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                    			</span></div><hr /><div class="summary" id="font-resizer"><div class="p402_premium"><p><a href="/topics/politico/">Politico</a> cartoonist Matt Wuerker started the day with his employer sharing his work on Hurricane Harvey and spent the rest of it weathering a different kind of storm.</p><p>One tweet was all it took by <a href="/topics/politico/">Politico</a> on Wednesday for backlash to begin pouring in after its illustrator depicted Texas flood victims praising &#8220;angels&#8221; sent by God while members of the U.S. Coast Guard mentioned their role on behalf of the federal government.</p><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-src="//www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/30/matt-wuerker-politico-cartoonist-blasted-work-hurr/" data-widget-id="AR_3" data-ob-template="TheWashingtonTimes"></div><script type="text/javascript" async="async" src="//widgets.outbrain.com/outbrain.js"></script><hr /><p>Hotair, <a href="https://twitchy.com/gregp-3534/2017/08/30/really-politico-dana-loesch-jesse-kelly-brandon-darby-and-others-respond-to-disgusting-cartoon/" target="_blank">Twitchy</a>, The Washington Examiner, and a host of media professionals responded, which prompted <a href="/topics/politico/">Politico</a> to delete the tweet soon afterward.</p><p>Mr. Wuerker <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/politico-cartoonist-revels-in-hurricane-harvey/article/2632973" target="_blank">defended</a> his work via an interview with The Washington Examiner later in the day.</p><div style="padding-bottom: 10px;"><script type="text/javascript" src="//launch.newsinc.com/js/embed.js"></script><div class="ndn_embed" data-config-type="InView" data-config-tracking-group="91568" data-config-width="100%"></div></div><p>&#8220;As a political cartoonist, I try to get people to think &mdash; to  consider the ironies and subtleties of the world we live in,&#8221; he told the newspaper. &#8220;This  cartoon went with an extreme example of anti-government types &mdash; Texas  Secessionists &mdash;benefitting from the heroism of federal government  rescuers. It of  course was not aimed at Texans in general, any more than a cartoon about  extremists marching in Charlottesville could be construed as a poke at  all Virginians. My heart is with all the victims of  Hurricane Harvey&#8217;s destruction and those risking their lives to save  others.&#8221;</p><p>The <a href="https://twitter.com/wuerker" target="_blank">artist&#8217;s</a> rationale did not convince Hotair&#8217;s Ed Morrissey.</p><p>&#8220;In his usual sledgehammer style, he includes a Gadsden flag to slam conservatives, Confederate imagery to smear Texans as racists, and then also includes a gratuitous slap at people of faith,&#8221; the blogger <a href="https://hotair.com/archives/2017/08/30/yes-must-talk-politicos-awful-smug-insult-texans-faith/" target="_blank">wrote</a>. &#8220;It&#8217;s a smug, arrogant, and utterly tone-deaf attack on hurricane refugees in the midst of their crisis, exploiting their tragedy to ride his hobby horses all over their pain.&#8221;</p><div id="ad-article" data-size="300x250" class="ad" style="text-align: center; margin: 0 auto;"><div class="ad-slot"
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&mdash; Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) <a href="https://twitter.com/BuckSexton/status/902956683911147522">August 30, 2017</a></blockquote><script src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></div></div><div class="permission"><p style="font-size: 12px;"><br /><em>Copyright &copy; 2018 The Washington Times, LLC.</em></p></div></div></article><hr /><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-src="//www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/30/matt-wuerker-politico-cartoonist-blasted-work-hurr/" data-widget-id="AR_1" data-ob-template="TheWashingtonTimes"></div><script type="text/javascript" async="async" src="//widgets.outbrain.com/outbrain.js"></script><hr /><div class="ad-slot"
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