“All Over But The Shouting”, “Everybody Hide With Molly Day” and “Get Used to It” – Cartoons

from hopenchangecartoons:
  Economic experts, who have somehow managed to keep their jobs when everyone else has hit the breadlines, have made the startling declaration that the Recession is over...and what's more, it ended in June of last year.
  And it's a darn good thing we have experts to tell us, because the average man on the street (or average man sleeping in the street) might have missed it - what with record unemployment, soaring home foreclosures, massive debt, and nearly nonexistent consumer confidence.
  But even though we're in a "recovery-less recovery," at least one person has embraced the theoretical end of the Recession as good news: Barack Obama.
  Because even he admitted that you shouldn't raise taxes during a Recession because it would further damage the economy.
  Considering the huge tax hikes the president plans to implement, that makes it awfully lucky that the Ivory Tower types believe the economy is booming again.
  And awfully conveniently timed...

from Chip Bok:
  When Muslim radicals threatened South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, cartoonist Molly Norris dreamed up Everybody Draw Muhammad Day. Her thinking was that they can’t threaten everybody.  Now Molly is no more.  She has taken the FBI’s advice and “gone ghost“, meaning she adopted a new identity and went into hiding.  Apparently Molly’s apology for her idea didn’t help. Ditto for Nicholas Kristof’s apology here.

I hereby apologize to Muslims for the wave of bigotry and simple nuttiness that has lately been directed at you. The venom on the airwaves, equating Muslims with terrorists, should embarrass us more than you. Muslims are one of the last minorities in the United States that it is still possible to demean openly, and I apologize for the slurs.

  The Molly fatwa hasn’t received nearly the media attention of Terry Jones’ faux Koran burning, but it did merit this editorial in the San Francisco Examiner.

Instead of telling the rest of us that we’re all bigots, shouldn’t Kristof and the rest of the journalism profession be outraged by what has happened to Molly Norris? And shouldn’t they be angered that her government believes it cannot protect her? Imagine what they would be saying if white-hooded  members of the Ku Klux Klan were threatening to kill Norris in Selma, Ala., instead of radical Muslims in Seattle. Would the FBI tell Norris she had to stop being a journalist and go into hiding?

To update Henry Kissinger, even Islamophobes have enemies.

from cagle.com