Desperate Fattah Complains About Cartoon Violence

Taking a page from the principle textbook from the Sylvester Johnson School of What’s Really Important, Philadelphia mayoral candidate Chaka Fattah just sent an email out complaining about the above cartoon in the Daily News.

Fattah isn’t complaining about what you’d think — “Waah! They made fun of me! And I don’t have a blog to whine on!” — but he’s calling the cartoon “offensive,” because it trivializes something or other. He also says Nutter’s stop-and-frisk plan will search “our sons, daughters, grandchildren, nephews, nieces and neighbors.” But not our uncles and aunts! (They can have all the illegal guns they want.)

Fattah’s apparently been searching his soul for a way to stop violence, and he’s spent his entire career helping children, and to poke fun at him in a cartoon is just awful or something. How dare a satirical cartoonist use her trademark drawing style to comment on the plans of a public official running for office!

Full letter after the jump.

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