Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell, thank you for your wisdom and insight

[rhod]

I find the Guardian's reflexive anti-Americanism exceedingly tiresome and particularly hypocritical for a newspaper that likes to give the impression it actually thinks about politics rather than resorts to crude tribalism.

I find the reflexive and deliberate transposition of "Anti-Americanism" with "Anti-Bush/GOP" exceedingly tiresome and calculating.

It would be absurd to characterise somebody in America who despised the actions of Tony Blair as somehow being "Anti-British", for example.

Most Guardian readers (including many Americans) are quite capable of distinguising between America itself and the current occupant of the White House.

 

[Dissident Junk]

Haven't Albanians, generally, been quite pro-American though? And are known for this stance?

And I remember some story them quite rigorously rejecting Islamist advances after Saudi reconstruction money after the conflict led to their Ottoman cemetaries being bull-dozed -- which they did not like. Thought this might have been an unsubstantiated story.

And isn't it the only majority Muslim country that actually seemed quite thrilled for Bush to visit a while ago?

As regards, Steve Bell ... I don't get todays' cartoon. Can someone explain "Doorkeys gay hame"? I get the first bit about walkies, and home, but the gay bit?

 

[poster342002]

Haven't Albanians, generally, been quite pro-American though? And are known for this stance?

I think it was just about the one country on Earth where crowds actually turned out to welcome and cheer GWB on a state visit rather than boo and protest against him as most places would.

 

[Spion]

I don't get todays' cartoon. Can someone explain "Doorkeys gay hame"? I get the first bit about walkies, and home, but the gay bit?

gay = go, in S Bell's rendition of posh speak

 

[rhod]

Can someone explain "Doorkeys gay hame"? I get the first bit about walkies, and home, but the gay bit?

"Darkies Go Home" in Royal-speak

 

[In Bloom]

Oh I get it, it's because the royals talk funny and they don't like blacks. That's almost as clever as that time he made George Bush look a bit like a monkey.

 

[In Bloom]

Am I really? Me saying the Kosovans should decide for themselves makes me an expert on what they want does it?

Which was an entirely neutral comment with no agenda whatsoever on your part, of course.

Pillock.