While the controversy rages about the New Yorker Obama cartoon that was poorly drawn backfired on the magazine (Believe it or not, they were trying to make fun of Republicans with the cartoon), not a peep was raised over the much uglier cartoon that appeared in Rolling Stone recently about John McCain and pictured above. Over at the more liberal Mississippi-oriented blog Folo, they have posted twice about the Obama cartoon yet not a peep has been said about the McCain one. The mainstream media ignored the cartoon and its repugnant nature, showing that it will give a pass to Obama on almost anything. Of course if someone had made a cartoon about Max Cleland joking around with a grenade they would be horrified. Just shows how the left thinks and when it comes to their political goals, nothing so much as good taste or decency matters.
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Why wait until a month after the fact to post about the McCain cartoon? You sound like a child screaming, "he hit me first!"
I'm sick of politicians and pundits playing the politics of outrage. They are trying to one up eachother with how offended they are and how unfairly they've been treated by the media. Politicians should have thicker skin than these two clowns.
Here's an idea: if a magazine offends you don't freaking buy it! Or you could just see it for what it is, maybe have a little laugh, and move on.
It's just a cartoon.
You made my point for me. I just discovered it brcause the mainstream media did ignore it. Some of us just might be angered by a cartoon making fun of someone whao was tortured by the vc just like we would get mad at a cartoon making fun of someone who survived dachau.
Why are you insulting the artist? I didn't think the Obama picture was poorly drawn. Offensive to some? Possibly. Poorly Drawn? Naah.
If you don't think that the Rolling Stone cartoon received enough media attention, why don't you link to it?
The offensive McCain cartoon that I saw was from .
You didn't "discover" anything. This story has been out there for a month. The reason this isn't bigger news is simple: no one cares! With the exception of some whiny politicians and pundits like yourself.
This is a non-story if I've ever seen one.
The artwork and technique were pretty good actually. I said poorly drawn because as satire it was poorly drawn since it gave the opposite impression of what he intended, which was to make fun of republicans
And for the record, I never claimed to have discovered anything. I merely saw it and posted what I thought about it.
I think I should draw a cartoon of Lieberman walking into a shower room. Lieberman would be half naked and there would be a gas coming out of the showerheads taht would have written across it "Democrats' Fury". and about as tasteful.
"And for the record, I never claimed to have discovered anything."
Kingfish, 7/16, 8:59pm
"I just discovered it..."
Kingfish, 7/16, 8:12am
As a daughter of a viet-nam vet, this offends me. Many vets never got over their stay over there.
Was that cartoon in Rolling Stone or on the cover? What is the demographic of the audience of Rolling Stone? I remember my peers reading it when I was in high school. If it is still the case that their readers are in their late teens, early twenties, the target demographic would have no real recollection of Vietnam.
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