January 29, 2005
WHAT, THEY CAN'T FLY?:
Labour pigs poster divides Jews (Steven Morris, January 29, 2005, The Guardian)
The Labour party refused to back down yesterday over a proposed campaign poster in which the heads of Michael Howard and Oliver Letwin are grafted on to the bodies of flying pigs.Posted by Orrin Judd at January 29, 2005 6:04 PMSome Jewish academics called for the poster to be shelved, claiming it could be interpreted as anti-Semitic as the Tory leader and shadow chancellor are Jewish.
Comments
Maybe Roger Waters should sue, too.
Posted by: Raoul Ortega at January 29, 2005 11:59 PMTwould have been a far, far better ad (not to mention more sensitive---perhaps even more accurate) that would have shown them grafted to sheep just about to hit a large rotating fan.
Posted by: Barry Meislin at January 30, 2005 9:18 AM