Gary McCoy Receives Blowback On Sandra Fluke Cartoon

So apparently the cartoonist Gary McCoy made a cartoon about Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student that testified before Congress about birth control, that echoes vilified statements from Rush Limbaugh. McCoy didn't go so far as to call the young woman a slut and demand to see her having sex on videotape; he did employ some stereotypical physical mocking. The cartoon takes off on an aberrant and as far as I can tell -- and I'm sorry if this ruins a part of your day for me to say so or to not say so as strongly as you wish I'd say it -- completely bizarre and removed-from-reality idea of taxpayers paying for people to have sex if insurers provide contraception needs.

To be honest with you, the cartoon actually makes me a tiny bit more sympathetic for the beleaguered radio host, by showing that some of the ideas driving his shameful, hateful performance on the radio the other day have currency with folks that I guess live and function in the real world -- at least McCoy, a respected working cartoonist, and those that have publicly supported the cartoon when it's been posted on some sites and one would guess in some papers. The tenor of the conversation makes me sad, the substance of the conversation makes me sad, the direction of the conversation makes me sad, the savagery of the conversation makes me sad, that this is something anyone would choose to talk about considering all of the pressing issues out there makes me sad. What a terrible, stupid-ass cartoon.

Update: Mike Lester sees Gary McCoy's pandering on this dumbass issue and raises him a racial stereotype. Is it too late to go to every article I've written the last few years about the decline of staffed editorial cartooning positions and add a "hooray"? (thanks -- I guess -- to Kevin J. Maroney)

I'm just fine with letters, but unless we went to high school or I've recently slept in your home, if I have to read it, it gets published with your name on it
 
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