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Friday, February 03, 2006



Why We Love New York And Charles Rangle

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.


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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.

Here's the letter the Joint Chiefs of Staff wrote to the Post.

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.

Today from E&P:
"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.


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