Aliens Invaded Gibson’s Website
According to the Titus campaign, Jim Gibson’s website posted a cartoon called Alien Invasion: A Border Security Solution on its website yesterday, that has since disappeared. From the Titus press release:
The cartoon, labeled “Alien Invasion – A Border Security Solution,” portrays Latinos as fearful of the “chupacabra,” Spanish for “goat-sucker,” and suggests that electronic “chupacabras” – which “feast on the blood of goats and maybe the occasional human” — could be posted on the U.S.-Mexico border as a “silver bullet solution” to illegal immigration.
“Immigration is a serious issue, but racism is an even more serious issue,” Dina Titus said. “Why Jim Gibson would want his campaign associated with this kind of garbage is beyond me. It’s insensitive, it degrades an entire people and culture, and it makes a joke of the political process in this country. Jim Gibson either needs to get serious about this campaign or get out of it.”
The cartoon was placed on the Jim Gibson for Governor web site on Wednesday, as part of a campaigntoons.com package. Campaigntoons.com earlier produced another cartoon for the Gibson campaign.
“One has to question whether Jim Gibson allowed this immigration cartoon to pay for the company’s work on his web site,” Dina Titus said. “I asked Jim Gibson before and I’ll ask him again to start addressing the issues that mean something to people in this state, rather than wasting their time and demeaning the process with cartoons.”
“And right now, today,” Dina Titus said, “I hope Jim Gibson apologizes to the thousands of Latino people he has now offended.”
Talk about a smack down! Titus is out for blood, and can you blame her for scooping up this softball? Its a pretty ridiculous mistake for the Gibson campaign to make. But then Titus had her own website gaffe not too long ago.
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But the cartoon isn’t portraying Latinos as superstitious, it’s satirizing policymakers who fall back on stereotypes and simple-minded solutions to complicated issues. The end of the cartoon shows a clueless President Bush to make that point. Dina Titus is pretending to be offended on behalf of Latinos (thanks for the concern, Dina) just to paint Jim Gibson as a racist. And the cartoon you’re talking about isn’t even for his campaign! Don’t let her talking points turn into facts– they’re not.
I think its a bit of both actually, that’s why I just quoted the press release and commented on her tough language. The cartoon’s focus is meant to be on theBush admins’ inability to deal with the problem.