Is This the Week's Worst Editorial Cartoon About Ferguson?

If you think you've seen a worse one, let us know.

The Toronto Star published this yesterday:

Theo Moudakis

I was going to declare that the week's worst Ferguson cartoon, but I don't want to underestimate the awfulness of the world's editorial cartoonists. If you think you've seen one that's worse, post a link in the comments.

Comments

[SIV]

Santa is a "white savior"?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Take up Jolly Fat Man's burden, Send forth the best ye breed
Go bind your sons to exile, to serve your captives' need;
To wait in heavy harness, On fluttered folk and wild--
Your new-caught, sullen peoples, Half-reindeer and half-child.

[db]

Bravo.

[Eggs Benedict Cumberbund]

Indeed

[JRS1001]

Blacks - turning another neighborhood/town into Detroit. If I owned a business in that town I WOULD LEAVE AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

Remember what Detroit looked like before the blacks moved in and took over the local politics and compare what it is now.
Same is happening to neighborhoods/counties all around Atlanta.

And they actually wonder why nobody likes them or wants them in their neighborhoods. You don't get this with any other race - asians, hispanics - its always the blacks

[Intrepid Demise]

"it's always the blacks"

You must be new here. Head on back to Stormfront: your racist commentary is not appreciated, nor needed.

[JeffreyinSandySprings]

Ok Moron (Intrepid Demise). Tell me which part of my post is false? You can't because it is all true.

Why do blacks want to move to white neighborhoods. Because the standard of living is far better with lower crime rates and better schools with better students. What happens all of those factors when the blacks arrive. They go away - crime and drugs increase, the graduation rate drops at schools as are the ability of administrators to maintain order. Businesses begin moving out as well. This has happened in areas in and around Atlanta - Clayton and Dekalb counties where the white population has left and the school systems have lost or nearly lost their accrediation.

Truth might be ugly but it is still true.

[Swiss Servator, Winter kommt!]

*Rises to begin thunderous applause*

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[MikeP]

Because there's a bright light in Evansville, Indiana?

[Sam Haysom]

Ha. To scale that bright light covers about 1/20th of the US. Which is pretty crafty because they obviously aren't sure where Ferguson is but if you make the dot big enough you just might hit.

[Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme)]

And yet they still missed.

Canadians...

[CE]

To be fair, who ever heard of Missouri before this year though?

[JeremyR]

Hey! We invented sliced bread.

Without us, you'd have to slice it yourself.

[datcv]

It looks like a giant explosion just took out Evansville, Louisville, Terre Haute... the aftershock might have reached St. Louis, though.

[black blood]

That hit me all the way in Cincinnati, where a bunch of homeless people with misspelled signs led the most pathetic protest of all time yesterday!

[PollackR]

Just was I was thinking - you beat me to it.

[Careless]

Oh, good, I didn't have to point that out.

[Evan from Evansville]

I resemble this comment.

[Zeb]

I haven't been looking and I'm not going to, but I can only imagine that there are worse ones. This one is stupid and pointless and insipid, but at least it isn't idiotically wrong or offensive.

[RBS]

Oh, I'm sure there are some that are much, much worse.

[Spoonman.]

It's impossible there aren't worse ones. There will be the ample racist ones from right and left, the ones that blame it on the Koch Brothers, the ones that blame it on the gays, etc...

[sarcasmic]

http://media.cagle.com/95/2014.....79_600.jpg

[HeteroPatriarch]

You broke their server.

[GR8IPAZ]

wow, that's fucking stupid

[Crusty Juggler]

At least they accurately portrayed their bodies.

[Pulseguy]

Maybe there is something wrong with me, but I thought that was funny.

[DrAwkward]

There is something wrong with you.

[msimmons]

targets are wrong color

[Mike Laursen]

Well, we haven't seen this week's Friday Funnies yet.

[Swiss Servator, Winter kommt!]

Good point. Maybe Bok and/or Payne can come through for us.

[Sevo]

I haven't seen it yet, but I'm sure Tom Toles will have one with an elephant in a top hat selling Molotov cocktails for PROFIT or some such.
And the elephant will be labeled "GOP" to make sure that Gruber's audience isn't confused.

[Paul Sand]

Dave Granlund is always a safe bet: http://www.davegranlund.com/ca.....n-verdict/

[RBS]

People should really stop calling it a "verdict."

[Zeb]

What is the right word for the decision a grand jury produces?

[Faceless Commenter]

Either they produce a "true bill" or they don't.

You could also call it an indictment.

[datcv]

An indictment, or lack thereof?

[DEATFBIRSECIA]

Why does Lady Liberty look like Anthony Bourdain?

[Heroic Mulatto]

Because they're both French?

[GR8IPAZ]

you can always tell the best political cartoons by their subtlety. That cartoon isn't that.

[black blood]

WOW! If racial profiling's thumb is that big, what about the rest of him?!

[dpbisme]

You win... that is offensive....

[Apple]

Might need to recalibrate, Santa. I guess if you're Canadian, though, all American cities look alike.

[KWebb]

Louisville needs Santa, too.

[ColonelEngineer]

On what grounds? I only hear Lexington news.

[John Titor]

Technically, he's a Greenlander, so semi-Danish I guess?

[CE]

Plus who gets presents when they burn down their town? What is going to deliver, thousands of lumps of coal? Isn't that bad for the environment?

[Pulseguy]

Pretty much. I'm a Canadian. I can sort of tell LA from NY, but otherwise the string of Pet'R'Us and Staples etc. get me confused.

[UnCivilServant]

Santa's making Missouri Coal Country this year!

Take that eco-nuts!

[Hugh Akston]

While I'm sure the people of Ferguson enjoy GoT as much as anybody, I'm not sure that George RR Martin can really resolve the gross injustices that have been done there.

[UnCivilServant]

Well, with sufficient beheadings the problem will go away. (As will the population).

[Steve G]

something, something 'naughty or nice'

[The_Millenial]

O soft and pink with purple head.
Gently you lay with me on my bed.
"Growl, growl" calls the wiener from on high
A little tiny wiener, still so pleasing to the eye.
Look at this wiener. Judge it by its size?
Rub it three times and it has a surprise.

Wouldn't this be a start?

[The_Millenial]

*in response to Hugh above

[Hugh Akston]

It still doesn't make any sense!

[The_Millenial]

The cartoon or my comment?

[Hugh Akston]

Yes!

[The_Millenial]

This will explain it all

[Jaybirdmojo]

Do they know it's Christmastime at all?

[JW]

I'm having trouble deciding if this cartoon or "Christmas Shoes" is more projectile vomit-inducing.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

The caption should have Santa saying - "I see they avoided the Black Friday rush and started their Christmas looting early."

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Alternate caption: "Hey, Mustapha, it's Santa. I know you normally don't celebrate Christmas, but I feel bad about your store burning down. Could I swing by your place and bring you some seed money for a new store?"

[Hugh Akston]

Ooh, even better: "No need. The looters have already given internet racists the greatest possible gift."

[Homple]

Maybe the cartoon Santa Clause intends to replace the stuff looted from stores and put his elves to work rebuilding destroyed real estate.

[tarran]

I was thinking that all the stocking-coal he was planning on delivering would go a long way to heating homes of people who, thanks to the economic downturn caused by the rioting, were struggling to make ends meet.

[The Late P Brooks]

No weeping Statue of Liberty?

No giant menacing Gun Culture representation?

Puh leeeeease.

[Riven]

Can someone explain this to me like I'm in fourth grade? I have no idea what this cartoon is supposed to be saying.

[JW]

Burl Ives is the head of the NSA.

[The_Millenial]

Santa Claus is racist and forgot where Missouri is. I think he may have dementia.

[John Titor]

You can't expect Canadians to know where Missouri is. We only have ten provinces and three territories, having to remember fifty states is just a hassle.

[jesse.in.mb]

What I find funny is that Canadians complain* about Americans not bothering to learn their provinces but then seem really put out when I can point to PEI on a map.

*Not saying that's what you're doing here. I'm just thinking back to a time when my coworkers were 2/3 Canadian.

[The_Millenial]

Besides, you only really need to know 3-5 Canadian cities. The provinces are unimportant and pretty much devoid of human life.

[John Titor]

Them's fighting words The_Millenial, I challenge you to pistols at dawn on Saskatchewan's empty, devoid of human life plains.

[jesse.in.mb]

How will you get there? Does Saskatoon even have an airport?

[John Titor]

John Diefenbaker International Airport. It takes up a quarter of the city.

[The_Millenial]

Was the Canadian concept vehicle, The Queef, powered completely on female natural gas developed in Saskatchewan?

[John Titor]

Nope, power by Canadian smug, which is nearly as bad for the environment as San Francisco smug.

[The_Millenial]

Loser has to subject themselves to genital body modification.

[John Titor]

Please, I allow dick shots, genital body modification is going to happen regardless of who wins.

[The_Millenial]

In addition to that, the loser must become Cytotoxic's personal assistant for a year

[John Titor]

I thought you supported the Geneva Conventions? Did you read the part about torture and 'outrages upon dignity, in particular humiliating and degrading treatment'?

[Riven]

Omg, you two again with your genital body modification.

I just bring out the best in other people.

[The_Millenial]

Riven, don't flatter yourself. I wouldn't expect someone into Hentai to understand the intricacies of genital body modification. The craftsmanship on display is simply unparalleled.

[Riven]

Honestly, I was just jealous and mystified, but now that you've called me out, I'm obliged to tell the truth.

I actually took a long survey on depravity this morning; surprisingly, none of this came up.

[The_Millenial]

I, myself, would be disappointed if this was not included in a survey on depravity. It must have had something on tentacles at least?

[Riven]

Sadly, no. Or at least they weren't specifically mentioned.

https://depravitystandard.org/

This website is basically just doing research on how depraved different crimes are considered by different people and types of people. It was an interesting and dark way to start the day.

[The_Millenial]

So you did it for science? Well, that's different.

[Riven]

Everything I do, I do for Science.

GLaDOS taught me that.

[The_Millenial]

Look at me still talking when there's science to do. When I look out there, it makes me GLaD I'm not you. I've experiments to run. There is research to be done. On the people who are still alive. And, believe me, I'm still alive! I'm doing science and I'm still alive!

[John Titor]

Have you read Sugarfree's fiction, particularly Warty Hugeman and the Doomcock of Doom? Genital body modification is basically this site's talking about the weather.

[The_Millenial]

No, I have not. I'll give it a read at some point.

[Riven]

Should be some nice, light reading over the long Thanksgiving weekend.

[The_Millenial]

Couldn't be any worse than the images of the poor girl on myfitnesspal

[Riven]

Yeah. You run across profiles like that occasionally on that site.

I always find it confusing--if you're not going to eat, why are you on a calorie counting website?

[John Titor]

Attempting to calculate nega-calories?

[The_Millenial]

I posted this song yesterday, but you have not seen it. It's a semi-autobiographical account of Edwards' struggle with anorexia. It explores the psychological issues and mindset.

Self-worth scatters, self-esteem's a bore
I've long since moved to a higher plateau
This discipline's so rare so please applaud
Just look at the fat scum who pamper me so

Yeah 4 stone 7, an epilogue of youth
Such beautiful dignity in self-abuse
I've finally come to understand life
Through staring blankly at my navel

[The_Millenial]

*may have not seen it

[Pulseguy]

Vancouver, Toronto.....er....3-5? Isn't that a lot?

[Eggs Benedict Cumberbund]

57 states

[Mark22]

But I've always been told that Canadians had superior public education! And that they were so oppressed by the US that they had to learn all this crap about the US!

[KWebb]

Santa is outsourcing parcel delivery this year to UPS, so the big guy can go protest.

The big map is so Santa knows where to drop off the packages. Delivering to UPS's Worldhub should cut down on shipping time and charges.

[Mad Scientist]

I think it means, "Can't we all just get along?"

[Brett L]

This guy had a cartoon all ready to go, and just repurposed it to fit the big event.

[Riven]

Thanks, all. I feel like I understand better now that I've checked my white privilege.

[JW]

"Holy shit! The entire area is naughty. Ready the Silent Night stratagem."

[creech]

Megantic, yes; Ferguson, no.

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[Warty]

Cleveland's terrible cartoonist is always reliable for a terrible cartoon. His Ferguson cartoon is pretty satisfyingly terrible.

[Hugh Akston]

He doesn't know how to draw eyes, does he?

[The_Millenial]

They could just be really high?

[Hugh Akston]

Maybe he's just a really big fan of French Stewart.

[The_Millenial]

Reminds me of this scene

[Hugh Akston]

"Turd Ferguson" would have been a better label on the top of that cartoon. Full circle son!

[Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme)]

He doesn't know how to draw eyes, does he?

FTFY

[Longtorso, Johnny]

I feel somewhat let down.

[Faceless Commenter]

Is that protestor grabbing his crotch?

[GR8IPAZ]

Political cartoonists, because some artists just aren't that clever.

[MiloMinderbinder]

Wait, folks in Ferguson have been naughty, not nice!

[jesse.in.mb]

Jackpot found.

A sample.

[jesse.in.mb]

"Back off or the community gets it"

Why do political cartoonists feel the need to label EVERYTHING?

"Ferguson Aftermath"

The white schlub with the gunt makes this one less about race and more about class, or something.

[Warty]

How would I know that the revolver symbolized violence if it wasn't labeled? The "loot" hat is pretty sweet though. I want one.

[jesse.in.mb]

I'm sure a hat embroidery place would make one for you. Come to LA and we can go get you some Mickey Mouse ears with "Loot" stitched in.

[Hugh Akston]

Dude, inviting Warty to LA is like inviting Godzilla to Tokyo.

[jesse.in.mb]

Not just LA, taking Warty to Disneyland.

Welcome to the rapiest place on earth!

[Swiss Servator, Winter kommt!]

The Magical Rape n' Squat Kingdom?

[John Titor]

Because they're bad at symbolism?

[JW]

That's terrible and you're a terrible person for showing that to us.

[Riven]

It's bad and you should feel bad!

[Notorious G.K.C.]

"Back off or the community gets it"

That's pretty daring, assuming the reader gets the reference.

[wwhorton]

"Do whut he sayyyy...do whut he sayyyy!!!"

[Old Man With Candy]

Why do political cartoonists feel the need to label EVERYTHING?

We call this the Chester Gould Syndrome.

[Sevo]

"Why do political cartoonists feel the need to label EVERYTHING?"

Most cartoonists are aiming at the same audience Gruber was: Dem voters.

[Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme)]

Also...

NEEDZ MOAR LABELZ!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Santa issues a missile strike on Terre Haute. Jesus responds by going to DEFCON 3.

[trshmnster the terrible]

Is this how independence day 2 starts?

[Fist of Etiquette]

Independencer Day.

[Bones]

You're right, Santa. Lucky for you, Missouri is far enough away from that nuclear blast you can still help Ferguson.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Looks like someone didn't let the turkey cool.

[db]

Those deep fryers can be really dangerous.

[Micu5]

Who needs Santa Claus when you've got Obama?

[edrebber]

Santa would be gunned down along with his reindeer.

[trshmnster the terrible]

I see that Detroit is accurately drawn at the bottom of Lake Huron.

[CE]

What about South Detroit?

[B.P.]

http://www.politicalcartoons.c.....1cb9b.html

This one appears to be months old.

[SERENITY NOW!]

And now for something completely different...

http://cambridge.tab.co.uk/201.....-vote-now/

[ProLifeLibertarian]

Can someone explain to me why this is bad? I don't get it.

I'm serious.

[trshmnster the terrible]

A) it looks like Santa nuked Evansville
B) it blows this conflict waaaaay out of proportion
C) it plays Santa as a race mediator
D) it mixes Santa with politics, which tends to invite a visceral reaction

[ProLifeLibertarian]

Oh, I thought that it was some sort of racism I was failing to detect.

Separation of Santa and state!

[CE]

E) It suggests that if you just destroy your town completely enough, Santa will reward you with presents for it.

[OldMexican]

Because it purports to have a message, when it doesn't. It's just stupid.

[db]

"Santa Claus Versus the Missourians"

[CE]

Looks like Indiana and Kentucky took the worst of it.

[PapayaSF]

Best Mike Brown t-shirt.

[trshmnster the terrible]

There are some pretty awful memes on the Facebook post to this article. I couldn't help but laugh at a couple of them.

[Juice]

He didn't even get to enjoy those cigars.

[wwhorton]

I know I shouldn't laugh...

[JeffreyinSandySprings]

couldn't afford a second O.....

[Brian Macker]

Santa's radar is off. That's Louisville, KY.

[db]

Something went really fucking wrong at Fort Knox.

[Bobarian (Mr. Xtreme)]

It's the Knob Creek Machine Gun Shoot

[db]

Santa caught the moment when the first shot hit the tannerite strapped to the barrel of diesel fuel on Saturday night.

[ColonelEngineer]

After Pitino's comments about "4 white guys and an Egyptian," Louisville does seem like an accurate target.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

Goldfinger's plot actually worked!?!

[db]

So do we think that Black Friday shopping frustrations combined with Ferguson protests will touch off major riots, or will family arguments over Thanksgiving dinner cause more mayhem?

[ProLifeLibertarian]

One of the worst memes: looting in Ferguson isn't a problem, because Wall Street loots people all the time.

Makes sense coming from liberals, though. The recurring theme of the past six years for them has essentially been: "Bush did it, so Obama can do it, too."

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Does it bother them that Obama does so many things which Bush Did, Too?

[ProLifeLibertarian]

That's what I was gonna say next.

Moral relativism has become common among the Left. It's distressing.

[Sanjuro Tsubaki]

I don't think its even moral relativism anymore. It's more like a collective narcissm that preempts any form of rational thought if that makes any sense.

[Sanjuro Tsubaki]

Lefty sacred cows are like selfies. Common, trendy, unoriginal, pointless yet supposedly the act of a free thinking individual.

[Sanjuro Tsubaki]

Why make myself more depressed looking for shitty editorial cartoons?

[db]

You have to hit bottom before you can rebound.

[leaniefeneckgik]

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[lap83]

This isn't Ferguson related, but it's derp related.
http://www.kansascity.com/opin.....75438.html
Bonus, it's in a familiar question format

[j00bar]

http://i.imgur.com/L8NfjXk.jpg

[Juice]

I think this one is actually funny.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

Who could it be, taking attention away from the Baby Jesus and focusing attention on materialism?

Who could it be?

http://vimeo.com/83819344

[Arthur45]

Sorry Santa, Whites aren't welcomed in Ferguson.

[Notorious G.K.C.]

So send Krampus instead:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus

[jesse.in.mb]

Ooh, Yuletide is fast approaching. Time to break out my shirt with this on it.

There's a particular Krampuscart that's a bit more whimsical and I'd love to have an artist friend replicate it (I can't find a high enough resolution version of it). It has Krampus chasing fat, screaming children with his switch while apples fall out of the barrel and St. Nick stands in the background in his bishop wear laughing hysterically.

[ironcowboy]

Yeah? because the fire is apparently burning somewhere near Bowling green Kentucky, some 400 miles east south east of Ferguson MO. Who QAs these cartoons?!?

[Stevie OneLeg]

Trust me, Santa, the last place you want to be is in Ferguson sitting in a sled packed with new stuff.

[JeffreyinSandySprings]

agreed

[sasob]

"Ferguson, Missouri needs me this year."

Yeah? For what? They already ripped off all the presents and you want to give them some more, fat boy?

[steve baker]

If the spot on the map is supposed to indicate the location of Ferguson it's a few hundred miles too far east.

[CAMoore]

Here's a worse editorial cartoon - http://www.azcentral.com/topic.....738F2D109/

[Tony]

Which elf is Ferguson, I wonder.

[XM]

"Ferguson, Missouri needs me this year."

Zwarte Piet

[PS]

or this one from South Africa

[PS]

http://mg.co.za/cartoon/2014-1.....son-burns/

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[optimusratiostultum]

Maybe I just need to be enlightened but how is this so bad?