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