Not here, not when I see them.
The latest "outrage" comes from Georgia, where a Marietta bar owner, Mike Norman, is seeing protests outside his Mulligan's Food and Spirits over a tee shirt that he's been selling since April.
About a dozen people gathered outside a bar in Marietta to object to a T-shirt that shows the cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana with "Obama in '08" printed beneath.
The protesters gathered Tuesday outside Mulligan's Food and Spirits, saying the shirts with the slogan about the Democratic presidential candidate are racist.
This is what they're so bent out of shape about...
Ok. So the guy thinks Obama looks like Curious George. What of it? This is just ONE example of where the hypocrisy comes in:
There are dozens of others. There is even one website devoted to pictures comparing the President to a chimpanzee.
Where is the outrage over President Bush being depicted as Curious George? Where have the protests been?
Hypocrisy and double standards.
Rick Blake, a spokesman for publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, which owns Curious George, said Wednesday that the company didn't authorize the use of the character's image, but hasn't been in touch with anybody selling or manufacturing the shirts."We find it offensive and obviously utterly out of keeping with the value Curious George represents," Blake said. "We're monitoring the situation and weighing our options with respect to legal action."
HEED MY WORDS. If Houghton Mifflin Harcourt pursues legal action against Norman, they're also going to have to go after each and every site out there comparing the President to Curious George as well. If not, then they are guilty of witch hunting one individual in the name of liberal bias.
Once and Always, an American Fighting Man
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