Mccoy
I appreciate your satire and noticed it upon our conversation on the phone (too
bad such international conversations are costly.) Large newspapers -like the Washington Post - are constantly being reminded of the offenses of bad taste they commit in their journalism and cartoon strips-
In our case, your view point can be seen as one which easily could have been an Israeli soldier with missiles and bombs strapped all over the soldier, marked in small print; ‘Courtesy from the U.S. and it’s Allies to be used with the intention of creating more real-estate for Israeli citizens.’ After all; the smaller the print the less we are likely to be implicated in provoking the war; Right?
We may have to respond with; ‘Never said those here at the Portal are free of bad taste in our opinions and humor’. With a reminder from the portal to Inhale the good shit and exhale 😮💨 the bullshit. As a living reminder to watch are attitudes while practicing meditation and our mantras.
NOT THIS POST: The Washington Post has apologized (in full cringe mode) over the cartoon above, which the paper published Wednesday.
But the apology is the mistake, not the publication.
In it, artist Michael Ramirez makes a powerful point about what’s really going on in Gaza: Hamas is using the Palestinian people as human shields while blaming Israel for the result.
Indeed, the terrorists savor every innocent killed as Israel moves to eliminate the terrorist group that slaughtered roughly 1,400 of its citizens, along with mass rapes and the kidnapping of 200-plus hostages it still holds — and is also using as human shields.
Opinion editor David Shipley says the cartoon “was seen by many readers as racist” — though the drawing is simply, and plainly, a caricature of an actual Hamas spokesman who celebrated the Oct. 7 terrorist attacks across southern Israel.
~ opinions shared by our sardonic administration
