Ted Rall for October 10, 2009
Transcript:
Death Cult (Woman: I can't afford real medicine. Buy me something at the health food store?) The government didn't help Kim when she was poor. It didn't help her when she wanted to go to college. (Man: I ordered medium fries and a large coke!!) But the government was there when it mattered most: when she died and her body ended up in a remote, expensive-to-get-to-place. (Barack Obama: We will spare no expense to retrieve a smidgen of Kim's soggy carcass and bring it to her grieving parents! (Man: KNowing that a little of our daughter's DNA will be buried in a corporate graveyard a few miles away from town is a real comfort ot us. Thank you, U.S. government!! (Woman: U.S.A! U.S.A!)
I love these comments sections. Before they existed, we sent out cartoons and never knew how people would interpret them. Yes, it’s just a generic cartoon Kim, no one in particular. It refers to the weird American obsession with retrieving body parts, whether it’s gristle from Ground Zero, bits of DNA from the Valujet crash in the Everglades, negotiating with Vietnam for the return of dead GIs, and the recent return of the pilot who died during the 1991 Gulf War in Iraq.