What better way to start the week than with a rousing round of WIARHSI, or in this case, an entertaining variation thereof: What If a Conservative Cartoonist Had Drawn It?
Check out Tom Toles' editorial cartoon in this morning's Washington Post. Toles depicts Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, complete with East L.A. hairstyle, having to be taught to pronounce the name of the department over which he presides in preparation for his congressional testimony.
It looks like Toles tried to give himself some cover by having Gonzales say he knows what a department is [though perhaps not what "justice" is]. Perhaps the cartoonist would try to argue that he was mocking the presumably white administration official who was coaching Gonzales, not the AG himself.
But again, WIACCHDI? What if a conservative cartoonist had drawn an Hispanic official in a Dem administration in precisely the same way?
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Toles can't draw
April 9, 2007 - 07:10 ET by Tim GrahamToles is not much of an artist. His Gonzales could also pass as a crude caricature of Clinton cabinet member Federico Pena. Either he or Henry "Pay Off The Mistress" Cisneros would have been the marks back then. I wonder if Toles tried to draw them at any point in the 1990s.
Once again, he almost makes Herblock look like a genius by comparison.
I expect little else from Tol
April 9, 2007 - 07:11 ET by GalvanicI expect little else from Toles. I was a Washington Post subscriber until shortly after he became the Post's cartoonist after Herb Block. I didn't like Herb Block, but Toles was so much worse --- a master of perpetuating Leftist lies. After a couple of weeks of Toles, one of his cartoons was the last straw, and I cancelled my subscription.
And I've never gone back.
Just asking the question pr
April 9, 2007 - 07:14 ET by motherbeltJust asking the question proves the point.
Everyone knows President Bush appointed Gonzales for the same reason that he appointed Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell: to hide the fact that he hates minorities.
Fact? Please provide proof of
April 9, 2007 - 08:19 ET by rightsideFact? Please provide proof of that "fact" Otherwise, please edit your post to read "in my opinion"
rightside..I was being sarc
April 9, 2007 - 09:21 ET by motherbeltrightside..I was being sarcastic. That seems to be the belief of those on the left. In my opinion. ;-)
Ahhh... ok. Didn't realize th
April 9, 2007 - 13:13 ET by rightsideAhhh... ok. Didn't realize that was sarcasm, but now see how it could have been taken either way. ;-) I do agree that that's what the left believes about him though.
Cheers!