HANNA-BARBERA — HISTORY’S GREATEST MONSTERS! Tom and Jerry are blamed for ISIS: Head of Egypt’s Information Service blames cartoon characters for teaching children that you can blow people up and encouraging extremism.

Wait ’til he discovers Itchy and Scratchy. Still though, give the man some credit — as moral equivalence and obfuscation goes, it beats blaming Esther Williams, Ricardo Montalban, and “Baby Its Cold Outside” for your ideology’s woes.