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Joint Chiefs Send Rare Protest Letter to 'Wash Post' Over 'Reprehensible' Toles Cartoon
Editor & Publisher ^ | February 1, 2006 | Joe Strupp, Dave Astor and Greg Mitchell

Posted on 02/01/2006 3:31:44 PM PST by RWR8189

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To: RWR8189

If President Bush had a highly developed sense of honor, he would pull the White House press credentials of the WashCompost until an apology from the publisher, the editor and the vile cartoonist was published on the front page.


81 posted on 02/01/2006 6:16:03 PM PST by kittymyrib
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To: RWR8189

Oh, the chill this will have on freedom of the press! I need a hug! (psych!)


82 posted on 02/01/2006 6:18:18 PM PST by zook
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To: ilovew
It never fails to amuse me that liberals LIVE by polls.

I gotta say, they don't amuse me any more. We have elections, they mean things, there are consequences to them, yet all we hear about is the "POLLS" and what some dumba$$ commie "journalist" thinks. I'm more than sick of it!

"Leadership is not about polls. It's about making decisions... ...and then standing behind those decisions. That's why America is safer with George W. Bush."

Yes! Arnie on September 3, 2004. ;*) Good one!

83 posted on 02/01/2006 6:20:09 PM PST by Just A Nobody ("Iraq joins coalition to fight terrorism!" I - LOVE - my attitude problem! Beware the Enemedia.)
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To: kittymyrib
If President Bush had a highly developed sense of honor, he would pull the White House press credentials of the WashCompost until an apology from the publisher, the editor and the vile cartoonist was published on the front page.

I pray Bush will do exactly as you suggested. This is beyond the pale and downright unforgivable.

84 posted on 02/01/2006 6:20:56 PM PST by demkicker (democrats and terrorists are familiar bedfellows)
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To: Eaker

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85 posted on 02/01/2006 6:21:37 PM PST by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But, have a plan to kill everyone you meet. ©)
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To: Darkwolf377

Right....I support you dying and being dismembered in war I don't support.


87 posted on 02/01/2006 6:23:32 PM PST by wardaddy (Southern American)
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To: RWR8189
Mr. Toles is using a crippled soldier as a comic device in an anti-war cartoon. The soldier is just a prop; his portrayal of the person's suffering is on the level of crude Hustler magazine humor or lower. This would be the height of disrespect for anyone; for a U.S. soldier it's reprehensible. Anyone claiming that such a cartoon is actually meant to advocate empathy for our troops is demented; it would be like saying that a horror film with chainsaws buzzing and limbs flying somehow advocates life. This cartoon is just more garbage for the garbage eaters.
Cartoons are for children, or should be. A cartoonist should at least assume that children may see their work. I can only image the reaction to the children of one of these injured service people to a cartoon such as this.
If you judge Mr. Tole's cartoon against the work of Bill Maudlin, you'll realize it's impoverished. He doesn't have a darn thing to say about the U.S. Serviceperson that's insightful or of value.


88 posted on 02/01/2006 6:23:34 PM PST by Dan Lacey
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To: manwiththehands

Toles is a total turd.


90 posted on 02/01/2006 6:24:14 PM PST by Mogengator
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To: Justanobody

The exit polls were good evidence to me that I should never listen to polls. That reminds me of someone's tagline. "When the MSM wants your opinion, they'll give it to you." I don't know whose tagline that was but it was funny. Thanks for filling out the Arnie quote for me. I was trying to do that from memory. It was one of my favorite quotes from the RNC Convention.


91 posted on 02/01/2006 6:25:11 PM PST by ilovew (Congratulations, JUSTICE Alito!!!)
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To: kcvl

what the hell kind of name is Aravosis...Greek? (no pun intended)

another miserable liberal cakeboy projecting on the rest of us


92 posted on 02/01/2006 6:27:48 PM PST by wardaddy (Southern American)
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To: winner3000
How come the MSM don't cover the outrageous behavior of Code Pink outside of the veteran hospital (I forgot the name) tormenting our wounded soldiers? That's even more outrageous behavior than this cartoon. Their despicable behavior should be videotaped for use in political ads later this year.

They WERE at the gates of Walter Reed Army Medical Center. They have now been pushed down the street where they are unseen by our heroes and their families.

The media showed up a couple times. Even though the DC Chapter of FR outnumbered the pinkos 4-1, we received very little coverage. Once they realized the report drove OUR numbers up and shamed the pinkos, they quit coming.

It has all been videotaped by members of DC Chapter of FR!

93 posted on 02/01/2006 6:28:54 PM PST by Just A Nobody ("Iraq joins coalition to fight terrorism!" I - LOVE - my attitude problem! Beware the Enemedia.)
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To: wardaddy

LOL To me it's more like "I symapthize with your injuries but more than that, I am glad to have them as a tool against the war I disapprove of."


94 posted on 02/01/2006 6:29:15 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (http://www.welovetheiraqiinformationminister.com/#quotes)
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To: theDentist
God bless them all.

I hope He has other plans for Mr. Toles.


95 posted on 02/01/2006 6:30:42 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Crime cannot be tolerated. Criminals thrive on the indulgences of society's understanding.)
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To: Perlstein
Like I said, the Brookings Iraq Index is "propaganda" that comes from U.S. government sources.

Yes, it "comes" from government data sources. Which is not to say the analysis is fair and accurate. By leaving other government data sources out, it's quite possible to use only official government data sources and slant things any way you wanted.

The bottom line is terrorists are being killed in droves, and not one but two huge Middle Eastern anarchistic, barbarous and dangerous countries are being converted to democracies and stability in what, 3-4 years? That is an unprecedented achievement. We lost 2500+ in Afghanistan and Iraq. We're sad but proud, just as those who died would want us to be. They did this so no more Americans would have to die in skyscrapers and airplanes. They have paid the price but won the goal.

Ask most troops what they think about Bush and Rumsfeld and I'd say their approval ratings would be in the high 70s.

96 posted on 02/01/2006 6:31:10 PM PST by Alas Babylon!
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To: wardaddy

Glad yer keeping an eye on this too.

How ya doing?


97 posted on 02/01/2006 6:32:05 PM PST by Eaker (My Wife Rocks! - I will never take Dix or El Roy off of my ping list.)
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To: wardaddy

John Aravosis is a Washington veteran. As a lawyer, writer and political strategist, he has provided counsel on political, technological, and legal issues to the federal government, non-profit organizations, the media and private industry.



Before starting Wired Strategies, Aravosis served as the "online organizer" at the Children's Defense Fund (CDF). At CDF, John Aravosis devised and implemented the online strategy for the successful CHILD Act campaign, gaining the passage of a new $24 billion federal program to assist uninsured children. He was also responsible for creating and managing one of the nation's earliest, largest and most effective child advocacy email/fax networks -- providing policy information and action steps to over 5,000 child advocacy organizations, media representatives, government agencies and concerned citizens from Tennessee to Tanzania.



having served five years as a legislative attorney for US Senator Ted Stevens, and assisting on the campaigns of Senators Ted Kennedy and Chuck Robb.



Wired Strategies' current and past clients include the US Department of State, the US Department of Health and Human Services, the United States Information Agency, Priceline.com, MicroStrategy, Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, the Widmeyer-Baker Group, the Georgetown University Law Center, the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, America's Promise, the National Education Association, the American Civil Liberties Union, and AFSCME.



John Aravosis has a Juris Doctor and Master's in Foreign Service (1989) from Georgetown University (where he studied under former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright), a degree from the University of Paris, and a BA in Rhetoric from the University of Illinois.


98 posted on 02/01/2006 6:35:35 PM PST by kcvl
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To: wardaddy

John Aravosis is an influential United States gay activist and blogger. Aravosis, a former attorney who lives in Washington, D.C., is the founder of Americablog and a co-founder of StopDrLaura.com.

Aravosis is a lawyer and worked on Capitol Hill as a foreign policy advisor for a Republican Senator in the 1990s before becoming a Democratic activist.

In 2005, Aravosis outed Jeff Gannon as a gay male prostitute while Gannon (real name James Guckert) was working as a White House reporter for the right-wing group Talon News.

Also in 2005, Aravosis became engaged in a fight with the right-wing seniors group USA Next over copyright violations in a highly controversial web advertisement that appeared to link gay marriage and anti-military stances to opposition Republican plans to change Social Security. USA Next failed to secure copyright for the picture it used in the web ad.

He also hosts a show on DemsTV that aims to fight the far right.


99 posted on 02/01/2006 6:37:00 PM PST by kcvl
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To: ilovew
You are welcome! I loved Arnie at the convention.

I NEVER to polls or the enemedia without the FR analysis. ;*)

100 posted on 02/01/2006 6:38:08 PM PST by Just A Nobody ("Iraq joins coalition to fight terrorism!" I - LOVE - my attitude problem! Beware the Enemedia.)
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