A couple of people have mentioned that they
weren't familiar with Congressman Rangel before this post. For more
Rangel-goodness, check out this video at Crooks & Liars, to which Paul the Spud originally linked back in June. Rangel's a good guy; check it out.
Hat Tip:Shakespear's Sister
"A couple of people have mentioned that they weren't familiar with Congressman Rangel before this post."
He's only just going to be the next chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee in the 110th Congress!!!
It's very funny, but of course it's completely backward: Bush shatters
the myth of white *superiority*, but he spectacularly confirms the fact
of white supremacy. As does every dumb schmuck who enjoys a Senator's
office while all the talented and qualified black aspirants have to
wonder if they'll be the one to double the size of the Senate Black
Caucus.
Is it possible that Bush has a closer understanding with human/animal
hybrid clones than we all know??? So much for an Intelligent Designer.
Cartoonist Association Blasts Joint Chiefs Attack On Toles WP Cartoon
Sometimes cartoons are one of the highest art forms, and Tom Toles is very consistently good.
The
Joint Chiefs of Staff just sent a menacing letter to the Washington
Post over a cartoon. as its veracity was not yet confirmed, we waited
until E&P was able to confirm that is is for real.
And
why not have the Pentagon try to stifle a free media while supposedly
promoting freedom in Iraq? The US government just arrested one of
President Bush's top political critics for threatening his life with a
t-shirt. So why not now threaten a top political cartoonist for drawing
a cartoon that the Pentagon doesn't like? Why not use the power of
government to try to censor the media, something that's a direct
violation of that pesky and quaint 1st Amendment to the US Constitution
- you remember, that document the Bush administration doesn't think is
relevant.
I have no problem with citizens speaking out about
political cartoons they find offensive. But when the government does it,
that's a whole other story that smacks of censorship, especially when
that government is the Pentagon threatening you during wartime.
"They
should be as concerned with the soldiers in the field as they are with
a cartoon in The Washington Post," said Bennett, president of the
Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC), when reached
Thursday by E&P. "Maybe they should provide the body armor soldiers
need to help avoid the sort of injury shown in the cartoon."
"It
appears they [the Joint Chiefs] interpret cartoons as accurately as
they do pre-war intelligence," Bennett said. The Pulitzer Prize-winning
cartoonist for The Christian Science Monitor added: "It was a tough
cartoon on [Defense Secretary Donald] Rumsfeld, but he certainly
deserves tough cartoons."
It's called a bitchslap! Ahhh, chief joints, sticks and stones can break your bones, but cartoons can never hurt you (physically). Ya can't bleed from a t-shirt, either. unless of course that's what you are provided for body armor.
The artist was responding to Rumfelds highly inappropriate remarks
about the condition of the Army by attempting to get by with a catchy
phrase "Battle Hardened" instead of answering the legitimate charge
that the US Military was stretched too thin and was hurt by the ongoing
war in Iraq.
I think the cartoon is brilliant and it in no way
demeans or trivializes the casualties of the war. Quite the
contrary--it depicts the ridiculousness of Rumsfeld's remarks, and how
he trivializes real suffering. "Battled Hardened" my touche.