Worst 9/11 Themed Cartoon, 2009 Edition

Nick Gillespie | September 11, 2009

Ramirez, you've outdone yourself! Look upon his work and despair:

Hat Tip: Wonkette and The Comics Curmudgeon.

Past bad editorial cartoons here and here and here.

Comments

Cabeza de Vaca|9.11.09 @ 3:38PM|#

Damn, that is in really poor taste.

|9.11.09 @ 3:42PM|#

That airplane is racist.

|9.11.09 @ 3:43PM|#

I prefer the t-shirts at tshirthell that say "I [image of airplane] NY"

|9.11.09 @ 3:44PM|#

and here and here.

|9.11.09 @ 3:48PM|#

Uh, does that say Van Jones on the plane? Pardon the ignorance but who is that?

Mister DNA|9.11.09 @ 3:50PM|#

Not only is it bad taste, it's a blatant rip off of Paris's Sonic Jihad album cover.

P Dier|9.11.09 @ 3:52PM|#

TOO SOON

$|9.11.09 @ 3:56PM|#

TOO LATE

ben tej|9.11.09 @ 3:57PM|#

Poor taste or not, it doesn't even really make that much sense.

|9.11.09 @ 4:00PM|#

I usually like Ramirez, but this was pretty bad...

"Poor taste or not, it doesn't even really make that much sense."

You're right, it should have been a rocket made to look like a plane with the words "Van Jones" on it...

WWJGD|9.11.09 @ 4:01PM|#

Poor taste or not, it doesn't even really make that much sense.

I had to stare at it for a bit. The fallout will be funnier than the cartoon.

Xeones|9.11.09 @ 4:04PM|#

It's still funnier than the Friday Funnies.

|9.11.09 @ 4:04PM|#

OK, I looked it up. Hee hee. Hey look over there, Joe Wilson called Dear Leader a (gulp) liar!

Fist of Etiquette|9.11.09 @ 4:08PM|#

How come I can see the whole cartoon on the comment page here, but on Friday Funnies I'd still be another mouse click away?

Scarcity|9.11.09 @ 4:16PM|#

And yet another click from the open criticism thread.

Medic001|9.11.09 @ 4:18PM|#

Over it.

The Angry Optimist|9.11.09 @ 4:20PM|#

Christ that's terrible.

|9.11.09 @ 4:30PM|#

Dragons Awake!
Take me through the Voodoo Buddha
You are the King of Things
I am a fake

Over the treetops
An automan and automatic girl

Predator, skin an orangutan alive

|9.11.09 @ 4:32PM|#

Uh, does that say Van Jones on the plane? Pardon the ignorance but who is that?

I see sage is a NYT reader.

|9.11.09 @ 4:33PM|#

I'm going to be so upset when SugarFree comes down from this high.

|9.11.09 @ 4:34PM|#

How come I can see the whole cartoon on the comment page here, but on Friday Funnies I'd still be another mouse click away?

Mercy?

Kevin|9.11.09 @ 4:42PM|#

It's kind of sad to read the comments about the other three cartoons and not see anything from Warty, SugarFree, or Xeones. On the plus side, it doesn't look like Tony was around then either.

|9.11.09 @ 4:43PM|#

Whatever happened to that wonkette chick anyway?

Gummo|9.11.09 @ 4:47PM|#

Rates somewhere near this on the taste scale I'd say:

http://adweek.blogs.com/adfreak/2009/09/911-was-nothing-according-to-new-wwf-ad.html

|9.11.09 @ 4:49PM|#

I liked the Tim Russert one with the peackock's tail composed of collapsing condoms, though I'll admit I have no idea what it signifies and only the foggiest notion of who Tim Russert was.

This one here would be funny and appropriate if the Jones thing had imploded (or demolished, ha ha) the administration, but most Americans seem to accept the president's insane and bigoted friends as a harmless quirk.

|9.11.09 @ 4:58PM|#

I'm going to be so upset when SugarFree comes down from this high.

Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religious
as if I were French?

Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous
(and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable
list!), but one of these days there'll be nothing left with
which to venture forth.

Why should I share you? Why don't you get rid of someone else
for a change?

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

...

|9.11.09 @ 5:06PM|#

Jesus, SugarFree...

Do I dare eat a peach?

|9.11.09 @ 5:27PM|#

This would be amusing if instead of a large aircraft aimed at the White House, they had made Van Jones a giant puppet wielded by a team of Marxist hippies.

RTG|9.11.09 @ 5:43PM|#

This would be amusing if instead of a large aircraft aimed at the White House, they had made Van Jones a giant puppet wielded by a team of Marxist hippies.

Would a bomb with "Van Jones" on it ridden by Glen Beck (ala Dr. Strangelove) be too much?

|9.11.09 @ 5:59PM|#

Would a bomb with "Van Jones" on it ridden by Glen Beck (ala Dr. Strangelove) be too much?

Obviously, that would be racist.

|9.11.09 @ 6:06PM|#

I told NutraSweet not to take the brown acid, but he never listens to me.

Some Guy|9.11.09 @ 6:30PM|#

Obviously the cartoonist is reminding us that the victims of 9/11 associated with terrorists.

|9.11.09 @ 6:35PM|#

Van Jones would be more like an ultralight.

-jcr

Paul|9.11.09 @ 7:55PM|#

Uh, does that say Van Jones on the plane? Pardon the ignorance but who is that?

I see sage is a NYT reader.

Sssssnap! Win!

@|9.11.09 @ 9:27PM|#

Look upon his work and despair

Really? He's the best cartoonist out there.
A superior illustrator with an uncommon ability to get to the root of an issue in one panel.
His are what editorial cartoons used to be; GenSnark retards be damned.

Colin|9.11.09 @ 9:41PM|#

I often disagree with Ramirez's message, but his artwork is second to none among cartoonists.

BoscoH|9.12.09 @ 12:03AM|#

I realized this morning that the terrorists did indeed win when CNN paused for a moment of silence to commemorate the exact moment that Bernie Kerik stepped into his secret apartment to get a badly needed blow job from Judith Regan.

We've turned outrage into sentimentality. It's not pretty, folks. It seems to get worse every year.

mike|9.12.09 @ 12:54AM|#

can you imagine the rightwing outrage had it said 'cheney' and come out last year?

|9.12.09 @ 1:20AM|#

Meh. I've seen way more offensive things on the net (some of which haunt me in my sleep...). At least it's an honest assessment of what Van Jones might end up meaning to this administration.

@mike

Where's the left wing outrage about this? Nowhere. Nobody cares what these hack cartoonists do...

|9.12.09 @ 2:04AM|#

Forget the 9/11 reference, what about the fact the plane has testicles? Those two little pods toward the rear of the fuselage are not engines. Maybe I'm just not up to date on the latest in aviation design, but I've never seen a plane like that. IT HAS BALLS!

|9.12.09 @ 2:06AM|#

On further consideration, not one pointed this out because they just assumed it was a Mon Calamari star cruiser outfitted for an atmospheric suicide mission.

Paul|9.12.09 @ 2:10AM|#

19 guys got lucky and sucker punched us on 9/11/2001. As a result we're treated to kitchy images of bald eagles with tears in their eyes and I have to suffer the War on Liquids and Shoes everytime I fly. And now every cop and police department has extra super special powers over the civilians in this nation because "terrorism is everwhere".

|9.12.09 @ 10:39AM|#

"19 guys got lucky and sucker punched us on 9/11/2001. As a result we're treated to kitchy images of bald eagles with tears in their eyes and I have to suffer the War on Liquids and Shoes everytime I fly. And now every cop and police department has extra super special powers over the civilians in this nation because "terrorism is everwhere"."

Win for bringing a tear to my eye

Art-P.O.G.|9.12.09 @ 11:33AM|#

Your 2:06 post is absolutely correct, mtc.