{"id":71737,"date":"2023-06-25T19:30:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T23:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/iowa-newspaper-apologizes-for-vivek-ramaswamy-cartoon-depicting-gop-voters-as-racist-inexcusable-71737"},"modified":"2023-06-25T19:30:09","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T23:30:09","slug":"iowa-newspaper-apologizes-for-vivek-ramaswamy-cartoon-depicting-gop-voters-as-racist-inexcusable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cablemanpro.com\/wallstreetpr\/iowa-newspaper-apologizes-for-vivek-ramaswamy-cartoon-depicting-gop-voters-as-racist-inexcusable-71737","title":{"rendered":"Iowa newspaper apologizes for Vivek Ramaswamy cartoon depicting GOP voters as racist: ‘Inexcusable’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The major Iowa newspaper that published a political cartoon depicting MAGA voters yelling racial slurs at Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a> issued a formal apology over the weekend, after the GOP challenger slammed the depiction as “shameful.”<\/p>\n

The Quad-City Times executive editor Tom Martin wrote on the paper’s website Friday that the “inexcusable” cartoon was intended to “criticize racist ideas and epithets” but instead featured a phrase that “is racist and insensitive to members of our Indian American community.”<\/p>\n

“Racist and hateful ideas, words or images have no place in our publications, much less our society. It\u2019s why we apologize today for letting such an image slip through our editorial process and into our opinion page Wednesday in the form of a political cartoon,” he wrote.<\/p>\n

RAMASWAMY CONDEMNS POLITICAL CARTOON DEPICTING REPUBLICANS AS RACIST AGAINST HIM: \u2018SHAMEFUL\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Martin said the controversial cartoon has been removed from the paper’s website, and that they will no longer accept any work from the cartoon artist responsible.<\/p>\n

“We apologize to Republican primary presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, the Indian American community and our readers for publishing the offensive material in the Quad-City Times and Dispatch-Argus,” he wrote. “We seek to share diverse ideas on our opinion pages \u2014 editorials, cartoons and commentary that provoke thought and constructive ideas. Dividing and disparaging with any racist images or rhetoric does not fit that mission or our ideals as a local news company. The oversight that allowed it to run is inexcusable, and we can and will do better.”<\/p>\n

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The cartoon was published in Wednesday\u2019s edition of the Iowa paper, which reports news from four cities between Iowa and Illinois. In black and white ink, it depicted a campaign rally with Vivek addressing MAGA voters<\/u><\/a>, who were drawn hurling racial insults at him from the stands on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n

At the podium, Ramaswamy was drawn, saying, “Hello my MAGA friends!” Though three angry White men in the crowd each responded to his appearance with a racial slur.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One screamed, “Muslim!” getting the candidate\u2019s religion wrong. Ramaswamy is a self-professed Hindu.<\/p>\n

Another made a racist reference to the Kwik-E-Mart owner from “The Simpsons<\/u><\/a>,” yelling, “Get me a slushee, Apu!!!” and a third pulled out the old Obama-era birther line, demanding, “Show us your birth certificate!!!”<\/p>\n

The cartoon also seemed to mock Ramaswamay\u2019s campaign platform, with the drawing of the candidate\u2019s poster behind him stating, “Quad City Republicans Welcome Anti-Woke Crusader Vivek Ramaswamy 2024.”<\/p>\n

VIVEK RAMASWAMY DECLARES US HIGH SCHOOLERS SHOULD \u2018BE REQUIRED\u2019 TO PASS BASIC CIVICS TEST<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Ramaswamy, the American biotech entrepreneur of Indian descent, who has branded himself pro-MAGA presidential candidate, slammed the cartoon as “shameful” for stereotyping conservative voters as racists on Twitter last week, insisting that the left, not the right, is the only group he has experienced promoting the kind of “bigotry” presented in the drawing.<\/p>\n

The candidate tweeted, “It\u2019s sad that this is how the MSM views Republicans. I\u2019ve met with grassroots conservatives<\/u><\/a> across America & never *once* experienced the kind of bigotry that I regularly see from the Left,” he said.<\/p>\n

Ramaswamy defended the paper\u2019s right to print the cartoon, but insisted it was poor taste all the same. He claimed, “Iowa\u2019s @qctimes absolutely has the right to print this, but it\u2019s still shameful.”<\/p>\n

Other prominent Twitter users slammed the drawing as “typical BS from the ‘accepting, and all loving’ leftists” and a representation of “what the Left, specifically white Democrats, thinks about people like Vivek.”<\/p>\n

Fox News’ Gabriel Hayes contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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