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Help me send a reply to our local bush-hating cartoonist
Seattle PI ^ | today | David Horsey

Posted on 05/23/2005 2:29:13 PM PDT by against_kerry

Please help me send a reply to this cartoonist that hates Bush

Dear anonymous,

It doesn’t take a whole lot of analysis or research to discover that:

The author of the Newsweek snippet (and it was just a brief article) is not a flaming leftie; he is the man who uncovered the Monica Lewinsky story and made Bill Clinton’s life a whole lot harder. Newsweeks’ was not the only report about Korans being ripped, kicked, flushed or defaced by American interrogators; there have been unchallenged stories along the same lines in the Financial Times, the Independent and the New York Times, plus government and Red Cross reports detailing how American jailers have repeatedly employed anti-Islamic practices to agitate Iraqi and Afghani detainees. The American commander in Afghanistan said the Newsweek article was not really the cause of the anti-American demonstrations in which people were killed.

Newsweek based a tiny story on information from an administration source who later said he could not back up what he said and Newsweek retracted the story. Dare I suggest we weigh that sin against the solidly documented instances of torture and murder perpetrated by American interrogators, both in Iraq and Afghanistan and ask which is more likely to be the spark for anti-American passions in the Muslim World?

David Horsey


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To: against_kerry

I used to like Horsey's cartoons...he draws well, and 4 or 5 years ago it seemed like he would take potshots at any convenient target (even if he did seem to have a liberal tilt). Nowadays he seems to be obsessively anti-Bush and anti-Republican, and the message is usually so strident that it isn't funny.


21 posted on 05/23/2005 3:07:45 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: against_kerry
solidly documented instances of torture and murder perpetrated by American interrogators...

Solidly documented? Like what...videotape of some guys head being removed with a dull knife? No, wait....sorry, that's not the "solid documentation" I was thinking of.

22 posted on 05/23/2005 3:12:55 PM PDT by Lekker 1 ("Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"- Harry M. Warner, Warner Bros., 1927)
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To: Verginius Rufus
"I used to like Horsey's cartoons...he draws well, and 4 or 5 years ago it seemed like he would take potshots at any convenient target (even if he did seem to have a liberal tilt). Nowadays he seems to be obsessively anti-Bush and anti-Republican, and the message is usually so strident that it isn't funny."

Ditto. The same goes for the P.I.'s Joel Connelly; I used to think of him as relatively even-handed, now he seems rabidly partisan, often unfair, and sometimes completely irrational. As an example of the old Horsey, I remember a cartoon he did when there was the controversy about building a Disneyland in France. The cartoon showed a sophisticated leftist-looking French woman jumping up on a table shouting, "Eeek, a mouse!" as a tiny Mickey Mouse ran across the floor.
23 posted on 05/23/2005 4:03:53 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: netmilsmom

You are correct - Drudge got the story after Newsweek
DECLINED to publish it! This fact tells more about
Newsweek than it does about Isikoff.


24 posted on 05/23/2005 4:28:34 PM PDT by T.L.Sink (stopew)
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To: Observer of Life; Gator101; randog; RedRover; hermgem; baystaterebel

Here's today's little 'toon from Horsey, enjoy.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/


25 posted on 05/24/2005 8:41:55 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: netmilsmom
Not quite correct- He is the man who uncovered the clinton lewinky story - AND THEN SAT ON IT~!

If you want to respond to this nonsense se Ann Coulters article on this - IT IS BRILLIANT - one of her best ever

www.anncoulter.com

26 posted on 05/24/2005 8:45:33 AM PDT by Mr. K (some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help)
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To: bigfootbob

Horsey is such a jerk. The military understands there have been some problems. They are working them. Most people on the street don't realize that there were already charges against the Abu Ghraib abusers, investigated and filed, BY the military long before the MSM got a hold of the story.

WHAT they don't need is idiots like him making the problem far worse but exaggerating, harping on, and dare I say, inventing accusations...especially when the people the accusations offend feel the need to go out and kill innocents every time they hear of some possible half-a** accusation. Where's his cartoon about that murderous tendency?

The sad thing is that I am sure Horsey thinks he is doing good. He can't understand how he exacerbates the very problems he thinks he is helping to end. He is not ready to sit at the adult table.


27 posted on 05/24/2005 10:52:29 AM PDT by Gator101
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To: Gator101
True. He personifies the liberal mentality of Seattle liberals. They voted 16% for GWB in 2004.

They are becoming caricatures of themselves.
28 posted on 05/24/2005 11:08:40 AM PDT by bigfootbob
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To: bigfootbob; against_kerry

During World War II, if the press had reported that General Patton slapped soldiers suffering from combat exhaustion, Patton would have been busted in Sicily. Instead, he led the breakout from Normandy that broke the back of the Nazis west of the Rhine.
The press knew about the slapping incident but held back on the reporting the incident. Today, the liberal media will do anything to harm America and the war on terror.
Why? You tell me, buddy.


29 posted on 05/24/2005 11:54:15 AM PDT by RedRover (Horsey is a really stupid name.)
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To: RedRover

That's the 64,000 dollar question. Knowing Marxism, the useful idiots like the MSN would be the first to see the $0.06 solution should we fall like the MSN obviously advocate.


30 posted on 05/24/2005 12:06:17 PM PDT by bigfootbob
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31 posted on 05/24/2005 12:09:03 PM PDT by TheOtherOne
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