Cartoon Regularly Featured On Big Journalism Connected To Nazi-Era Magazine
December 15, 2011 10:02 pm ET by Kevin Zieber
In at least three instances, Andrew Breitbart's Big Journalism website has used an image connected to a Nazi-era German magazine noted for anti-Semitic cartoons and pro-Hitler leanings.
The image appeared in a Big Journalism post Thursday morning written by Logan Churchwell, director of public relations at Accuracy in Media:

That image has since been removed from the post. Big Journalism, which is edited by CNN contributor Dana Loesch, also used the cartoon in a January 8 blog post credited to Warner Todd Huston, and in a July 2 post:

The cartoon appears to have originated in a 1942 edition of the German magazine Kladderadatsch.
Heidelberg University in Germany maintains an online archive of Kladderadatsch. From the magazine's March 29, 1942, edition:

In his book The Offensive Art, Leonard Freedman, professor emeritus of political science at UCLA, wrote that the periodical, which "burst into print in 1848," came to "serve the Nazi regime docilely." Calvin College professor Randall Bytwerk, an expert on Nazi and East German propaganda, has noted Kladderadatsch's shift toward using its cartoons to express support for the Nazis:
These cartoons all come from 1934 issues of Kladderadatsch, a leading German satirical weekly that quickly adopted to National Socialism. These cartoons reflect the Nazi propaganda line at the time: Germany wanted peace, whereas the rest of the world was preparing for war.
Heidelberg University explained that the magazine became increasingly anti-Semitic after Hitler's rise.
A user on the white nationalist Web forum Stormfront posted the same image in 2009:

UPDATE: The image has been removed from the January 8 and July 2 blog posts.

















I wonder what message they are trying to convey with that alteration.
what a bag of female vaginal cleansing fluid.
You've proven you're a moron, Dennis, good boy. have a cookie
They're just going to use what they have lying around, like Daddy's old Nazi stuff.
It was never funny, and if I remember right, relied a lot on that imaginary and oppressive "political correctness" theme. Sometimes it would do the fair & balanced thing, making fun of both sides; the actual conservative position and the fictional liberal position.
The name of the comic is "Prickly City".
My favorite article on the website that isn't a cartoon? This one. The best part is that, as early as the first sentence in an article arguing about time to discredit evolution, there is a factual error about time:
Last I heard, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon in July of 1969.
I used to get quite a kick out of the occasional Chick Tract I found left behind on the bus or at a subway stop. When I got a little older, the massive amounts of pure hatred that are mixed in with the frothy Jesus stories started to bother me. I don't really find them quite as funny any more. Yes, there are some pretty intense artists working on the Chick books, but there were intense artists working for the Third Reich too. I guess I learned that irony can only take you so far before it leaves you stranded in a bad neighborhood.
I think the Chick pamphlets are the reason I write "Haw haw!" instead of "LOL". The bad people always said "Haw haw!" in their stories.
Whoever altered the original graphic needs to be fired - or have their vision checked.
The "SAN FRANZISKO" on the top-center paper is pure German.
However, some research indicates the blog's title was "My Personal Litmus" and the blogger's first name was Michael. He drew several political cartoons in 2009 - Many of which were republished and can still be found at BobMcCarty.com. He didn't sign his cartoons with his last name, and I can't find any indication of what happened to him after 2009.
It's possible that Michael LastNameUnknown found the doctored image somewhere else and posted it on his blog...or perhaps he was the first one to doctor it. I'm unsure.
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/Englisch/helios/digi/kladderadatsch.html
Notice: University Heidelberg is one of the oldest and most conservative schools in Germany. One of their main focuses is medicine (as seen in the movie "Anatomy"). This school is infamous for only accepting the rich and well connected and also for its fraternities ("Schlagende Burschenschaften") which do their "hazing" by beating their pledges with (now dull) sabers in their "hazing"-rituals...
BTW: "Kladderadatsch" roughly translates to "stuff" or "shebang" in English...
Now it's an equally stupid cartoon shwing the Press as being wrapped around Obama's finger.