Iranian Bush Cartoon Sparks Outrage In Middle America - February 9, 2006

A series of cartoons depicting President George W Bush as a cultured patron of the arts have caused fury amongst Middle Americans.

Violent demonstrations broke out on ranches and on the back of pick-up trucks after the satirical pictures of the President, printed in the Iranian Mujahideen Falafel Magazine, were reprinted by the Missouri Daily Feed.

In one cartoon, Mr Bush is seen eating caviar and listening to Mozart whilst appreciating Renoir’s ‘Luncheon of the Boating Party’.

A protester from Wyoming, Tractor Philistine, described the picture as an irrevocable affront to the people of America, but with smaller words. “I damn near broke a string on my banjo when I saw this crap! May the Lord have mercy on their souls because I sure as hell ain’t going to!”  

Whitehouse Officials called for a refrain from violence but issued the strongest condemnation of the images saying, “These pictures clearly indicate that the Iranians have enriched Uranium and produced several nuclear bombs. We have no choice but to immediately start bombing their country.”

Fundamentalist Christian tradition specifically prohibits the portrayal of any Republican President doing anything refined or constructive, such as not blowing up Arabs. Billy Bob Bubba, a manure taster from Oklahoma, said, “Some folks I heard of knew about this unchristian act days ago, before they even printed the pictures. Me thinks they might be readers.”

Protesters had also planned to attack the offices of the Iranian publisher where the cartoons originated, but lacked the geographical knowledge and passports required to do so.