Well, strictly speaking, the stimulus bill was written by Congress, headed up by Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi, NOT Obama. Congress is the real target here. HOWEVER, that does not excuse the editor of the NYP from printing the cartoon. I think the artist honestly didn't get that it could be taken another way, but the editor should have. That's what an editor is for.
*Of course, I'm biased because I once got burned in a like manner. I made a cover for a fruit-fly researcher's convention in Chicago. Fruit flies buzzing around the Sears tower. I showed it to everyone I knew in Texas because I was proud of it, then sent it off to Washington D.C. to be printed by the government agency in charge of funding the convention. And if that art director could have reached through the phone and pulled out my gut, she would have. Because it was spring 2002 and way too soon for that kind of image. I bet that artist is really fucking ashamed right now. I know I was.
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Date: 2009-02-20 01:37 pm (UTC)*Of course, I'm biased because I once got burned in a like manner. I made a cover for a fruit-fly researcher's convention in Chicago. Fruit flies buzzing around the Sears tower. I showed it to everyone I knew in Texas because I was proud of it, then sent it off to Washington D.C. to be printed by the government agency in charge of funding the convention. And if that art director could have reached through the phone and pulled out my gut, she would have. Because it was spring 2002 and way too soon for that kind of image. I bet that artist is really fucking ashamed right now. I know I was.