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October 1, 2014 11:10 am - NewsBehavingBadly.com

Riffing off the White House intruder, the president is seen in a bathroom being asked about watermelon-flavored toothpaste.

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D.B. Hirsch
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

138 responses to Paper Runs Obama-Watermelon Cartoon

  1. R.J. Carter October 1st, 2014 at 11:13 am

    Isn’t that a declaration of the racism of the intruders, rather than the newspaper or the cartoonist?

    • mea_mark October 1st, 2014 at 11:21 am

      Does it matter? It shows really poor taste however it is perceived.

      • R.J. Carter October 1st, 2014 at 11:27 am

        Of course it matters. If the word balloon were coming out of cartoon-Obama’s mouth, it’s a statement of the racism of the newspaper/cartoonist.

        If the word balloon is coming out of the cartoon-intruder’s mouth, then it’s a statement by the newspaper/cartoonist that these intruders are inherently racist.

        That’s a big difference.

        • Mike George October 1st, 2014 at 11:37 am

          It still reflects actual republican tea party racism of Obama which is very real and not a figment of people’s imaginations…

          • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 11:50 am

            BULLSEYE!

            the NRA would really be proud of you, IF:
            they weren’t a WHITE RACIST organization.

    • arc99 October 1st, 2014 at 11:29 am

      of the nearly infinite number of punch-lines the cartoonist could have used, he chose one with racial overtones.

      why not for example show the President eating some junk food and the intruder asking if Michelle knows about it.

      the best that can be said of the newspaper and the cartoonist is that they are remarkably tone-deaf on issues of race

      • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 11:57 am

        hows about if the cartoon Obama (being he shows very little stress in REAL life) were to be saying:
        ‘ I kicked McCain and Romney’s WHITE asses, so you’re no problem to me’ – with the typical redneck dumbass look on the intruder’s face -as the POTUS looks in the mirror at his near perfect set of choppers, or better yet, walking across the water in the bathtub, which no doubt is a lot more LAVISH than depicted in the racist cartoon?

        • R.J. Carter October 1st, 2014 at 12:51 pm

          They probably didn’t want to do something that would appear racist.

      • williamedward October 1st, 2014 at 1:24 pm

        If you think it might have racial overtones, it just might. That’s why you have people to proof read your editorials, not just a bunch of filthy rich Cons.

    • NW10 October 1st, 2014 at 11:33 am

      I see what you mean:

      http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2009/02/18/chimpcartoon460.jpg

      • R.J. Carter October 1st, 2014 at 12:50 pm

        Now that example was one of racism of the cartoonist and the newspaper.

    • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 12:01 pm

      no.

      (cartoonist is the one who drew it
      newspaper is the one who printed it

      hows about some accountability for the REAL racist, instead of trying to throw the blame off on a made up cartoon character?)

  2. NW10 October 1st, 2014 at 11:30 am

    But remember ladies and gentlemen, racism is over, because Chief Justice Roberts said so!

  3. Shades October 1st, 2014 at 11:35 am

    What year is it again?

  4. Yenta October 1st, 2014 at 11:43 am

    I want to see some cartoons showing the SS being nonchalant about their service to the President.

  5. Red Eye Robot October 1st, 2014 at 11:47 am

    My Goodness! The Cartoonist depicted a WHITE intruder in Obama’s bathroom using racist stereotypes.

  6. Red Eye Robot October 1st, 2014 at 11:56 am

    Oddly John Fugelsang did the same thing a few days ago and was defended by the left

    @John Fugelsang: “Eric Holder resigns; or as Rush Limbaugh puts it, ‘black guy doesn’t want to work”

    • arc99 October 1st, 2014 at 12:09 pm

      Time and time again I hear conservatives wondering why black folks vote Democratic to the tune of 90% support of the party.

      Time and time again, conservatives without any help from the left demonstrate that they do not give a sh*t about the morals, values, or sensibilities of black people.

      You and all the other conservatives go right ahead mocking the moral values of black people. We will continue to avoid a party whose base proudly demonstrates a complete lack of respect for our values and maybe we can get that total up to 100% Democratic

      • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 12:12 pm

        Time and time again.. namely HOURLY we see that voting DEMOCRAT hurts the minorities far more than it helps them. What am I saying, it doesn’t help them in the least.. not beyond the first 10 minutes of airtime on a free Obama phone. Beyond that, zero help. But let’s assume your silly liberal handbook of “what conservatives do” is accurate. Let’s compare mean old conservatives making racial jokes, but instituting EFFICIENT and sustainable social help programs… with Liberals’ “making excuses for black crimes, race baiting, enticing racial tension, giving away a few short lived trinkets and running existing social help programs into the ground (nay.. into irrecoverable debt). Yeah.. I’d rather be called a racial slur than be kept in a perpetual 9-generation welfare family.

        • arc99 October 1st, 2014 at 12:18 pm

          There is no such thing as an Obamaphone. Your entire post is a mass of ficitonal nonsense.

          So as a 62 year old black man who works, pays taxes, owns his own home and comes from a family of hard-working taxpaying people including military veterans and law enforcement officers, take your idiotic generalizations and shove them up your a$$

          • Carla Akins October 1st, 2014 at 12:32 pm

            This ^^^

          • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:39 pm

            That > >

          • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:39 pm

            Wow.. you sure refuted all those points about the failure that is LIBERALISM there.. nice job. No “obama phone”.. guess that answers all the other failed aspects of your Marxist, Political Correctness obsessed, naive approach to life! 🙂 Well done! I hope your campus courses in liberal arts see as much success as your forum answering does! 🙂

          • William October 1st, 2014 at 2:11 pm

            The discounted, sometimes free, wireless services that started to become available to low income households in 2005, under George W. Bush’s administration, is an expanded and updated version of the Lifeline telephone service program that launched in 1985, under Ronald Reagan’s administration.

            And the service isn’t funded by taxpayer dollars.

            Try reading something once in a while.

            http://www.monroenews.com/news/2013/jan/15/theyre-reagan-phones-not-obama-phones/

            Spewing terms like Marxist, simply amplifies your appearance of being a low information Fox-bat that is only capable of regurgitating whatever the drug soaked draft dodger or bipolar alcoholic dumped into your memory bank

        • tiredoftea October 1st, 2014 at 12:53 pm

          Please provide one, just one, proof point for your fantasy of a posting. That crap works at wnd or whichever fringe right wing sites you usually perform at, not here.

          • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:37 pm

            Show me where all the perpetual welfare and excuse making for minorities has ever helped them. I’ll give you a week! That’s pretty generous, right?

          • tiredoftea October 1st, 2014 at 1:49 pm

            The only thing “generous” about you is the stupidity you are exhibiting here.

          • Dwendt44 October 1st, 2014 at 2:17 pm

            Both Clarence Thomas and your hero (at what?) Ben Carson benefited form equal opportunity programs.

          • mea_mark October 1st, 2014 at 2:37 pm

            Your trolling is irritating.

          • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 3:46 pm

            Clarence Thomas
            Collin Powell
            Condoleezza Rice
            Alan Keyes
            Allen West
            Herman Cain

            have all benefitted from living in a nation that takes care of it’s underprivileged citizens who shed the most blood, do the most labor and reap the least harvest. Untold millions of WHITE people who receive food stamps, rent subsidies, tax credits and clinical treatment have also benefitted. Even millionaires with luxury yachts benefit first and above ALL OTHERS in NC at state taxpayer expense.

          • William October 1st, 2014 at 2:06 pm

            “Please provide one, just one, proof point for your fantasy of a posting. ”
            Not gonna’ happen

          • tiredoftea October 1st, 2014 at 2:11 pm

            Needs more upvotes!

        • NW10 October 1st, 2014 at 12:54 pm

          More proof of the myth of the man in your avatar, Saint Reagan. It was his voodoo economics of giving the rich more tax breaks that effectively turned our economy south.

          • williamedward October 1st, 2014 at 1:21 pm

            And destroyed the middle class with bullcrap trickle down economics. Plus isn’t St. Reagan the dude who raised taxes on the middle class 11 times? I see you also look like you believe all black families are 9 generation welfare? Pathetic.

          • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:37 pm

            Haha.. never fails.. limited dimensionality liberals harp right on the avatar! So simple minded. I think next time I’ll use a Sarah Palin avatar and liberals will forget all their “you’re a racist teabagger” talking points.

        • Dwendt44 October 1st, 2014 at 2:15 pm

          That’s 240 minutes on the FREE PHONES that REAGAN instituted.
          And WHAT social help programs? All I see are the wacky right trying to kill any and all programs that help the poor-regardless of color. I say that since there are more white folks getting food stamps than blacks, more whites on medicaid than blacks, etc..

        • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 3:35 pm

          Irrecoverable national debt usually occurs during long drawn out military adventurism far far off shore in distant lands. Deployment cost, housing, feeding, shipping charges and insuring in volatile areas where FALSE WMDs are constantly being reported – just out of military reach – all add up to TRILLIONS of dollars. Interest added on while maintaining a greatly reduced manufacturing base which in turn reduces the revenues brought in all add up to a big ass Republican mess. More Republicans in the national government will do nothing but worsen the situation. Only viable choice for a REAL AMERICAN currently is to support Democrats.

    • arc99 October 1st, 2014 at 12:12 pm

      I hardly see that as the “same thing”.

      Limbaugh is a spiteful bastard who deserves any and all bad intent that comes his way

    • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 12:12 pm

      NEWSFLASH!

      Limbaugh!

      I’ll let the public’s knowledge of this WHITE Viagra addicted entertainer who has the talent of passing gas through a gold colored radio microphone determine the humor of Fugelsang.

      • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 12:13 pm

        No no… to liberals only Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have “HUMOR”.. and their DNA I’m told is rather salty.

        • williamedward October 1st, 2014 at 1:17 pm

          You criticize JS, and SC but you have yet to watch them? Conservatives just don’t understand humor, along with bigotry and racism, never mind women. Sad.

          • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:36 pm

            Translation: Conservatives don’t have the same “humor” as I do, therefore, they’re racist teabaggers one and all! Oh you liberals are so one dimensional and predictable! NEVER CHANGE.. I mean that.. Keep voting for presidents based on their color!

          • William October 1st, 2014 at 2:04 pm

            It doesn’t surprise anyone that you identify with a drug addicted draft dodger and Sex tourist Viagra smuggler. Even funnier is your avatar, a B movie actor who tripled the national debt, raised taxes on the middle class seven times and the debt ceiling 11 times.

            At least you have the Lockheed airframe to identify with.

          • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 2:05 pm

            thank you, I will. Most likely I will vote for a WHITE woman in the next election. Nothing says progress in the USA like a BLACK man and a WHITE woman both sharing the same top position in America. Something that Romney’s 47% have TWICE FAILED to do for Mitt.

          • williamedward October 5th, 2014 at 2:59 pm

            I base my choice on policy, not color. Whenever Republicans get in office, the economy tanks. Remind us of where the Dow was in 2009. How about the unemployment situation then and now (5.9%). Remind me of how pathetic health care was just a decade ago w/o the ACA. Remember, you assumed I vote based on color. Who’s the bigot now?

          • williamedward October 13th, 2014 at 2:23 pm

            I di not actually vote for him. Sorry to burst your bubble.

          • williamedward October 17th, 2014 at 2:13 pm

            Translation: Conservatives don’t have the same “humor” as I do, therefore, they’re racist teabaggers one and all! Oh you liberals are so one dimensional and predictable! NEVER CHANGE.. I mean that.. Keep voting for presidents based on their color!

      • Red Eye Robot October 1st, 2014 at 12:37 pm

        It was just argued that the paper or cartoonist are racist because they published cartoon attributing a racist comment made to the president by a white person. Fugelsang did exactly, not similar, not kinda like but exactly the same thing.If this cartoon or it’s publishers/ creators are racist then so is fugelsang. Thank you for demonstrating you possess not even a gram of integrity

        • NW10 October 1st, 2014 at 12:51 pm

          Fuegelsang didn’t use racial epithets/slurs, that is the difference. Thank you for once again demonstrating how much of a right wing idiot you are with false equivalencies.

          • Dwendt44 October 1st, 2014 at 2:10 pm

            Not to mention that Fugelsang was citing Limpball, a well know racist.

        • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 2:01 pm

          no use trying to posses a gram of integrity to a pack of raving WHITE RACIST. It’s kinda like offering a small dish of Purina to a pack of starving wolves – better to swing the big stick.

          • R.J. Carter October 1st, 2014 at 2:19 pm

            Well, at least you admit you’re not even trying.

    • Anomaly 100 October 2nd, 2014 at 8:11 pm

      That’s totally not the same. One is sarcasm, the other is not.

      • Red Eye Robot October 6th, 2014 at 12:27 pm

        BREAKING NEWS: ANOMALY 100 OFFICIALLY PRONOUNCES: EDITORIAL CARTOONS AREN’T SARCASTIC!

        • Anomaly 100 October 6th, 2014 at 12:52 pm

          Breaking: Troll tries to take blogger’s time and she doesn’t give a damn!

  7. OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 11:59 am

    The people who see “racism” in linking watermelon and black man, are being racist themselves! Shame on you ALARMISTS because YOU are the racists here.

    • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 12:06 pm

      please notice how alarming racist you are for ‘linking’ watermelon and black man while those rebuking this racist cartoon are clearly referring to the intentional misuse of toothpaste flavoring.

      • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 12:09 pm

        They really shouldn’t be doctoring with toothpaste flavoring. Probably a ploy to socialize the dentistry profession.

        • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 2:13 pm

          It’ll probably take a Kenyan Dentist with an Hawaiian Birth Certificate to ‘socialize’ his profession in the USA. But speaking of teeth:
          I think POTUS Obama has probably got the best set of ‘choppers’ of any of the 43 WHITE POTUSes before him. People in SE Asia think of him as The KING OF AMERICA. Mostly the way he exits and enters the USA FLYING PALACE (something ONLY the POTUS has full access to) but partly, I think, because of his Magnificent Smile, coupled with his Excellent Maui Tan. (not fake like the orangeman in the house, or Mitt’s hokey ‘brown’ spray on.).

    • Carla Akins October 1st, 2014 at 12:31 pm

      Historically watermelon (and chicken) have been used to portray Black Americans as less than human for the purpose of justifying systematic discrimination. So yes, it’s wrong and it’s what the cartoonist intended. If you cannot recognize racism and realize it continues to be rampant, you are part of the problem.

      • Skydog2 October 1st, 2014 at 1:31 pm

        I like watermelon and chicken; hopefully that doesn’t make me less than human.

        • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 2:14 pm

          when it’s the staple (only staple) of the compound, I can understand why.

      • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:35 pm

        Nice weaseling out of the the accusation, but it still stands. YOU linked the two to a racist insult which wasn’t intended by the author. YOU are a horrible racist. You should probably off yourself by going to Ferguson, MO and posing as a television set.

        • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 2:20 pm

          Deere M. GULLIBLE;

          of course it was the INTENT of the author.
          Otherwise, there would have been NO MENTION of the flavor of the toothpaste. RACISM sells to Romney’s 47%. So…

          selling racist humor IS racist in and of itself, just like the Limbaugh hour of power for ‘whitey’ and their sour grape flavored whinny tea.

        • Carla Akins October 1st, 2014 at 2:37 pm

          I’m guessing you’re paid for your rhetoric, because no one can be this dense.

          • mea_mark October 1st, 2014 at 2:46 pm

            I wonder how much he gets paid after his comments are deleted?

          • Carla Akins October 1st, 2014 at 5:30 pm

            Which is why I love you!

    • OldLefty October 1st, 2014 at 12:40 pm

      Because pointing out blatant racism IS the new racism.

      • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:34 pm

        Naw.. looking for it under rocks, and being OVERJOYED when its found is the new LIBERAL DOCTRINE. Well done!

        • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 2:25 pm

          why would anyone (other than dumbass WHITE RACIST) look for something that is so blatantly obvious? – All you gotta do is watch any of Romney’s 47% at any given moment – or watch as much of a Republican Convention as possible without laughing yourself into a coma.

    • bill0 October 1st, 2014 at 12:40 pm

      Limbaugh talking points.

      You take dictation well, dittohead.

      • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:34 pm

        And you mimic your primary news talking head, Jon Stewart very well! Are you the product of a single parent household too?

    • NW10 October 1st, 2014 at 12:50 pm

      If this had been a cartoon about Ben Carson, you’d be outraged, and deservedly so. No black person deserves to be treated like filth through racial attacks, be they left wing or right wing.

      • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:45 pm

        Doubt it.. if the author said it wasn’t meant as a racist gesture, I’d have believed it. But that’s me.. you know.. not a hormone driven, silly ditzy liberal who flies off the handle .. particularly on the behalf of others.

        • Dwendt44 October 1st, 2014 at 2:05 pm

          Your just a brain dead follower of right wing nuts on squawk radio who either won’t or can’t think for yourself.

        • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 2:27 pm

          I have a bridge in Brooklyn I could sell you – or some land in Florida 6 miles due east of Miami? Hows about being the proud owner of Texas?

  8. OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 12:14 pm

    Are liberals demanding we rename Apache helicopters to something like “Islamic Apologizers?”

    • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 12:16 pm

      Only if they’re wearing inappropriate warpaint that will clash with the terrain.

    • OldLefty October 1st, 2014 at 12:35 pm

      Why???

      Conservatives have been the ones to serve and nurture radical Islam;

      Like overthrowing democracy in Iran and installing a dictator to protect BP’s interests, leading directly to the theocracy we have there now?

      Like funding radical Islam in Pakistan against secular democracy in India?

      Like funding the Muslim Brotherhood against secular government in Egypt to protect the Suez Canal for the Brits?

      Like supporting the Wahhabis in Saudi,so they they can sell us oil with one hand, while funding the terrorism that seeks to kill us with the other?

      Like arming both Saddam and the Iranians, then whining about how they are both armed?

      Like creating al Qaeda and teaching them how to bring down a super power?

      Remember

      In the late 1980s, Pakistani President Benazir Bhutto, feeling the mujaheddin network has grown too strong, tells President George H. W. Bush, “You are creating a jihadi Frankenstein.”

      The Bush buddies, Shafiq bin Ladin ,Salem bin Ladin, , James Bath
      and Sheik Khalid bin Mahfouz, Sami Al-Arian, Abdullah Shallah, and Hassan Turabi

      Remember the BCCI??

      Bet ya don’t.

      Thou dost project too much, Methinks,.

      • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:46 pm

        Wow.. just about every one of your bullet points is 100% wrong! Did you get these from Jon Stewart?

        • Dwendt44 October 1st, 2014 at 3:13 pm

          Find one error in his bullet points and prove it. Don’t just spew the nonsense spouted by Limpball or insHannity.

        • wpadon October 1st, 2014 at 4:13 pm

          The de-Bathization was a major error and is directly responsible for the military success of these terrorist. Saddam’s senior commanders had a decade of combat experience fighting Iran in addition to the years of oppressing the Shites and the Kurds.

      • Dwendt44 October 1st, 2014 at 2:04 pm

        Had Bush not toppled Saddam, Isis would never have been formed. The majority of ISIS leaders were Saddam’s military leaders FIRED by Bush and the boys.

    • Jay Winston October 1st, 2014 at 1:05 pm

      How ’bout “Terrorist Enablers” like your hero Ronald Reagan, the man who made Osama Bin Laden and armed both Iran and Saddam Hussein?

      • tracey marie October 1st, 2014 at 1:47 pm

        don’t play with the trolls, it makes them stick around and smell up the place.

      • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:48 pm

        And this is different from your Messiah arming “syrian rebels” hahaha… stobbit.. my sidessss.. how? 🙂

        • Dwendt44 October 1st, 2014 at 3:12 pm

          Arming Syrian rebels was a Republican Idea.

        • Anomaly 100 October 1st, 2014 at 4:17 pm

          You’re banned for previous comments. Stormfront.org is in the other direction.

          • StoneyCurtisll October 1st, 2014 at 4:57 pm

            I just got here..
            And I wonder why any of his, (OrionElectra) disgusting comments are still posted..

          • Carla Akins October 1st, 2014 at 5:40 pm

            It’s generally good to leave a few for new readers to get a sense of what happened. Sometimes we hear from new or infrequent readers afraid to post because all they see is a large number of deleted comments.

          • StoneyCurtisll October 1st, 2014 at 6:08 pm

            I totally understand..:)

          • Ol Blue October 2nd, 2014 at 2:41 pm

            Also good to let a few scraps of their ignorance live on for all to see. I would say that the right balance has been struck here.

          • Anomaly 100 October 1st, 2014 at 5:54 pm

            I thought I deleted them all. Can you still see his derp?

          • StoneyCurtisll October 1st, 2014 at 6:06 pm

            maybe if I refresh the page..
            he will be gone..:)

          • Anomaly 100 October 1st, 2014 at 6:27 pm

            Oh I hope so. What a dork!

  9. tiredoftea October 1st, 2014 at 12:46 pm

    The Boston Herald ran the cartoon, here’s their own response: “Herald editorial page editor Rachelle Cohen tells me neither she nor artist Jerry Holbert saw anything wrong with the cartoon. “Jerry doesn’t have a racist bone in his body,” she says. He chose watermelon because he had just seen that flavor of toothpaste in his house, says Cohen.” Well, that settles it!

    • NW10 October 1st, 2014 at 12:49 pm

      Yup, another “We’re sorry if anyone was offended” non apologies.

      • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:47 pm

        What would you like instead? Permission to go loot a dozen more TVs? How many do you need there, LaShawn? OOOOOOOOOOOOH… he went there… said something.. .possibly remotely potentially racist.. if you turn your head sideways!

    • mmaynard119 October 2nd, 2014 at 9:06 pm

      The Boston Herald is the right-wing scandal sheet that is Boston/New England’s second leading paper after the Boston Globe. The Boston Herald is like the NY Post, so any efforts to report in a fair journalistic manner is usually not followed. So, unfortunately, it’s not all that surprising that the editors of the paper wouldn’t pull the cartoon. They have to be loving all the free publicity they’re getting from this.

      • tiredoftea October 2nd, 2014 at 9:11 pm

        Yeah, the “Washington Times” of Boston. A very low target to aspire to as a journalist.

  10. Skydog2 October 1st, 2014 at 1:39 pm

    Was the cartoon changed?
    http://www.gocomics.com/jerryholbert

    I’m surprised to not read complaints about how his ears are depicted.

    • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:47 pm

      Looks like it. The squeaky, whiny liberal wheel always gets the grease.

    • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 1:56 pm

      – it’s like trying to explain an Hawaiian birth certificate to a bunch of blind WHITE RACIST who cannot read.

      • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 2:01 pm

        Or properly use Adobe Acrobat to produce old looking birth certificates with improper verbage for the time!

  11. OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:41 pm

    Yo, Leftyfilth.. I just saw Sarah Palin step on a black piece of asphalt! Get thine crusading buttocks out to Alaska and wage a Ferguson style RIOT out there! HOP TO IT.. you can use Michelle Obama’s vacation plane with my blessings!

    • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 1:55 pm

      U R A LIAR!
      Sara cannot possibly take any steps in her continuous state of maximum butt whipped inebriation. All the re-runs of Foxx cut and paste are to keep dumb WHITE RACIST believing she is still relevant even though she is nothing but a large pile (very large) of blabbering trash in a back alley in the run down side of Wasilla. The only thing she’s seeing on her backside now is blurred pink elephants.

      • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:57 pm

        Hey that was pretty good! But you need to throw in “teabagger” every once in awhile and maybe say something in defense of Islamic terrorism to really sound liberal. Also, a few complaints about WMD’s would be a nice touch.

    • Dwendt44 October 1st, 2014 at 1:58 pm

      Palin has nothing to worry about, the mentally challenged are generally given a pass.

      • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:59 pm

        Is that how you got the extra EBT credits you do? Or did you have to sign a form saying you’d vote for Obama 50 times in the 2012 election?

        • Dwendt44 October 1st, 2014 at 3:10 pm

          I voted for Obama once, and it seems that was enough. I voted for him not because he’s black, that was irrelevant, but because the clowns the Republicans keep offering the public at election time scare any thinking person, as they should.
          Since I don’t get EBT, your statement only shows your lack of mental functionality.

    • R.J. Carter October 1st, 2014 at 2:15 pm

      Dial it back a little bit.

  12. Skydog2 October 1st, 2014 at 1:48 pm

    This cartoon is clearly racist. The WH fence jumper, Omar Gonzalez, his Hispanic but the man in the cartoon is white.

  13. OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    Boy, nothing gets the ovaries of the average liberal inflamed more than challenging their notions of racism.. unless it’s a picture of… RONALD REAGAN… oooooh.. HISSSSSS EVIL… look away… it’s a mean guy who demanded responsibility… EVIL!

    • tiredoftea October 1st, 2014 at 1:55 pm

      Oh, yes. The guy who left the government with a bigger deficit than any President before him and invaded tiny little Granada to prove how manly he is. Must have been fun with Nancy in the bedroom that night! Oh, yeah, Iran-Contra. That showed a whole lot of responsibility.

      • Dwendt44 October 1st, 2014 at 1:57 pm

        The ‘I can’t recall’ traitor to America also signed the largest tax increase in history among the 11 tax increased he signed. Should have been in prison instead of the White House.
        Yet the rabid right holds him up as a deity.

        • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 2:00 pm

          Oh my.. you want to go the TRAITOR route? Really? when your Messiah is being investigated for more than 20 different anti-american scandals? Do you all even watch your OWN news?

          • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 3:01 pm

            Investigated by ___________________?
            Investigated for___________________?
            finding __________________________?

          • Dwendt44 October 1st, 2014 at 3:07 pm

            A phoney scandal, or 20 of them, created by Obama haters on the rabid right aren’t worth wasting time on.

      • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:58 pm

        OH you want to go there? hahah.. Your MESSIAH creating a debt that OUTSHINES the SUM TOTAL of every president behind him?? You really want to go to that place? Good god, no wonder you voted for Obie a second time. You’re just not a thinker!

        • tiredoftea October 1st, 2014 at 1:58 pm

          Messiah? Who’s that?

          • OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 1:59 pm

            Hahahaha.. good one! You should ask Jon Stewart for an internship!

        • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 3:13 pm

          POTUS REAGAN: 300% increase in the national debt – even his VP called it VOODOO ECONOMICS. LARGEST TAX INCREASES on the lower middle class in US history. Crashed and burned the Manufacturing Base of the US Economy. Opted not to poison thrown away food that the homeless unemployed were dumpster diving for to S U R V I V E the rolling Economic DEPRESSION, as they weren’t sure how many dead people would be in the streets. Cat food for the elderly in Florida. Entire small rural towns ceased to exist. These are but a few of the notable differences between a cut and run POTUS whose only moral guidelines were: ‘am I playing the part right’? – and the current POTUS who’s still picking up the pieces of the last GREAT FAILED Republican POTUS.

    • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 2:59 pm

      too bad he only accepted CASH for his US Military transported drug deliveries. A little deserving responsibility would have been much better.

  14. OrionElectra October 1st, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    I’m no Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but I think voting FOR a president “because it’s high time we had a black president” or “only a black man can understand the plight of black america” is more racist than anything an editorial cartoonist could dream up. Obama voters scare me. I’m thinking they may put their white robes on and set fire to a cross… or today, a Muslim crescent in my yard.

    • tiredoftea October 1st, 2014 at 2:14 pm

      Somehow, in your dark and lonely closet, telling the truth becomes the racist act, not describing the conditions of living it, or that cause it. Is it any wonder that racism persists?

    • William October 1st, 2014 at 2:17 pm

      “Obama voters scare me. I’m thinking they may put their white robes on and set fire to a cross… or today, a Muslim crescent in my yard.”
      You’ll need a professional to deal with that level of paranoia.
      I’m going to go out on a limb here and suggest that a lot of people (including me) voted for President Obama because he DOSEN’T own a sweat shop in China
      It’s an “American” thing. You probably wouldn’t understand.

      • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 2:46 pm

        I voted for Obama the first time because he had an authentic looking Hawaiian Birth Certificate (they got a really cool State Seal) plus, Michelle – mmmm mmmm – Barrack you lucky da-er uh Mr. President, SIR!

        I voted for Obama the second time because I think it’s good to have a leader who’s up to date on America’s current Military for the Primary Security of US in the 21st century, plus Michelle – mmmm- mmmm ….

        I don’t think I would ever vote for Romney, precisely for the reason you stated above. Any POTUS should be for US Economy FIRST! – IT IS more AMERICAN that way.

    • Rusty Shackleford October 1st, 2014 at 2:19 pm

      I’m wondering if you’re proud of where your life has taken you? Good productive use of your time, devoting the past several hours of your life to spamming the comments section of a website you hate with inane bullshit you recite by rote?

      I mean, suit yourself, everyone needs a hobby, but I’d rather go play a video game or something.

      • mea_mark October 1st, 2014 at 3:07 pm

        Some people have very empty lives and find fulfillment in the strangest of ways. Trolls …

    • granpa.usthai October 1st, 2014 at 2:35 pm

      I think Muslims would be more apt to drive a fuel truck into your house, but It’d probably take some research back to say 06:22 AM local time on 23 October 1983 ( the day missing in all National News Outlets) before a pattern could be established?

    • Ol Blue October 1st, 2014 at 4:12 pm

      Obama voters aren’t the ones with white robes. But of course you know that. That was/is you guys.

    • OldLefty October 1st, 2014 at 5:05 pm

      I’m no Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., but I think voting FOR a president “because it’s high time we had a black president” or “only a black man can understand the plight of black america”

      ________

      Nobody did that.

      • whatthe46 October 1st, 2014 at 5:59 pm

        only in its sick racist mind.

  15. R.J. Carter October 1st, 2014 at 2:22 pm

    All this cartoon needed was a confederate flag tattooed on the intruder’s biceps, and everyone would go, “Yep, he nailed it.”

  16. StoneyCurtisll October 1st, 2014 at 5:26 pm

    OrionElectra is a thread high-jacking troll…
    I know it’s too late..
    But in the future..
    Please dont feed them, cause they will only come back for more.

  17. fahvel October 2nd, 2014 at 3:37 am

    as per usa type racism, has it ever changed? I don’t know of anyother country that shares the kind of racism found in the usa.

    • greenfloyd October 2nd, 2014 at 4:33 am

      You don’t get out much, do you? Racism is everywhere, and no it never changes. It’s always based on ignorance. Like your post, for example.

  18. greenfloyd October 2nd, 2014 at 4:43 am

    I don’t get it. I thought the “intruder” was a distrubed Iraq war vet, and HIspanic? Cartoon fail, big-tiime! Rascist? I dont’ know and I don’t care, it wasn’t funny or smart… and not even well drawn. OK folks, move along, nothing to see here… as she would say.