HUMOROUS TAKE ON ‘NUTS’ COMMENT CHOPPED FROM PAPER

I’ve written countless times that The State’s editorial cartoonist Robert Ariail is one of the best in the country. His work is funny, to the point and very well drawn.

Ariail simply “gets it” and the newspaper is incredibly fortunate to have him on staff.

But despite that, even some of his best worked gets left on the cutting room floor. Like the above cartoon taking a swipe at the recent comment by Rev. Jesse Jackson that he wants to “cut [Democrat presidential nominee Barack Obama's] nuts off.”

The comment obviously caused a huge stir and Ariail did a great job of effectively tying the gaffe with comments made by Obama’s pastor Jeremiah Wright. Most notably, he portrays the result of both situations.

But unfortunately Ariail decided against running it because he believed it was “too salacious,” among other things. I think it’s pretty damn good and deserves to be seen, so that’s why I’m sharing it with y’all.