Posted on 07/01/2019 4:58:36 PM PDT by jerod
Cartoonist Michael de Adder has been let go from Irving-owned Brunswick News Inc. just days after his cartoon depicting U.S. President Donald Trump playing golf next to the bodies of two migrants went viral.
The cartoon, released on Wednesday, shows Trump looming over Oscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his young daughter, Valeria, who drowned while trying to cross into Brownsville, Texas.
The original image of the Salvadoran father and daughter made headlines early last week, bringing to light once again the issues around migrants risking their lives to enter the U.S.
On Friday, de Adder tweeted that he was let go from BNI and its subsidiary papers.
"It was terrible," de Adder, who is from New Brunswick, told the CBC News on Monday afternoon. "I gave them 17 years."
BNI is based in Saint John, N.B., and runs almost all of the print publications in the province, including three daily papers.
"All they had to do was tell me why I was fired. They didn't tell me," de Adder said.
"No matter how hard I pressed there were no answers given … I don't know if it's about Trump, really. I think it's about Trump. It's the most logical answer."
When he asked his editor whether it was a cost-cutting measure, or his online social media or even "gross incompetence," de Adder said, he was told no.
"I really wasn't interested in playing the role of disgruntled former employee."
BNI denies the claim that the reason for terminating its freelance contract with de Adder was the cartoon.
"This is a false narrative which has emerged carelessly and recklessly on social media. In fact, BNI was not even offered this cartoon," said the company in a tweeted statement on Sunday.
"The decision to bring back reader favourite Greg Perry was made long before this cartoon, and negotiations had been ongoing for weeks."....
FIRST, I’m disappointed. I didn’t know it was those two potential illegals in the image.
I just thought it was an image of Trump beating two potential illegals to death with his golf club.
THAT would have been great.
Either way i’m printing it out and putting it on the wall.
Figures an Italian would interpret it that way :)
MSN was pushing this false narrative today. It was debunked yesterday.
El Salvador is taking credit/blame for their deaths.
What, no lupara...? Heh!
They did not drown while trying to get into Texas.
They made it safely into Texas.
Then the father recklessly left his 2-year-old on the shore of a dangerous river, and went back into the river to swim to the other side.
His 2-year-old, being a 2-year-old, and probably scared that her father was abandoning her, went after him. A perfectly predictable thing.
And she drowned, and somehow he drowned trying to save her.
If any of us dropped our 2-year-old off on the banks of a river, and left them there, and they drowned, we’d be arrested and charged with negligent homicide.
This isn’t Sicily :)
Meanwhile, demonicRATS literally stand by callously while children are ripped limb from within their mothers’ wombs. How long O, Lord?
Everyone’s tired of the continuous libel machine already. A “cartoon” like that sells only to an audience that already orders Kool-Aid by the barrel.
” went back into the river to swim to the other side.”
WHY????
What a disgusting cartoon! God gives people talents and abilities to do His will, and THIS is what they do with it! Nothing new under the sun, but what a waste of a gift from God.
He had to go back to bring his wife over, because she couldn’t swim either, apparently. She watched them drown.
If you’re gonna start talking to yourself we might have to set up an intervention for you. :) LOL
But how did she get under his shirt? That photo was staged.
You’re WAY TOO LATE!!!!
The scary part is I lose arguments with myself!!
Let the better man win, I say!
More liberal civility.
These leftists really are extraordinarily immoral. But they know how to propagandize well. Goebbels would be proud.
They encourage large groups of people to do things that are both dangerous and illegal, and when some inevitably die they are masters at pretending the people who are trying to stop this dangerous situation are the guilty ones, instead of themselves. It’s projection of the highest order. They use their own greatest failings to help them politically, because there is no slander or tragedy that they won’t use to win.
Weren’t they any people on the Mexico side who could watch the kid while he brought his wife over?
More to the point, who risks their kids life for a better salary, more money?
What propaganda are they hearing??? I haven’t heard anything about what they are being told or promised.
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