By GI Korea on September 10th, 2010 at 1:00 pm

Picture of the Day: Another Stupid Korea Times Political Cartoon

• Lemmy
  6:14 am on September 10th, 2010 1

  What is wrong with burning the KQOURAN? Is it worse than http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/al-qaida_plants_flag_burns_bod.html” rel=”nofollow”>:http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/07/al-qaida_plants_flag_burns_bod.html

  or how about: http://www.nomullas.net/beheadings.html

  Islam is a religon I should respect?

• Pete
  6:43 am on September 10th, 2010 2

  This cartoon makes perfect sense to me. In the old days it use to be the the military who fought for America and American values and rights. In other words the troops protected the citizens. Now leadership wants the citizens to protect the troops. If we are afraid = then turn tail and run.

• john
  8:18 am on September 10th, 2010 3

  Politicians = Stupids

  Cartoons = mindless, stupid diversion

  Political cartoon = better be stupider or else.

• fsseoul
  8:22 am on September 10th, 2010 4

  I'm amazed I haven't seen this brought up, but what ever happened to freedom of speech??? Good lord!! In the US we allow neo-nazis to hold demonstrations because of the 1st amendment. As much as I think they are both fairly wacked to do a demonstration. IT IS THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT. Islam is not being persecuted by the 50 person congregation this pastor has. Why can we tolerate something as obscene as people thinking Hitler is great, and then condemn this group.

• Leon LaPorte
  8:53 am on September 10th, 2010 5

  Goodness. I hope we don't piss off THE ENEMY.

• Glans
  8:56 am on September 10th, 2010 6

  In Afghanistan, there were angry protests against the Koran burning, even though it has not occurred! Somehow, one man got killed, and three people were critically wounded.

  http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/11/world/asia/11af…

• archieb
  11:29 am on September 10th, 2010 7

  The US and international media was trying to over report the "Koran burning" to try to make Americans look "anti-muslim." But that pastor of a small church in Florida played his hand well and is insisting that he'll cancel his plans if the muslims cancel the mosque at ground zero. In the process he has exposed many "leaders" as cowards and fools. Well played, pastor, well played.

• archieb
  11:30 am on September 10th, 2010 8

  As for the cartoon, just looking at it and trying to understand why anyone would draw it is enough to kill many brain cells. The Korea Times is a glorified National Enquirer.

• kushibo
  3:17 pm on September 10th, 2010 9

  GI Korea, I know his cartoons appear in the Korea Times, but I think it ends up being a tad misleading, since this Frenchman is a syndicated cartoonist in Thailand whose work happens to appear also in the KT.

  In the K-blogs there has been plenty of outrage about his cartoons, often by people who assumed he was a Korean working exclusively for the KT and possibly a Korean-language paper.

• Zilchy
  4:14 pm on September 10th, 2010 10

  #9 "shibo" states – "In the K-blogs there has been plenty of outrage about his cartoons, often by people who assumed he was a Korean working exclusively for the KT and possibly a Korean-language paper."

  Regardless of who drew it, the newspaper who publishes it, has to take responsibility for the actual choice. Not that this is a concern for the Korea Times.

• kushibo
  4:20 pm on September 10th, 2010 11

  Zilchy, his cartoons are syndicated, not handpicked by the KT. The KT does not guide, dictate, or control the content in any way, and were it to actually do so by screening individual cartoons (as I suggested in the above link), it would be an uncomfortable free speech issue.

• Hamilton
  5:32 pm on September 10th, 2010 12

  Kushibo, it is not a free speech issue. KT pays the man for his comics, an editor decides if the content is worthy of inclusion in the paper. In this case he did and the trash above is published.

  Free speech in the US sense is if the abysmal cartoonist is denied the right to display his cartoon in public not a gun to the head of a media outlet forcing it to put his crap in their paper. KT deserves the blame.

• Vince
  6:41 pm on September 10th, 2010 13

  Who is the enemy? Is the guy who is glad to see us because we keep his village free of aQ and Taliban? Is it the Afghan soldier who has at least showed up for the patrol?

  Why waste time doing something which may push the ambivalent to being willing enemies, and be insulting to others we are trying to work with?

  To quote Admiral Burke from WWII, "..if it helps us kill Japs, it's important. If it doesn't help us kill Japs, it's not important.."

  This is just a publicity stunt which won't result in any damage to the enemy. If you're into emotional outbursts, you're probably not serious about doing damage to these stinky goat lovers.

• Zilchy
  6:46 pm on September 10th, 2010 14

  #11 – "Zilchy, his cartoons are syndicated, not handpicked by the KT. The KT does not guide, dictate, or control the content in any way, and were it to actually do so by screening individual cartoons (as I suggested in the above link), it would be an uncomfortable free speech issue."

  It would be an uncomfortable free speech issue to think that a newspaper has no control over what it presents to the public, regardless of syndication.

  In the end, is a newspaper responsible for the content it distributes?

  Will a blame be placed on the name at the top of page 1, regardless of the inner workings?

• archieb
  7:32 pm on September 10th, 2010 15

  Kushibo, if this cartoonist was drawing sensible, pro-USA cartoons, would the Korea Times print his work? Of course not. So, the Korea Times is responsible for the printing of his "death to America" ramblings."

• archieb
  7:35 pm on September 10th, 2010 16

  As for this "cartoon", how is it even any part of reality?

• kushibo
  7:42 pm on September 10th, 2010 17

  Kushibo, if this cartoonist was drawing sensible, pro-USA cartoons, would the Korea Times print his work? Of course not.

  In the past (not sure about now), various US-based mainstream political cartoons have also been syndicated in the English-language dailies. Don't play the victim.

  And is the problem that he's not sensible or that he's not pro-US?

• JoeC
  10:58 pm on September 10th, 2010 18

  This past week, one of our greatest modern political cartoonists, Paul Conrad, died.

  He was not unfamiliar with this type of controversy and criticism for his work.

• Zilchy
  8:15 am on September 11th, 2010 19

  #16 ArchieB – "As for this “cartoon”, how is it even any part of reality?"

  My take,

  It's a "shot" at the U.S. with respect to our use of military might to solve a "self-percieved" problem. The opposite of diplomacy, have a nice sit down discussion or economic sanctions. The irony being an attack on our own citizen, a pastor.

  It's interesting to note that the cartoonist is a Frenchmen. United Nations anyone?

• archieb
  8:17 am on September 11th, 2010 20

  Kushibo, the actions depicted in this "cartoon" never happened. No Korans were actually burned by the pastor and the US military didn't attack his church. It was drawn and PRINTED simply to circulate the lie that Americans are violently anti-muslim. That's not political commentary, satire, or opinion. It's a LIE that is being spread by the left-wing US and international media.

• kushibo
  8:26 am on September 11th, 2010 21

  It was drawn and PRINTED simply to circulate the lie that Americans are violently anti-muslim.

  Huh? Are we looking at the same cartoon?

  It seems to me it's mocking the Secretary of Defense's claim that the US military needed to be protected from this duckweed's incendiary demonstration.

  But with many of Monsieur Peray's cartoons, the message is not always clear (see here and, of course, here).

  Still, when the US military is depicted as killing a (supposedly) Christian minister, how is that a statement of being "violently anti-Muslim"?

• Zilchy
  8:28 am on September 11th, 2010 22

  ArchieB – "Kushibo, if this cartoonist was drawing sensible, pro-USA cartoons, would the Korea Times print his work? Of course not."

  Shibo – "In the past (not sure about now), various US-based mainstream political cartoons have also been syndicated in the English-language dailies. Don’t play the victim.

  And is the problem that he’s not sensible or that he’s not pro-US?"

  I'm surprised that any American would take this cartoon to heart. As American citizens, we have been immunized against all forms of anti-American sentiment due to a long history of various, state of the art vaccinations.

  I live by the maxim that anti-American sentiment is the norm. When your the king of the hill, everyone else is just itching to bring you down. No surprises here.

• kushibo
  8:34 am on September 11th, 2010 23

  Zilchy wrote:

  Shibo

  When "Zilchy" calls me "shibo" instead of "kushibo," it's clear he's trying to drag me down to his level.

  (just having fun with a little word play there.)

• Zilchy
  8:52 am on September 11th, 2010 24

  #23

  My greatest fear is typing "Ka" instead of "Ku" and then having to feel your wrath. This way, it's just plain safe!

  "shibo' does have a "Shaka Zulu" ring to it. Maybe people will think you are of a darker flavor? Solly!

• Zilchy
  8:56 am on September 11th, 2010 25

  #23 again

  You couldn't sink to my level on your best day. It took me years to devolve to the level I currently enjoy. It's a long difficult road. I hope to reach negative figures in the near future. Pride is a wonderful thing!!

• kushibo
  9:46 am on September 11th, 2010 26

  No worries about the "Kashibo" stuff. I was just wondering what I was supposed to mean… Kashibo… Kashi… By invoking that yuppie cereal product, is this guy insinuating I'm some sort of new age liberal?!

• Zilchy
  11:56 am on September 11th, 2010 27

  No worries about the “Kashibo” stuff. I was just wondering what I was supposed to mean… Kashibo… Kashi… By invoking that yuppie cereal product, is this guy insinuating I’m some sort of new age liberal?!

  New age liberal, not completely accurate. In judgement, from your use of rhetoric, I would say you leeeeeeeeean towards the left. I don't think you have fallen over yet, but pretty close.

  What's a "new age" liberal? Stating views from the left, but acting towards the right?

  P.S. I like my cereal with a little sucrose on it!!!!!!

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