BOSTON (CBS) – The Boston Herald issued an apology Wednesday for a political cartoon mocking President Obama and the Secret Service security
failures.
The cartoon shows the president brushing his teeth in a White House bathroom with a surprised look on his face as a white man sits in the bathtub behind him, asking Mr. Obama, “Have you tried the new watermelon flavored toothpaste?”
The caption reads, “White House Invader Got Farther Than Originally Thought”
ht/ fdr in hell
So … why apologize?
Big deal, at worst, he’s calling him a child. Because those flavors are for children. lol.
Secret Service director resigning.
Mr.Pinko is also offended
Watermelon toothpaste – – I’d buy that!
Oh, how I long for the come back of Archie Bunker!!! Just a few good episodes would do us all a bit of good. For Christ’s sake!!!! Sorry Lord!
Is there a new watermelon flavored toothpaste?
If not, that is a flagrantly and clumsily racist cartoon.
An intruder in the WH could go a million directions and he chose that scenario?
Why not have Obama just washing his chest in the sink if you’re going to stomp all over stereotypes.
And quit brushing with Reggie’s buttcheese?
For those who have never been, Boston is the most bigoted city I have ever visited, followed closely by Philly.
The flies are a nice touch…
Plus, the invader was a latino or arab looking guy with a muzzie beard thing going on. But he was WHITE. Another one of those latino white people.
A racist insult to watermelon flavored toothpastes around the world!
He like the cum-quat flavored
Oh, puh-lease. This president offends ME.
Can you imagine if he had also had the beard getting a bean pie in the face or drinking sizurp in that cartoon.
I agree with Karen. I think somebody is trying to give him a message that they can get him any time they want to. Just my gut feeling. Scary to be in Obama’s shoes and hated by the American people and the world too.
So Colgate is racist for making the stuff, as Obama is shown to be using a tube that looks like Colgate.
This is where the productive half of society needs to stop apologizing to the unproductive half, for every perceived slight.
I’m 60 years old. In my entire life I have never said to someone
“That’s racist”
Would it have been funnier with “Reggie’s Dick Flavored Toothpaste?”
Or “Shit Flavored Toothpaste?”
Or “Ball Flavored Toothpaste?”
I cannot for the life of me figure out how food became tangled up in racism.
If one race prefers fried chicken and another prefers chicken parmigiana how in the hell is that an insult? I love ’em both.
Yes, of course I realize how some people will use perceived food demographics as a slur. I’m just amazed that it works!
Spike Lee called another negro a “Chicken and biscuit eatin motherfucker” and the guy took it as an insult.
I love chicken and biscuits.
Well, sausage and biscuits …
and ham and biscuits …
and bacon, egg, and biscuits …
and egg and cheese and biscuits …
and turkey and biscuits …
and biscuits and gravy …
and biscuits and butter …
I’m beginning to sense a pattern …
I’m with Tim. Why apologize?
“That’s some funny S#!^ right there!”
(cannot recall who said that first.)
Should he have been saying “Flouride” instead of watermelon?
I like watermelon. Is it ok for a white guy to like watermelon?
-and am (more) confused as to how food could belong to a race, anyway.
And all this time I though he brushed with Massengill!
They should have put the guy with ebola in the bathtub with “I hope it’s okay that I used your toothbrush.”
Try the Chocolate City toothpaste. Cause that ain’t racist. The news media told me so.
@ Tim-
OoRah! And it’s dinnertime and I have a box of Bisquick.
Won’t be as good as Jerry Clower’s mama’s but they’ll be good enough for ME!
Be the first on your block to get some:
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Anyone ever think that maybe that dudes’ target was originally Mooch and her daughters? Obama & Mooch are on the rocks, and I can’t imagine The Mighty O suffering himself paying alimony & child support when he has a humungous narcissistic legacy to fund.
That indonesian/hawaiian/chimpcongo limpwristed rumpranger has probly never tasted waddymelon; why would he be offended?
Way to go Billy Fuster. You said you’d found your avatar and you went and did it. Good job.
More should do that.
Did you have to re-size it?
Should have said “Halal Toothpaste”