Today's "Prickly City" is an outrage

Prickly City is a right-wing comic strip that appears in the washington Post. I ignore it, but today's strip was difficult to ignore -- and it practically slandered Senator Harry Reid.

Today's disgusting strip offered a "cut and paste bumper sticker" with white words on a black background. It's hard to miss on the comic page.

The words on the bumper sticker say:

SENATE DEMOCRAT LEADER HARRY REID GOT $1.1 MILLION IN A LAND DEAL AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY MINORITY

The first part of the line is, in my opinion, virtually slanderous, and I can't figure out what the second part of the sentence, "all i got was this lousy minority" means in the twisted repuglican mind of the artist, Scott Stantis.

Ironically, Stantis also notes that this bumper sticker is "from the comic strip that cares" -- obviously his definition of "cares" means caring about the rick, greedy, selfish, warmongering, torturing, swiftboating slanderers and election stealers who are running this country into the ground.

To view the strip, go to: http://www.gocomics.com/pricklycity/

I'm contacting the Post today to express my outrage.

If you wish to comment, here's a link to how to send a letter to the editor or e-mail the ombudsman:
http://www.washpost.com/news_ed/editorial/letter.shtml

for me.

We have Glenn McCoy political cartoons now, too. I usually don't care for him but he has had some really good ones on North korea here lately.

I really didn't care for the one he did with Clinton with his fly open and hearts on his boxers. Too tacky.

the "family values" people would be all over it. Boxer shorts on a comic page? Eeeeeeee!

Hypocrites of the first degree.

He said Reid's land deal could be worse than the Whitewater scandal. (duh-what scandal!).
Hannity is desperate for any trash-Dem material to stuff up freepers' asses.

Oh....memory hole. My bad.

edit: spelling of the FORMER majority leader's name.

and you see how inferior it is both in its concept and execution.

that was perhaps the finest of them all.

"Spaceman Spiff" would become a strip ... I was hoping so much ...

pricklycity@gmail.com

I sent him one yesterday regarding his Pelosi smear.

unfunny. It's only newspapers' sad need to "balance" the iconoclastic point-of-view that most cartoonists have that gets Scott Stantis published at all. He just doesn't have it, thinking-wise, and it shows.

(On edit: Weird. the subject line took the whole word 'unfunny' yet cropped it in the post.)

Dear Ms. Howell,

Ordinarily I ignore the Prickly City comic strip, but today's comic, with its solid black background and large white letters, was almost impossible to avoid.

The strip's statement "Senator Harry Reid got $1.1 million in a land deal and all I got was this lousy minority" is a nasty political smear. While it does not clearly state wrongdoing on Senator Reid's part, such wrongdoing is implied.

I suppose your lawyers looked it over and concluded that the statement technically was not slanderous, but this kind of statement is akin to the "swiftboating" type of smear campaign that impugned Senator John Kerry's medals for heroism in Vietnam. I think it is beneath the Washington Post to participate, in any form, in this type of mud-slinging commentary.

In addition, the statement, taken in entirety, fails to make any kind of sense. What does "all I got was this lousy minority" mean? The primary intent of the strip, it seems to me, is to broadcast the implication that Senator Reid did something sleazy. I do not know the facts of this land deal, but discussion of it belongs elsewhere in the newspaper.

I worked as a newspaper journalist for nearly 25 years, and I recognize and defend your freedom to print such a thing. But I strongly suggest that this belongs on the editorial pages as commentary, not as a comic strip.

Land deals gone bad are too complex to understand. To this day, I haven't figured out what the whole Whitewater thing was about, besides being a witch hunt.