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To: Lane3 who wrote (87074)	11/18/2004 9:57:56 PM
From: Alan Smithee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793690

If exaggerating features is racist, then caricature is inherently racist. When I looked at that cartoon, my first impression was that it was racist. The big, flappy lips were not on the Bush character, they were on the Rice character, who happens to be black. Had a cartoon with a similar theme been done, but published, say, in the National Review, and portrayed Jesse Jackson, there would be no end to the caterwauling about how Republicans are racist demons. It is no different when a liberal cartoonist makes a caricature of a black woman. Blackface minstrel shows have been done away with, Cakewalk has been done away with, when is the last time you've seen an Amos 'n Andy show on TV? The cartoon was racist and the only reason it is not being decried by the MSM and the left is because it was one of their own who created it. The double standard imposed by the left is simply incredible. What is so hard to comprehend about this Karen?