[mhking]

The Sunday Drudge blurb to make you listen, eh?

[ConservativeMan55]

Stupid Los Angeles Times!

[veronica]

Who is the cartoonist? I can't tell. I stopped getting the LA Times years ago, in part due to the odious cartoons by Conrad.

[Mo1]

WHAT ARE THEY NUTS!

[StatesEnemy]

The 'original':

[solo gringo]

The secret service should padlock the LATIMES and jail all the people that work in and own this slimy commie rag.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

THEY HAVE GONE TOO FAR IN THEIR HATRED OF BUSH!

[jack gillis]

People.

This cartoon is sympathetic to Bush.

Want me to walk through it?

[Helms]

Kultur War grenade

[M. Peach]

Of course if you or I did something like this - we would be locked up....

[Libloather]

The LA Times - are they pretty much leftist?

[Steel Wolf]

No, no, this is just one of those witty 'makes you think' kind of jokes. Like these!

At the airport - 'I'm gonna blow up this plane! Allahu Akbar!'

At home - 'If you even think of leaving me, I'll kill you!'

At work - 'This is the last time you pass me over for promotion. I'll burn this office to the ground!'

At the police station - 'So, officer, how's your family?'

See, saying stuff like this is funny, because it makes you think. They're just words, right? Words don't hurt anybody.

(EDITORS NOTE: For the humor impaired, the opinions expressed above are sarcastic in their entirety. Do NOT use any of these lines, even in a 'joking' manner.)

[William McKinley]

Looks like a nominally pro-Bush cartoon to me, suggesting a brutal, amoral thug ("politics") is assassinating the unarmed and tied-handed Bush.

[The Wizard]

when the LA Times gets burned to the ground no one will wonder why

[A CA Guy]

Ramirez should be suspended for a year or fired.

[b4its2late]

Would you believe me if I told you I was Matt?

:-)

[MattAMiller]

I don't get it. It's obviously an allusion to the famous photo from the Vietnam war, but after that I'm lost. Whatever analogy is being made here is too convuluted for me to follow.

[Pokey78]

XXXXX DRUDGE REPORT XXXXX SUN JULY 20, 2003 20:15:27 ET XXXXX

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

A LOS ANGELES TIMES comic Sunday that graphically showed President Bush being held at direct gun-point has raised concerns within the Secret Service, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned.

The shock cartoon by the paper's Michael Ramirez depicts the president's hands behind his back with a gun to his head -- assassination style -- as an unidentified man wearing a vest which reads "politics" appears ready to pull the trigger!

"We take all images such as this very seriously," a top secret service source who requested anonymity said from Washington. "Regardless of the politics behind any speech, images of the president, such of this, raise concern."

The sketch appears to be a take-off of a Pulitzer prize winning photo that memorialized the Vietnam war for the 60s Generation. It attempts to make the point that partisan politics are more of a threat to Bush than guerilla war.

"The world's first political 'snuff' cartoon... there's a viciousness to this, that's just not funny," noted one White House reporter.

Ramirez did not respond to repeated requests for comment.

Developing...

[petuniasevan]

Consider the source.

Ramirez is actually a CONSERVATIVE cartoonist. IMHO he means no harm.


Poor judgement and lack of forethought? Definitely.

[Copernicus]

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