The title of this post will take you to the website of Jeff Danziger, a political cartoonist. Of course you won't find this cartoon up there anymore because the racist coward took it down.
Michelle Malkin, author of "In Defense of Internment", wrote the racist coward a 7-word e-mail:
"Disgusting. You should be ashamed of yourself."
Danziger promptly emailed back:
quote:
Thanks for your letter.
In fact the idea for the cartoon was suggested to me by a friend who is African-American. It wasn't racist. Nor am I. I have been doing this for nearly thirty years, and any review of my work will prove that no racism attaches. Further, I am a decorated Vietnam veteran who voted for Nixon once, GHW Bush twice and even for Bob Dole. So keep your labels.
Ms. Rice had told America that she knew for certain that the nuclear and mass destruction weapons existed. For certain. Then once the war is on and over a thousand GI's get killed, she said last week that she didn't know anything for certain, and that she never said it was certain and it was all the CIA's fault and Clinton did the same thing and blah-blah. A litany of excuses. She reminded me of Prissy, a character in the film "Gone With the Wind", who knew all about birthin babies, until an actual baby was on the way, and then she didn't know nuthin about birthin babies.
Nothing racist about it at all. Just the standard lies told by a political operative, out of her depth, who happens to be African- American. Whenever this administration is in trouble they send out Condi Rice because the press, which is mostly white and male, gives her a far easier treatment than they would a white male.
Meanwhile, our troops are dying and being greviously wounded in a war that could have been avoided, or at least unsought. Ms. Rice's (and other's) statements about the aluminum tubes are the same kind of lie as the Gulf of Tonkin lie from Lyndon Johnson's people. 55,000 GI's died for that lie.
Even so, I appreciate your comments and will bear your remarks in mind in the future. For the record I do not work for the NY Times.
Jeff Danziger
(credit: http://bbs.simonsays.com/)
Of course after he defends the cartoon he then took it down, I suppose as to no longer offend anyone. This incident might be funny if it weren't so sad. Dr. Condoleeza Rice is fallible, just as any person is but she doesn't deserve to be compared to a "mammy" type character from "Gone With the Wind".
I have not heard a peep on this subject from either Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton. Where is the outrage? Where is the cry for justice? The hypocrisy of this incident is just glaring.
Here is another sample of that renowned liberal tolerance I hear so much about from Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury.
If I walk into work tomorrow and call any of the women, let alone the Black women, "Brown Sugar" I would not only lose my job but I'd be slapped so hard with a sexual harassment suit I'd think I was back in the mosh pit! Oh to be a liberal media elite, unchained by political correctness and...well, class.
Here's the thing that bugs me, these are two obviously mean spirited, purposely derogatory "statements" about a public servant. However, and this is what I mean by hypocrisy, I can think of two cases right off the bat where conservatives said something in public that was not intentionally malicious, yet they could be construed as insensitive and the media went "Zell Miller" crazy!
Do you remember back in 2002 when former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott was forced to resign his position as Senate Majority because of a comment he made praising Strom Thurmond on his 100th birthday?
"The comment in question was delivered last week ago during a 100th birthday party for the retiring Thurmond -- a party that often resembled a roast of the South Carolina Republican, who later in his career rejected segregation and supported civil rights.
Lott noted that in Thurmond's 1948 presidential campaign, whose centerpiece was opposition to integration, Mississippi was one of four states Thurmond carried.
"We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years either," Lott said. " (credit: http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/13/lott.comment/)
I'll buy that Lott's comment validated segregation and was insensitive. I'll even go along with him losing his coveted leadership position in the Senate. But where is the cry against Danziger and Trudeau? Supporting a reformed segregationist on his 100th birthday, that's insensitive, but calling a former Provost from Stanford University "Mammy" and "Brown Sugar", that's just clever.
This is one however is my favorite. Another conservative, this time radio talk show icon Rush Limbaugh lost his job when he said, "I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team." (credit: http://espn.go.com/gen/news/2003/1001/1628537.html)
Limbaugh resigned over this because the media elite went berserk and called him a racist. Maybe if he had shown a drawing of Donovan McNab in "blacker" face wearing a butler's uniform and tap-dancing, to illustrate his point...no wait, that still wouldn't have mattered. Only liberals are allowed to be racist and insensitive.
For the record I don't think all liberals are racist and not all conservatives are virtuous and tolerant. What I'm so mad about is the blatant hypocrisy when dealing with race. In my opinion, the media are not consistent within their own universe.
It's really easy to hide behind a venomous pen and the first amendment isn't it. It's very easy to be "clever" and "creative" when you know nothing can be done to you. At the very least, Ted Rall has the courage to go on the O'Reilly Factor and be confronted. The men (and I use that word lightly) who drew these cartoons are nothing more than spoiled, scared little children all grown up and hiding behind their drawing board.
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