<<Which no one I'm aware of has denied. So why you brought it up [that both sides almost routinely vilify their political opponents] is beyond me. >>
That's OK. There are a lot of things, sirs, which seem to be beyond you. Let me help you, then. I brought it up because you seemed to be totally unaware of the phenomenon. You seemed to be totally unaware of the phenomenon because you used several rather clear and unmistakeable examples of it as "proof" that "left-wingers" had spewed out the same kind of racist garbage as Don Imus, and in an (apparently hopeless) attempt to show you the difference, felt that you might understand the difference more easily if you first recognized your examples for what they were. (The next step being, having recognized your own examples for what they were, you might more clearly see how Imus' contribution to the art of character assassination differed from them.) That's why I brought it up. And to show the non-partisan nature of my remark, I took extra pains to show that not only left-wingers but also right-wingers indulged in this sort of thing. Maybe you already knew that. Maybe you didn't. It was a gratuitous aside, nothing to do with the main thrust of my argument, just a little precaution to ensure that you or some other fascist lunatic would not provoke a side-issue conflict over which side does it more.
<<The point I was making was in demonstrating how you consistently, and still are I might add, finding ways to rationalize and give a pass to leftist commentators, celebs, & pundits for their blatantly racist remarks & cartoons, when they happen to be aimed at the right, but have no problem falling all over yourself in literally proclaiming all the GOP as one big racist organization. Especially any republican having to do with the south or Bush>>
Bush is a lying, torturing, murdering, cowardly and incompetent bastard, pure and simple. There are very few cartoons that could go over the line in describing Bush. There IS no line. This guy is a major war criminal responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of human beings and in a just world would be on trial for his life. Republicans "having to do with the South" are mostly closet (and in the cases of Trent Lott, Senator Macacawitz and others, not even closet) racists or apologists and enablers for racists, and I congratulate any cartoonists who have the balls to take them on. If you DON'T think the GOP (in the South) is one big racist organization, read up on Goldwater's Southern Strategy and how it has played out from the Sixties till the present day. (Reservation: check out BT's point that the focus of the GOP's southern strategy now is more yuppie-centred - - I haven't read up on it but I'd want to know how many of those "new southerners" are actually white-flight emigres from the north, i.e., different kinds of racists than the old south produced, but racists none the less.)
Anyway I don't attack cartoonists for promoting my own view of things, if that's what you mean, and I don't think you are any different in that respect either. But the difference is that I don't support misogyny or racism, so I don't have to defend racist or misogynist cartoonists, and you do.
