I think it’s fair to say we’re going to see some really bad editorial cartoons in the next few years. Rampaging chimpanzees that may or may not be stand-ins for President Obama are just the start. The latest attempt to lower the bar comes from Mike Lester of Rome, Georgia’s News Tribune, who has spent the last few weeks in a Santelli-like state, depicting Obama as a Marxist Colonel Sanders and a redistributionist soup Nazi. Now he’s gone and created this doozy:
Wow. Lester seems familiar enough with the corollaries of Godwin’s Law and the New York Post episode to have avoided drawing a direct Hitler-Obama analogy. See, he drew some Nazi who doesn’t even look like Hitler—maybe it’s Goebbels in sunglasses! And the Donkey Supreme Leader whipping up subprime mortgage holders into a frenzy of genocidal, expansionist bloodlust? That must be Harry Reid. Besides, a pro like Lester would never intentionally compare Obama to a crazy, megalomaniac mass murderer…
…or would he? Answer after the jump.
