Dear Lord, Glenn McCoy. That Is One Nasty Cartoon

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If there is some point here relevant to the headlines — beyond the fact that Obama is pro-choice — I don’t know what it is. I’m not sure it matters. This is so foul is goes beyond any standard of good taste and common decency. I tend to give satire a pretty wide berth; this is beyond the pale.

Barack Obama beating fetuses with a bloody baseball bat in a dumpster? I can’t even look at it for more than a few seconds.

Here’s the thing. A few years back I had a coworker who wrote a feminist blog on the side. We used to joke about the way hardcore pro-lifers saw her, as an activist for abortion rights. “They probably think you eat fetuses in a bowl for breakfast,” I would say. “With chopsticks!” she would respond.

We knew it was over the top. It was ridiculous. It was parody. And apparently, stunningly, it had elements of truth.

Update: Here’s what this is about. As you would guess, it in no way justifies this cartoon. And EF makes a great point in the comments — if Democrats produced something equally disgusting about John McCain, there would be a backlash with serious consequences. It would start, of course, with Fox News, the in-house network of the Republican Party.

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