Lee Judge 2008 flashback... wishing Limbaugh was dead?

Kansas City Star cartoonist Lee Judge has recently published cartoons that ridiculed Christian ministers and bashed Catholics. I've concluded Judge is a bigot.

Just for human interest, and maybe for a glimpse into the character of Lee Judge, below is a 2008 cartoon which appears to depict Judge's wish that Rush Limbaugh was dead.



Judge's cartoon is demented. Most Americans were saddened at the death of Tim Russert -- including me. But I can't imagine taking the occasion of Russert's death to wish, as Judge apparently did, that Limbaugh was dead. Ed Morrissey posted the cartoon at Hot Air and said this:

One does not have to agree with Russert to mourn his passing and note that it is a tremendous loss for political journalism. One also does not have to agree with Rush to understand that he has built his audience honestly, through hard work and free speech, in maybe the only nation where this could even be possible. For those who don’t understand that, wishing death on one’s political opponents is the only reaction open to them, I suppose, and for that they should be pitied — and then ignored.

Bigot at the Kansas City Star

Not only does KC Star cartoonist Lee Judge lack talent -- it's pretty obvious he is a bigot. The cartoon below, published in the Kansas City Star Saturday, ridicules Christian ministers.

Judge recently drew a bizarre cartoon slamming Catholics, apparently with the full blessing of his employer.

Judge's religious bigotry is only targeted at Christians.  Try to imagine Judge drawing a cartoon slamming Muslims.  It would never happen. But, even if the unthinkable did happen and Judge drew an anti-Muslim cartoon, do you think the Star would publish it?

Update: in comments, a reader says Lee Judge based his cartoon on this report in the KC Star about a revision of the New International Version version of the Bible.

But there is nothing in the report to give Lee Judge a basis to portray ministers as morons the way he does in the cartoon. The report explains the NIV is being revised to remove gender-specific terms where the original languages (Hebrew and Greek) do not use gender-specific terms. So some verses “sons of God” becomes “children of God.” Regardless whether Judge based his cartoon on the Star article, it's obvious Judge went way out of his way to slime Christian ministers and the Bible. The cartoon was drawn by a bigot.

Update #2: Doug Ross linked, thanks!

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• Wishing Rush Limbaugh dead?

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Another tea party smear from Kansas City Star cartoonist Lee Judge

The Democratic party and the left are still trying to marginalize Obama Care opponents and the Tea Party by portraying them as pawns of the insurance industry or other hidden groups. Star cartoonist Lee Judge portrays health care opponents as tools, not citizens with legitimate grievances. This cartoon was picked up by the far-left website Daily Kos.

Gratuitous slam on Catholics in the KC Star

Cartoonist Lee Judge went out of his way to slam Catholics in a cartoon published in Saturday's KC Star.

With a few strokes of his pen Kansas City Star editorial cartoonist Lee Judge has successfully been able to offend just about all followers of the Catholic faith by saying "many" Catholics support Louisville Coach Rick Pitino, who admitted to having an affair, because they are more interested in a winning basketball team than they are practicing their faith.

Judge, who has been at the paper 28 years and was originally scheduled to be let go during cutbacks last November, seems to have crossed a major line by showing a Catholic priest saying "We have a strong belief in something" and then answering his own statement by saying "winning."

Below is the cartoon.

Does this cartoon even make sense to you?... the University of Louisville where Pitino coaches isn't even a Catholic school -- it's a public university.

The Star needs to apologize to Catholics. After they dump Lee Judge.

McClatchy cartoonists skewer citizens at Tea Party protests, give a pass to politicians running up massive deficits

The Tea Party movement continues to reverberate across the country despite being sneered at by the media and mocked by vulgar leftists.

Consider how political cartoonists have treated the Tea Party protests this year.

McClatchy's cartoonists have either ignored the Tea Party protests, or portrayed the protesters as idiots.

A Kansas City Star cartoon by Lee Judge (below) portrays the protesters as hypocrites.


A Charlotte Observer cartoon by Kevin Siers (below) portrays the protesters as selfish buffoons.


A News & Observer cartoon by Dwane Powell (click here) makes the protesters out to be absurd Alice in Wonderland characters. A second Kevin Siers cartoon in the Charlotte Observer (click here) portrays the tax protests as a GOP movement.

Notice the common thread? The McClatchy cartoons skewer citizens, not the politicians running up sky-high deficits.

Some cartoonists, though, get it. Below is a cartoon by Matthew Silber -- a McClatchy Watch reader -- that was originally published in the Platte County Missouri Landmark.



Matthew Silber grasps that protests against high taxes and big government are quintessentially American.  McClatchy's cartoonists, by contrast, treat citizen protesters like freaks and outcasts.
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Looks like McClatchy cartoonist Lee Judge gets his "news" from left wing blogs

What's wrong with McClatchy's cartoonists? The Kansas City Star published a cartoon by Lee Judge this week, making a joke about Ann Coulter's jaw being wired shut. The news about Coulter's jaw came from left wing blogs who reported a few weeks ago that Coulter's jaw was broken and would be wired shut for a few weeks. Predictably, left wingers squealed with delight. Were the reports true? Liberal blog Crooks and Liars says the rumors were groundless. Coulter appeared on Hannity and Colmes Monday and seemed fine. I don't know the real story of Coulter's jaw -- but geez, Judge's cartoon is just not funny. In fact it seems twisted.

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