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Cartoonist explains how his Politico panel wasn't aimed at Texans, but the secessionist movement

As Twitchy reported, Politico on Wednesday tweeted (and then deleted) a cartoon by Matt Wuerker; apparently his snarky panel of a helicopter rescue in flooded Texas didn’t fly with readers, including Shelby Webb of the Houston Chronicle.

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While rescuers were still hard at work, Wuerker put down his colored pencils, picked up a shovel, and began to dig.

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Funny how most people reading it didn’t think, “Great pro-Coast Guard message! What a wonderful tribute!”

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Let’s hope Wuerker is mixing it up with the editors at Politico right now rather than a Houston-based journalist; they’re the ones who deleted the tweet, so maybe a more productive fight would be with them.

The fault, though, seems to be with all of the readers who found the cartoon offensive — the obviously didn’t pick up the really big clue that the cartoon is about secessionists in particular, not some stereotype of Texans at large.

So it was a scalding hot take on the secessionist movement in Texas, which is odd, because the only effort to secede we’ve read about in a long time is the one in California, and even that’s a fringe movement that’s going nowhere.

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https://twitter.com/SPEEROTHEKID/status/902968190128586753

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https://twitter.com/CrankyGordon/status/902961910106251264

Hey, word is there’s devastating flooding in South Asia … that sounds like a gold mine of humor.

https://twitter.com/Oil_Guns_Merica/status/902974828637962240

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