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Monday, 4 August 2008

Is this nicely dressed negro a threat?

by Firstdog

8 Comments

  1. Dave Liberts
    Posted Monday, 4 August 2008 at 5:20 pm | Permalink

    Edward James, you’re absolutely correct that racial prejudice is a bad thing. So when it arises as an issue in the US election campaign, which is an issue of significance to the entire world given the US’s standing as ‘the last superpower’ (until the next one, anyway), cartoonists are doing the right thing by satirising it. First Dog would never have gone here if McCain hadn’t (at least appeared to) first. The media (and thus cartoonists) can’t let political correctness get in the way of the real issues.

  2. Lum
    Posted Monday, 4 August 2008 at 2:10 pm | Permalink

    Well I’m too dumb to get the joke either. Dear firstdogonthemoon, please explain.

  3. murray
    Posted Tuesday, 5 August 2008 at 4:30 pm | Permalink

    Poor phil :(

  4. Phil
    Posted Monday, 4 August 2008 at 1:54 pm | Permalink

    I don’t normally pay too much attention to the First Dog cartoons, but does the Dog realise the Essendon player pictured here is Matthew Lloyd - hardly indigenous. Perhaps there’s a joke there and I’m just not getting it, but at first glance it’s a lazy choice of photos…

  5. firstdogonthemoon
    Posted Monday, 4 August 2008 at 2:06 pm | Permalink

    Yes I know who Matthew Lloyd is and yes there is a joke here and yes you are not getting it.

  6. Edward James
    Posted Monday, 4 August 2008 at 3:39 pm | Permalink

    We live and read Crikey, in Australia.! Certain racial stereotypical anemometrical identities implied by the captions in the first dog on the moon, and associated with the USA. And the type of pulp fiction which inspired the work product of Kyle Onstott. A poor mans Catcher in the Rye. Are not acceptable, nor is the promulgation of such divisive opinions acceptable to the majority of the peoples who live, breed and subscribe to Crikey.com in the great south land.
    Edward James, Umina CBD

  7. Nic
    Posted Monday, 4 August 2008 at 2:51 pm | Permalink

    Perhaps a reference to Lloyd’s obvious tanning salon habit?

  8. Phil
    Posted Tuesday, 5 August 2008 at 2:28 pm | Permalink

    Thanks for the detailed explanation re the joke - it’s so much clearer to me now. The fact you didn’t stoop so low as to respond with a one line answer and rub my nose in the fact i didn’t get the joke is top notch.