The Rude Pundit: Cartoons That Make the Rude Pundit Want Rupert Murdoch to Get His Face Chewed Off

[meegbear]

This is from today's New York Post (motto: "All the news that's fit to wipe a hobo's ass with"). Now, you can do the justify dance by saying that the upshot of the "joke" is that the cartoonist was saying that the stimulus bill was written by a marauding chimp. But, really, and c'mon, "stimulus bill" is to President Obama what hate is to the Post. You can't separate them.

So you wanna deny that this is easily read as a racist joke about shooting Obama? (And let's not even get into the other implications about cops and African Americans.)

Note on the truly horrible chimp story: The Rude Pundit has a simple rule of pet ownership: Never keep an animal that you can't kill with your bare hands.

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[malaise]

1. The Rude Pundit rocks

Heads should roll over that cartoon. I'd like the first one to be Rupert Murdochs - literally.
He should have been locked up for treason years ago.

[Frustratedlady]

2. That is a racist joke and there can be no argument about it.

What's the difference between that joke and someone yelling filthy, nasty comments at Blacks on the street? That would be considered racist. Why isn't this? Freedom of speech? BS!

What was the point of the joke, anyway?

[Still Sensible]

3. "All the news that's fit to wipe a hobo's ass with"

Another great line from the rude one.

I hope we are smart enough to appropriately denounce the cartoon and the hatemongers responsible for it, but not let this piece of shit be a diversion from the real news of the day--the President's mortgage initiative.

[daninthemoon]

4. just how much circulation does the damn post still have? after

all the lies and plagiarism and collusion with cheney, that is one rag that should have lost any free speech rights long ago. i wonder if murdoch came up with this idea personally. once again, i can't wait to hear KO tonight. one guess for worst person.

[Fla_Democrat]

5. words to live by

The Rude Pundit has a simple rule of pet ownership: Never keep an animal that you can't kill with your bare hands.

When I was younger, I had a panther, now, I'm cohabiting* with a goldfish.

*http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/cohabiting The second definition, of course. :evilgrin: