Web Strip Showing Hillary Clinton in Blackface Causes Stir

[MADem]

These baaastids have no shame, do they?

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NEW YORK A conservative Web comic showing Hillary Rodham Clinton in blackface has stirred plenty of reaction, reported The Comics Journal blog today.

Yesterday's installment of "Day by Day" (http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/2007/04/26/) -- Chris Muir's self-syndicated strip -- satirizes Clinton's efforts to win African-American votes as she seeks the Democratic nomination for president. In the last panel, Muir shows Clinton in blackface as she's asked for her take on 2008. "Lawdy!," she replies in stereotypical minstrel dialect. "I's seen da promised land!"

The Comics Journal blog noted that "Day by Day" is "usually one of the very few intelligent conservative strips out there -- but this one was guaranteed to blow up in its creator's face from the outset; any underlying point that Muir was trying to make was buried in a sea of f*****-up symbolism that he himself invoked. ..."

Even some conservative blogs criticized yesterday's comic. For instance, The Rightwing Nuthouse said the strip "may have crossed a line of good taste."

[BeyondGeography]

1. The thought of a black or woman President is too much for their childlike minds

It will be funny to watch their heads explode if both wind up on the ticket.

[MADem]

3. I'd laugh like hell, myself!!! I'd vote for that ticket, with either one in the lead, just to hear

those heads-a-poppin!!!!

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. New Rule:

Conservatives who attempt humor, especially in comic strips, need to be heavily medicated for their and our sake.

[Grandrose]

4. Hope they keep it up!!

Republics never know when to stop and it could cause backlash and sympathy! Anybody remember Sen. Allen? Bad habits are hard to break, especially when you feel superior and unaccountable for your actions. :eyes:

[Bitwit1234]

5. If Imus can be kicked off the air, how come this guy is not shut down.

Where's Sharpton and Jackson and all the outrage.

[Grandrose]

6. Let me help you....

Did you forget this: :sarcasm:
By the way Hillary Clinton is a public figure, those young ladies were not! No pity party here!!!:eyes:

[William769]

7. Things like that does not matter weather it's a public figure or not!

Wrong is wrong. Someday peope will understand that. :eyes:

[Grandrose]

8. I agree!!!

Sorry if I was too flip. I feel sorry for Hillary and the young ladies. Seems our society has become so coarse and mean, I blame the Republics slime machine and swiftboaters. Politics has always been brutal, all I was saying is Hillary can take it.... I really do admire her and Bill. :)