WaPo Cartoonist Toles' Demeaning Depiction of AG Gonzales

NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

[governsleastgovernsbest]

What better way to start the week than with a rousing round of WIARHSI, or in this case, an entertaining variation thereof: What If a Conservative Cartoonist Had Drawn It?

Check out Tom Toles' editorial cartoon in this morning's Washington Post. Toles depicts Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, complete with East L.A. hairstyle, having to be taught to pronounce the name of the department over which he presides in preparation for his congressional testimony.

It looks like Toles tried to give himself some cover by having Gonzales say he knows what a department is [though perhaps not what "justice" is]. Perhaps the cartoonist would try to argue that he was mocking the presumably white administration official who was coaching Gonzales, not the AG himself.

But again, WIACCHDI? What if a conservative cartoonist had drawn an Hispanic official in a Dem administration in precisely the same way?

Contact Mark at mark@gunhill.net

[governsleastgovernsbest]

WaPo-WIARSHI ping to Today show list.

[100-Fold_Return]

The overlords of the MSM want him gone, while telling their workers to dismiss the Speakers felonious actions.

[AD from SpringBay]

At least they didn’t call him a nappy headed faggot. That would have been offensive. This cartoon is just free speech.

[gondramB]

Its not even mildly funny. He's not stupid -that's never been his reputation. I doubt they would have published that cartoon about a black or a white person.

[poncho67]

Toles is determined to lose more subscribers to this newspaper; you’d think he/they would have learned something from his previous lame cartoons that have caused many subscribers (including me) to cancel.

[Mo1]

What if a conservative cartoonist had drawn an Hispanic official in a Dem administration in precisely the same way?

TheDems/Libs can say and do anything they want .. just ask the media

[Lancey Howard]

It looks like Toles tried to give himself some cover by having Gonzales say he knows what a department is [though perhaps not what "justice" is].

That works for me. The Bush Justice Department is corrupt to the core. That said, the cartoon is not only a lame drawing, it is also juvenile, unfunny, and probably forgotten immediately by the newspaper reader. I'm pretty sure it was just a deadline knockoff.

Regards,
LH