As Twitchy reported, Politico on Wednesday tweeted (and then deleted) a cartoon by Matt Wuerker; apparently his snarky panel of a helicopter rescue in flooded Texas didn’t fly with readers, including Shelby Webb of the Houston Chronicle.
If you want to know what .@politico thinks about the victims of #Harvey, here is the cartoon they just tweeted, then deleted. pic.twitter.com/9cr0Ne2Z06
— Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) August 30, 2017
This is infuriating and @politico and @wuerker should be ashamed https://t.co/0EDpy5UYLz
— Shelby Webb (@shelbywebb) August 30, 2017
People are still drowning and being plucked for their roofs. Harris County went to Hillary in 2016, not that it matters at all now
— Shelby Webb (@shelbywebb) August 30, 2017
While rescuers were still hard at work, Wuerker put down his colored pencils, picked up a shovel, and began to dig.
I know you're a thousand miles away, and it's fun and easy to think of all Texans as crazy conservatives hell-bent on secession 1/
— Shelby Webb (@shelbywebb) August 30, 2017
Everyone across the country is rooting for Texas. Great to see all the heroic rescue efforts by gov, military and private individuals
— Matt Wuerker (@wuerker) August 30, 2017
2/ But we're not, and we're suffering. Ur cartoon is a slap in the face to a group of people who are still reeling from unimaginable tragedy
— Shelby Webb (@shelbywebb) August 30, 2017
It's actually very pro Coast Guard and doesn't take away from all heroic private individuals who are also doing so many rescues
— Matt Wuerker (@wuerker) August 30, 2017
Funny how most people reading it didn’t think, “Great pro-Coast Guard message! What a wonderful tribute!”
3/ you could have drawn one highlighting the heroics, but you didn't. You chose to kick the helpless while they're down
— Shelby Webb (@shelbywebb) August 30, 2017
4/Did you know one in four Harris County residents are foreign born? Did you know Houston is a huge city and not a hick town?
— Shelby Webb (@shelbywebb) August 30, 2017
Don't know what that has to do with it. Despite differences I wish you well and yes I am rooting for Texas–which I've visited many times
— Matt Wuerker (@wuerker) August 30, 2017
I'll pass that along to my coworkers at the Houston Chronicle, some of whom were saved from their roofs as you so ~beautifully~ illustrated
— Shelby Webb (@shelbywebb) August 30, 2017
5/ No? You didn't? You've never been here? Then get your nose out of our business and stop capitalizing on human suffering
— Shelby Webb (@shelbywebb) August 30, 2017
You're obviously not rooting for Texas
— Shelby Webb (@shelbywebb) August 30, 2017
Are y'all going to apologize for that god awful cartoon you tweeted or no
— Shelby Webb (@shelbywebb) August 30, 2017
Defended and yet deleted.
Glad to know where @politico and @wuerker stand.
— Danger Casey (@CaseySoftware) August 30, 2017
Let’s hope Wuerker is mixing it up with the editors at Politico right now rather than a Houston-based journalist; they’re the ones who deleted the tweet, so maybe a more productive fight would be with them.
The fault, though, seems to be with all of the readers who found the cartoon offensive — the obviously didn’t pick up the really big clue that the cartoon is about secessionists in particular, not some stereotype of Texans at large.
Respectfully— it's making fun of the Secessionist movement. Not at all aimed at all Texans. https://t.co/aI4RxRNjFm
— Matt Wuerker (@wuerker) August 30, 2017
First rule of humor is that if you have to explain your joke, it isn't funny.https://t.co/WHCGePmh4j
— Craig Lambert (@lambert_craig) August 30, 2017
First rule of humor is put a big sign on the house that reads SECEDE. Second rule is you cant help the people who don't read the big signs.
— Matt Wuerker (@wuerker) August 30, 2017
So it was a scalding hot take on the secessionist movement in Texas, which is odd, because the only effort to secede we’ve read about in a long time is the one in California, and even that’s a fringe movement that’s going nowhere.
Great, more explaining.
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dig1st rule of life: don't be a dick? https://t.co/MEdI8HGcT4
— Marc Logic (@marcannem96) August 30, 2017
Here's another shovel, Matt. In case yours breaks. pic.twitter.com/ot9osB82gg
— JD ?? (@aggie_hood) August 30, 2017
True first rule of humor is to know what you're talking about.
— Jerard Parker (@OlYeller01) August 30, 2017
If you have explain the joke multiple times, maybe you're the one who doesn't get it.
— ConservatishInSeattle ??? (@PaperPlateMask3) August 30, 2017
Flood. CG rescue. Cowboy hat. "God"-rejoycing. Etc. Doesn't look like California who btw has been screaming SECEDE the loudest of late.
— Maggie (@drillanwr) August 30, 2017
PS, Yeah I spelled 'rejoicing' wrong'. Zero f***s given.
— Maggie (@drillanwr) August 30, 2017
The "joke" you attempted was dead on arrival since very few people agree with its factual underpinnings.
— Joshua Abbotoy (@Byzness) August 30, 2017
https://twitter.com/SPEEROTHEKID/status/902968190128586753
The secessionist movement is in California, as it happens. Looking forward to that cartoon.
— Luigi Vercotti, Jr. (@LuigiVercottiJr) August 30, 2017
The serious secessionists are in California, not Texas. I look forwarding to you lambasting them mercilessly.
— Garrick, the Ard-Rí na hÉireann (Probationary) (@Boydesian) August 30, 2017
The first rule of humor is to understand the subject matter you’re parodying. This is fundamental. Your narrative was incorrect.
— Michael Deppisch (@deppisch) August 30, 2017
https://twitter.com/CrankyGordon/status/902961910106251264
The first rule of humanity is compassion. You fail. Congrats tho on the cartoon. I’m sure it went over well with your target audience.
— xyz (@FredC3PO) August 30, 2017
Hey, word is there’s devastating flooding in South Asia … that sounds like a gold mine of humor.
Photos: Devastating monsoon rains affect 41 million people in South Asia https://t.co/glpFv0GnTO
— Vox (@voxdotcom) August 30, 2017
@wuerker https://t.co/VonMZTXMdu
— Federalist Musket?? (@Patriot_Musket) August 30, 2017
https://twitter.com/Oil_Guns_Merica/status/902974828637962240
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Really Politico? Dana Loesch, Jesse Kelly, Brandon Darby and others respond to disgusting cartoon https://t.co/HdvGlBxcGy
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 30, 2017
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