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Michael Ramirez has gotten pretty good mileage out his Bush cartoon a week ago. The L.A. Times editorial cartoonist got a bit more attention over the weekend as a guest with Brooke Gladstone on NPR's On the Media, and he poked a little fun at the Secret Service for taking his Bush assassination point too seriously.
RAMIREZ: Well John Ashcroft was sitting in my office. [LAUGHTER] Now I have to screen all my cartoons through him. [LAUGHS]
GLADSTONE: Tell me your reaction when you heard that the Secret Service was interested in speaking to you.
RAMIREZ: Well you know I got this call from this gentleman, and actually he was very nice, but it was so casual and laid back -- I really assumed it was a crank call! He said-- "I'd like to meet with you somewhere and talk to you. I'm with the Secret Service." And I said "Well, [LAUGHS] y--yeah-- uh, well you can meet me here at the paper. How do I know you're with the Secret Service?" And he said "Well, I've got a black suit and black sunglasses and credentials!" [LAUGHTER]
Full transcript at the On the Media site.
of LA Observed
The problem wasn't that the cartoon was offensive, it was that it sucked! If only it were the Crappy Cartoon Police and not the Secret Service that investigated him.
Posted by: Garrison at July 29, 2003 12:27 PM