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Thursday, February 02, 2006

STAY TUNED.  Our story thus far... A Washington Post cartoonist named Toles took a slap at Rumsfeld and in doing so failed to realize that his depiction of a soldier wihout arms and legs might be offensive to American troops. Then all six of the Joint Chiefs of Staff wrote a letter of protest to the editor of the Post, probably the first time they have all agreed on anything. Michelle Malkin has the details, including the original cartoon and the letter. The paper responded today; it doesn't see anything wrong with the cartoon and doesn't feel any apology is necessary.

So we're sponsoring a little contest. Above you'll find the inoffensive image from the original cartoon stripped of its names, labels, and words. We invite you to fill them in however you think appropriate. You can copy the image and Photoshop it yourself, or you can email InstaPunk with the text content you want. We will choose a winner sometime next week and publish the best versions. (You can Bush-bash if you want, but we'll throw your stuff away...) We'll even do the Photoshopping of the best ones if the contestants can't. After we've published the worst you can do, we will fail to apologize for any offense taken by your targets. How's that for a prize?

Just to clarify what we're proposing, here's a sample reworking of our own:


Here's hoping we can get a little help from you and our blogger colleagues in promoting our bit of fun. Thanks for letting everyone know, and thanks for submitting an entry.

UPDATE. Thanks to Michelle Malkin for the link. Also, just to make sure everyone understands, both jpeg files and text entries can be emailed to the address shown on this page. You can also enter informally via the Comments section, but please keep the format simple and understandable.

And thanks to Glenn Reynolds, too. More thanks to Ace of Spades.

UPDATE 2/13/06. You'll find the contest results here.

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