Drudge is reporting about a controversy over the political cartoon linked to a little earlier in The Corner depicting the assasination of George W. Bush. The image is derived from the famous Eddie Adams photo of an execution during the Vietnam war. I think it’s a stupid cartoon of dubious meaning, probably intended to show the “courage” of the cartoonist more than anything else. Getting all worked up about it would only encourage such buffoonery in the future.

But what really offends me is the continuing liberal faith in the original picture as a powerful moral statement. As I wrote about about a long time ago, Adams wishes he never took the picture because it distorted more than it revealed and the executioner was a decent man who was probably more in the right than the wrong.