WA Post has to apologize
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So, I guess you are one of those that thinks PC is appropriate?
This is what cracks me up, the inconsistency, either we are PC or we aren't, which is it folks, are we only PC on some things, and not others, what are the rules exactly?
I think the children of candidates should be off limits, but I am part of the crowd that believes there is a certain decorum that should be maintained by the candidates themselves. I think PC belongs in politics, but some don't agree with me which is obvious by the position Trump holds in the polls.
Minister of Truth
Practically Perfect
It's more about consistency. The left is expected to be PC, and probably has to worry about appearing hypocritical to their base in such instances. Of course, I personally believe the apology was a waste of time, because the leftist base will let its leadership do anything it wants...
You seriously think depicting the children of a politician as monkeys has something to do with being pc ?
It's just more proof of her selective outrage.
It was at one time in the past, but these days no one is interested in doing what is PC, I thought that is why there is this attraction to Trump. It is my preference that they kids be left out of it as well as spouses, but there are those who do not share my PC attitude.
I am not the one with the selective outrage, that would be those who object to people being PC in politics. I found the cartoon very distasteful.
christiefan915
Catalyst
They're going to pretend nobody ever made fun of the Obama girls. I can remember the nastiness just on this forum about their weight and their clothing.
This only solidifies the general opinion that you are a partisan hack. PC and common decency may not be mutually exclusive, but where kids are concerned, decent people are able to make the distinction.
Whatever someone does in the backwater of a mb, is hardly the same or equal to, a nationally syndicated newspaper. But go ahead and play the hypocritical partisan hack, it's what's expected.
I still don't know how I am selective in my outrage when I clearly stated numerous times that I found the cartoon offensive, but I guess we just have to consider the source.
Maligning children is not about PC politics, stop pretending it is.
No, you made excuses for it existance, calling it a PC issue, then attempted to distance yourself personally from it. Yes, it's that obvious.
Taft2016
Verified User
Let's cut the crap, OK? The PC thing here has nothing to do with "bringing the children into it."
It has to do with portraying minority children as monkeys. If a Murdoch newspaper ran a cartoon portraying Obama's daughters as monkeys you'd personally be out in the streets leading the riots.
If Ted Cruz was a liberal, this cartoon would never have happened.
One of the leading liberal newspapers in the country ran this offensive cartoon completely oblivious to their own racism, and only removed it with an explanation that it was wrong to "bring the children into it."
Yes, liberals are perfectly capable of being racist. Accept it. Own it.
And if you don't see it here, guess what? You're one of the liberal racists.
christiefan915
Catalyst
I mentioned this board as one place but not the only one. Furthermore, I didn't think it was in you to be more hackish but that was wrong.
Limbaugh imitates Malia Obama: "Daddy, did you shake down BP yet?" On the June 16 edition of his nationally syndicated radio program, Rush Limbaugh mocked Malia Obama, imitating her voice and asking: "Daddy? Did you shake down BP yet, Daddy? Are you going to make them pay, Daddy?" Limbaugh was referring to a remark President Obama made during his May 27 press conference, in which he said that Malia had asked him of the Gulf oil spill: "Did you plug the hole yet, Daddy?" In his June 15 speech from the Oval Office, Obama said: "But make no mistake: We will fight this spill with everything we've got for as long as it takes. We will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused."
Beck smeared Obama girls' intelligence, later apologized. On his May 28 radio program, Glenn Beck also mockingly affected Malia's voice, asking, among other things, "Daddy ... Why do you hate black people so much?" At one point, Beck attacked Obama's daughters' intelligence, saying: "Is that's their -- that's the level of their education, that they're coming to -- they're coming to daddy and saying 'Daddy, did you plug the hole yet?' " Beck, who routinely attacks the president's family, later apologized."
Rep. Stephen Fincher's staffer took it a step further and attacked Obama's teenage daughters for being teenagers. For most people, Sasha and Malia Obama's spiritless appearance at this year's White House turkey pardon was a lesson about humility, showing how even the world's most powerful man is still just "ugh, Dad" to his teenage daughters. But one Republican House staffer saw something else entirely: two girls dishonoring America with their slutty clothes and brazen teen-ery."
christiefan915
Catalyst
Elizabeth Lauten (communications director for Rep. Stephen Lee Fincher (R-Tenn.): “Dear Sasha and Malia, I get you’re both in those awful teen years, but you’re a part of the First Family, try showing a little class,” Lauten wrote. “Rise to the occasion. Act like being in the White House matters to you. Dress like you deserve respect, not a spot at a bar.”
Well, it is, if you want the family members/children of the candidates to be off limits that makes them a special class of people whom you wish to protect, then this sort of cartoon would be considered politically incorrect.
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The Almighty
I wonder what you would have said if they were depicted as monkeys?
I didn't make excuses for it, you are reading things into my post.