As Malkin points out, swastikas got quite popular in posters characterising the president as a nazi over the past 8 years. Today we’re supposed to think the NYPost compared Obama to a chimp. Tomorrow I guess we’ll be calling someone out for calling Obama “O” and making fun of his Texas accent.
This is manufactured nonsense.

Meanwhile, Malkin’s not a racist because she poses with someone with a Obama/swastika sign at a rally. She’s a racist because she’s chosen to write for a white supremacist publication for years. The latter being the equivalent of holding up a swastika sign once a month with no Obama reference on it. Not real hard to interpret, yet somehow less worthy of mention.

Was also nice to see Ann Coulter defending the CCC against charges of racism this week. Statements like “Blacks are a retrograde species of humanity” are just so open to interpretation.

What publication is that?

And I don’t buy the comparison. If some asshole puts a swastika on a poster, he’s an asshole, no matter the political coloration of the politician he vapidly criticizes. But if, say, Matt Yglesias decided to take a picture with Bush/Hitler Poster Man, that would make Matt Yglesias an asshole by transitive property and raise questions about his judgment. That’s the issue here. Obviously not a very important one by any sensible judgment but it’s my blog and I’ll do what I want.

Today we’re supposed to think the NYPost compared Obama to a chimp. Tomorrow I guess we’ll be calling someone out for calling Obama “O” and making fun of his Texas accent.

Are you very young? Are you a recent arrival to the United States? Those would be the only reasonable excuses for that kind of extreme ignorance of traditional racist imagery. Did you find the anti-Harold Ford ad with the blonde white woman perfectly acceptable political dialogue with no racial connotations? Ronald Reagan’s rhetoric about states’ rights and “bucking” young welfare-cheats? It’s not like the cartoonist has a history of any offensive and bigoted cartoons.

What publication is that?

VDare.

…raise questions about his judgment. That’s the issue here.

I’d suggest Malkin having questionable judgment is less an “issue” than a “theme”.

Are you very young? Are you a recent arrival to the United States? Those would be the only reasonable excuses for that kind of extreme ignorance of traditional racist imagery.

Because I don’t associate images of monkeys with rich white guys ?

I’m not sure what you’ve understood here, but I was discussing the fact that we’ve had 8 years of people linking Bush to nazis and calling him a chimp. The second the exact same thing happens to the next president it becomes racist. In the example this story is about, that was the entire, explicit point. To give Obama some Bush treatment and watch the publicity roll in, then play the hypocrisy card. Rightly so.

Then there was a cartoon yesterday about cops shooting a chimp, apparently something that happened. The comical suggestion was that with the chimp dead, who’s gonna write the next stimulus bill.

Perhaps you, with your superior knowledge of racist imagery, could explain where it exists in that case. I’d suggest starting with explaining how the “imagery” of a chimp being racist is more prevalent than a chimp being stupid. Maybe you could cite the many, many other jokes about “did a monkey write this?”, all of which are racist. Then you could move on to explain who the fuck is supposed to be black.

At this point all I know is Obama didn’t write the stimulus bill, so unless Harry Reid’s economics adviser is black, or someone prominant at the treasury, I really can’t make connection without your expertise on the case.

So have you been in the country long enough to figure that out ?

It’s not like the cartoonist has a history of any offensive and bigoted cartoons.

Your link would appear to confirm that’s the case.
Would you like to claim that out of everything this guy has published, that if all they can find is an “al sharpton is fat” comic, you think that is evidence of a history of racism, rather than the opposite ?

Because I don’t associate images of monkeys with rich white guys? …there was a cartoon yesterday about cops shooting a chimp, apparently something that happened. The comical suggestion was that with the chimp dead, who’s gonna write the next stimulus bill…Perhaps you, with your superior knowledge of racist imagery, could explain where it exists in that case. I’d suggest starting with explaining how the “imagery” of a chimp being racist is more prevalent than a chimp being stupid

To approach this issue devoid of its historical and racial context is beyond intellectually dishonest. The attacks on Bush were personal, but it is a practical impossibility to use this imagery for a black person without invoking the hundreds of years of dehumanization of African-Americans in this country. Would you argue that it is okay to depict Bernie Madoff as a scheming and thieving rat or rat-like person? Would that be no different than depicting someone of Northern European descent as the same way?

At this point all I know is Obama didn’t write the stimulus bill, so unless Harry Reid’s economics adviser is black, or someone prominant at the treasury, I really can’t make connection without your expertise on the case.

Yes, I could tell you know very little. Cartoons deal with simplifications of situations and often use anthropomorphic animals to personify people or institutions. Of course Obama didn’t personally author the stimulus bill; no one did, it was a collaborative effort. But the president is, nevertheless, the one who proposed it and the one who’s been its primary advocate. He is the “owner” of the bill, as the preceding page of the Post, and multiple editorials have, made clear.

The cartoon suggests violence against those responsible for the stimulus and makes a joke about a woman getting her face ripped off by a crazed chimpanzee at its most innocuous. When one considers that this is unarguably Obama’s stimulus plan, whether the cartoonist intended it or not, the racial component is very difficult to ignore (although your effort is “admirable”).

Would you like to claim that out of everything this guy has published, that if all they can find is an “al sharpton is fat” comic, you think that is evidence of a history of racism, rather than the opposite?

I said the cartoonist has a history of offensive bigotry, as the link demonstrates. Maybe you think homophobia, anti-Semitic stereotypes, and making fun of the disabled is just hilarious, but I find it offensive. Do you find Passion of the Christ and Birth of a Nation to be similarly unfairly maligned by hyper-sensitive, politically-correct reactionaries?

Well, here are several knee-slappers you might enjoy.

I’ve lived in NY and read the Post since about the Spanish-American War.
I am far from easily offended by cartoons and really, really don’t like Sharpton.
I can tell you that the re-published cartoons are far from the worst that this guy has drawn and that have run in the Post. There was at least one where he drew Sharpton as an enormously fat ape.