Mumpower: Molton’s cartoon misses the mark

 

Color-habituated cartoonist Randy Molton finds evident self-gratification in his attachment to something over which people have no personal control. Like most progressives, he remains indifferent to other “C” words — choice, character, culture and conditioning — over which we do have great influence. His impetuous priority reveals a big reason we continue to stumble around a racial wilderness.

Greater offense rests in his “man-crush” portrayal of conservative activist Chad Nesbitt. A cursory fact check would reveal Chad was on the weaker end of a YouTube verified 67-60 push-up contest with the guy standing beside him.

As a humble conservative thinker, it is certainly not my wish to distract Molton from the object of his affections, illuminate his lack of intellectual sophistication or raise curiosity of his own standing on the “manly-man” meter.

Carl Mumpower

Asheville

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5 thoughts on “Mumpower: Molton’s cartoon misses the mark

    • Along those lines, I looked up many definitions and synonyms for “habituated” but could not find any that would make the phrase “color-habituated” pertain to a cartoonist who rarely ever uses color, rather than one who habitually does use it. Did he mean something like “color-refraining” or “color-lacking?”

      • bsummers

        It’s poetry. Just let it flow over you like lava. Burning, smothering, personal-erasing lava.

  1. Dionysis

    Carl Mumpower must really be hitting the skids in trying to keep his name out there; to take on a cartoonist with this kind of silliness. Mumpower leaves no doubt as to the object of his affections…himself.

  2. OneWhoKnows

    Such a great letter from obvious intelligence, unlike the cartoonist and the other two commenters who cannot
    hold their own in the presence of Dr. Mumpower …

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