{"id":1957376,"date":"2023-06-26T15:54:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T19:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iowa-newspaper-apologizes-for-slurs-against-presidential-runner-vivek-ramaswamy-in-racially-charged-cartoon\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T19:54:50","slug":"iowa-newspaper-apologizes-for-slurs-against-presidential-runner-vivek-ramaswamy-in-racially-charged-cartoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iowa-newspaper-apologizes-for-slurs-against-presidential-runner-vivek-ramaswamy-in-racially-charged-cartoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Iowa paper sorry for slurs against Vivek Ramaswamy in offensive cartoon."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fiowa-newspaper-apologizes-for-slurs-against-presidential-runner-vivek-ramaswamy-in-racially-charged-cartoon%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1957376&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<h2>An Iowa Newspaper Apologizes for Offensive Cartoon Depicting Republican Candidate<\/h2>\n<p>An Iowa newspaper recently stirred controversy when it published a political cartoon featuring Republican <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">presidential candidate<\/a> Vivek Ramaswamy. The cartoon portrayed Ramaswamy as the target of racial slurs from his own prospective Republican supporters. However, the Quad-City Times, the newspaper responsible for the cartoon, has since issued an apology for the offensive depiction.<\/p>\n<p>The cartoon, published on June 21 in the opinion section of the Quad-City Times, depicted Ramaswamy at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iowa-newspaper-apologizes-for-slurs-against-presidential-runner-vivek-ramaswamy-in-racially-charged-cartoon\/\" title=\"Iowa paper sorry for slurs against Vivek Ramaswamy in offensive cartoon.\">sparsely attended campaign rally<\/a>. In the cartoon, all three attendees can be seen shouting insults at him.<\/p>\n<p>During the rally depicted in the cartoon, Ramaswamy addresses the crowd by saying, &#8220;Hello my MAGA friends,&#8221; referring to Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;Make America Great Again&#8221; (MAGA) campaign slogan. Ramaswamy has also used the phrase &#8220;make America great again&#8221; in his own campaign materials.<\/p>\n<p>One of the attendees in the cartoon is shown shouting, &#8220;Get me a slushee Apu!!!&#8221; at Ramaswamy, who is of Indian descent. The name &#8220;Apu&#8221; is a likely reference to a character from the cartoon series &#8220;The Simpsons,&#8221; who has been criticized as a caricature of Indian immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Another attendee in the cartoon is depicted shouting, &#8220;Muslim!!&#8221; at Ramaswamy, who is actually Hindu. This inaccurate religious reference may be a factual error by the artist or a suggestion that Republican voters do not understand the distinction between the two religions.<\/p>\n<p>The cartoon also shows a third attendee shouting, &#8220;Show us your birth certificate!!!&#8221; This seems to imply that Ramaswamy is not a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-is-indicted-heres-what-happens-to-him-next-in-court\/\" title=\"Trump Is Indicted: Here\u2019s What Happens to Him Next in Court\">natural-born citizen<\/a>, which is a constitutional requirement for a presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy took to Twitter to express his disappointment with the cartoon, stating, &#8220;It&#8217;s sad that this is how the MSM views Republicans. I&#8217;ve met with grassroots conservatives across America &#038; never *once* experienced the kind of bigotry that I regularly see from the Left. Iowa&#8217;s [Quad City Times] absolutely has the right to print this, but it&#8217;s still shameful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Newspaper Issues Apology<\/h2>\n<p>Following the backlash, Tom Martin, the executive editor of the Quad City Times, issued an apology for the offensive cartoon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Quad-City Times, an Iowa newspaper, used Vivek Ramaswamy&#8217;s image in a cartoon where he was targeted with racial slurs by his own Republican followers. However, the newspaper has now apologized for this portrayal. On June 21, the Quad-City Times featured the political cartoon in its opinion section.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1759,"featured_media":1957377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1957376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1957376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1957376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1957377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1957376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1957376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1957376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}