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I'm impressed, I must say, at the sheer quantity of WTF? Mr. Cohen managed to cram into two panels. Though, sadly, not all that surprised, somehow.
EditorialCartoonists.com -- Cartoon by David Cohen, Asheville Citizen-Times
The interesting thing to see is that Mr. Cohen's Obama cartoons have been getting progressively ... angrier, is about the only word I can use for it. The FOIA cartoon and the EPA cartoon come off as damn near love letters by comparison. I have absolutely no idea what to make of "Stimulating" -- he surely could not be implying that a Democrat president has screwed the GOP on this issue? O! The horror! (And besides, by any reasonable measure, Obama hasn't, even now. And if Mr Cohen wanted to imply that, then the bedspread should be a lovely print reading "Bipartisanship") Beltway Barack sees his shadow is a not entirely unreasonable depiction of how Obama reacted when the GOP pushed back on the stimulus. And I've absolutely no idea what prompted First Daughter. The last one aside, it does look like there's a rapidly progressing deterioration in his view of Obama -- and honestly, I can't say that's not understandable, given the Administration's performance. And then, out of nowhere, comes "Post Racial."
I am moderately surprised that the Citizen-Times editor didn't hand the cartoon back to Mr. Cohen and say, "Um ... no. Just, no. You should know better."
Moderately surprised.
EDIT 2: As of 18 February 2009, "Post-Racial" is no longer available from the editorialcartoonists.com website. It also doesn't seem to be available from Mr. Cohen's own site.
EDIT 3: Explanations from David Cohen, in the comments thread, starting around the 10th comment and continuing irregularly throughout the first page. I really do find it moderately baffling that any person raised in this country could have been so absolutely blind to the implications of what that was saying, and also baffling that the editor didn't ask him about it, but ... Any road, he did apologize for offending, once he realized how people were interpreting it.
David Cohen Asheville Citizen-Times Feb 9, 2009 |
EditorialCartoonists.com -- Cartoon by David Cohen, Asheville Citizen-Times
EDIT: I had wondered briefly if Mr Cohen's cartoon was a reaction to the lovely lovely "thugs ransacking my house" comment by Mr. Kling, but Mr Cohen's cartoon actually predates the Kling comment by a day, so that doesn't quite work. (NB: for reasons that probably very few will understand, this is deeply amusing.)
The interesting thing to see is that Mr. Cohen's Obama cartoons have been getting progressively ... angrier, is about the only word I can use for it. The FOIA cartoon and the EPA cartoon come off as damn near love letters by comparison. I have absolutely no idea what to make of "Stimulating" -- he surely could not be implying that a Democrat president has screwed the GOP on this issue? O! The horror! (And besides, by any reasonable measure, Obama hasn't, even now. And if Mr Cohen wanted to imply that, then the bedspread should be a lovely print reading "Bipartisanship") Beltway Barack sees his shadow is a not entirely unreasonable depiction of how Obama reacted when the GOP pushed back on the stimulus. And I've absolutely no idea what prompted First Daughter. The last one aside, it does look like there's a rapidly progressing deterioration in his view of Obama -- and honestly, I can't say that's not understandable, given the Administration's performance. And then, out of nowhere, comes "Post Racial."
I am moderately surprised that the Citizen-Times editor didn't hand the cartoon back to Mr. Cohen and say, "Um ... no. Just, no. You should know better."
Moderately surprised.
Grim Amusements / the more things change...
Man wins lynching case (citizen-times.com)
Jon Ostendorff • published February 11, 2009 3:52 pm
Asheville – A federal jury awarded $50,000 to an African-American construction worker who says his co-workers hurled racial epitaphs at him, shot nails at him and even tried to lynch him on a job site. Michael A. Kitchen, 29, of Brevard, won his case Feb. 2. The abuse started February 2004 when he was hired as a worker for Pisgah Forest-based Farrell Log Homes and lasted until he ran from a job site that summer after employees put a rope around his neck and threatened to hang him, his attorney said on Wednesday....
I am trying to understand how in the name of sanity one could rule that the owner "did not personally create a work environment that allowed the abuse" when he was allegedly right there when it was happening...
EDIT 2: As of 18 February 2009, "Post-Racial" is no longer available from the editorialcartoonists.com website. It also doesn't seem to be available from Mr. Cohen's own site.
EDIT 3: Explanations from David Cohen, in the comments thread, starting around the 10th comment and continuing irregularly throughout the first page. I really do find it moderately baffling that any person raised in this country could have been so absolutely blind to the implications of what that was saying, and also baffling that the editor didn't ask him about it, but ... Any road, he did apologize for offending, once he realized how people were interpreting it.