[Timesink]

Discovered thanks to Andrew Sullivan, who posted on his web site:

SALON’S NEW LOW: Would you run a comic strip that treats the murder of president George W. Bush as a) desirable; b) a joke? Salon just did.

[Timesink]

Eight entire minutes and no response? Unacceptable! Bump!

[GoreIsLove]

It seems that as Bush's popularity has risen, the politcal cartoons have become more vicious.

[Straight Vermonter]

First of all what the heck is a rarebit?

[Croooow]

What a demagogic, paranoid piece of garbage... and now depicting the assasination of the president is mere "criticism?" Then when we criticize the left, we are censoring them. Welcome to Wonderland, Alice.

[Drango]

MORE HATE SPEECH

but...but...but...it can't be HATE speech. It's from the left!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

NOT funny. Thanks for the post. These guys, most of the dangerous children posing as adults on the left, need the Rummy treatment...that simple, stern stare with a single obvious retort to their inane questions and comments. It's as if no one has ever said "No" to them before, or told them they were less than brilliant, or original...from parents, teachers, profs. to bosses - the left is breeding and becoming a bunch of shallow and arrogant posers with a single mindset that shifts with the daily cultural tides and without a solid foundation or a clue, and we're all paying for their foolishness.

Anyone who doesn't understand the importance of our energy independence now isn't qualified to write the obit. column.

[Bahbah]

Delayed while going through Diogenes excellent pics. There is not much lower that Salon can go, is there?

[The Drowning Witch]

More partisan hackery....hopefully that will get her an interview with the secret service;
I've heard they frown on this sort of thing...

[Hawkeye's Girl]

Pretty lame "comic".

[livius]

What is this "comic" and where is it published? I thought Doonesbury and - can't remember the name, it's a strip exalting black thuggery - were about this worst, but I think this one has actually wrested the laurel from them.

[Big Dan]

Maybe the cartoonist can get on the Craig Kilborn show, now that they've both publicly taken pleasure in fantasizing about assassination.

What a laugh riot. What wit. How droll. <barf>.

[Senator Pardek]

I'd be a hypocrite if I put this down, because I think it's funny that Salon.com has been assasinated by investors.

[Drango]

Salon is about to fold...maybe we can help 'em.

PetalExpress is advertising on their site. Here is their Toll free number

1-888-470-GIFT

I just called and demanded that the CEO call me back and explain why they are running an ad on Salon that "jokes" about shooting the president. FREEP ON.

[Moonman62]

The obligatory chart. Down 14% to 12 cents today.

[Gritty]

This is a stupid, self-congratulating cartoon of no merit and even less sense! And even worse, it's not FUNNY!

[mbb bill]

Put salon editors in a detention camp for a couple years and then ask them what this means.

[NativeNewYorker]

I remember no such "humor" at x42's expense.

[NC_Libertarian]

I think that's actually against the law.

[Drango]

Here is the 800# for another advertiser, cafepress, Call 'em NOW and bump!

(877) 809-1659

call 'em now.

[ChemistCat]

I am not saying it's a good strip anymore (I used to think it was interesting) and it has changed considerably since 9/11. However, I don't read this the same way you did. I see the author as saying the dream started well BEFORE the guns went off--when the President was saying asinine things about not drilling for oil in Alaska. The guns went off because the zombie President the liberals think we have went off of his script so had to be destroyed by his handlers. Frankly, I think it's pretty clear that Lay didn't intend to say that assassination was something to be celebrated, and I don't believe that this cartoonist has had her heart in being funny for the last three months. Yes, she's liberal. But 9/11 affected her profoundly all the same. It's a pity she didn't draw the correct conclusions from what happened, but I do not believe she wants violence against our elected government. She is just commenting, as her main point in this strip, that the government is repressing us as a result of 9/11, and you'll find many, many FReepers who would be happy to agree with her there. (I personally think we could maybe use a little more repression here and there, mainly on Salon....)