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Remember CNN Spanking Me?

I ran across an old CNN video as I was futzing around YouTube figuring out how to do my new drawing videos. ElnortefrontpageforblogThis was a news segment, one of two or three they did about a cartoon of mine showing the eagle on the Mexican flag, dead from a hail of bullets. I drew the cartoon in response to a particularly bloody period in the battles with Mexico’s drug cartels.

I had a wild week as the media in Mexico went wild. The Mexican Embassy in Washington D.C. filed a protest with the top brass at msnbc.com, who I was working with at the time. Then in response to the uproar, a number of top Mexican cartoonists drew Mexican flag cartoons supporting me.

That was a fun week.

The video below, from CNN, is pretty crazy. Their anchor, Rick Sanchez, was later fired (not because of this story, of-course).

 

Strange, huh? Here’s another one from CNN International.

Here’s the cartoon. It was fun for a week and lovely to get all the support form the Mexican cartoonists.

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By Daryl Cagle

Daryl Cagle is the founder and owner of Cagle Cartoons, Inc. He is one of the most widely published editorial cartoonists and is also the editor of The Cagle Post. For the past 35 years, Daryl has been one of America’s most prolific cartoonists.