If you thought that the Ol’ Dirty’s Steven Baggs was batshit crazy, take a look at this political cartoon from The Broadside, a student publication from NC State. I’m not the most politically correct guy in the world, nor am I very receptive to insipid declarations of racism from people who take offense at humor, but that cartoon struck me as a little… I don’t know, tasteless. And I don’t mean funny tasteless, like a John Waters movie (okay, his movies aren’t funny either. So what?), I mean just dumb. Stupid and dumb.

Go ahead and read the article, too. It’s filled with with insightful journalistic nuggets like:

There was [sic] approximately one hundred people present at the McKimmon Center listening to his [Farrakhan’s] speech, many of them sporting turbans and various other head dresses. Everyone in the staff of people running the conference (which lasted all day with an assortment of events and speakers) were [sic] wearing a uniform white tunic-like outfit with matching turban. There was a through [sic] weapons frisk and pocket/purse check at the door for weapons and contraband materials.

And the author seems legitimately perplexed by the lack of spear-chucking and tribal warfare that he expected the speech to engender. I mean, after all, they were wearing (gasp) turbans.

His supporters, although dressed more radically, did not hang form [sic] the ceiling, shoot guns in the air, nor did any other action that was extreme in nature.

Okay, you could make the argument that Farrakhan preaches a brand of black empowerment predicated on divisiveness, but nobody takes the guy seriously. It’s not like Washington DC waits with baited breath for the next Farrakhan-espoused dynamo of political rhetoric. He’s no Jesse Jackson. He’s no Al Sharpton. He’s no one-man Black Panthers. He’s just a guy in a bow tie who severely overestimates his own power.

But I’m being too verbose. The author basically speaks for himself. Can somebody say DOUCHEBAG?

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