Comments on: Captain America takes on America’s most fiercesomest awesomest enemy ever – The Tea Party

By: The Weekly Wrap-Up: 2/14/2010 « BW Media Spotlight

The Weekly Wrap-Up: 2/14/2010 « BW Media Spotlight — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 00:03:52 +0000

[...] The recent Ed Brubaker story in Captain America where new Cap Bucky and the Falcon infiltrate a “Tea Party” group is drawing a lot of fire from conservatives, and I think justifiably so. I don’t usually go political, but check out Four Color, Newsbusters, Big Hollywood, and Connecticut newsblog Radio Vice Online. [...]

By: ShadowWing Tronix

ShadowWing Tronix — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:01:23 +0000

Here's another story from 4-Color and from Newsbusters.

UPDATE 2 (Feb. 10 at 11:00am EST): Fox News.com is reporting that any future references to "tea baggers" in the book's title will be removed:
A "tea bag" reference in a recent Captain America comic book that has angered the Tea Party movement will be removed by Marvel Comics in future editions, the story's writer told FoxNews.com. Ed Brubaker, who wrote the story, told FoxNews.com he did not write the "Tea Bag The Libs Before They Tea Bag YOU!" sign shown in the edition, insisting that the words were added by someone in "lettering or production" just before being shipped to the printer. It will be changed in subsequent editions, he said. "I don't know who did it, probably someone who thought it was funny," Brubaker wrote in an e-mail. "I didn't think so, personally. That's the sign being changed to something more generic for the trade reprint, because I and my editor were both shocked to see it.

By: ShadowWing Tronix

ShadowWing Tronix — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:32:24 +0000

As someone who follows comics as part of his blogging (and future career goals), left-wing domination of comics matches that of Hollywood. I see this a lot. There was a website dedicated to getting comic creators to push for Obama. There a "white paper" by Michael Medved (pdf file) from '03 about this as well, but it's not improved over the years. I'm not sure I agree with donh's take on the Falcon (the "black man" in this story) as he has shown himself a more than capable partner for the original Captain America and the current one (the former Bucky--the story of that is a real headache, so I won't go into it). For another take on this story from a bit closer to comics, I would send thee to the Four Color Media Monitor, which has been following the decay of the comic both politically and from a storytelling perspective. This is his article on Cap's latest lefty lean.

By: Steven

Steven — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:17:54 +0000

I never really liked Captain America anyway – now if Spiderman had that in his comic I'd be upset!!!

Anyone for Tea?

By: Dimsdale

Dimsdale — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 22:06:19 +0000

Can't add to that! Kudos!

By: donh

donh — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 14:07:51 +0000

This is a classically racist cartoon . Captain America is the paternal white liberator with a "numinous negro" protagonist side kick. Please see google for more on numinous negro as a literary term. This set of characters can be seen from Uncle Tom's cabin, Robinson Caruso and Friday, Huckleberry Finn and Jim, The Green Mile, and any Morgan Freeman movie. This cartoon has the morally superior white hero leading the way to saving blacks from his barbaric ignorant racist white kin. It shows how nothing changes with the left. They see black progress as the white man's burden . Minorities cannot overcome the difficulties of life on their own. They need a white liberal savior with all the big government programs, racially selective pay backs and preferances or mean people will oppress you just because of your skin color. This cartoon is a superb example of the Chris Matthews post civil war white racial advocacy way of looking at the world. It is also patently offensive.

By: Anne-EH

Anne-EH — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:30:11 +0000

Amazing, just amazing, at a time when there are American-hating terrorists running around, including an Iran that threatens from time to time, the Obama White House is scared of what……………..Tea Party protesters?