It’s no secret that DC elites believe people from Red States are nothing but backwards rednecks.
Obama famously derided rural Pennsylvanians for clinging to their “guns or religion.”
But perhaps never before has their viewpoint been so perfectly encapsulated in an insulting image like this one.
Politico’s Matt Wuerker is an unapologetic liberal who sketches partisan cartoons eaten up by Beltway insiders.
In fact, he’s so embraced by the DC-elite that at an upscale bar known as “Off the Record,” inside the posh Hay-Adams Hotel across from the White House, his cartoons are printed on coasters for patrons to set their $18 cocktails on.
While Politico quickly deleted its tweet of the cartoon after near-instant backlash, Wuerker tried to defend his offensive drawing.
He told the Washington Examiner:
“As a political cartoonist, I try to get people to think — to consider the ironies and subtleties of the world we live in. This cartoon went with an extreme example of anti-government types — Texas Secessionists —benefitting from the heroism of federal government rescuers.”
Yet Hotair’s Ed Morrissey wasn’t convinced by his “defense.”
“In his usual sledgehammer style, he includes a Gadsden flag to slam conservatives, Confederate imagery to smear Texans as racists, and then also includes a gratuitous slap at people of faith. It’s a smug, arrogant, and utterly tone-deaf attack on hurricane refugees in the midst of their crisis, exploiting their tragedy to ride his hobby horses all over their pain.”
This cartoon and Politico’s initial publishing of it was not a “mistake.”
It’s exactly what the liberal DC elite think about all the “backwards, racist, anti-government country bumpkins” out there living in red states — rednecks who are too blind to see that everything good about their lives comes from government.
To them, God and faith is something to be mocked because government is their god.
Anyone who has limited government beliefs is “sinning” against their “god” and deserves to be mocked.
In reality, this is what real America looks like outside of the Beltway – people helping people, doing what needs to be done, without the direction of government.
What are your thoughts about Wuerker’s cartoon and the message it sends?
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