Some things haven't changed one whit: the left continues to wallow in racism and project it onto the right

/

She was black, conservative, and Republican, and so fair game

AI Overview

This political cartoon by Jeff Danziger, titled "Condoleezza Rice in the Role of a Lifetime", satirizes the shifting statements by the George W. Bush administration regarding the intelligence about Iraq's alleged aluminum tubes program. 

  • The cartoon was published in 2004.

  • It refers to Condoleezza Rice's initial strong claims about the tubes being for nuclear centrifuges, which were later downplayed or corrected.

  • The text depicts her saying "I KNOWS ALL ABOUT ALUMINUM TUBES!" followed by the "Correction" "I DON'T KNOW NUTHIN' ABOUT ALUMINUM TUBES..".

  • The imagery of the tubes with faces and the one bending over adds a layer of visual humor to the political commentary. [So says Google, anyway —Ed]

  • did this cartood ever appear in the New York Times?

    Yes

    , this specific cartoon by Jeff Danziger appeared in the New York Times. The credit line at the bottom right of the image itself includes "NYTS CS", which stands for New York Times Syndicate Sales, indicating it was distributed by the syndicate associated with the newspaper. 

    The cartoon, which ran around October 2004, relates to the debate over the U.S. intelligence regarding aluminum tubes and whether they were intended for Iraq's nuclear weapons program. Condoleezza Rice, then the National Security Advisor, was a key figure in public statements about this intelligence. 

I found the Condoleezza Rice story in the comments to the post shown below. Of the two: the NYT’s outrageous racism in 2004 that was perfectly acceptable to its readers, or Axios’ current claim that the right has “removed the guardrails for civil discourse”, I think the former is more important; Axios is irrelevant, while the NYT is still very much alive and continues to spread its malignant influence everywhere.