Discussion for article #230473
Given the number of people who have to sign off on what goes in the paper, and the amount of time they have to set it up, and the number of looks that are taken at the page layout before it goes to pages, that’s an awful lot of “erring.”
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Don’t even have the courage of their convictions.
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Totally needs a large painting of Geronimo hanging on the wall behind ol’ dad there.
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Obama’s executive action was about immigrants who are already here. The whole idea of being invaded is so unfounded its comical that people fear it.
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So this is the spirit of Thanksgiving? Did the Native Americans treat the pilgrims this way?
Is there anything in our American traditions (and I only mean the good ones) that the right wing won’t pervert?
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The cartoon is just stupid. Mexicans won’t be crashing your family’s Thanksgiving meal because the president signed an EO. For the vast majority of Americans, nothing is going to be any different. Were it not for fearmongering, race-baiting, and inventing idiotic conspiracy theories conservatives would have nothing to talk about.
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Taylor wrote that Gary instead meant to “illustrate the view of many conservatives and others that the president’s order will encourage more people to pour into the country illegally.”
It seemed pretty clear to me that Obama’s immigration reform does no such thing. There are quite a number of conditions attached to the undocumented people who may remain in the country. Describing the policy as an open-door welcome to all immigrants simply says you didn’t pay the least bit of attention to the President’s speech.
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Sorry if anyone was offended.
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You should see this guys other cartoons. Clearly a vitriolic rightwing nutjob.
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This is example A of why conservatives can’t do humor and definitely can’t do satire. When they try to be funny they’re just mean and hostile and don’t make any sense. There was a cartoonist for the LA Times for years back in the 90s-00s who was ham fisted, angry, strident… every one of his pieces basically saying “liberals should just die in a fire and I hate them” and then designing a cartoon around it. Even trying to get into the mindset of a conservative, I couldn’t imagine what was remotely amusing or insightful. At long last, too long, he was fired.
Good satire kicks up. It doesn’t kick down.
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Mother of God! How closed minded and ignorant must a person be to think this way. Hordes of Mexicans are not coming to eat your turkey and ravish your blonde daughter. Hey! Republicans the EO helped people that were ALREADY here. You know, the ones you hire to do your dishes, babysit your kids, and mow your lawn… they get to stay.
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Best line I’ve heard in a long time.
Should the the Dem’s go-to response for the next two-years.
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There’s something about Indiana. I know Jewish people who won’t even go there, and when I attended the Indianapolis 500 one year, there were gangs of drunk young men singing anti-gay songs and aggressively asking strangers if they were gay (using less polite language). I don’t go to a lot of sporting events so maybe this is common, but I was appalled.
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This reminds me of a Langston Hughes short story when a farm girl is visiting her rich aunt and cousin in the city for Thanksgiving. The girl strikes up a conversation with a young boy selling newspapers and discovers the newsy’s family is too poor to buy a turkey. So she invites him and his family to her aunt’s house for Thanksgiving dinner, much to the aunt’s chagrin at hosting such unsuitably unwashed and uncouth guests. The newsy boy and his family are Irish.
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Keep it classy, Indy.
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More than being racist, it’s just downright stupid. Having dinner with illegal aliens who can’t feed themselves IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED ON THE FIRST THANKSGIVING. I mean Christ.
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More appropriate cartoon
White Europeans crashing a native American dinner back in the 1400’s.
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Well, you know what the rest of us in the Great Lakes states say - Indiana is the South’s middle finger to the rest of the region.
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At the risk of using a stereotype, I think you’ll find that most Mexican families are far more family-oriented than American ones.
So a more proper cartoon would be a Mexican family inviting their white neighbors over to join a huge Thanksgiving celebration.
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