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Printer-friendly version You might think that a tidal wave of denunciation would ensue if a cartoon depicting John McCain being tortured in a bamboo cage by Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and another person (who might be George W Bush) were to appear in a supposedly respectable or trendy publication. You might further think that giving McCain's three torturers stereotypically exaggerated Asian features would only further fuel the outrage. Sorry to disappoint you, but the cartoon involved appeared last month in Rolling Stone.
of the screed by Matt Taibbi that the cartoon above accompanied: Full Metal McCain Haunted by the ghosts of Vietnam, the one-time maverick has transformed himself into just another liberal-bashing fearmonger Posted Jun 26, 2008 Evening, June 3rd, in a muggy, dragonfly-beswarmed place called the Pontchartrain Center, just outside New Orleans. here in the Big Easy, John McCain has chosen this moment to mount his first general-election attack against the Great Satanic Liberal Enemy -- who, as luck would have it, turns out to be a Negro intellectual from Harvard who's never served in the military. You'd never know it from listening to McCain, whose kickoff speech is the same election-year diatribe that Republicans have been giving for decades, one long broadside against those goddamned overgrown Sixties weenie liberals who hate the flag, love the bomb-tossing enemies of America and are bent on the twin goals of ending the system of free enterprise and placing every aspect of our lives under government control. McCain pegs Obama as a man who wants to take America "backward," to the failed ideas of the Sixties. "I'm surprised that a young man has bought into so many failed ideas!" Then, spitting out a forced, ugly laugh that he must have practiced many (but not enough) times in the bathroom mirror of the Straight Talk Express, he adds, "That's not change we can believe in!" July 17 commenter "Desmo" at Taibbi's article (July 17, 2008 11:43 AM EST; currently second from bottom on first page) had this to say (expletives edited): Matt, you are one of the main reasons I gave up my decades old RS subscription. While trying to denounce the "other" party you fall into the behaviour you find so troubling. The cartoon that accompanied this article is extremely offensive yet I hear zero (deleted) out cries from anyone at RS about it. Matt, you just another liberal hack who (deleted) about the partisanship in politics yet you have no problem continuing it yourself.
So how is it that the above cartoon portrayal didn't seem to bother Old Media at all, while they're falling all over themselves in going after The New Yorker's portrayal of Barack and Michelle Obama?
The false lefty communist propaganda: "twin goals of ending the system of free enterprise and placing every aspect of our lives under government control" Um, that is the exact opposite of what the right is striving for and is exactly what the left strives for - more government and more regulations.
MidAmerica John McCain has chosen this moment to mount his first general-election attack against the Great Satanic Liberal Enemy -- who, as luck would have it, turns out to be a Negro intellectual from Harvard who's never served in the military.
c5then The right/conservatives/libertarians want to protect speech. Notice the left 'language' sounds like protecting speech, like 'fairness doctrine', but is in reality a way to control speech and ideas that they do not agree with. The day that "politician" became a career choice is the day we started losing the Republic.
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