‘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. 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. 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? 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 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 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 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 nowhttps://t.co/yep0bVFKk5 pic.twitter.com/RPcYvLubaI
— Katie Watson (@kathrynw5) August 30, 2017
[featured image via Buck Sexton]
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