Outrage from New Hampshire! (Sickening! Bush Crashing into WTC)

PoliticsNY.com ^ | 2/8/2002

[Diojneez]

My email, subject "Editorial Malpractice":

Your editorial cartoon, depicting "terrorist" President George W. Bush crashing into the WTC twin towers, is beneath contempt. To capitalize on this major American catastrophe to make a partisan political point is not only obscene, but the point you are trying to make is both petty and wrong (as in insulting our intelligence).

You are simply reinforcing that the most descriptive adjective for liberalism is "DISGUSTING".

[Hacksaw]

By MIKE PRIDE Concord Monitor Editor

BJ, I thought Mike Pride's reply showed some class. I hope no one is E-harassing him.

[I_be_tc]

Just saw the article, sent an email stating my sadness for their insensitivity and inability to state their opposition to political issues without hiding behind offensive caricatures.

TC

[Inspectorette]

I don't consider this an apology - he's "sorry" he ran it because of the visceral anger it provoked. He's "sorry" that it received the attention it did.

Not only did he not apologize to the victims and families of September 11, he did not apologize to the President of the United States for this scurrilous, hate-filled outrage- I don't think we should rest until he does so.

[andy58-in-nh]

Which paper is the Concord Monitor attempting to merger with?

That would be Pravda.

The Concord Monitor is typical leftist fish wrap. Please try the Union Leader instead for a better idea of what New Hampshire really thinks.

[Demidog]

It's called free speech. If you don't like it move to a country where it is outlawed. This political cartoon is no more disgusting then the politicians who used the tragedy to assert more government power over our lives. In fact I consider those cretins the real terrorists here as they are using the fear generated by this horrific act to rush everyone into giving up their rights in the name of "safety."

[snippy_about_it]

But my decision to run the cartoon assumed that for others, as for myself, enough time had passed for the wounds of Sept. 11 to heal and for the terrorist attacks to take their place in the long history of political satire. Sometimes artists, including political cartoonists, get there before the rest of us. I thought this might be such a time. In retrospect, the decision was wrong for three interrelated reasons.

Proof the editor is a moron.

[Madame Dufarge]

Sometimes artists, including political cartoonists, get there before the rest of us.

We're just too unsophisticated and behind the curve. Artists are just so much smarter than the rest of us.

Yes, the country has had time to pass through all the stages of grief

What sheer arrogance! Who the hell is this guy to determine the intensity and time span of the "stages of grief?" Next time someone you love dies, call this guy and ask him, "Is it over yet?" You wouldn't want to make a spectacle out of yourself after all.

But my decision to run the cartoon assumed that for others, as for myself, enough time had passed for the wounds of Sept. 11 to heal and for the terrorist attacks to take their place in the long history of political satire.

Unbelievable! Could we see the "satirical" political cartoons this guy has run about the Kennedy assassination? Or is the liberal icon too sacred to be a subject of satire?

This guy is completely clueless, and I hope this condescending "apology" is the last thing he gets to publish in a "newspaper."

[Soaring Feather]

Email sent

[MeekOneGOP]

This is great! Why is it I get this feeling some editors e-mail servers are going to be overflowing Monday morning!!! LOL! Good job! !

[Hacksaw]

It's called free speech.

Precisely. And that is what we are exercising.

[sinkspur]

BJ, I thought Mike Pride's reply showed some class. I hope no one is E-harassing him.

I'm harrassing him.

He should apologize to the victims of the WTC disaster, and to the President, immediately.

His pitful, self-serving column was Clintonian to the core, expressing sorrow that he got caught running it.

Keep hammering him, I say.

[dbehsman]

Hey knuckle head, "It's called free speech. If you don't like it move to a country where it is outlawed." What in the hell do you think that we're doing here? If you don't like our speech, then why don't you move? I also have the right to free speech. The first amendment doesn't just apply to liberals!

[In mourning for six years]

Sent my e-mail. I'm still spittin' bullets--how dare they do something so despicable!! BTTT

[okiedust]

"Sometimes artists, including political cartoonists get there ahead of the rest of us."

Well, I am an artist and I'm not there yet. What a stupid dodge. Artistic license to be cruel and tasteless. I don't think so. Being an artist doesn't mean you can do anything you want and be excused because you are "provacative." That assumes that the artist is always right by definition since it is a statement we all need to hear. Sometimes the self absorbed need an intervention to help them come to terms with their place in society. I think he just got his "intervention." LOL.

regards

[sinkspur]

Your letter to the president of the newspaper holding company is outstanding.

I've saved it, and will use some of your well-turned phrases in some of my own correspondence.

[jimkress]

My letter to Mark Travis:

Your cheap tactic of allowing the completely offensive "Bush into The WTC" 'cartoon' by Mike Marland and then 'apologizing for it was a classic of Left Wing extremist double think and hypocrisy. You were more than happy to smear President Bush with the obscenity you called a cartoon. Then, just like your role model Clinton, attempted to deceive the public by performing a public act of 'contrition'.

It won't wash.

You deliberately smeared Bush. You know that your self-serving 'apology' is meaningless. The damage has been done. Your credibility has been reduce to less than zero, notwithstanding your pathetic attempt to excuse your perfidy.

You represent the lowest excrement scum in the septic tank known as the Liberal school of 'thought'.