Just a cartoon...

Sooo, the New Yorker Cartoon buzz has yet to wear down, but folks, it is over. Bottom line is that the media has exploited (yet again) something that is not even worth the effort. Satire, yes. Tasteful, probably not. But to keep asking if it is understood, I ask -- is there anyone that even understands a New Yorker cartoon to begin with?

Yesterday, I posted a link to Jon Stewart's satirising of the media over this... in which he said that Obama should have said that he doesn't care: "It's a fucking cartoon." Now, I understand all the racism, the fear mongering, the indecency in this country... but we will NEVER get beyond it and move forward until we do one thing... just stop. Frank Schaeffer's blasting of Stewart's bit on the Huffington Post today just proves that we need to stop; the dialogue long since stopped being productive. Despite what we are taught, free speech isn't a right, it's a privilege that comes with responsibilities and both sides of the fence and some in between have acted in irresponsible ways. But in a world where only the few random are punished (i.e. Don Imus) and quickly forgotten... irresponsibility runs amok all over the American public.