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The Controversial Anti-Israel Pat Oliphant Cartoon that ran yesterday, isn't even Original.It Seems that Pat Oliphant Ripped off...Pat Oliphant. Maybe he just lost his head, since the headless character is so popular with him look and see: (By the anyone know how to post pictures please let me know how...I could have just posted the images rather than link the posts)

It is silly to say that the Pat Oliphant Cartoon in the New York Times and many newspapers around the world is antisemitic. But it’s also a bad mistake because the cartoon deserves serious analysis to show just how dangerous and wrong it is, in ways that not only hurt Israel but all Western democracies. Let’s deconstruct the cartoon to show the basic ideas that underlie it and that make it lie. 1.To begin with, it is not a very good cartoon and bears a striking resemblance to anti-Israel propaganda cartoons in its crudity and one-sidedness. Aesthetic decline has accompanied...

Let’s create a corollary to the rule the first person to invoke the Nazi analogy loses the argument: The first person to invoke the Israelis/Jews as Nazis analogy is consigned to a particularly unpleasant corner of loser hell. Is Israel’s handling of the situation in Gaza open to vigorous debate? Sure. Though I’d ask Americans to imagine how they would want their government to respond if, say, over a period of years the Mexican government indiscriminately lobbed thousands of missiles into civilian areas of US border towns.

How insulated is the MSM? In how much of a liberal echo chamber does it exist? For an answer, consider the vile cartoon displayed here. My guess is that the great majority of NewsBusters readers are familiar with it. But John Harwood—of the New York Times and CNBC—has never seen it. That became clear on today's Morning Joe. The topic was the TV comedy world's double-standard, in which Republicans are regularly skewered but the laff factory suddenly shuts down when it comes to mocking Barack. A New York Times article on the matter was the jumping off point, an Joe...

The cultivated inside-the-Beltway paper suggests we ship all the Cubans back to Fidel. The Washington Post specializes in detecting racism that is undetectable even by the most vigilant Politically Correct Policeman -- then self-righteously denouncing its alleged perpetrator. Let a sports team owner defend his team's name (Redskins) and the Post pounces: "Redskins is not a term fashioned by American Indians." Let Bill Bennet, who has spent a lifetime idolizing Martin Luther King Jr., make an oblique reference to black crime rates and a Post editorial promptly brands him "the poster child for racism." A WaPo editorial even sniffed out:"Yellow-peril...

THE DARKLY BRILLIANT Pat Oliphant's post-election cartoon shows a tiny twerp of a cowboy Bush leading a huge, muscle-bound, headless giant off a cliff. The giant is wearing a T-shirt labeled "The Bush Electorate." Above the label is an emblem: an American flag with, in the place of the field of stars, a cross. The mood of frenzied caricature of American religious believers hasn't entirely abated in the month since the election. Just last week the San Francisco Chronicle published several election cartoons sent in by readers. One featured a red-state person stabbing a blue-state person with a crucifix. Beyond...

By now we have all probably seen the Pat Oliphant Cartoon from today featuring the President and Dr. Rice. I think its disgusting, and I told UPS about it. You should too. visit http://www.ucomics.com/contact/contact.phtml or email contact@uclick.com and register your displeasure with his so-called "ART".

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