‘Infuriating’: Twitter Rips Politico Over Hurricane Harvey Editorial Cartoon
A cartoon tweeted out by Politico got some serious backlash on Twitter for, well, being kind of insensitive as rescue efforts continue in Texas: If you want to know what . @politico thinks about the victims of #Harvey , here is the cartoon they just tweeted, then deleted. http://pic.twitter.com/9cr0Ne2Z06 — Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) August 30, 2017 As of this posting, the tweet has been deleted but the cartoon from Matt Wuerker is still up on the site . Wuerker defended the cartoon on Twitter from people who were outraged by it: 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 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 It's pro-Coast Guard, anti-people who are being pulled from their homes and who lost everything, including friends and family members — Shelby Webb (@shelbywebb) August 30, 2017 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 This “cartoon” from @politico @wuerker is vile and contemptible. Disgusting beyond civil words. https://t.co/H1AhZKJQYG — Michael Q Sullivan (@MQSullivan) August 30, 2017 Just trying to point out times like this we're lucky to have rescue services. Don't see how this takes away from private individuals heroism https://t.co/Tk4xCqyV0v — Matt Wuerker (@wuerker) August 30, 2017 Guess I should have made that big Secede sign on the house bigger still. https://t.co/2EDk8Wis3r — Matt Wuerker (@wuerker) August 30, 2017 Times like this it's ironic to say that the government is the enemy. That's what the cartoon is pointing out. I stand by it. — Matt Wuerker (@wuerker) 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 A lot of people still found the cartoon in incredibly poor taste: 1) Harris Co went blue in '16 2) Where are the volunteer rescuers? 3) Low hanging cartoon fruit 4) Do better https://t.co/dkVGbl960L — Morgan Chesky (@BreakingChesky) August 30, 2017 . @politico wants hurricane victims to know they're just a bunch of idiot rednecks. But it's Trump who's lacking compassion in all of this. http://pic.twitter.com/I7B74JqsbT — Allie Stuckey (@conservmillen) August 30, 2017 It's like no one at Politico knows anyone who sits in a pew every Sunday. Do they have any understanding how absolutely insulting this is? http://pic.twitter.com/ianZxtVPdp — SalenaZito (@SalenaZito) August 30, 2017 This is how people like @wuerker at @politico see Texas No matter people are drowning as we speak, they have to get their stupid insults in http://pic.twitter.com/s8ob8DP8ju — Cameron Gray (@Cameron_Gray) August 30, 2017 *historic floods in Houston* Politico: let's do 800+ words on Melania's stilettos and run a cartoon mocking Texans http://pic.twitter.com/j31tCLbLxP — Kate Scanlon (@kgscanlon) August 30, 2017 Ask me again why I loathe so many in media. Go ahead. — Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) August 30, 2017 Politico's tone-deaf, unhelpful cartoon about conservatives being rescued from Harvey by the government https://t.co/B3jT1DvKSR http://pic.twitter.com/TMqI5p7aQ4 — Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) August 30, 2017 this is gross https://t.co/1RyHsedhQd — Betsy Woodruff (@woodruffbets) August 30, 2017 . @politico deleted the tweet with this shocking cartoon, although it's still on the website, at least for now https://t.co/yep0bVFKk5 http://pic.twitter.com/RPcYvLubaI — Katie Watson (@kathrynw5) August 30, 2017 [ featured image via Buck Sexton ] — — Follow Josh Feldman on Twitter: @feldmaniac
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