The Tea Baggers deny any connection to the so-called Tea Party Comix. So who is behind this trash? A gaggle of demented liberals who would publish racist garbage just to frame their opponents? If so, bad form, to say the least.
Right wing nutcases who got it out there to make it look as if demented liberals would stoop that low? Now that would be low.
Actual Tea Baggers? It’s hard to out-low the already-low.
Where’s Monk when you need him?
Today, some top tea partiers are disavowing the truly impressively bigoted comic books, claiming that they’re an obvious plant by tea party opponents. But at the same time, no one seems to know much about them. The mystery is still unsolved and the comics remain.
The books were first flagged by Ethan Persoff, the comic book blogger who brought us the hilarious Defense Department Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell explanation comic book “Dignity and Respect.” Pershoff told Rachel Maddow’s blog that he bought the first issue of the comic (there are at least three) somewhere in Corpus Christie, Texas. [...]
Each issue of the comic (there are three out on the net) is very, very racist, pulling no punches when it comes to bashing President Obama with the familiar tea party complaints about spending, fears of a biased judiciary and even the infamous death panels (featuring a bonus offensive image of a large-nosed Ezekiel Emanuel.) There’s something else interesting about them, one comic book expert at the Atomic Comics megastore in Mesa, Arizona told me today: they’re clearly drawn by someone who knows a lot about comics.
Stay tuned…
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