I'd ask readers--on Scout's honor--to state whether they'd even seen the Oliphant cartoon before.

Of course they wouldn't have seen anything like this!

They just know they are so superior that they would NEVER do something as disgusting as this!  Or are they too busy thinking up the next Racist thing to do to a Conservative to CARE about this sort of biggotry?

Comcast has just moved MSNBC to a higher-tier cable subscription level, off of the basic one. I wonder how this will affect their viewership....

The truth, said Scarborough, is that the comedians lay off Obama not because there's nothing funny about him, but because they're "in the tank" for the Dem candidate.

Regardless of the insulated nature of the MSM, I'm not so sure Joe's right on this one. I think Obama is a special case, for reasons I'm not even sure about, because comedians have tried to poke fun at Obama. Remember Jon Stewart making a joke on Obama a few weeks ago and having to tell his audience it was ok to laugh? I think people have some sort of strange mish-mash of feelings towards Obama right now that doesn't lend itself to humor.

I don't even think all those feelings are good. I'm just saying I think it's far more likely that people don't think jokes about Obama are funny right now rather than there being a left-wing comic conspiracy.

Harwood is a typical liberal, who goes through life seeing all the "injustice" that targets him and his beliefs, but none of the real biased BS he dispenses.  These are the people who re-elect their criminals and perverts, while conservatives reject those type when discovered.

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."  - Sir Winston Churchill

I saw the Rice caricature when the right focused on it for a while. It wasn't picked up by the MSM, though, and so it died soon after. Maybe I saw it because I'm somewhat of a news junkie, but I don't think I'm more of a news junkie than someone from the New York Times who eats, sleeps, and breathes news! I find it hard to believe Harwood has never seen it.

I've wondered for quite awhile about how seven and a half years of "Bush as monkey" (or bat sometimes) might translate to an Ospama administration.  The New Yorker cover of earlier this week, I think, is a good indication.

 The President has been cast in the vilest terms by editorial cartoonists in a "business as usual" manner throughout his terms in office.  These caricatures have been so over the top and foul  as to allow one no need to worry about the health of professionalism in that "trade".  The bias is amazingly in the open and direct.  That is, I suspect, another example of what makes being "progressive" so special.

I guesss Harwood never saw this one either. 

http://www.blackcommentator.com/236/236_images/236_cartoon_uncle_thomas_emerge_large.jpg

or this piece.

 http://www.blackagendareport.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=205&Itemid=46

A New Book on Clarence ‘The Lawn Jockey’ Thomas

African America - Black Misleadership Class

Wednesday, 09 May 2007

by George E. Curry

The man who depicted Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as a lawn jockey on the cover of Emerge magazine, back in 1993, presents a positive review of a new book on "the supreme prick from Pinpoint, Georgia." The book, Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas, points out that the High Court's most right-wing member constantly whines about being "victimized" - mainly by other Blacks - all the while denouncing African Americans for wallowing in "victimhood." Thomas has amply earned the status of Most Despised Black Man in Black America.

A New Book on Clarence ‘The Lawn Jockey' Thomas

by George E. Curry

"Only one Supreme Court justice during the century was worse than Justice Clarence Thomas: James McReynolds, a white supremacist who referred to blacks as 'niggers.'"

This article originally appeared in the author's newsletter, The Curry Report.

Anyone who has followed my career knows how I feel about Clarence Thomas. In fact, Jack E. White, writing in Time magazine, said, "No matter what George Curry accomplishes during the remainder of his journalistic career, he will be remembered for one thing: he was the editor who slapped a portrait of Clarence Thomas wearing an Aunt Jemima-style handkerchief on a 1993 cover of Emerge magazine."

White continued, "That shocking image outraged Thomas supporters, of course, but it crystallized the disgust that many African-Americans had begun to feel about the ultra-conservative legal philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court's only black member."

Given my view of Thomas, I never thought I'd want to read a book on the supreme prick from Pinpoint, Georgia. However, I resisted the urge and this week read Supreme Discomfort: The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas. The only reason I read the book was because it was written by Kevin Merida and Michael A. Fletcher, two friends who work at the Washington Post. They have done a superb job describing the many contradictions of Clarence Thomas.

"I never thought I'd want to read a book on the supreme prick from Pinpoint, Georgia."

After reading the book, I have one regret about that famous Emerge cover. If I had an opportunity to do it over, I would tie the Aunt Jemima knot tighter. While criticizing African-Americans for embracing "victimhood," the book portrays Thomas as the ultimate professional victim, at every turn claiming that people didn't like him because of his dark skin, his broad lips, or his conservative ideology.

Recounting a 1998 speech before the National Bar Association, the authors note, "In remarks that veered from self-pity to combative, he maintained that the 'principal problem' he faces could be summed up in one succinct sentence: 'I have no right to think the way I do because I am black.'"

As the late Appeals Court Justice A. Leon Higginbotham pointed out at the time, "He's got a right to think whatever he wants to, but he does not have a right to be free of critique."

And a critique of Thomas shows that while professing to oppose special treatment because of his race, every job he has held, including his appointment to the Supreme Court, was obtained, in part, because of his race.

"Every Thomas employer, from Danforth, who gave him his first job, to President George H.W. Bush, who nominated him to the Supreme Court, chose Thomas at least partly because he is black. Race is a central fact of his meteoric rise, and Thomas has alternately denied it and resented it - all the way to the top," the book states.

To get to the top, to the Supreme Court, Thomas allowed his Right-wing handlers to misrepresent his past.

"'The Pin Point strategy,' some advisers dubbed it: file down the sharp ideological edges and keep emphasizing Thomas' personal story of triumph over adversity," the authors wrote. "... What the White House advisers didn't know - or, perhaps, just ignored - was that Thomas' connection to his birthplace was tenuous at best. His family's house had burned down when he was six, and for most of his young life he was raised comfortably in Savannah by his grandfather, Myers Anderson, one of the black community's leading businessmen."

"The books details Thomas' long and deep attraction to pornography."

Although Thomas' affection for pornography was disclosed during his confirmation hearings, the books details Thomas' long and deep attraction to pornography. He told Dan Johnson, a Yale classmate, "My favorite movie of all time is Deep Throat. I've seen that [MF] six times."

In the public arena, Thomas appears only before friendly audiences; he rarely speaks to Black organizations. He saw nothing wrong with officiating the wedding of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh while sitting on the Supreme Court. The most incredulous assertion made by Thomas was that his actions benefit African-Americans. He told a visitor to the Supreme Court, "It's unfair how black America criticizes me. I'm trying to help black America."

Help us to do what? Return to slavery?

African-Americans are not fooled. According to a study by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, cited in the book, a 1998 poll showed that Thomas had a favorable rating of just 32 percent, the worst numbers of any prominent African-American.

Judge Higginbotham said, "I have often pondered how is it that Justice Thomas, an African-American, could be so insensitive to the plight of the powerless. Why is he no different, or probably worse, than many of the most conservative Supreme Court justices of the century? I can only think of one Supreme Court justice during the century who was worse than Justice Clarence Thomas: James McReynolds, a white supremacist who referred to blacks as 'niggers.'"

George E. Curry, former editor-in-chief of Emerge magazine and the NNPA News Service, is a keynote speaker, moderator, and media coach. He can be reached at george@georgecurry.com This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or through his Web site, www.georgecurry.com.

Mark,

...on "Girls Gone Wild!". The Fox-News-Watching-Conservative Type can say they hate how those girls are exploited and can't believe anyone would ever pay to see scantily clad young women. Of course, they are glued to the TeeVee as FoxNews plays the clips ad nauseum for the sheer newsworthiness of the piece. It's great to see the same thing happening here on this thread. Keep pointing those fingers-spewing out all the things you want to say- cloaked in your exposure of the racist left. What a joke...

Maybe it's time to realize- you tend to find what you were looking for in all things. A racist can always find a racist, you just need to look for them. Gosh, I wonder what that says about you...and me. Maybe in the end, we're all the same....who am I kidding?...IMO, a radical right wing authoritarian will always be a radical right wing authoritarian. Keep up the comments, Rush needs more material!!!

Syrius

"...the dire consequences to society when people begin to believe that by renaming someone to erase their humanity opens the door to the devaluation of everyone's life..."-dscott