Will I out myself as stupid if I admit I don't get it?

Really sickening. And he's some kind of major cartoonist. The funny thing is, the stereotype is not only racist, it's outdated, by at least 50 years - "I knows"? Danziger must think he knows black people from having seen Gone With the Wind.

Karol - it's a take-off of a scene in "Gone With the Wind" when Scarlett O'Hara is in labor and the only people with her are her former slaves. The youngest ("Prissy," I think) when told to help says "I don't know nuthin about birthin' babies!"

Argh - she said "I don't know nuthin about birthin' no babies" - I think that's correct!

The congenitally sensitive need to own their feelings. No one makes them do anything, much less feel offended. And if the speaker had no intent to offend, then the offendee is doubly at fault.

"You made me take a flying fuck on a rolling doughnut. That offended me. And now I have all this icing...."

another issue with this guy: several of the other cartoons in the slideshow deal with BUSH reinstituting the draft.

if you had been out of the country for a while and saw one of these cartoons in the NYTimes you would assume (quite reasonably) that Bush or his minions must have proposed a Draft.

But WE know that hasn't happened. So the NYTimes doesn't require this "speech" to have a single iota of truth underlying it?

Danziger is a freakin moron. He's the featured cartoon on the editorial page of the Sac Bee almost every day. The Ted Rall of the west.

My two year old is more insightful on his magna-doodle.

OK, this man is clearly afraid of a strong, intelligent woman who is a minority. This ugly cartoon was published and approved of by someone. Has the left gone mad?

Stupid question, sorry, I should know better.

The moral and intellectual corruption on display here has gone past disgusting, and entered the realm of...no, pathos doesn't cover it...bathos.

Just to correct about the movie reference, it is Scarlett's friend Melanie who is having the baby, not Scarlett.

And now to my other comment: why is it that 4 or 8 or 12 years ago we heard so many put-down comments about "angry white men" voters against Clinton and Gore, with anger being cited as a point against right-leaning voters, yet now, with the left so much more rabidly angry than the right ever was, we never hear that put-down description about them? Oh, I forgot: anger against conservatives is the rational reaction to morally outrageous positions, while anger against liberals is an irrational reaction to the loss of the ill-gotten fruits of society's bigotry. Now I remember.

I get the GWTW reference, but tubes? What current event do I know nothing about here?

the aluminum (sp?) tubes we thought Hussein was using for uranium enrichment but instead turned out to be for making milkshakes or some such.

Oddly enough racism didn't occur to me when I saw the cartoon. I thought it was a play on how 'women-folk don't need education, they ought to be kept bare foot and pregnant'. But the Gone With the Wind reference was lost on me since I've only read the book and not seen the movie.

Regardless, it is bigoted and offensive.

If you think that one is bad click on the via malkin link and look at what a Democratic candidate is sending out to voters. REALLY disgusting.

You must remember, liberals are not held to the same standard as conservatives in the eyes of the MSM. That's how an obviously racist cartoon can be published without reservation. That is how a
Democratic congressman can use a gay slur and be forgiven. That is how Bush=Hitler can go unchallanged.

Like a poster above, I don't get it. What does the president's NSC adviser have to do with aluminum tubes? Anyone who does get this "cartoon," pls fill me in. Email address erp617@yahoo.com.

Thanks.

"Jeffy"?

The Following is the text of a letter sent to me by the NYTimes in which Bill Borders admits that the Danziger Cartoon is OBVIOUSLY both RACIST and OFFENSIVE.

"Mr. McBryde:

It is of considerable importance to us. I haven't gotten back to you again because I didn't have all the facts. I still don't, but I can see that I should have given you an interim report.

Obviously the cartoon is racist and deeply offensive. Whether that means that Danziger himself is racist I don't know and don't much care. My only real concern is whether and to what extent this cartoon had any relation to The New York Times. (It certainly was not published in the newspaper.) As soon as I can answer that question for you, I will. In the meantime, thank you for bringing it to our attention.

Best, Bill Borders"

Hugh McBryde
Prakk@aol.com