Posted on 02/01/2006 11:02:04 AM PST by pajama pundit
>>Hey, if we are going to go apeshit over this cartoon, we are no better than the Muslims flipping out about the Mohammed cartoons... come on... sure, that cartoon is tasteless, but the artist has a right under the Constitution to draw it.<<
And we have a right under the Constitution to not give them any money to continue publishing this crap.
THAT my friend is the American Way.
The market drives the product.
Horsehockey! I didn't see anyone today or on yesterday's posts call for the assassination of the cartoonist.
come on... sure, that cartoon is tasteless, but the artist has a right under the Constitution to draw it.
Of course he does. And folks have a right to cancel subscriptions to rags that publish "tasteless" crap!
Good on you. What a heartless, tasteless, piece of cr*p. May karma bite them in a big way...
No, the Muslims are rioting and threatening violence, and I don't see any of that mentioned or threatened here.
And a cartoonist's right to speak is countered by everyone else's right to speak in return. And that includes patronizing (or not) the publication that printed it.
Is T1B8ZS your big brother?
While not in the DC area, my son is an active duty soldier in the general circulation region of the WaPo (Fort Lee, VA).
I will send this to him.
I not sure, if he subscribes. As a FReeper's son, I would expect that he wouldn't even steal a copy.
and subscribers have the right to cancel that f*ng paper.
I spent some of my active duty time there at Fort Lee about a hundred years ago. I enjoyed being there.
Thanks for the link Zacs Mom. This is what the poster was orignally trying to get posted here. He obviously got off to a rough start.
***** Letter from the Joint Chiefs to Washington Post regarding this tasteless, disgusting cartoon. (PDF File - You will need Adobe Acrobat to view this file)
Thanks for bringing it to our attention. All of us have had problems with posting something from time to time and when asking for help, have gotten flamed. Don't take it personally, you did a great job!
Bless you.
Although I do not subscribe to the Washington Compost I have cliked on thier site occassionally. I will not do that in the future and recommend that Freepers not post anything from the WaPo.
For me, I cancelled in 2002 when one of the Pravda-on-the-Potomac's editorial writers suggested stopping fighting for Ramadam.
How do you draw this comparison? Some FReepers have stated they'll cancel their subscriptions of the Post because of its offensive, treasonous (and dangerous) content. On the other hand Muslims are in the streets rioting, they are condemning and threatening Western nations with reprisals. There is no comparison to the two responses, one is healthy, the other is insane.
I too am a Vet and I'd never offer up a DIME, period, to the NYT, WP or LAT.
Therein lies one problem. We are "just the same as muslims"....except we're not killing anyone over this. We write letters to the editor, they try to kill people and sometimes they succeed.
Yep.....EXACTLY the same.
He also has the right to make fun of gay people dying of AIDS and of blacks being lynched. But I suspect a cartoon about those protected liberal victim groups would have never been published. And if a cartoon making fun of them had been, the cartoonist would have been fired.
The Post has the right to publish whatever they want. We have the right not to buy or support newspapers. It's that easy.
You are absolutely right!
But I have the right under the constitution to cancel my subscription to any rag that posts unpatriotic, tasteless cartoons.
After 8 years, I just canceled out my subscription the Washington Post!
Of course he does,but People have the right to cancel their subscription in protest. Thats what we do in America.
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