Ramirez offends without wit
Today’s Ramirez cartoon on Obama Health Care (Aug. 19) is offensive, not for his dislike of the president or public health care, but for the pictures on the wall of President Obama next to Karl Marx. This is just patently offensive.
You have published a number of Ramirez cartoons that I have found offensive, but this was over the top. I don’t expect editorial cartoons to reflect my views, but I do expect them to be clever, witty and thought-provoking. Ramirez is none of these, but just the Limbaugh of cartoonists – a boorish ultra-right-wing propagandist.
But today was a “twofer” for health care distortions. Mallard Fillmore (who is occasionally clever) today has President Obama showing a picture of an old woman as another old clunker he is determined to get rid of. This is the worst and most vicious of the lies that the reactionary right keeps circulating. Its only purpose is to scare the elderly. Lacking cogent arguments, devoid of ideas themselves, the Republican stooges of the insurance lobby keep repeating lies over and over. But then again, if you are the Party of No, what else can you do?
Richard S. Williams
Spokane