Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Cartoon Row 2

Meanwhile, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have decided that they have nothing better to do than write to the Washington Post and bitch about this cartoon. Not because it's criticizing Rumsfeld mind you (no, of course not), but because "we believe you owe the men and women and their families who so selflessly serve our country the decency to not make light of their tremendous physical sacrifices."

Signed: People who don't get the fucking point that a cartoon is making even when it's right in front of their noses and they get paid very well to analyze data all day.

2 comments:

elendil said...

Signed: People who don't get the fucking point that a cartoon is making even when it's right in front of their noses

I agree.They knew full well what the author's intent was. It was disingenuous of them to use that interpretation as a pretext for sending the author a letter, and I was disappointed that he didn't think to call their bluff.

Rufus said...

The whole thing is just so silly and pointless. I hope they reprint the cartoon with footnotes and make a joke of it. Maybe they really did think that the cartoon was "making light" of the wounded, but I seriously doubt it too.