When reality-impaired MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell decided to call Batton Lash and myself racists on national television, we received a steady stream of death threats and viscous hate mail, which I detail here.
The whole thing brings up memories of the threats on the Danish Cartoonists who mocked the prophet Muhammad, or the threats Molly Norris received when she came up with the idea for Everyone Draw Muhammad Day. In both of those cases, the cartoons were mild but they inspired mindless fanatics to threatened the cartoonists with death. Now we have poor man’s Keith Olbermann inciting mob frenzy.
The same Lawrence O’Donnell who recently showed his racial sensitivity when he said about former Republican Chairman Michael Steele:
“He’s dancing as fast as he can, trying to charm independent voters and Tea Partiers while never losing sight of his real master and paycheck provider, the Republican National Committee.”
This is the mental munchkin who called us “mentally disturbed racists” and went so far as tell people where we lived, who our spouses are and suggested they confront us. He’s like a gender impaired metro-sexual Mullah calling for a fatwa on unbelievers. Bad move, Larry. These creators aren’t going into hiding after your psychotic tirade.
MSNBC is nothing more than a low rated publicist for the Democrats and the Obama Administration. Rather than being a news man, he is a sycophantic Obama toadie trying to score points with the few brain cells he’s able to put together to read off a teleprompter. His hysterical hissy fit, worthy of making him a PMS poster child, was probably one of the last gasps of a failing career on a dying network.
Let’s look at his arguments shall we? He said we depicted the president as a half-man, half animal without even showing the art. Larry, baby, this is how they do it in lefty land. And this is the respect they show black men of great accomplishment.
Our cartoon was of a middle-aged couple who happen to be black, having dinner, arguing. It was based on a running gag we ran before and no one said a peep.
That’s because this is all manufactured outrage. A perfect example of the new McCarthyism. Instead of calling people communist, which is something they admire, they call you a racist. They want to shut you down, get you marginalized, ostracized. The R word has been their friend for many years. But now, like MSNBC’s ratings, it’s failing. People don’t automatically jump to that tune anymore. It’s old, played out, like some 90s boy band act, only lamer.
When you reduce someone to their race, you’re making a racist argument. We didn’t do that. He did. O’Donnell is the one who reduced the first family to racial stereotypes in his mind. Sounds pretty racist to me. Take that in context with his Michael Steele comment above and you see a pattern.
Over compensating there, Larry?
Political cartoons have existed for centuries, going back to ancient Roman and Greek graffiti, which mocked the powerful, bringing them down to earth. Holding up a magnifying glass to examine their foibles and peccadilloes. Cartoons exaggerate their appearance to spoof them. In most cases it is meant to be playful. Not always. Sometimes it’s mean, spiteful and sick. When it comes to bigotry and intolerance, the left wins the crown.
Batton and I have always taken the playful road. That’s because we’re not haters.
The fact is, the media attackers weren’t really interested in us as they were in building the meme that Breitbart sites are racist. Even though he has been exposing left wing racism and lies since he started, they’re trying to accuse him of everything they’ve been up to. They wanted to use our cartoons as some form of evidence in their witch hunt.
But it’s not working. On many of the progressive sites people aren’t seeing it.
I urge all my fellow cartoonists not to be cowed by the thugs and haters if they decide to attack your right to dissent. We can’t tolerate modern day witch hunts and character assassination from people who are so morally and ethically bankrupt.
And to all you people who bought into their lies, wake up. You’re being scammed by fools.