Charlie Hebdo says GOOD, The Houston Flood Killed Texas NAZIS

Oh, Les Provocateurs! Sapristi!

The latest issue of Charlie Hebdo offers a picture of the flood victims in Houston. Their take? Texas is 100% rednecks. They're all a bunch of Nazis.

The translation on their cover cartoon on the Tropical Storm Harvey disaster: "GOD EXISTS! He Drowned All The Neo-Nazis of Texas."

Here are some of those NEO-NAZIS:

We don't have a complete list of the dozens of people who were swept away in flash floods, or drowned trying to save others. My guess is that very few even looked like "rednecks."

We all know that it's common to splash hatred with a very broad brush. "The French are all a bunch of cowards" for example. It's easy enough to say, "The South is loaded with Nazis and KKK members." Saying it in a moment of anger is one thing, but putting into print, and pretending it's "satire?"

This comes from a magazine that had more than a few antiSemitic cartoonists. SINE (Maurice Sinet) was openly hateful toward Jews. This would tend to make him...A NAZI. He once said: "Yes, I am anti-Semitic and I am not scared to admit it...I want all Jews to live in fear, unless they are pro-Palestinian. Let them die."

Mr. Sinet had a regular column in, yes, CHARLIE HEBDO. He spread his anti-Semitic "satire" there, too, offering snide jokes about Jean Sarkozy (son of the French President) marrying a Jew, and therefore, converting to Judaism.

Sapristi! Charlie Hebdo has regularly made fun of Jews and Arabs alike. They've had their trademark badly-drawn cartoons include jabs at both religions.

I once discussed "bad taste" and "forbidden" humor with Steve Allen. I said, "Is there anything you can't make fun of?" And he said, "No. You can always find a way to joke about something. The question is whether to tell that joke."

Nobody told jokes when the Charlie Hebdo office was bombed by Islamic fundamentalists and members of their staff were killed.