Guess who made this year's cartoon hypocrite and soon-to-be job seekers list? Well, that would be Garry Trudeau, Pat Oliphant, Jeff Danziger, Ted Rall and John Sylvester.
All of these fellows engaged in the kind of racism that the Left claims to deplore but somehow certain libs feel free to fling when the fling-ee happens to be conservative.
When it became public knowledge that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice was slated to be the first black female Secretary of State, the KKKartoonists put their hate pens to paper and sketched out things that would embarrass a white supremacist.
Trudeau's cartoon featured President Bush tagging Rice with the label "Brown Sugar."
In two of his cartoons, Oliphant depicted Rice as a big-lipped parrot.
Danziger showed Rice as a servant in "Gone with the Wind."
And even before the announcement was made, Rall referred to Rice as the President's "House [N-word]."
Then there's John "Sly" Sylvester, a radio talk show host on WTDY-AM in Madison, Wisconsin. Sylvester called Condoleezza Rice an "Aunt Jemima."
Sylvester subsequently issued an apology. But before you feel the urge to forgive and forget, the "I'm sorry" wasn't made to Condoleezza.
"It is with a heavy heart that I apologize this morning to Aunt Jemima. She wasn't a self-serving hack politician who got up in front of Congress and lied. Aunt Jemima didn't kowtow to Don Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney," Sylvester said.
Personally, I don't often agree with NAACP president Kweisi Mfume, but I do this time. Mfume described those who make such statements as "just as bad as those who hide under sheets and burn crosses."
The Left Coast Report echoes Mfume's description of Rice as "an example of how far hard work, education and determination can take one to new heights."
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