Posted on 02/08/2002 7:59:07 PM PST by calvin sun
Yeah, he ran an offensive ad which reinforced the Democrat bromide that what ever Republicans do means Social Security is going to be wrecked. Everyone knows the budget will have zero impact on SS checks. Except the elderly the cartoonist and this editor were trying to scare out of their wits.
We may gather at FR but each one of us represent every area of the globe. Good job freepers who jumped on this right away. 2 in 2 days-the IOC changing their minds and now an editor's mea culpa.
Should have stopped here, offering all the excuses cheapens the sincerity...
Someone needs to send this guy the jpeg of the woman holding the infant out of the window of the burning tower...
I wonder if he will still try to convince himself that "the country has had time to pass through all the stages of grief,"
From the editorial:
"Rather, I read it as I thought Marland had intended it: as strong criticism of the threat that Bush's budget poses to Social Security."
Notice the wording. He doesn't say "strong criticism of what he perceives to be the threat that Bush's budget poses...", or " strong criticism of Bush's budget", or............well, you get the idea. No, Mr. Pride agrees with the cartoonist; that this bad, bad, evil Republican President wants to sink Social Security (personally, I wish he WOULD sink Social Security).
Yep, he's DEFINITELY a liberal. Salvageable? Maybe. Any more, I don't care to differentiate. Liberals are the enemy.
The only thing that those libs regret in all of this is that our tax dollars weren't used to publish that garbage.
Since Mike Marland draws like a third-grader and "thinks" like a 70's acid-head, why does Pride keep using him?
An editor of a paper--even of a little flyspeck like the Concord Monitor--also needs some capacity to use the old noggin.
Mike Pride has failed miserably in the "thought pattern" department --both in publishing Marland's obscenity and then following it up with this terminally lame "apology."
Between your and toupsie's post, I stand corrected.
And, rather than try to justify my mistaken notion, I will do what Mr. Pride should've done after his first sentence.
Quit while I'm ahead...
Mr. Pride is a sick, sick man if he doesn't have a gut reaction to seeing the WTC used in such a vile political attack. That is utterly disgusting!!!!!!!!
Ef him and his elitist attitude. He doesn't even realize that in his urban pressie world, they take it as a fact of life that Bush's budget is a threat to SS. They don't even take into account that it might not be a threat. In their world it does ...period.
Never mind the fact that there are some out there (like I )that would love to see social security vanquished forver.
He can kiss my a$$ with his "apology", just the fact that this garbage didn't immediately strike him as offensive and base shows what type of people they are.
I hope all of their advertisers pull out, they go out of business and he has to join the rest of us and get a real job.
This is self-serving defensive bullshit. And you think it's a sincere "mea culpa."
You must have been delighted with Clinton's many "apologies" for the "mistakes" he made, with only the best of intentions of course--
But that's what liberals always say, isn't it, to exonerate themselves and suck gullible people into letting them off the hook.
This sounds more like a tribute to Marland rather than a real apology.
The views Marland expresses often agree with the Monitor's editorial positions, but not always. They are his views, not ours. We have declined to run a cartoon or two over the years because we found them tasteless, but this has been a rare occurrence.
That they have declined to run a cartoon or two during 20 years tells me they pretty much agree with his views.
Funny how 99.9999999% of political cartoonists think only like a demonrat.
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