It's journalism. Anybody can keep a journal. A stupid person will keep a stupid journal. The problem these days is there are pleny of publications that are willing ot publish stupid journal entries. The fundamental assumption of the article is that the cartoon is racist. It isn't necessarily racist. It does condone and even encourage assassination. The cartoon is drenched in violence of various kinds, violence against animals, police brutality (one shot would have killed the chimp), and hatred of political enemies. The telling point is that the cops knew the chimp wrote the stimulus bill, but they shot him anyway (it couldn't be helped). The raw ugliness of the chimp, the weird symmetry and precision of the bullet holes, and the copious amount of blood all combine to express a pathological hatred of say, liberals, communists, Muslims, GLBT's, blacks, browns, and atheists. The denial of this undercurrent is disingenuous and reveals a kind of faux shallowness. People like Dreher spend so much energy being gleefully subversive that they don't realize how dumb they look. They are the very definition of "mis-(a)chievious".