Linda Eddy (Freeper IPWGOP) cartoonist censored by Minneapolis Star Tribune editor Jim Boyd!

IowaPresidentialWatch.com ^ | 8/25/2004 | IPWGOP

[IPWGOP]

Yeah, this Boyd fellow has been receiving my cartoons for months now. He is the deputy editor for the Tribune's editorial page. His request to be removed from emails means I cannot submit cartoons anymore to the editorial page. By the way, my cartoons are digitally done. The only way to submit them is by email. Someone further up commented I was 'spamming'. Not so. This is the correct way to submit, per that paper's own guidelines.

[fawn796]

"...I'm a married liar..."

Kinda redundant, huh...

[IPWGOP]

see post #141 regarding spamming.

[rwfromkansas]

Agreed.

[IPWGOP]

Well, it's been almost an hour since I sent Boyd his 'proof' Kerry quote from the 1971 Senate testimony. Still no response from him.

[IPWGOP]

The issue isn't denying the cartoon. The issue is Mr. Boyd won't accept any future SUBMITS from me because of the cartoon.

[Smartass]

A COPY OF MY EMAIL TO JIM BOYD...

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To: Jim Boyd

Mr. Boyd, when you ban political cartoons, thought, expression, speech, such as you did to Linda Eddy, you're playing right into the hands of people that want to ban the press. In other words, in the long term, you're cutting your own throat. Clearly, in 1971, Senator John Kerry lied to the American people and Congress. That sir, is indisputable.

Please read the short article below, and tell me, if your not aiding and abetting what happened in Germany in 1933. With people like you, history is destined to repeat itself. It appears you are now a part of SENATOR KERRY'S LIES

"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."
-- Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945

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[fawn796]

It's okay, WE like you!

I think you "done good." Keep up the good work.

[IPWGOP]

Stunned and appreciative awe at your post #134!!!

[Intolerant in NJ]

...These were not isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command...This is a blanket indictment of every military person in Vietnam. Kerry makes no distinction as to when, where, or by whom these crimes are committed - effectively he damns all vets who served in that war....

Kerry is a prime reason that I was greeted back by a United ticket agent in the SF airport after eighteen months at the medical center on Okinawa with "Here's your ticket, babykiller" - the man never stopped to ask had I actually been in Vietnam, seen combat, killed anyone, condoned atrocities...nothing. I was in uniform, and I was a babykiller. This is what Kerry wanted - he can nuance his statements any way he wants now, but then he was about turning the country against the war and those who fought it - now, it just may be that a good part of the country is on the way to turning against him......

[Dogrobber]

Hate to tell you this; its only censorship if the gubermint does it. When a private media organ does it then its just editorial comment.

That does not mean we can point and jeer when they do it though. I think that a whole lot of electronic pointing and jeering is in order.

[Prime Choice]

Yeah, this Boyd fellow has been receiving my cartoons for months now.

How many did he use?

He is the deputy editor for the Tribune's editorial page. His request to be removed from emails means I cannot submit cartoons anymore to the editorial page.

Not unless he specifically said you can no longer e-mail him. And considering that you've been having a running e-mail dialogue with him since his original request to be taken off your list, I wouldn't say you can't e-mail him.

I think what's going on here is that he doesn't want to receive notices for every work you do. Considering the sheer volume of your prolific work, that's not an entirely unreasonable request. But there's certainly nothing that I've seen that says you can't send in the occasional editorial; just that the guy wants off your mailing list.

By the way, my cartoons are digitally done. The only way to submit them is by email.

Actually, you could also printed them out and mail them via snail mail. So e-mail isn't the only way to submit them.

Someone further up commented I was 'spamming'.

Now that's just wrong on their part and I'd certainly spank them where their fur is the thinnest over that charge.

[alwaysconservative]

The more tender the nerve you strike, the more hissy they become, don't you agree?

[Kleon]

see post #141 regarding spamming.

Done. I still think it's spamming. Submissions to major newspapers are not done by sending out an email to multiple recipients. This guy at the Star Tribune knew he was on a list, so he correctly identified it as spam and asked you to stop.

[Chaguito]

Perhaps you are a strong person who, upon returning to the US to thrown eggs and spit, can raise his voice in a protest of righteousness. But most people aren't that strong. To have hatred heaped upon you has a silencing effect. Especially when there is no real support to be found, even in veterans organizations.

Kerry contributed mightily to that atmosphere, not simply by one or two phrases, but by his vocal and visible leadership of a movement designed to demoralize and demonize the armed forces, and in the bargain, the veterans of Vietnam.

[IPWGOP]

You are simply wrong.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

No right to be published but what about the right to e-mail the opinion editor or the paper? hmmm? They can print whatever they want, but I think it is a joke when they ask for opinions and then ban someone for not having the right one. If the e-mails were extremely abusive (hey a degree of abuse is deserved since they dish it out) that would be different.

[OPS4]

I back your right of free speach and so should a newspaper.
Since they are not, I will start sending info to our minnesota chapters to boycott the advertisers and let then know by email.
OPs4 God BLess you and America!

[tiki]

Way to go.

[alwaysconservative]

sKerry "silenced" veterans when he allowed his words to be used by the enemy for tortures and, yes, killings. The point is that he didn't allow them their say in 1971 and he's refusing to let them have their say now.