Personally, I agree that he isn’t necessarily an antisemite (at least, based on what he wrote in these posts). But I do think he’s an a–. And I’ve lost any desire to continue reading his comic strip and make him even richer than he already is.

Adams clearly intended this to be an anti-Bush Era screed. (An era of muffled freedom of speech, etc. — which he sought to prove by incorrectly stating, in a phrase that he since changed on his website, that Columbia wasn’t allowing Ahmadinejad to speak.) So in his sarcastic way, he asserts that Ahmadinejad didn’t really deny the Holocause, and doesn’t really intend to wipe Israel off the map — assertions that to him don’t really even need proving, because all they represent are straw men for the right wing to utilize in its attempt to dominate the world.

What he doesn’t think about, and doesn’t care about, is that these are issues that Jews (and, one would hope, other people) care about intrinsically. And his snarky attitude about them, which just says that he doesn’t give a sh-t, represents a slap in the face to everyone who does care.

By the way, did you notice when he published that post? Yom Kippur. What a nice guy.

The foul language is part of the parody.

In his second post, he sounds like a fellow who’s decided that one nation is no better than another, in that they are all amoral and will do whatever is necessary to maintain their status. This is what many “progressives” claim to believe, though they fail to see that this means that if no nation is better than another, no nation is worse than another. Therefore, the US (or anyone) can do whatever it damn well pleases without moral stain.

Adams seems OK with that view. I suspect, however, that he’s just one of those guys who believes that his own mighty intellect elevates him above the mundane reptile-brained squabbling over whether the pot or kettle is blackest. (Or, in other words, he’s afraid his mighty intellect is not equal to the task of sorting it out.)