Friday, May 20, 2011

Ted Rall: MSM won't take my leftwing anti-Obama cartoons

Liberals' favorite political cartoonist:

It feels a little weird to write this, like I'm telling tales out of school and ratting out the Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy. But it's true: there's less room for a leftie during the Age of Obama than there was under Bush.

I didn't realize how besotted progressives were by Mr. Hopey Changey.

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A sample of recent rejections, each from editors at different left-of-center media outlets:

· "I am familiar with and enjoy your cartoons. However the readers of our site would not be comfortable with your (admittedly on point) criticism of Obama."

· "Don't be such a hater on O and we could use your stuff. Can't you focus more on the GOP?"

· "Our first African-American president deserves a chance to clean up Bush's mess without being attacked by us."

I have many more like that.

What's weird is that these cultish attitudes come from editors and publishers whose politics line up neatly with mine.

1 comment:

  1. "Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which." (conclusion of "Animal Farm", George Orwell) (btw, almost none of the journals that had previously published Orwell, a lifelong democratic socialist, would do so after "Animal Farm" came out. and, France would not allow a translation to be published there until the name of the chief porcine revolutionary was changed from "Napoleon" to "Ce'sar".)

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