Posted on 11/17/2004 7:33:22 PM PST by notkerry
Led by the nation's number one radio host Rush Limbaugh, America's conservative talkers blasted a series of cartoons on Wednesday that used racist stereotypes to attack Secretary of State nominee Dr. Condoleezza Rice.
"You have to see these [cartoons] to appreciate the pure racism, bigotry, and grotesqueness, as well as the prejudice that's involved," Limbaugh fumed, referring to caricatures of Dr. Rice that have appeared recently in the Washington Post and New York Times.
In one Pat Oliphant cartoon carried by the Post, Rice is drawn as a parrot with thick protruding lips and buck teeth, echoing her boss in subservient tones. In a Jeff Danziger cartoon from last fall, Rice is shown as "Gone With The Wind" star Butterfly McQueen, nursing aluminum tubes instead of a baby as she says in an Amos n' Andy accent: "I Knows All About Aluminum Tubes."
Danizger is syndicated by the New York Times.
A third cartoon from a recent Gary Trudeau "Doonesbury" strip has President Bush admonishing Dr. Rice with the words, "Careful, Brown Sugar."
"If the truth be known here," Limbaugh told his audience, "J. William Fulbright and the Dixiecrats from the Old South who opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 have come back to life, and they live and breathe in the Washington Post editorial page as a cartoon. They live and breathe in the panels of Doonesbury. They live and breathe at editorial pages of the New York Times . . . . and wherever else Condoleezza Rice is being besmirched and impugned today."
ABC Radio host Sean Hannity, who has interviewed Dr. Rice on numerous occasions, echoed the same themes during his broadcast, calling the racist depictions of the senior Bush official "disgraceful and disgusting."
In New York, WABC Radio host Mark Levin opened the phones to self described liberals after blasting the anti-Rice cartoons. Most claimed to believe that the drawings were not racist.
The NAACP, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Rev. Al Sharpton and most of the rest of the civil rights establishment have yet to comment on the anti-black cartoons.
This can't be true. Everybody knows it's Conservatives who are racist.
(Yeah right)
to the democrats its perfectly fine to be racist against conservative blacks.
They from New Yawk. Them Yankees don't know no better.
I saw the cartoons. HOW do they get AWAY with this crap? If a conservative paper did something like this, there would be hell to pay!
NOT RACIST! OH PULEEZE!!!
And they won't. Being the race pimps for the DNC they can't very well bite their masters hands now can they.
True. ....but try getting a liberal to admit it. Never in a million years.
I don't really consider the cartoons to be racist. They are brutal and they are wrong-headed. But that is the nature of political cartooning. Dr. Condi will not be the sap and fool that Dr. Maddie was.
The left is showing itself for what it truly is.
They basically want blacks left home on the plantation where their massers can take care of all their needs in return for the slaves labor(votes) keeping them powerful owners.
Dr Rice breaks out of the mold of slave/victim.
What has the left really done for blacks. What was the highest rank of a minority in the Clinton admin?
Condi scares the racist left to death
It's only proper to label someone a racist if it can further liberal causes. It's only proper to prosecute a Marine under an international criminal court if ilberal causes can be furthered. Since the cartoonists are [presumably] liberal, the 'cause' is already achieved.
These lefties still think they can get away with this crap.
Without the blessings of the twin popes of race and poverty pimps (Sharpton and Jackson) there is no racism....
These are NOT anti-black cartoons. They're anti-BUSH cartoons. Condi just got in their way.
< stage whisper> She's not really black, you know...
It would cause an uproar.
Probably because they can get away with this crap. That doesn't mean we have to sit back and quietly take it though.
The cartoons, with the exception of Danziger's, aren't racist. They're distgusting, despicable, insulting and loathsome, but they're not racist. But they most certainly would be labelled racist if directed at a liberal black poltician or public figure.
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