There’s been a hilarious debate on the Internet the last couple of days, as per usual, about whether the McCain “Celeb” ad was Racist because it chose two young white gals, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, as Barack Obama’s alter egos instead of the actual two most famous celebrities in the world. It is, apparently, a similar situation to the attack ad on Harold Ford in 2006, where he is constantly talking to loose white women on the telephone. If John McCain were to *objectively* pick the two most famous people in the world, the liberals argue, at least one of them would have been TIGER WOODS, the GOLFER. The conservatives do not believe Tiger Woods counts, however, because he has accomplishments!

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This very special edition of Cartoon Violence is brought to you by Today’s Cartoons and Snakes on a Plane FEVER, which has infected our resident cartoon expert the Comics Curmudgeon — along with, uh, The Descent fever, Floyd Landis fever, and drunk anti-semitism fever. Tragically, the Gawker Contributor health plan does not cover conditions caused by pointless action movie references (nor, we shoud clarify, any other conditions).

After the jump, cartoons tackle pop culture, wrestle it to the ground, and drain it of joy.

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Over at the Corner, Kathryn Lopez alerts readers to a screenwriting contest sponsored by the American Film Renaissance, which launched the nation’s first conservative film festival last year, and hosting a follow-up one this September in Dallas. Here’s a snatch of the contest guidlines: MORE »