{"id":491,"date":"2008-07-16T12:42:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-16T16:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2008-07-16T12:42:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-16T16:42:22","slug":"are-these-cartoons-equally-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/are-these-cartoons-equally-offensive","title":{"rendered":"Are these cartoons equally offensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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David Harsanyi over at the Denver Pos<\/a>t points out the hypocrisy in the media uproar over the New Yorker cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as Muslim extremists in the Oval Office:<\/div>\n

It’s too bad the indignation over the cartoon is not applied evenly. When Rolling Stone published a cartoon of John McCain in a Vietnam bamboo jail being tortured by other candidates a couple of months ago, no uproar could be heard. And though George Bush is portrayed as a mentally deficient simian (for the millionth unimaginative time), there is rarely talk of a pox of “tasteless” journalism.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems there is an organized effort among the influencers of the comedy class in American media to rule out of bounds any comedic portrayal of Barack Obama. See Bill Carter’s New York Time’s story: Want Obama in a punch line? First, find a joke<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 David Harsanyi over at the Denver Post points out the hypocrisy in the media uproar over the New Yorker cover depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as Muslim extremists in the Oval Office: It’s too bad the indignation over the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[19,354,357,159,434],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-david-harsanyi","tag-denver-post","tag-john-mccain","tag-new-yorker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}