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.
If Mike Pride's editorial showed ANYTHING it is how completely out of touch the radical left IS.
C'mon, it was the usual viscious hate mongering piece of cr@p that if any conservative cartoonist had drawn
it would have been followed by "You'll never work in this town again!" from Mike Prides OWN Mewly MOUTH!
Class my @$$ ... he's afraid for his job is all
Oh. Yes, THAT's better. I'm sure we should have been all over it by now. After all, what's a few thousand people, some of whom were from New Hampshire, most of whom were fellow Americans, all of whom were fellow human beings? Shoulda been able to shrug that off, no problem. I'm sure it's our fault for being overly-sensitve. Maybe it's the four funerals I attended, here in NH and in MA, for people who died in that tragedy. Gee, I don't know. I'm sure it's just silly of me. The little girls in Dover whose grandparents were on one of the planes should be over it by now, too, huh?
Like I said, you can go to hell. Even moreso, now.
"I thought that rejecting the cartoon would be censorship. " is probably the next most ridiculous thing in that pseudo-apology. Really? I've seen the Concord Monitor regularly, and am pretty sure that that kind of "censorship" is practiced regularly, else it would require a forklift or two to deliver it. Give us a break, Mr. Pride! We really aren't the knuckle-draggers you seem to think we are! You have to practice "censorship" on a daily basis ... only most of us would call it judgment.
Mr. Pride, if the events of September 11, 2001 are all healed up for you, I suggest you get some counselling because you are a sick puppy. I rarely hope for the destruction of careers, but yours is one I don't mind seeing go. You didn't just make a mistake -- you and your cartoonist kicked body parts around, mucked through broken hearts, and made yourselves the most hated newspaper in the country, for now. I predict that your readership will disappear ... our subscription has already been cancelled ... and you will realize that you DO have a responsibility to your readers. Or, rather, did.
That was pretty damn lame for an excuse. It was a half ass response.
I emailed him and told him so.