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Separated at birth? Obama and Joe Camel
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It's taken me a good 24 hours to get over this one.
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Henry Payne is the editorial cartoonist for The Detroit News and is syndicated to 60 newspapers across the country through United Features Syndicate.
So you have to wonder what Payne was thinking when he inked THIS cartoon which appeared in many papers including the Rocky Mountain News.
How can you be so blatantly racist and not have one single Editorial Page Editor in the U.S. catch it?
Joe Camel, as it was exposed years ago, was a blatant, racist attempt at marketing the cancer sticks to the African-American community. What was more confounding were the black celebrities who supported it, including Sean "Puffy" Combs and Rhianna.
Barack Obama is a role model. He clearly understands that. That is why his smoking is so abhorrent. On NBC's Meet The Press last Sunday, Obama said that he is trying to quit, but was a little evasive. Let's hope he can kick the habit.
But a more interesting question is what is happening to our nation's newspapers' Editorial departments? Are editors so busy sending out resumes because of the looming collapse of print journalism that they let this racist cartoon slip by?
Joe Camel was killed by RJ Reynolds in 1997. Now it has risen from the dead in an era that's supposed to be about change.
Maybe that's a good enough reason to let the newspapers die, too.
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