A leftist editorial cartoonist was faced with backlash over the weekend for a drawing of a cartoon that mocked Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s 10-year-old daughter, Liza, Fox News informed.
The cartoon by Chris Britt showed the girl saying, “Dear God, please forgive my angry, lying, alcoholic father for sexually assaulting Dr. [Christine] Ford,” while praying before bed.
Kavanaugh testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday, and said that Liza had said to her mother, Ashley, that “we should pray” for Ford. Ford has accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting in the early 1980s when they were both in high school.
Liza’s older sister, Margaret, is 13.
The cartoon displayed Friday’s date as well as the name of the Illinois Times, an alternative weekly newspaper based in Springfield. However, it gained wider notice on Sunday when an anonymous Twitter user said it “contravenes every standard of decency in our society” and asked the paper to “[p]lease remove it.”
In a Facebook statement Monday, the Illinois Times said Britt was “a regular contributor,” but “not an employee.” The paper added that the cartoon was posted on Britt’s Facebook page and “did not appear in our publication or on our website.”
“The Illinois Times name should not have appeared on the cartoon in question and we have asked Chris Britt to remove it.”
An email to Britt requesting comment was not immediately returned. On his Facebook page, Britt responded to one critic by saying, “I’m not the one who brought up his children. Brett ‘I LOVE BEER’ Kavanaugh brought them up.” The page was later removed from public view.
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