Tasteless, but I can already hear the idiot on Larry King saying "Larry, I'm FOR the troops..." Because they're ALL for the troops, right?
I wish a returned Marine would pay a visit to Toles.
" Aravosis from AmericaBlog told E&P: "Now that the Joint Chiefs have addressed the insidious threat cartoons pose to our troops, perhaps they can move on to less pressing issues like getting them their damn body armor.""
What an a-hole.
FYI in light of your earlier thread. Let the good Dr. Wasek know about this...
To any and all American Service Men and Women who might read this thread:
I'm disgusted with Mr. Tole's "cartoon" and if I was a Washington Post subscriber I would cancel it post haste. I am truly sorry you have been exposed to such disrespect and tastelessness from a supposedly legitimate news source. They seem to have forgotten that it is you who makes it possible for them to publish anything they want in a free society.
This just makes me ill. How on Earth could anyone with a conscience let this run?
And I don't *care* if it's the Post!
And he never seems confident enough in his cartoon to make his point ... that's why he always resorts to the little additional jabs at the bottom.
And the little "jabs" are usually even more cynical than the content of the cartoon. Even if he were more rational I wouldn't like his work because he relies too much on a gimmick.
John Aravosis, a gay activist who led a boycott of ‘Dr. Laura’ Schlessinger’s television show three years ago, recently started a petition aimed at stopping a constitutional amendment that would ban gay marriage.
ohn Aravosis has promised to out gay members of Congress and gay staff members as lawmakers move closer to a vote on the Federal Marriage Amendment. (Photo courtesy of Vermont Law School)
2004 - Activist John Aravosis issued a call for the names of gay congressional members, staffers and their associates to publicly out them. “If you’re gay and you support making sexual orientation a political weapon, then your sexual orientation is fair game, and you will be outed to the rafters,” Aravosis said.
It is time to exempt any of their property from the American defense perimeter.
Does Toles have any Muslim terrorist cartoons?
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Amputee Soldiers Are Funny? Not To The Joint Chiefs
Political cartoonist, Tom Toles, thinks amputee soldiers are funny. He created a political cartoon recently that appeared in the Washington post (Mon., Jan. 30th) that showed a quadriplegic soldier, in a hospital bed. He was being visited by "Dr." Rumsfeld. "Dr." Rumsfeld says, "I am listing your condition as battle hardened." At the bottom a smaller figure of the doctor adds, "I'm prescribing that you be stretched thin. We don't define that as torture."
But the Joint Chiefs of US armed forces have sent a rare letter of protest to the paper to take artist Toles and the paper to task.
Editor and Publisher is reporting that the letter protesting this cartoon, the contents of which the paper has not fully disclosed, was signed by all six members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
It is being reported that the letter says, in part that, that the Joint Chiefs were "extremely disappointed" in the cartoon. "Using the likeness of a service member who has lost his arms and legs in war as the central theme of a cartoon is beyond tasteless,"
The letter goes on to say, "While you or some of your readers may not agree with the war or its conduct, we believe you owe the men and women and their families who so selflessly serve our country the decency to not make light of their tremendous physical sacrifices."
I couldn't agree more and it is heartening to see the Joint Chiefs finally speaking up against this kind of treatment thrown against our soldiers by hat-mongers and anti-war cretins such as Toles and the Post.
Now if only we could have something said to the "protesters" who parade out in front of the hospitals our soldiers go to for therapy. These protesters harass injured soldiers and their families routinely.
But remember, they really do "support the troops".
...in a pig's eye, they do.
Liberal blogger, Aravosis: "NBC confirms it's investigating whether Bush spied on CNN's Christiane Amanpour,"
Not a quadriplegic, a quadruple amputee.
It's just a stupid, unfunny liberal cartoon but I see no reason to get all bent out of shape over it, especially since we are all laughing at the Moslems for being so outraged by the cartoons that appeared in the Jyllands-Posten.