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Thursday, October 26, 2023

Flugennock's Latest'n'Greatest: "Wiping Hands On The Flag (after William Allen Rogers, 1917)"

From DC's anarchist cartoonist -

"Wiping Hands On The Flag (after William Allen Rogers, 1917)"
http://sinkers.org/stage/?p=3719

The ongoing, escalating roaring of bloodthirsty racism in support of 
Israeli thuggery in Gaza — speaking of mass shootings — put me in mind 
of a book of cartoons entitled "America's Black & White Book", 
published during World War I by an artist named William Allen Rogers, 
in particular one of the "greatest hits" from that book, a ripe little 
nugget entitled "Another Case Of Wiping Hands On The American Flag", a 
classic rendition of the "Filthy Dirty Huns Kill Children" genre of 
the WWI era. Rogers was arguably one of the most raving, drooling, 
jingoistic warmongering editorial cartoonists of that era — sort of a 
poor man's James Montgomery Flagg — and drew for the New York Herald, 
arguably one of the most raving, drooling, warmongering newspapers in 
the US of that era.

Their presentation nowadays may be slicker, their media more 
sophisticated, their rhetoric a little more refined, their approach a 
little classier, but if you strip it to the core it's the same old 
shit they've been serving up since the Spanish-American War, at least: 
filthy dirty Huns are killing babies, filthy dirty Huns are throwing 
babies out of incubators, dirty filthy Huns are beheading babies... 
you get the idea.

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"White House walks back Biden's claim he saw children beheaded by 
Hamas" Al Jazeera 10.12.2023
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/12/white-house-walks-back-bidens-claim-he-saw-children-beheaded-by-hamas

"Source of dubious 'beheaded babies' claim is Israeli settler leader 
who incited riots to 'wipe out' Palestinian village" GrayZone 10.11.2023
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/11/beheaded-israeli-babies-settler-wipe-out-palestinian/

"Maine officials say 18 people were killed and 13 injured in Lewiston 
mass shooting" Rachel Treisman and Emily Olson at NPR 10.26.2023 
https://www.npr.org/2023/10/26/1208749860/maine-mass-shooting-lewiston-death-toll

"The Health Ministry in Gaza releases the names of more than 7,000 
Palestinians killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza, saying 'behind every 
number is a story of a person'." Al Jazeera 10.26.2023
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/10/26/israel-hamas-war-live-un-ceasefire-bid-fails-as-gaza-death-toll-soars

James Montgomery Flagg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Montgomery_Flagg

William Allen Rogers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Allen_Rogers

"America's Black & White Book: Why We Are At War" cartoons by William 
Allen Rogers, New York Herald 1917 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47484/47484-h/47484-h.htm

William Allen Rogers, "Another Case Of Wiping Hands On The American 
Flag", New York Herald, 1917 
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/47484/47484-h/47484-h.htm#Page_78

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Mike Flugennock, Political Cartoons: http://www.sinkers.org/stage
Mike's press kit: http://sinkers.org/stage/?page_id=2

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