Anyone see this comic today from the LA Times (Gun to the head of the President)

LA Times ^ | July 20, 2003

[Destro]

The posters here overreacting reminds me of this cartoon:

[JustPiper]

Which librag did this come from PB?

[breakem]

It's been explained so many times on both threads. Those of us who know the cartoonist have explained his political views. None are so blind as those who will not see.

[JustPiper]

Here's a link to contact them:

Here

[breakem]

Brain and mouse obviously not connected.

[Destro]

Why would you have to know the cartoonist??? Even if I did not know him I would know that is a pro-Bush cartoon.

[breakem]

additional verification that there is idiocy in the air

[JustPiper]

There are many Ramirez in the directory, this guy's first name please? I want to email him.

[JustPiper]

Ramirez first name? Not Ramirez,Ramirez.

[breakem]

From the other thread, zealot!

To: ConservativeMan55

I know I'm late to the post (I've only read the first 50)....but please people GET A GRIP.

I know Michael Ramirez, the guy who did this cartoon. He leans to the right and spent the 1990s absolutely ripping Clinton, drawing some of the best and most biting toons in the country that exposed the fraudulent King we had as president.

This cartoon is actually sympathetic to Bush. Notice that it is not "the truth" holding the gun to his head, nor is it "missing weapons" or "case for war." Holding the gun is "politics." In other words, what the left is in such a tizzy about is a bunch of bullsh!t.....politics.

The toon is pretty sophisticated, if you think about it. Ramirez is saying that what might bring his presidency down (though extremely unlikely) is petty politics, not substance. The fact that Ramirez is using an icon of injustice to the left as his inspiration is exceptionally relevant.

DON'T YOU GET IT!! HE'S USING A SACRED IMAGE OF THE LEFT TO SKEWER THE LEFT!!

The left held up this image -- a South Vietnamese officer (or maybe he was the chief of police in Saigon. I can't remember) executing a vicious Viet Cong war criminal -- and passed it off as the American toady killing the freedom fighter. It was a lie, through and through (the morality play was reversed and perverted by the left) but the left used the starkness of this image to undermine the war for the freedom of Vietnam.

Ramirez is using this image in the same way. The fact that the left lied about what that picture was really about only makes the irony -- and the wit -- more biting. I think it's brilliant, and makes Bush look more sympathetic. BRAVO, MICHAEL RAMIREZ....who, let me repeat, is a conservative.....if a bit quirky.

614 posted on 07/20/2003 8:56 PM PDT by seamus [ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies | Report Abuse ]

[Destro]

Ramirez first name? Not Ramirez,Ramirez.

Piper--ur funnier than a cartoon!

[breakem]

I tried, but there's no need to go on. Let them take their shot. Just hope they don't cite free republic. I don't want to be associated with the fanaticism. C-YA

[Coleus]

DEVELOPING: SECRET SERVICE CONCERN AFTER LOS ANGELES TIMES COMIC DEPICTS 'BUSH ASSASSINATION'
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/949578/posts

Will the Secret Service and Bush do anything about it? Of course not, they are afraid of the liberal media.

[Cindy]

and more outrages...

ISLAM ONLINE.net - Arts and Entertainment: "SONIC JIHAD, TAKE TWO" by Ali Asadullah (February 25, 2003)

ISLAM ONLINE.net - Arts and Entertainment: "RAPPER, PARIS, UNLEASHES A 'SONIC JIHAD" by Ali Asadullah (January 8, 2003)

GUERRILLAFUNK.com (Includes "Sonic Jihad")

[Destro]

Did u see my Lincoln cartoon?

[breakem]

Good stuff, I like the old stuff better, especially a couple of decades later the muckrakers. I goota go, something much more interesting in the other room.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

We have been discussing it EXTENSIVELY over here:

DEVELOPING: SECRET SERVICE CONCERN AFTER LOS ANGELES TIMES COMIC DEPICTS 'BUSH ASSASSINATION'

It is very polarizing but the best explanation I think comes at post #614 there from seamus who says he know Michael Ramirez.

I think it is a very powerful skewer of the leftist and those attacking the Bush Administration over the issues involved with Iraq!!!

Replace the word Politics with Democrats or Media and you get the picture!

[JustPiper]

Michael.Ramirez@latimes.com...Sure this cartoon is innocent.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The LA Times is a leftist paper so he couldn't do that .

But that is what he meant!