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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (83082)	4/26/2010 10:40:59 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224749

Any illustrators on SI? Here's a challenge for them. They need to be politcally in the right - Repubs. WA state cartoonist Molly's courageous & imaginative idea(Everybody Draw Mohammed Day-May 20) spread like wildfire, but after becoming yet another target for her exercise in free speech, she felt her family was intimidated and therefore retreated from the bullies. However, apparently Molly's idea struck a nerve among American artist communities, and many are moving forward - they've set up websites for the purpose of continuing her campaign...links below. The updated story... ~~~~~~~~~~~ Cartoonist overwhelmed by response to "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" After a Seattle artist's cartoon went viral, she says she's not going with it. Molly Norris drew up a sketch declaring May 20th "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day" after Comedy Central cut a portion of a South Park episode following a death threat from a radical Muslim group. Norris explained her motivation on an appearance on KIRO Radio's Dave Ross show. "As a cartoonist I just felt so much passion about what had happened I wanted to kind of counter Comedy Central's message they sent about feeling afraid." Producers of South Park had announced Thursday that Comedy Central removed a speech about intimidation and fear from their show after a radical Muslim group warned that they could be killed for insulting the Prophet Muhammad. The insinuated threat to South Park producers Trey Parker and Matt Stone included a gruesome picture of Theo Van Gogh, a Dutch filmmaker killed by a Muslim extremist in 2004, and said the producers could meet the same fate. The website posted the addresses of Comedy Central's New York office and the California production studio where South Park is made. The momentum drawn from Norris' cartoon was more than the artist had anticipated and by Sunday Norris had posted the following message on her website: "I make cartoons about current, cultural events. I made a cartoon of a 'poster' entitled "Everybody Draw Mohammed Day!" with a nonexistent group's name -- Citizens Against Citizens Against Humor -- drawn on the cartoon also. I did not intend for my cartoon to go viral. I did not intend to be the focus of any 'group'. I practice the first amendment by drawing what I wish. This particular cartoon of a 'poster' seems to have struck a gigantic nerve, something I was totally unprepared for. I am going back to the drawing table now!" On her website Norris originally explained the campaign was not meant to disrespect any religion, but rather meant to protect people's right to express themselves. Updated: Monday, 26 Apr 2010, 1:28 PM CDT In more fallout around the decision by Comedy Central to censor an episode of "South Park" that contained comedic depictions of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, Seattle artist Molly Norris originally posted on her website a cartoon showing many different objects – including a purse, a domino, a coffee cup and a spool of thread – claiming to be a likeness of Muhammad. Norris said that May 20 would be the first annual "Everybody Draw Muhammad Day" and created a fictional group, Citizens Against Citizens Against Humor, to sponsor the event. She dedicated the illustration to Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of "South Park." She sent the illustration to some bloggers and talked to a local radio host, saying "it's a cartoonist's job to be non-PC." Now Norris has backed off from that position. She no longer has the illustration on her website and she claims responses to the idea were overwhelming. Instead she has a drawing of herself, with various word balloons containing her feelings about the incident, including "I said that I wanted to counter fear and then I got afraid." But she may have started something she can't stop. Others have taken up the cause of "Everybody Draw Muhammed Day." Reason.com's blogger Michael C. Moynihan says he will be contributing artwork and will post fans' work on his site as well. reason.com The fictional group Citizens Against Citizens Against Humor now has its own site that already contains some illustrations of Muhammad. cacah-protest.blogspot.com Two Facebook pages have ongoing discussions about the pros and cons of Molly’s idea. On Sunday night's episode of "The Simpsons", the "South Park" issue was mentioned in the opening credits when Bart writes on the chalkboard in school. The chalkboard scrawl reads: "South Park – We'd stand beside you if we weren't so scared."

To: lorne who wrote (83082)	4/26/2010 11:52:25 PM
From: MJ	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224749

Watched the Obama video plead for help-------a rather lame, lame duck?, effort to rally the original coalition. Those surge voters likely have not benefitted from any of Obama's 'programs' nor will they benefit to any great extent. Obama fooled his surge voters once---------this is like asking the same people to be fooled a second time.