I can't believe how much the blame-it-all-on-Clinton people here resemble the blame-it-all-on-Bush people on DU. I mean, I didn't like Clinton either but he didn't singlehandedly destroy the Free World as we know it. He was just a bad president who I disagreed with.
They're both wrong. Rall lost his job at the Washington Post over that cartoon.
Coulter is a free-lancer, mostly, so there's nobody to fire her.
He's not.
Even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while.
Good question.
It's a good question. I'll give it a shot.
Rall's cartoon seems to say that, based on their media appearances, the 911 widows and widowers were greedy, shallow, and undeserving of sympathy. The cartoon offends with a very broad brush. It criticizes people who have done nothing wrong, people who deserve respect for their losses.
Coulter directs her scorn at a much smaller target group, specific individuals who have acted in a way that deserves to be criticized. The Jersey widows who cynically used 911 as a springboard to advance their political agendas are similar to Cindy Sheehan, who parlayed her son's death into a career as the globe-trotting Mama Moonbat.
If Rall's cartoon had been targeted at specific individuals, real people who had behaved as he described, it would have been a sad commentary, but not offensive.