If you thought those cartoons were politically incorrect, they had nothing on the Dr. Seuss cartoons that were being published in the leftist rag, PM, at that time.
Worse yet, they used eeny, meeny, miney, moe.................
Interesting history of that here:
David Zincavage asserts that the origin is Scottish and posits that the first line of the verse is a corruption of Inimicus animo, a Latin phrase that translates as “enemy of the soul.” The second line uses “nigger” and this goes to early depictions of the devil as black, as opposed to the modern red; we still have references to darkness as being evil. If you catch the devil by the toe, it won’t cause his cloven hoof any pain. If, instead, you’ve pinched a human’s toe instead, he’ll yelp, and since you have made a mistake in identifying him, you should release him.[
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eeny,_meeny,_miny,_moe