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Former SR cartoonist Milt Priggee has lit up cyberspace with a cartoon that portrays the Tea Party 
as a bunch of angry bigots holding signs that spouted their favorite causes. Daryl Cagle, who has a Web site devoted to the nation’s political cartoonists, tweeted: “Tough cartoon about the racial bigotry that seems apparent in the Tea Party.” Bryan Myrick of the conservative blog Unequal Time isn’t as generous: “Seeing the key phrases ‘racial bigotry,’ ‘apparent,’ and ‘tea Party,’ I took the bait, clicked and found myself looking at a cartoon by Milt Priggee posted on Cagle’s blog that caused my jaw to hit the keyboard.” More here. You can see why the Priggee ‘toon is causing so much commotion by clicking here (warning: nasty racial epithet ahead).
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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Digger on March 26 at 11:54 a.m.
Wow. Milt nails the teabagger movement. Its ugly to say that they fit that mold but… well, sadly they do.
Charlie on March 26 at 1:00 p.m.
IMO, it is more like the left playing the race card.
toadman on March 26 at 4:01 p.m.
I’d be offended at this cartoon if it wasn’t so damned dead on target.
Gary D Rhodes on March 26 at 4:11 p.m.
Hate filled hack.
Sisyphus on March 26 at 4:12 p.m.
I’m embarrassed to say I don’t get it. What’s the connection b/n Waterloo and lynching? Is that the joke, that there is no connection, but teabaggers don’t know that? Cause that would be funny in the Blazing Saddles sort of way.
Good to see you Toad, but damn if you didn’t key right into a hot button topic. You know that gets you all riled.
fortboise on March 26 at 6:17 p.m.
My jaw was closer to the keyboard when I heard about the angry demonstrators shouting that N word at John Lewis a few days ago.
Exiled_in_Seattle on March 26 at 6:38 p.m.
I am as offended by this as I was over the marginalization of anti war protesters in the early 2000’s by Fox.
Those who think that the Tea Parties are composed of right wing goons don’t understand what they are about. Most of these folks are the centrists that got the democrats in power between 2006 and 2008. They feel rightly betrayed by the Democratic party which has shifted more to the left than they campaigned.
The right and the Republican party do not own or control the Tea Parties. That’s not to say they don’t want to - its just that this is not their “astro turf” like some of the progressive protesters have been in the past.
The left has an opportunity now to practice what they have long preached. They are now the establishment - and with that comes dissent focused on them. Are they going to react like Nixon or like Bush? I suspect Nixon, but I’m open for surprises.
Phaedrus on March 26 at 7:30 p.m.
“Most of these folks are the centrists that got the democrats in power between 2006 and 2008”.
Seattle, Really?
Well if that is the case then those “centrists” had better get control of the message because right now the extremists of the right wing are dominating the Tea Party voice.
Exiled_in_Seattle on March 26 at 9:04 p.m.
Phaedrus on March 26 at 7:30 p.m.
You are free to believe whatever you wish. I simply made an observation of reality as I perceive it.
We all as Americans have the right to speak the truth as we see it. The true test of tolerance is how you react when that speech is contrary to your own ideas.
As for extremists taking over as the voice of the Tea Parties - I beg to differ. There are many people angry about current events. The media, particularly the bomb throwers at MSNBC, are blaming it all on Tea Partiers and not providing much in the way of evidence that these folks are actually the source of the nasty phone messages, etc.
Like I mentioned earlier, the left needs to accept that they are now the establishment. And with that comes the burden of being the object of people’s distrust and anger.
Phaedrus on March 26 at 10:13 p.m.
You are free to believe whatever you wish. I simply made an observation of reality as I perceive it.—Seattle.
Agreed. I choose to believe in reality and facts, feel free to live in your perception.
Arch_Druid on March 26 at 10:52 p.m.
Let’s put it bluntly, it had already been reported that “TEA Party” types had shouted racial slurs, homophobic slurs… then turned violent. “Centrists?” Centrists wouldn’t have behaved like this. Nor did the “TEA Party” type ever put Dems into office. Sorry Seattle, these guys only came out in droves after Obama was elected to the presidency. They saw no cause to protest big gvt, they saw no cause to protest national debt hip deep and rising. Not until the GOP became a minority party. These are also the same people who absolutely would not have voted for Obama in the first place, accused the man of being a “socialist” and a Muslim. So, any party that would put Obama at the head of the ticket, you can be sure that these people would not have voted for the party or the man.
In the case of the Priggee cartoon, the truth hurts. And the “TEA Party,” well they are as “right wing” as I am the pope.
imme on March 29 at 3:05 p.m.
I’m not offended by the cartoon per se since it was obviously drawn as a false flag by someone with an agenda not connected with truth, but am offended that some liberal puke attempts to have people believe this has anything to do with race rather than the infringements on freedom and Constitutional due process perpetrated by the Obamaists.
brentandrews on March 30 at 1:26 p.m.
I support Prigee’s right to speak. But I don’t envy his position in the hot seat, over this.
nic on March 30 at 2:19 p.m.
“We all as Americans have the right to speak the truth as we see it.”
That would be called “opinion” in which case you do have the right to voice your opinion. Facts, and truth do not always agree with opinion. In which case, when you use your right to vioce your opinion as if they were fact (which is also your right) you just look silly.