2. Where was it published? townhall.com, 1/12/10
3. What issue does it deal with? The cartoon deals with Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid's racial comment about President Obama, in which he said that Americans would vote for Obama because he was "light-skinned with no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one"
4. What is the cartoon's message? The cartoon pokes fun at Reid's off-color comment, showing how Reid's comment could lead us to believe that he thinks that the darker a candidate's skin, the less chance he has of electoral victory.
5. Do you agree with the cartoon's message? I found the cartoon very funny, but I do think it gets at the bigger issue behind Reid's comment--the one that most Democrats are eager to overlook. Reid's comment was very offensive, moreso, I think, than that of former Sen. Majority Leader Trent Lott. Lott was grilled by Democrats for saying that the country might have been better off if Strom Thurmond (a one-time segragationist and presidential candidate) had been elected, and he was eventually forced to resign his seat in Congress because of the comment in 2002. Lott's comment itself had nothing racist about it. He could have been referring to any part of Thurmond's policy, but Democrats inferred racism and forced Lott out of office. And now, after Reid's much more racist comment, we see a double-standard: Democrats are quick to forgive Reid. If Trent Lott was forced to resign because of his "racist" comment, Reid should definitely do the same.
Source: http://townhall.com/cartoons/cartoonist/EricAllie/2010/01/1
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