Iowa newspaper apologizes for Vivek Ramaswamy cartoon depicting GOP voters as racist

[Kamaji]

Iowa newspaper apologizes for Vivek Ramaswamy cartoon depicting GOP voters as racist: ‘Inexcusable’

By Yael Halon, Fox News
June 26, 2023

The major Iowa newspaper that published a political cartoon depicting MAGA voters yelling racial slurs at Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy issued a formal apology over the weekend after the GOP hopeful slammed the depiction as “shameful.”

The Quad-City Times executive editor Tom Martin wrote on the paper’s website Friday that the “inexcusable” cartoon was intended to “criticize racist ideas and epithets” but instead featured a phrase that “is racist and insensitive to members of our Indian American community.”

“Racist and hateful ideas, words or images have no place in our publications, much less our society. It’s why we apologize today for letting such an image slip through our editorial process and into our opinion page Wednesday in the form of a political cartoon,” he wrote.

Martin said the controversial cartoon has been removed from the paper’s website and that they will no longer accept any work from the cartoon artist responsible.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/06/26/iowa-newspaper-apologizes-for-vivek-ramaswamy-cartoon-depicting-gop-voters-as-racist-inexcusable/

[PeteS in CA]

The "apology" is all TL;DR blah-blah and no teeth - i.e. no editorial staff member making the decision to publish was disciplined.

The cartoon was a two-fer, portraying Ramaswamy as puppet for bigots and R rally attendees as ignorant bigots. I doubt that anyone, at this point, reasonably thinks Ramaswamy has much of a chance in 2024, but he might be a threat to MSM/Dem stereotypes in future years.

The form will vary, but every possibly significant R candidate will experience continual crap like this from now until Election Day 2024, and for another 4+ years if they dare to win the Presidency.