us white folks rightly are defending her against a thug of her own race. But we're all still bigots here, right?

[Freebird Forever]

"She's a murderer because I believe she's a murderer," he said coolly.

Were she really so, his next of kin would have no doubt.

[hellinahandcart]

I believe you have a cartoon for Boondocks threads? :D