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NAACP Chairman Julian Bond said over the weekend that he agreed with political cartoonist Aaron McGruder’s characterization of National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice as "a murderer."
| These people are as crazy as the turbans, aren't they? |
Appearing with Bond on the television show "America’s Black Forum," McGruder, whose cartoon strip "The Boondocks" has portrayed Rice as a spinster who takes out her personal frustrations by launching carpet-bombing attacks on Iraq, explained his disdain for the highest-ranking woman in U.S. government. "I don’t like Condoleezza Rice because she’s part of this oil cabal that’s now in the White House," McGruder said, as ABF hosts Armstrong Williams and Juan Williams looked on. "I don’t like her because she’s a murderer," the cartoonist announced.
| His lips were moving, words were coming out, they were making no sense... |
The charged drew immediate condemnation from Armstrong Williams, who complained, "That is totally out of line to say she’s a murderer."
| "Mr. McGruder, your dipper's flipped..." |
Unfazed, McGruder repeated the accusation, stretching out his words, "S-h-e’-s a m-u-r-d-e-r-e-r."
| "Ain't I outrageous? Huh huh." |
"Let’s put aside the fact that she’s affiliated with oil companies that murder people in Nigeria," the cartoonist said. "We can discuss just this illegal Iraq war, the slaughtering of innocent people and the fact that she’s one of the big hawks of the administration. I don’t see where this is even a point of contention."
| "Certainly out here beyond the orbit of Uranus it's not." |
At that point cohost Juan Williams asked Mr. Bond if he supported McGruder’s contention.
| "How 'bout you, Julio? Are you nutz, too?" |
"I generally agree with his politics 100 percent and I think he explained himself well," the NAACP chief said.
I am at a loss for words. |