Obama portrayed as rapist of Lady Liberty in sicko, crappy cartoon

[cali]

Lady Liberty Defiled by Poorly Drawn Cartoon
by James Wolcott
March 23, 2010, 11:33 AM

In a desperate, ghoulish plea for attention (now that even right wing sites are no longer linking to it), Protein Wisdom has published an editorial cartoon portraying President Obama as a gloating, unrepentant rapist with Lady Liberty his weeping victim, her torch lying broken at the foot of the bed. Rapist Obama tells Lady Liberty to stop whining, get herself cleaned up, and promises he'll be back later with "friends," i.e., a gang-rape.

For those slower cowpokes among Protein Wisdom's armchair outlaws, the cartoon is helpfully titled "Rape of Liberty," to ensure they won't miss the message over the sound of their own chewing.

The perpetrator of this tawdry little exercise, a flagrant offender named Darleen Click, doesn't care if you think this cartoon is racist because conservatives get called racist no matter what we do and we're sick of it and besides "I made it a cartoon and not a photoshop and the “woman” is green. Deal, people."

I find the logic of that statement somewhat elusive, though I suppose we should be grateful that it's a symbolic green statue being shown forcibly violated in that Psycho room and not, oh, the Virgin Mary, virgin no more. With Easter coming up, perhaps Protein Wisdom will favor us with Lady Liberty hanging from the cross as Obama drives in the last nail--I wouldn't put anything past those "desperadoes."

Well, whatever one's feelings about the semiotics of this cartoon and the political sentiments I think we can all put aside our political and philosophical differences and agree that it makes for one crappy piece of artwork.

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/wolcott/2010/03/in-a-desperate-ghoulish-plea.html

[Maru Kitteh]

1. Not even pretending any more are they?

[Maru Kitteh]

2. WELCOME SHIT-WIT FREEPERS - You cowardly lint-lickers.

You cowards don't have the stones to own this fruit of your labor, but you sure can find the "unrec" button fast.

[provis99]

3. the comments section at Protein is indistinguishable from Stormfront.

Plenty of people bragging that they are racist. Well, if that's the way they think, then I got nothing to discuss with them, any more than I do with the Klan.

[Maru Kitteh]

17. I blame Reagan and Bush, who made it "cool" ot be an ignorant, racist hater.

[laughingliberal]

4. That's wrong on so many levels, I don't even know where to start. nt

[Emit]

5. Not just rape, but gang rape

that's disgusting

[Warren DeMontague]

6. That's assuming there was anything left of "Lady Liberty" after Bush and Cheney finished with her.

I don't understand why stealing a Presidential election, authorizing torture, negating habeus corpus, starting wars based on bald-faced, obvious lies, ordering 'extra-constitutional' spying on Americans... any of that is, what, just no problem?... :shrug:

But Obama passes a law instituting some basic, minor regulations on the Insurance Industry that even most Republicans are in favor of... and he's "raping lady liberty"?

Tea Bag? More like Hy-per-bo-leeeeeEEE-bag. Get a fucking grip, people.

[Renegades of Funk]

7. Invalid Argument

His argument is invalid. A plurality of American like the bill.

[marshall]

8. Artwork as a whole has gotten pretty "crappy" in the past few years

Most notably when they actually did start using "crap" and urine in it.

[spanone]

9. racist redneck ignorant asshole...that is why they get called racist redneck ignorant assholes

[CBR]

10. They are fucking racist idiots. nt

[HarveyDarkey]

11. because not just anybody can "summerize" the news

WTF is that supposed to mean?

[myrna minx]

12. This is "Birth of a Nation" type imagery.

They're not even trying to disguise their bigotry anymore. :puke:

[47of74]

13. Here's my response to the racist, sick fucks

[chill_wind]

14. Here's an earlier DU thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=433x249981

[chill_wind]

15. She appears to have another blog beside the site in question

http://www.darleenclick.com/weblog/

Material on there since 2004.

There is a pic (hers? relative's?) with the paypal donation button--

http://www.darleenclick.com/weblog/

[leftygolfer]

16. This could be the tipping point

show everybody this cartoon. once the ignorant masses see this, they will see how far the other side has gone. this is incredibly sick and sad.

[Mike 03]

18. Horrific. Kick and Rec. NT

[chill_wind]

19. Jeff Goldstein and sidekick Darleen Click wikipedia page

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_Wisdom_%28blog%29

Looks like the page could use some updating.

[Odin2005]

20. "N***ers raping our women" is a common Southern racist theme. Sick bastards!

And making such light of rape like this, DISGUSTING!!! :grr: