IndyStar Apologizes For ‘Offensive’ Cartoon Depicting Christine Blasey Ford

If everyone could stop apologizing for telling the truth, that would be great, thanks.

The IndyStar recently apologized to its readers for running an “offensive” cartoon of Kavanaugh accuser Christine Blasey Ford.

Here’s the cartoon in question:

As you can see, this cartoon depicts Ford as a ridiculously shady and demanding figure, which is totally and completely accurate. Need I remind you that her team first demanded that she testify after Kavanaugh? And then remember how Monday didn’t work for her? And so on and so on?

Who cares! We’re supposed to believe women, even if they can’t prove anything. What matters now is she feels like Kavanaugh assaulted her over 30 years ago. You see?

This is a disgrace. I’ve come to expect the worst from Gary Varvel, but never making light of sexual assault. @indystar should have never printed this and should condemn it now. This discredits and disrespects the great journalists that work there, let alone victims of assault pic.twitter.com/46MIcLVXfT

— Adam Burtner (@Adam_Burtner) September 24, 2018

Holy shit that's horrific.
I'm canceling my subscription

— Ben Cramer // #NeverAgain (@benmcramer) September 24, 2018

This is gross. It's abhorrent

— Patti (@pierrotspeaks) September 25, 2018

No. What’s abhorrent is the left going out of their way to destroy the reputation of a good man.

What is this trash & why have you allowed it to go to publication @indystar? More garbage, offensive work at the hand of Gary Varvel & yet you continue to not only give him a platform but pay him for it. I can’t believe my subscription payments are going towards this bullshit. pic.twitter.com/ZCAypny43a

— Elise Shrock (@EliseShrock) September 23, 2018

Lots of @indystar staffers very upset at a @varvel cartoon that belittled accuser in the Kavanaugh SCOTUS confirmation fight. Editor says it shouldn't have been published and promises closer review of future toons.

— John Tuohy (@John_Tuohy) September 24, 2018

That’s right. The IndyStar apologized, because of course it did. IndyStar editor Ronnie Ramos wrote an apology and essentially admitted that it was wrong to publish something representing the other side. Emphasis mine:

Our editorial pages, which include columns and cartoons, strive to present diverse opinions across the political spectrum. In Sunday’s paper, for example, Varvel’s work ran next to another syndicated cartoon that presented an opposing view.

But the Indy Star also has a responsibility to promote a civil discourse and to present diverse viewpoints in a way that does not demean or appear to belittle anyone who says they are the victim of a sexual assault.

Our readers deserved better in this case.

Translation: Their readers can’t handle opposing views.

The cartoon did not meet our high standards. Our – and Varvel’s – intent was not to attack Dr. Ford. “My cartoon was focused only on Ford’s demands, not on whether she was telling the truth,” Varvel said. “This is a point I should have made clearer in my cartoon. As a husband and father of a daughter and granddaughters, I take sexual harassment very seriously.”

Amazing, isn’t it? IndyStar readers are more upset of an accurate depiction of Kavanaugh’s accuser than the fact that she’s RUINING his reputation and offering ZERO proof to back up her abhorrent claims.

Insanity.