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

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

[IPWGOP]

Minneapolis Star Tribune censors IPW cartoonist

IowaPresidentialWatch.com’s political cartoonist, Linda Eddy, has been censored by the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Eddy distributes her cartoons by email and regularly sends them to the Tribune. Her latest, showing John Kerry during his 1971 Senate testimony, is titled “Silencing Veterans since 1971” and shows an American soldier in Kerry’s hand, his head covered.

Tribune Deputy Editorial Page Editor B. James Boyd responded to Eddy’s latest cartoon by banning any future editorials from the artist:

“Please take me off your e-mail list. Your latest statements about Kerry are too much. He said no such thing in 1971. His whole testimony was an appeal on behalf of veterans.”

Eddy responded to Boyd’s email:

“You are further proof of the silencing of any dissenting view on what John Kerry really said back in 1971. You are further proof of the denial of Freedom of Speech to those with whom you disagree.”

End of story? No! Back came yet another response from Tribune editor B. James Boyd – sent not once, but twice to Eddy:

“read kerry's testimony. Find one complete quote which supports your
claim. Just one.”

Eddy’s response:

“Obviously you are incapable of doing your own good, hard journalistic work.
As soon as I clear my schedule, I will respond... probably by tomorrow.”

The following is the actual email exchanges between Eddy and Minneapolis Star Tribune editor B. James Boyd:

----- Original Message -----

From: "Jim Boyd" <boyd@startribune.com>

To: <lindartwork@wmtel.net>

Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:22 AM

Subject: Re: the silencing has got to stop!

 

Please take me off your e-mail list. Your latest statements about Kerry
are too much. He said no such thing in 1971. His whole testimony was an
appeal on behalf of veterans.
 
B. James Boyd
Deputy Editorial Page Editor
Star Tribune
425 Portland Av.
Minneapolis, MN 55488
612-673-4470
boyd@startribune.com

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Linda Eddy

To: Jim Boyd

Cc: Sean Hannity ; Rush Limbaugh ; Matt Drudge

Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:03 PM

Subject: Re: the silencing has got to stop!

 

I will gladly remove you from the email list.

You are further proof of the silencing of any dissenting view on what John Kerry really said back in 1971. You are further proof of the denial of Freedom of Speech to those with whom you disagree.

I just hate it when Media like you continue to promote lies. John Kerry's whole testimony was NOT an appeal on behalf of veterans. Kerry accused American troops in Vietnam of committing henious, barbaric, criminal acts on a regular, daily basis. He lied about American troops in Vietnam, he lied about what was happening in Vietnam, he lied about going into Cambodia on Christmas 1968... As the veterans say, Kerry lied while good men died. The fact is that American soldiers hated Kerry back in 1971 for what he falsely testified about them, and still hate Kerry to this day for these lies.

Kerry was a part of the meeting in Detroit, Michigan, where Veterans Against the War through the financial support of Jane Fonda and her friends (in something that has come to be known as Winter Soldier) gathered the information that Kerry gave before the Senate committee in 1971.

It has since been proven that most (if not all) of that personal testimony was not true and many giving testimony were not veterans. Furthermore, most of those who were veterans had not been to Vietnam. It has further been proven that among Kerry's board members of Veterans Against the War most had not been to Vietnam and many of them lied about their service record.

Then there is this whopper by Kerry - John Kerry said on April 18, 1971 on NBC's "Meet the Press":

"There are all kinds of atrocities, and I would have to say that, yes, yes, I committed the same kind of atrocities as thousands of other soldiers have committed in     that I took part in shootings in free fire zones. I conducted harassment and interdiction fire. I used 50 calibre machine guns, which we were granted and ordered     to use, which were our only weapon against people. I took part in search and destroy missions, in the burning of villages."            

If it were true, then Kerry is a war criminal.

The real great lie is that there is a free, fair and objective press. You have once again proven that is not true. You, the press and John Kerry continue to silence America's Vietnam veterans. This henious denial of Freedom of Speech must stop.

I will see what I can do to share your denial of truth and handling of a dissenting view with the rest of the world.

By the way, my cartoons have been chosen for exhibition by the Arizona State Museum of Art for the exhibit "Art and Democracy" -- the location of the last presidential debate.

 

sincerely,

Linda Eddy
political cartoonist for www.iowapresidentialwatch.com

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Boyd" <boyd@startribune.com>
To: <lindartwork@wmtel.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 11:23 AM
Subject: Re: the silencing has got to stop!


read kerry's testimony. Find one complete quote which supports your
claim. Just one.

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Linda Eddy" <lindartwork@wmtel.net>

To: "Jim Boyd" <boyd@startribune.com>

Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 1:36 PM

Subject: Re: the silencing has got to stop!

 

Obviously you are incapable of doing your own good, hard journalistic work.
As soon as I clear my schedule, I will respond... probably by tomorrow.
 
regards,
Linda Eddy

 

 

[Aeronaut]

Here's one: http://campus.murraystate.edu/org/clrepubs/symbol.gif

[IPWGOP]

You've hit it big time, Linda!!!

Coming from you (Top Freeper), I think I'd better believe it...

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Ramsey Clark to Join Panel for Saddam’s Defense

arabnews press release 25 August 2004

NOTE :
Ramsey Clark is pictured below with Kerry and
Vietnam phony vet Al Hubbard
Who was head of the
Vietnam Veterans Against the War movement.



NEW:
FReeper smith288 has an online version of
Kerry's "The New Soldier"
You can read it without downloading pdf files!
CLICK HERE

From Kerry's "The New Soldier":
Al Hubbard Sgt., 22 Troop Carrier Squadron Aug. ’65-June ’66

Emotions: Walking down the flight line at Saigon past stacks of aluminum cases containing American bodies and past stacks of aluminum luggage containing American currency. Seeing the tight, sad face of an Airman loading the bodies aboard a dirty Air Force Transport and the wide smiling face of a stewardess greeting the passengers aboard a clean Pan American Clipper Jet. Hearing a Vietnamese beg you to leave his country and an American colonel tells you to bomb his country. Hearing a Vietnamese invite you to live in his home, after the war and an American explain why you can’t live in his block, after the war. Flying over barren, brown, safe American held terrain and over lush, green unsafe enemy terrain. Feeling happy to be leaving a country in which you do not belong and sad to be returning to a country in which you are not allowed to belong. Sacrificing a portion of your consciousness so you won’t have to deal with being there and building mental blocks so you won’t have to deal with having been there.

- Al Hubbard, proven fraud who never set foot in Viet Nam. The only Vietnamese he ever met was when he was collaborating with the North Vietnamese in Paris
on the American Communist Party's nickel.
John Kerry's explanation: "He (Hubbard) simply exaggarated his particular position.
But nobody knew it at the time. And those things happen."

The New Soldier, (46 pages)
By John Kerry
and Vietnam Veterans
Against the War
PART I (pdf file)
PART II (pdf file)
PART III (pdf file)

Kerry hopes everyone
in the USA gets this book!

Send this url for the online version

http://ejsmithweb.com/fr/newsoldier/

Print this out (46 pages) and disribute it,
especially to the liberals you know.

Copy and paste the links to everyone you know.

http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/New%20Soldier%20Inro.pdf

http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/New%20Soldier.pdf

http://nomayo.mu.nu/archives/New%20Soldier%20Epilogue.pdf

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

I'd be interested to see a follow up to this. Will she be able to come up with one quote to support her claim? I hope so. I'd like to see her stick it up Jim Boyd's nose.

[Madame Dufarge]

And I have monitor envy.

[Brad’s Gramma]

Hugh Hewitt???

Have you sent this to him??

Let them try to censure you. WE have our ways of getting this out. What a bunch of losers.

[prairiebreeze]

I doubt they would keep an artist that showed babies dripping from the bloody mouth of GW Bush with some reference to Hitler either.

You don't view too many political anti-Bush cartoons, do you?

Prairie

[sam_paine]

Instead of blathering on FR, why not get quotes together and respond? He didn't blackball you. As far as he's concerned, he asked you for a response and he's hearing crickets chirp.

[hoosiermama]

Where is the ACLU when you need them? ;^)

Hang in there trooper!

[RogueIsland]

What gives you the right to be published?

Funny, I don't see her using the word "right", or any reference to the 1st Amendment. Maybe I missed it. You do understand that censorship doesn't necessarily mean government censorship, right? She isn't saying her 1st Amendment rights were violated by government action. She's saying the paper censored her. They did. They are certainly allowed to do it, but that doesn't change what it is.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Do a Google search on 'GOP elephant' an then click on 'Images'. There will be tons of them.

[Prime Choice]

I'm sympathetic, but it doesn't sound like you've been censored per se. Just seems that the guy from the (Red) Star Tribune can't take the heat so he's doing the equivalent of plugging his ears and humming loudly.

It's like when I write letters to the L.A. Times. Just because they won't acknowledge or publish them doesn't mean I'm being censored. It just means they're a liberal rag that can't handle genuine dissent.

[IPWGOP]

[68-69TonkinGulfYachtClub]

Liberal censor needs e-mail boyd@startribune.com PING

Suggestion: Send him this

John Kerry and War Crimes in Vietnam

He was in command of a Swift Boat
and ordered his men to do these things.
Listen to this 1971 audio clip in Kerry's own words.

LONG BEFORE THE '04 Election

Listen Here

http://www.streamload.com/jmstein77/Kerry2.mp3

[baseballmom]

Thanks for going into the fight, on behalf of so many of us. Your talent makes them squirm - a gifted artist with a message that hits too close to home, obviously.

This fight is much bigger than Swiftboat Veterans for Truth could have imagined. There is so much that has been building up for so long - both for veterans and civilians. The time has come. Whatever it takes.

[jer2911tx]

and liberals have the audacity to call conservatives 'sheep'

[There's millions of'em]

Your art work and writing are both top shelf.
Press on.

[PosterQue]

Congrats!

I think it would be an honor to be banned from the Star and Sickle (aka Pravda of the North!

[Dave S]

The problem here is that I have been forbidden to SUBMIT my editorial comments. And that, sir, is censorship and denial of Freedom of Speech. All this editor had to do was click "delete" on my email. Instead he chose to ban me permanent from submitting. Got it now?

Got it the first time. If Gary Trudeau tried to submit anything to a paper I owned I would not accept it either. I gather you like to waste your time sending them the email knowing that they are not going to publish your work. If that's the case you are either a masochist or you are just harrasing the publisher.