Holy crap. With that one snippet you’ve changed the way I’m going to see such racist rants forever. (Is it original? Or have I just been missing that point?)

I guess I can understand how a group that feels it has no power would be compelled to use a technique that empowers them in some way, even if that technique ultimately proves to be useless or even work against them. Feeling powerless means they do not believe they CAN fix their problems, so the mere exercise of power makes them feel better about their perceived situation.

Christ people! Stop wasting your time trying to prove how powerful you can be and SOLVE YOUR PROBLEMS.

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Many of the thoughts expressed here are absolutely “spot on.” But they’re addressing our (Conservatives’) well known and often expressed objections to this administration and its intents. They’re not really addressing the cartoon. Rick, I felt your historically correct comments on who actually wrote the stimulus bill, etc., are also missing the point. Whether naively, or disingenuosuly, they represent a rationalization in an effort to nullify the effect of the Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons, who are only racist extortionists. But it makes us no better then they, if we act oblivious and non-chalantly defend a cartoon, the “gut” impression of which is ubiquitously and immediately apparent to Blacks and Whites - maybe only of an older generation who witnessed far more widespread and ugly discrimination against Black Americans, than some of our younger conservative commenters.

Murdoch realized this as well. He wasn’t capitulating to Sharpton; he was honestly admitting that cartoon was really a nasty ressurection of a nasty metaphor for Black folks.

They knew it would get the black voters goat and they knew that their own responce to the coming Imus connection from Sharpton could be backed up by claiming it was a shot at the speaker and the one who pulls her chain and they knew that, would not float .

A strong and good change for America is not what we got or will get from this black pres and you can see this when you look at how many people who worked for the bushes and the clintons are now working for obummer ?

This all started a few .., bushes and clintons,… ago and is being brought togeather by obummer and the ones he is putting into office to help him continue on to turning this great country into a socialist hell hole! His number one mouthpeace recently asked..at a press meeting…, (” whats wrong with a little sicialism in this country ” ? )

As far as I am concerned the cartoon folks can….fire for effect ! And it looks like that in the future we the people will do the same thing ?

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I actually think most people associated it with Obama, at least indirectly, and sometimes directly.

No, ordinary people shouldn’t have to worry too much about offending this, that or the other person so long as they didn’t intend to. But this was a professional, not an ordinary person. Two professionals counting the editor. Different standards apply.

No one should hold it against us if we can’t catch a pass in the end zone: we’re not football players. We apply a different standard to a receiver making a million bucks a season. These two guys get paid to communicate, which means they need to know what they’re communicating.

I agree. This is an excellent post.

However, in light of all the public and private corruption that is cascading down on America at this very moment, I think this editorial cartoon controversy might just be a side show.

Again, a great post with excellent points.