Posted on 02/16/2011 12:24:30 PM PST by Nachum
“Without a doubt, people are stepping more gingerly. People are tiptoeing their way through this.”- Ted Rall, liberal editorial cartoonist.
Last week’s firestorm over an editorial cartoon at the New York Post is still burning it’s way through the media and the blogosphere, and in the wake of Eric Holder’s declaration that Americans (read: white Americans) are cowards and James Clyburn’s claim that rejection of stimulus funds is motivated by racism, the reactions are naturally mixed and sometimes contentious. Reverend Al Sharpton, for example, is demanding investigations and protests. MSNBC is having shouting matches. Some cartoonists are simply preparing to self-censor and nevertheless suffer unintended consequences. The controversy is not soon to die down.
In light of the cartoon war, the Associated Press ran a story Saturday, from which the above quoted material was pulled, examining the overall shift to caution by that normally incautious breed of political commentator, the editorial cartoonist. Because Barack Obama is black, to summarize the article, political cartoonists now operate under the duress of fear. In America, there is no worse stigma than that of being called “racist,” especially in the age of Obama. The armies of political correctness and so-called progressivism feel free to act more boldly, now that a man who owes his political career to the forces of the far left holds the highest office in the world. The left is, therefore, if even possible within physics, more likely than ever to throw the “racist” gauntlet.
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0ne can likely get into trouble by making images of 0hammad.
Liberals are all cowards.
I dont think the guy at IBD cuts Ears any slack
wonder what happened to that guy that did the Joker poster. Is he still alive?
In today’s fascist world, you can end your career by making fun of a Democrat.
Republicans though, are fair game.
Not the Washington Times.
They have great ones.
Probably. He was a liberal.
So on the one hand Obama is the most powerful person in the world, but on the other hand, he is so thin-skinned that he cannot be illustrated by an editorial cartoonist? Gee, I wish they had had that same sensitivity toward GWB or RWR or even GHWB or any Republican office-holder.
I would think that anyone who reaches the pinnacle of the US White House would be immune from “hurt” no matter what his skin color happens to be.
My mind truly does boggle at the lack of a logic gene for anyone with a leftist persuasion.
"Can you guys get me one of those uniforms with an SEIU patch on it?"
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what do you think they will kill them for it. Donald Young was a man who new to much obama
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