Over at Right Wing Nuthouse Rick Moran posted ''DID “DAY BY DAY” JUST JUMP THE SHARK?'' about a comic strip there that caricatures Hillary Clinton in 'blackface'.
And yes, I do have many problems with it:
First, I DO tend to ''get technical'' at times. For me it comes with the territory, I know my blogs 'inside and out'. And that is the first thing that bothered me about Rick's post, he 'hotlinked' the strip from Chris Muir's site.
Chris Muir seems to encourage this as a way to promote ''Day by Day''.
I understand this, I have the same arrangement with Ironic Times. They allow me to 'hotlink' their ''banners'' and I give them the best ad space available here to promote their website.
The problem 'hotlinking' Chris's strip causes is that he designed it to change with each new strip he posts. This is the comic strip in question:

I saved a copy of it as a file and uploaded it to Blogger. This can also be done with other blog servers. This prevents it from changing.
When I was made aware of this kerfuffle THIS is what I saw:

Second, this has become WHY I don't support ''Day by Day''. IT'S SLEAZY. It jumps into cheap sex jokes readily.
I can actually hear the ''Junk Food Conservatives'' vomiting their nonsense now; ''Duuuh, you won't run Day by Day 'cause it's a right-wing strip''. Which if I wanted to I could easily do.
I don't publish a newspaper, but even if I did I'd tell him ''WHAT?!?! You want me to run this? AND you want to get paid for this? Forget it.''
I might run the strip on one of my blogs. IF I can be bothered to do it. But I'm in no hurry to help. But I could consider SELLING him ad space on QWIK HITZ!
And last but not least, this absolutely cowardly, craven attitude by Caucasians vis'-a-vis' non-caucasians. A cartoonist for God's sake! If we let the third world dictate what we can and cannot say and can and cannot draw ''the terrorists win''...

Labels: LOSING THE WAR

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