The Cleveland Plain Dealer is getting intense blowback after running what many consider to be a racist political cartoon that smeared Republican Senate candidate JD Vance and mocked his Indian American wife.
(Video Credit: Fox News)
The Ohio paper published the cartoon last week that showed Democratic candidate Tim Ryan in the uniform of the Cleveland Guardians, formerly the Cleveland Indians, while Vance wore a San Francisco Giants uniform.
“Only Indians name change I support is my wife’s to ‘Senator J.D. Vance’s Spouse,'” Vance was depicted as saying in the cartoon that was published on Wednesday.
Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, is Indian American and the cartoon was directly aimed at that fact. The Cleveland baseball team had its name for over 100 years until woke leftists got their way and had it changed to the Guardians in 2021.
“While the Cleveland Baseball team’s name change didn’t come up in the first debate between Tim Ryan and J.D. Vance, it had in a primary debate and Fox News interview when Vance hit former opponent Matt Dolan, whose family owns the team, over the name change. Vance had called out the Dolan’s (sic) for weakness giving into the ‘woke mob,'” political cartoonist Jeff Darcy justified in the article.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer, which endorsed Tim Ryan over the weekend, just published a pretty outrageous cartoon mocking JD Vance's wife, a second generation Indian-American pic.twitter.com/Gut07aYRli
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) October 18, 2022
“So don’t expect to see J.D. Vance sporting any Cleveland Guardians garb. He’s more likely to be in San Francisco Giants gear. Vance had transplanted to the bay city where he made his $millions as a venture capitalist, wrote his bestselling memoir, ‘Hillbilly Elegy’, met and married his wife, Usha, an attorney who works for a San Francisco-Washington D.C. law firm. Usha Chilukuri Vance is an Indian American,” he elaborated taking a further jab at Vance.
“She once law clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was still on the Court of Appeals. The Vance’s (sic) have three children and now live in Cincinnati, having moved back to Ohio, seemingly for J.D.’s Senate run,” Darcy added.
It was absolutely no surprise that The Plain Dealer endorsed Ryan on Sunday but by most accounts, Vance is trouncing Ryan.
JD Vance just ended Tim Ryan’s political career. pic.twitter.com/TgUZCDfIsX
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 18, 2022
The cartoon was blasted on social media, and rightly so.
“The left’s embrace of blatant racism continues apace,” columnist David Marcus remarked.
“Many of the political cartoonists used by newspapers have just become the worst people,” journalist Jim Stinson tweeted.
Vance’s chief strategist Jai Chabria gave a statement to Fox News Digital on the incident, stating, “I’m a first-generation Indian American and my immigrant parents taught me to love this country as much as they do, which is why I’ve never been one to bring race into the conversation. However, the Cleveland Plain Dealer’s woke editors published a cartoon that explicitly encourages bigotry against Indian women by perpetuating a stereotype.”
“We are sick of it!” –@JDVance1
“Racist!” is over. Nobody believes it nor cares. That label is in the dumpster with the Water Bra and Jussie Smollett.
Vance nailed it. @elonmusk will cement it. The midterms are ours. Call us racist, call us Russian, nobody gives a shit!
— plramirez (@plramirez) October 19, 2022
Chabria then challenged Ryan to speak out against the paper’s political cartoon following its endorsement of him.
“Tim should step up and condemn their actions immediately, or perhaps this racism is ok because it’s against a Republican,” Chabria asserted.
The Ohio Senate race is one of the most heated and closely monitored contests in the country. Currently, Vance has a two-point lead over Ryan, according to a RealClearPolitics average of polls.
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