Posted on 02/01/2006 11:02:04 AM PST by pajama pundit
Washington Post Editor-- As a military verteran, I am starting a grass-roots campaign that I plan to spread throughout the entire Washington DC metropolitan area: that is to have every single service member and veteran that currently receives the Post to UNSUBSCRIBE as a direct result of your callous, disrespectful decision to publish Mr. Toles' editorial cartoon on 29 January 2006. To place a wounded American soldier in the context of that cartoon was nothing less than a raging insult and a spit-in-the-face to every military member that has fought, is fighting or will fight for democracy. Can you even comprehend the pain that the mothers of every wounded service member felt when they saw that cruel cartoon? Mr. Toles may not agree with the war and he has his freedom of speech right to draw what he wants and you have your freedom of the press right to publish what you want -- but the active-duty service members, veterans and supporters have rights also -- and we will display our rights where it will hurt you the most -- in the profit margin. I think you will see how much of an economic impact that the miltary families have in this area. The only solution to prevent what I hope will be financial disaster for you is: (1) Mr Toles should publically apologize to all miltary members, veterans and the American public and explain that he was purposely disrespectful and cruel -- and that he will never draw anything again that degrades the sacrifices that our fine service members make (in fact- it may be best that he take a leave of absense for a while); (2) You, as the editor, need to apologize to the same in regards to your poor decision-making in allowing such a tasteless cartoon to be published; and (3) The owner of the Washington Post needs to apologize to all of the readers for allowing such poor performance and decision-making to exist on the Post staff.
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Dr. James S. Wasek
>>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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