Wednesday wasn’t a particularly good day for a
left-leaning political cartoonist. Matt
Wuerker was on the receiving end of a blistering firestorm over the illustrator’s
depiction of Texas flood victims praising angels sent by God while a Coast
Guard chopper’s crew member mentions their role on behalf of the federal
government.
If you want to know what .@politico thinks about the victims of #Harvey, here is the cartoon they just tweeted, then deleted. pic.twitter.com/9cr0Ne2Z06— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) August 30, 2017
Oh no, another hurricane-related tweet disappearance— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) August 30, 2017
@wuerker Elderly patient waiting to be rescued in Port Arthur. Is she part of the Secessionist movement, you political bigot? pic.twitter.com/vaKsEaEHyj— PoliticalClownParade (@PoliticalClownP) August 31, 2017
Here’s
what Wuerker, who attended Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon and
lives in Washington, DC said about his political bigotry:
“As a political cartoonist, I try to get people to think—to consider the ironies and subtleties of the world we live in. This cartoon went with an extreme example of anti-government types—Texas Secessionists—benefitting from the heroism of federal government rescuers. It, of course, was not aimed at Texans in general, any more than a cartoon about extremists marching in Charlottesville could be construed as a poke at all Virginians. My heart is with all the victims of Hurricane Harvey’s destruction and those risking their lives to save others.”
Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey expressed
his opinion on Wuerker’s “sneering ridicule”:
“In his usual sledgehammer style, he includes a Gadsden flag to slam conservatives, Confederate imagery to smear Texans as racists, and then also includes a gratuitous slap at people of faith. It’s a smug, arrogant, and utterly tone-deaf attack on hurricane refugees in the midst of their crisis, exploiting their tragedy to ride his hobby horses all over their pain.”
Then the sun rises on another day of political bigotry;
only this time from French magazine Charlie
Hebdo.
A scant two years ago, the controversial satire magazine
was the victim
of radical Islamist terrorists who killed twelve of the magazine’s staffers.
Charlie
Hebdo joined the jackals with its most recent
cover mocking victims of Hurricane Harvey with art of Neo-Nazis drowning in the
flood waters and the words “Dieu Existe!” and “Il a noyé tous le Néo-Nazis du
Texas!” (God Exists! He drowned all the
Neo-Nazis of Texas!”)
So, this is their thanks for the Texans who were among
the thousands of Americans who died liberating France from the Nazis in World
War II? That’s funny coming from a
nation who threw down their guns becoming little more than speed bumps for Nazi
Panzer tanks.
Traitors!
— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) August 31, 2017
