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Cartoonist Michael Leunig axed from prime spot at The Age over ‘offensive’ vaccine image
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| 25th October 2021
| Ben Graham
Posted on 10/24/2021 5:00:56 PM PDT by naturalman1975
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I know the article is behind a paywall, but I felt it was significant enough to share anyway.
I have no idea if Michael Leunig has any following outside Australia but here in Australia, and especially in Victoria, he's seen as something of a cultural icon at this point - and he's particularly beloved of the left-wing arty intelligentsia who generally twitter away about his genius. Personally, I've never thought much of his skill as a cartoonist and while he's occasionally done pieces I think are quite profound, far more often, his work just feels like he's being overly... self impressed with his own importance.
The Age (and it's Sydney Sibling, the Sydney Morning Herald) are probably the two most prominent left leaning media-organisations in Australia, alongside the ABC.
But to see him, basically, cancelled over a cartoon - cancelled by the left for opposing one of their sacred cows, because now they only agree with 95% of what he draws - is striking.
To: naturalman1975
Offensive to who?
Red China?
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:02:06 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: naturalman1975
Hope the cartoon goes viral, like “Let’s go, Brandon!”
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:05:11 PM PDT
by
Fester Chugabrew
(No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
To: naturalman1975; Fester Chugabrew
Is there any way to get the cartoon without the photo insert?
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:06:22 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
It’s offence to the Victorian state government and Premier Daniel Andrews would be the concern here.
The left in Victoria are constantly preaching their mantra that “DAN HAS DONE A GOOD JOB”.
Including about his vaccine mandates
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:09:08 PM PDT
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: BenLurkin
The photo insert was put there by Leunig himself in the original cartoon - but it's trivial to edit it out so:
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:11:00 PM PDT
by
naturalman1975
("America was under attack. Australia was immediately there to help." - John Winston Howard)
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:13:00 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:17:09 PM PDT
by
Howie66
(TRUMP WON!)
To: BenLurkin
Younger viewers might not make the connection - a lone individual standing up in defiance of the armed might of a totalitarian regime, i.e. Tienanmen Square.
To: naturalman1975
He must love big brother.
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:19:12 PM PDT
by
Vision
(Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:19:20 PM PDT
by
livius
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:21:16 PM PDT
by
matthew fuller
(The Satanic Trinity- Obama, Soros and the Chinese Communist Party-FUBO44&46. )
To: BenLurkin
I think the insert is part of it. Tiananmen tanks=Australia.
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:21:51 PM PDT
by
livius
To: naturalman1975
The left is willing to eat its own.
To: naturalman1975
Its truth.
They hate being exposed.
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:35:14 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:45:03 PM PDT
by
Track9
(Agamemnon came home to a HRC type party. )
To: Secret Agent Man
It wont be long before the libs, in the interest of “fairness”, will be supporting the rights of Blacks and Latinos to have their own private drinking fountains..../s
I recently asked a few college kids that question by saying...Some Blacks and Latinos have recently asked the college to allow them to have their own private drinking fountains......
Do you agree that they should be accommodated ... and they all answered YES!!!
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posted on
10/24/2021 5:55:01 PM PDT
by
M-cubed
(The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
To: naturalman1975
I read about a Japanese fellow who kept getting Chinese scam spam. He simply responded to one with ‘Tiananmen Square massacre June 4th 1989’ . After that the spam stopped because the CCP looks for that and shuts down accounts when it happens.
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posted on
10/24/2021 6:20:56 PM PDT
by
Nateman
(If the Left is not screaming , you are doing it wrong.)
To: naturalman1975
The cartoonist deserves an award for “Least Offensive Cartoon Drawing Out The Most Overblown Hypersensitive Reaction.”
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posted on
10/24/2021 6:22:01 PM PDT
by
BradyLS
(DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
To: naturalman1975
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posted on
10/24/2021 6:38:19 PM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I cannot be sure for certain, but in my personal opinion I am certain that I am not sure.)
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