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Is El-Sayed a Jihadist? A Commie? Right-Wing Cartoonists Can’t Decide

For right-wing cartoonists there are inevitable conclusions: If a politician is of the Muslim faith that person is a jihadist. If an officeholder or prospective legislator is a self-proclaimed socialist that equals being a Communist. Really scary for them is if that person was born in The United States and so could rise to the highest elective office in the country.

And so Dr. Abdul El-Sayed is a terror to them.

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) looks at the hysteria being disseminated by conservative politicians and cartoonists: “Is He a Jihadist? A Commie? Cartoonists Can’t Decide How to Smear El-Sayed.”

These caricatures do not come out of nowhere, of course, but reflect the poisonous atmosphere of the campaign against El-Sayed—with slurs coming not only from fringe hate groups, but also from prominent Republican senators and even the White House.

“Even the White House” they say as if it surprises them that the current occupant would not cast aspersions.

FAIR’s small net mentions Henry Payne, Steve Kelley, A.F. Branco, Jon Russo, David Hitch, Margolis & Cox.

All show the political Islamo-Communists moving the U.S. to “a government equal parts Stalinist and shariah.”

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  1. Yep – fear is all they have to work with.

    1. Because stirring up zealous, ignorant yahoos has worked well in the past. It’s classic gaslighting.

  2. sometimes i feel they’ve won. that, per arrendt/orwell/huxley, the “obviously” loonie rightwingers have got me believing that the comforting/bias confirming lefties are loonie too and my do-something anger has become do-nothing dispair. almost. i will vote. (even though im in a blue state) if i get my mail-in ill drive it back, not ill go to the polls. and ill keep drawing writing and posting as if i still worked as an artist at almost metros (the freep ’75-’81 and del n-j ’81-’12)

  3. Fox “Business News” is now SOCIALISM SOCIALISM SOCIALISM!

  4. I wish that there were some link to publish directly to other social media sites.
    Copy/paste can be rather tedious…

  5. To mock those who oppose the current “status quo”, shines a light on how weak their position is and how void of reason their argument is. Who is the crazy? Those who support martial law, who oppose immigration (the way this country was created) and the support of the current “fake” war, or those who oppose these positions?

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