From Hit and Run I learned of the cartoon on the right – an entry in Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust cartoon contest. This was the contest to see who could produce a cartoon questioning the Holocaust (actually, most of them were just straight anti-Semitic), that was supposed to “get back” at the west for the Muhammad cartoons. (Remember the rioting in the streets demanding these “holocaust” cartoons be removed? Me neither.) Anyway, the above cartoon didn’t make the finals, but it wasn’t sent back either.
Funny thing – if you invert the cartoon (below), you get an image of Ahmadinejad. I await the protests, demands for an apology, demands to remove the cartoon, demands…. (etc etc).
How DARE you make fun of me making fun of the Jews?
That is spooky!! Not just a bit like him, but a LOT like him.
Good spot
Posted by: Stewart Paterson | October 11, 2006 at 09:58 AM
On second thoughts, looking at the odd shape of the head when viwed the "right" way, it must have been intentional
Posted by: Stewart Paterson | October 11, 2006 at 09:59 AM
On third thoughts, now that I've followed the link. It was.
Doh!! (slaps head)
Posted by: Stewart Paterson | October 11, 2006 at 10:01 AM
Yeah, it was intentional. That said, I think it looks more like Robin Williams.
Posted by: Skeptico | October 11, 2006 at 10:13 AM
Am I the only one who's not really seeing it? I mean I see how the hair upside down is the same shape as the Iranian dude's beard, but beyond that? It doesn't even look like a face upside down.
Posted by: Jake | October 11, 2006 at 05:03 PM
I didn't see it either, until I realized that he's winking. Hitler's moustache forms Ahmadinejad's open eye.
Posted by: Tom Foss | October 12, 2006 at 10:57 AM
Ahmadinejad in a Nazi pirate hat.
Posted by: Heraldblog | October 13, 2006 at 01:43 PM
Oh! Now I see it. Thanks for the winking tip.
--Jake
Posted by: | October 14, 2006 at 06:14 AM