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Eric Alterman directs us to The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's online reprint of Monday's Mallard Filmore comic strip and wonders "Does it always adhere so closely to traditional anti-Semitic stereotypes?"

We admit that Mallard Fillmore falls somewhere far, far outside of our daily reading, so we can't answer Alterman's question. But, gosh, the guy is right. The notoriously conservative strip by Bruce Tinsley seems to have taken a cue from Der Ewige Jude in its depiction of a hooked-nosed "T.V. Executive." (Above, left)

Why, that "T.V. Executive" is practically the spitting image of an anti-Semitic cartoon (right) from Michael Selzer's out of print social history of anti-Semitic imagery, KIKE! A Documentary History of Anti-Semitism in America. (The book was part of The Ethnic Prejudice in America Series, published by Meridian Books in the early 1970s.)

People get upset about The Boondocks and Doonesbury but let this sort of prejudice slide of the duck's back?

Liberal media, you have failed.

Oh, and for those fans of what we used to call 'irony': Enjoy a Mallard Fillmore archive over at Jewish World Review.
Mallard's 2005 New-Year's Resolution #8 [SP-I, Jan. 4, 2005]