Blog Heap o'Art of Links 5 June 2009

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Links regarding art of all types
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copyright, media, illusion, and pop culture.

Friday 2009 June 5

Cartoons Count

Sotomayor Cartoon Seen As Racist
koco.com Fri 2009-Jun-5 3:13pm

OKLAHOMA CITY -- A political cartoon featuring Judge Sonia Sotomayor that was published in the Oklahoman is getting national attention from the Latino community... The cartoonist also said that to say he's insensitive is part of his job, like telling basketball players that they're tall.... [Oh, sure, that explains it perfectly.]

Sotomayor Cartoon Puts Daily Oklahoman in Hot Water -- Again
hispanicbusiness.com Fri 2009-Jun-5 3:11pm

The Oklahoman newspaper -- which in 1999 was named 'The Worst Newspaper in America' by the Columbia Journalism Review -- is coming under fire for publishing a syndicated cartoon this week depicting Sonia Sotomayor strung up as a piñata in a tree.

Oklahoma newspaper criticized for cartoon showing Sotomayor strung up
trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com Fri 2009-Jun-5 2:42pm

Women's groups and others are upset at an editorial cartoon that ran this week in The Oklahoman. The cartoon (below) shows U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor hanging from a tree like a piñata. Nearby, President Barack Obama, in a sombrero, is handing out bats to elephants (Republican senators?), saying, "Now, who wants to be first?" [WHAT editor approved this awful mess?]

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