*Updated below.
The Washington Post featured this in today's paper as one of the better cartoons of the week:
Is it okay to portray Sen. Jim DeMint (or anyone else) as a sniper? And what, or whom, is he aiming at?
Supposedly the target is "healthcare," but the cartoon obviously refers to DeMint's remark about breaking Obama. It's not much of a jump to believe that the cartoonist intends us to imagine that DeMint's target is Obama.
Maybe I'm being touchy. It's just a cartoon and it's supposed to be edgy. But most Americans are quite sensitive to suggestions of presidential (or other) assassination, and particularly so when it involves a sniper taking aim from a tall building.
The Post showed terrible judgment when they chose to run this.
*Commenters in the Green Room have noticed an uncanny resemblance between the cartoon and these tenements (h/t to commenter at RedState).
Comments welcome.
Linked by Ed Driscoll.
Cross-posted in the Green Room (more comments over there)
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2 comments:
Thanks for calling them on this. They can use all the weasel words they want. But it does not change the fact a cartoon such as this signifcantly lowers the tone of political discourse. An editor should have better judgment than to run something like this.
classy
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