Remember that cowboy who wore an Obama mask? Well, get ready for a case of deja vu.
Robby Soave of The Daily Caller reports on how ridiculous it’s gotten out there, when a campus newspaper runs a cartoon that isn’t even an insult against Obama and is forced to say it’s sorry for said cartoon. (And by the way, the student newspaper should have stood its ground.)
The student newspaper at the University of Alabama was forced to issue an apology for printing a deeply offensive, racist cartoon.
It was racist, some argued, because it made fun of President Obama. And making fun of Obama is racist.
But not only was the cartoon wholly inoffensive, it was actually poking light-hearted fun at the president’s opponents, rather than the president himself.
The Crimson White published the cartoon on Thursday. It depicted an Alabama football player knocked down on the field as an Auburn University player dashed past him, football in hand–a reference to Alabama’s shocking last-minute loss to Auburn in the Iron Bowl last week. The caption on the cartoon: “This is what happens in Obama’s America.”
The cartoon was not intended as a slight against the president; rather, it satirizes the tendency of some people who oppose Obama to blame everything that goes wrong–even personal, trivial things–on his policies. A popular meme, “Thanks, Obama,” also uses this concept to create humor.
The editors of The Crimson White thought the joke — blaming Alabama’s loss on Obama — would be obvious and well-received. Instead, they were flooded with angry comments and letters from offended readers, outraged at the idea — wrong, in this case — that anyone, anywhere, would be allowed to criticize the president.
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