NAACP and Boston herald to meet after Obama cartoon outrage

[merrily]

http://www.wcvb.com/news/naacp-boston-herald-to-meet-after-obama-cartoon-outrage/28407112

Racial connotation of watermelon-flavored toothpaste for President Obama "never occurred" to cartoonist.

Not buying it.

[justhanginon]

1. You would have to be 14 knds of

stupid not to catch that connotation. If it was an attempt to be clever, it certainly fell flat as it should have. Jeez! Come on, it's 2014 not 1914.

[yeoman6987]

3. Apparently it is a new product that Whoopi

Goldberg and Rosie O'Donnell uses. They like it. Still dumb to use in a comic.

[merrily]

5. Bigoted to use in a political cartoon about an African American President.

I don't even care if the Obamas use it. The idea that the connotation of watermelon with an African American President never occurred to a political cartoonist is just not plausible. And, for those who are not familiar with the Herald, it is RW. Murdoch owned it at one point, but it was right wing both before and after Murdoch.

[Frustratedlady]

2. And, where's the outrage over the cartoon of the Obamas in an open limo...

with Michelle in a pink outfit and hat?

To me, that is no different and probably worse than the watermelon-flavored toothpaste. Of course, neither is acceptable to sane humans.

[merrily]

4. It is worse in that it suggests assassination. But, both are awful.