{"id":799,"date":"2008-09-17T14:25:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T18:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/godandculture.wordpress.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2008-09-17T14:25:13","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T18:25:13","slug":"washington-post-lampoons-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/washington-post-lampoons-faith","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Lampoons Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Sarah Pulliam at Christianity Today<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/em> is taking heat for posting a cartoon<\/span><\/a> caricaturing Sarah Palin speaking in tongues and God telling St. Peter “All I can hear is some dam’ right-wing politician spouting gibberish.”<\/p>\n

The Washington Post Ombudsman Deborah Howell wrote<\/span><\/a> on Sunday that 350 readers<\/span><\/a> have complained since the cartoon was posted online September 9, saying the cartoon lampooned their faith.<\/p>\n

Cartoonist Pat Oliphant depicts John McCain saying, “She’s a Pentecostal and speaks in tongues, and only God can understand what she’s saying, but it gives my campaign a direct line to the almighty.”<\/p>\n

“Readers were right to complain; I will deal with political cartooning in another column,” Howell writes. “Political cartoons and comics aren’t selected at washingtonpost.com the way they are for The Post in print; they are automatically posted.”<\/p>\n

Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes Pat Oliphant’s cartoons, writes<\/span><\/a>: “No one is safe from the acid brush of Pat Oliphant. Oliphant is acknowledged as the nation’s most influential political cartoonist. A master of what he calls “confrontational art,” Oliphant spares neither the liberal nor conservative, sinner nor saint.”<\/p>\n

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