Come on...
Since when does the press on either side of the Atlantic do anything BUT try to be PC? This isn't a case where a cartoonist took up the anti-PC cause as a rallying cry; it's a clear-cut case of blatant ignorance and stupidity.
Is the same crowd here going to try and tell me they were laughing their asses off at the cartoon that recently ran in US papers that showed a GI (representing the Armed Forces) missing all limbs in a hospital bed with Rumsfeld in a doctor's coat looking on and saying "I'm going to list you as battle-hardened"?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/01/AR2006020102465.htmlHey, it's just a cartoon, no? Or am I being a PC-[censored] when I agreed with the Joint Chiefs that it was entirely tasteless and a rather reprehensible depiction? I mean, there's tasteless humor and then there's slimeball humor that makes everyone in the crowd go quiet and start to walk away, right?
Despite the fact that the US population has handled this cartoon gaff with much more poise and restraint than many Muslims have the Danish cartoon, it still doesn't change the fact that they BOTH were rather reckless, ignorant and poor attempts at political humor.
Muslim fundamentalists are just looking for ANY reason to riot and shout slogans; fine, give it to them all you want but leave the moderate Muslim population out of the equation. I'm simply tired of all Muslims getting lumped into the same category as the nutcases, which this cartoon blatanly does.
Put another way, pretend for a moment that a cartoon ran in the papers right around the time that Roe v. Wade hits the limelight that did a mock-up of the Nativity Scene where the Three Kings were performing an abortion on Mary.
Getting the point yet?
