THE ANTI-TRUMP CARTOON THAT WENT VIRAL
Posted on 07/02/2019 8:05:10 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Proving that journalistic integrity isn't one of their corporate strengths, CNN published an article with the misleading (to the point of being outright deceitful) headline: "Canadian Cartoonist Loses Job After Illustration of Trump Went Viral."
Obviously intended to gin up support for Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder while stoking the raging anti-Trump fires burning inside many of their readers, the article opens with the statement:
A Canadian cartoonist's illustrations of Donald Trump playing golf over the bodies of two drowned migrants went viral Wednesday. Two days later, Michael de Adder said on Twitter that he had been let go by a publishing company in New Brunswick, Canada.
Combined with the article's title, when reading CNN's opening lines the reader is left with the unmistakable impression that de Adder was fired because of his cartoon of President Trump.
I'm not a fan of people being fired for expressing opinions and views that I disagree with. Likewise, I'm not a fan of large tech companies that monopolize what amounts to society's "public square," booting people off their platforms for expressing unpopular viewpoints. To put it simply, I'm not a fan of censorship. Unfortunately, we live in a time when the ramping up of censorship threatens to propel our society into a real-life dystopian nightmare.
However, not every instance of someone losing their job can be chalked up to censorship or some form of ideological persecution. Turns out, such is the case with Canadian cartoonist Michael de Adder, no matter how much CNN might want readers to connect those dots.
Buried deep in the article, CNN posted a statement from the publishing company Brunswick News, Inc. denying that de Adder had been fired over the cartoon. In fact, the cartoonist wasn't even an employee of the company to begin with. He was a subcontractor.
With the 2020 presidential election looming, we can expect CNN and their MSM buddies to do whatever they can to paint a world filled with oppression generated by President Trump and his supporters. Fearmongering is a great way to entice people to vote for whichever socialist the Democrats nominate. The hypocritical irony, of course, is that the MSM will seek to dismiss or outright ignore the growing ideologically rooted censorship of conservatives by tech companies like Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest.
The dead man is so stupid, he couldn’t cross a river. His intellect is so deficient he is not American citizenship worthy
HERE IS BNI’s STATEMENT:
“It is entirely incorrect to suggest Brunswick News Inc. cancelled its freelance contract with cartoonist Michael de Adder due to a cartoon depicting Donald Trump currently circulating on social media,” BNI’s statement read. “This is a false narrative which has emerged carelessly and and recklessly on social media. In fact, BNI was not even offered the cartoon by Mr. de Adder.”
I don’t think that Horsey of the now defunct Seattle Post-UnIntelligncer could have done better; now working for our own local NYT the Seattle Slimes.
Just how did the two migrants die, btw?
Now if he’d drawn Hussein with big ears.....
Please, the President of the United States has people to push dead invaders out of the way before he gets anywhere near them.
Regardless of what you think of the man, or his daughter, they were still human beings... and comments like that, feed directly into the left.
Stupid, stupid, callous comments like that, are how the entire right gets painted as hateful and cruel... thanks for giving the globalist communists more ammo.
I’ve seen little discussion of it, but I think this incident is not what it appears. People struggle when they drown and would not stay locked together. I think they are dead, but the incident is, at some level, fake.
The father did not want to wait in line behind hundreds of other people crossing a bridge, so he decided to try swimming across the river to jump ahead of the line. That is exactly what happened. He risked the life of his child because he was too impatient to wait in line. He was selfish and stupid.
then why did they cancel his freelance contract two days after the cartoon?
Libs do exactly what they accuse Conservatives of..... and then lie about it!
He was fired because he is obviously an ASSHOLE.
Did the Photographer attempt to see if he could revive them before taking the Picture? Did he know that this didn’t just happen right before he got there?
I guess the Rio Grande Lifeguard was on a Lunch Break when this happened.
The guy didn’t want to wait like everyone else and his need was to get here so he could get a house. Due to these dumb excuses, he chose to swim the river with his child strapped to him through the shirt and drowned.
Stupid game, stupid prize.
Never said he didn’t make a bad decision.. but the comments by the other poster are indeed the kind of idiotic statements that feed the left.
BNI is owned by the Irving family. They are Carnages of New Brunswick and own the only oil refinery in eastern Canada, massive timber holdings, multiple paper mills and a whole lot more. What ever his status with BNI, he was “fired” because of the Trump cartoon, that is for sure.
Total BS
Do not be concerned with what you project on the left.
That is why conservatives lose....... they are cowards. They go into the arena and let the lions eat them
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