Legal Commentary

As you would expect, a cartoonist, Tom Toles in the Washington Post, captures the context debate. (H/T: Kathleen Bergin at The Faculty Lounge):

This reflects an additional about what about the importance of context. It is not just cartoon v. factual reportage. It also is the place in which a comment or image appears. Yes, there is a difference between The New Yorker and American Racist Monthly, just as there is a difference between The Daily Show and Bill O'Reilly and The New York Times or Wall Street Journal. All these sources and contexts together are important to a rich, complete public dialogue. And I believe that the sophisticated and unsophisticated alike can tell the difference. And the ones who do not--such as G. Gordon Liddy--probably are being willfully disingenuous.