Posted on 02/08/2002 7:59:07 PM PST by calvin sun
No embarrasment occurred, only a certain level of indignation at your inability to allow another poster to express why that opinion runs contrary to yours.
At no point have you yet explained how I "had it coming," or how my point was "one dimentional." All you have done is offer your own, unsupported, opinion that the editorial was sincere and your opinion, again unsupported, on other posters' world view.
You are, of course, entitled to your opinion. However, you would do well to actually be able to explain why you hold it, if you wish to attack the opinions of others.
LOL...but Pride was right in a way, even though he apparently didn't know it. He says the cartoon was meant to "provoke, not offend." Well, Marland's "cartoon" certainly "provoked" mainstream America and the White House, didn't it?
Without the "provocation" of Marland's "cartoon", Pride wouldn't have had to strain his po' widdle left-wing sensibilities by wading through a virtual TIDAL WAVE of email and voice mail sent by offended Americans exercising THEIR right to free speech, now would he?
It isn't our fault that Pride lacks the intellectual wherewithal to parse even the most elementary form of original thought. The left-wing: the face of the TRUE knuckledraggers is finally revealed!
What a load of BULL! That's why the friggin newspapers have EDITORS!
... Perhaps this statement should be directed to Mr. Pride, the editor? ...Man. Do I feel like a genius, man.
We're mad as hell, and we're not gonna take it anymore!!! I think that the attempt by the Gorons to steal the 2000 Presidential election awakened a sleeping giant - we will no longer be silent, and allow everything in our country that we value and cherish to be spit on and trashed by the likes of the hate-filled, power-hungry leftists.
Yes, they have a constitutional right to spew their venom, but I think they're starting to realize that they are now going to be held accountable to the American people. The days of their getting a free ride from and in the media are over.
OK, I'll have that cartoon of the Pope murdering babies done for you right away. Or the one cheering the Comumbine killers for lowing the number of students in the school, thus increasing the amount of per-student budget capital by just deviding the momey unneeded by dead students amongst the LIVE ones!
You are such a hypocrite. You defend offal in the name of free speech, then turn around and use inflamatory "intolorance" tactics on US for exercising that same right to free speech?? Typical left-wing if you can't beat em accuse them of being "intolorant" tactic. Disgusting.
And HOW does this "material" distinction refute my charge that your letter was just cover to post your ramblings on this website and sound intelligent?
Not a hypocrite, nor left-wing. I just agree with the editor that the level of sensativity to this copyrighted cartoon is directly proportional to the time that has passed since 9/11 and how close you were/are to NYC. The rest of you are just back wood ninnies trying to use this horror to further your perceived greatness on this site.
Cake_Crumb = stale and crumbling.
Thats the paper's call not mine or yours. Thats why anyone of you on this thread would make a great jackbooted minister of virtue and vice secretary in a totalitarian government. Appreciate first, the first amendment and appreciate second, that you're not in charge of it.
I am not faking outrage, Sir. I live right next door to what was the World Trade Center surrounded by the empty apartments of my DEAD neighbors. It was a little different experiencing September 11 with your own eyes rather through the boob tube hundreds of miles away. When I saw the editorial cartoon for the first time, I was in a screaming rage that not only was the actrocity mocked but the President that stepped up to the plate was being shown as an Islamic terrorist.
And didn't the writer of that letter, the editor, address at least your concern about the towers being used in the cartoon? Will two apologies (from him) make you feel any better?
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