That would require the cartoonist to be both stupid *and* to have not read the opinion that they're making a cartoon about.
It would be extremely rude to suggest that the cartoonist was so ignorant.
So, since it would be unbearably rude to suggest that the cartoonist was UNINFORMED enough to make that (transparently false) claim, and the claim IS transparently false, we're left with the only option being the less-rude "the cartoonist deliberately and knowingly lied" as the only polite possibility.
(If you have a link to the cartoonist admitting that they were stupid, not lying, I'll look at it. But I maintain that, in the absence of such a link, it's rude to suggest that they're that stupid.)
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Date: 2015-07-02 12:07 am (UTC)It would be extremely rude to suggest that the cartoonist was so ignorant.
So, since it would be unbearably rude to suggest that the cartoonist was UNINFORMED enough to make that (transparently false) claim, and the claim IS transparently false, we're left with the only option being the less-rude "the cartoonist deliberately and knowingly lied" as the only polite possibility.
(If you have a link to the cartoonist admitting that they were stupid, not lying, I'll look at it. But I maintain that, in the absence of such a link, it's rude to suggest that they're that stupid.)