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Marines Outraged At Desecration Of Emblem In Arizona Republic Newspaper Cartoon!

Posted on 06/14/2006 6:48:12 AM PDT by InfantryMarine

Marines, Former Marines, Veterans, and Citizens are outraged at the desecration of the USMC Emblem as published in the Arizona Republic Newspaper 06/07/06.

Don't know how to post the picture but here is the link: (Perhaps someone can post it for me? and hotlinks for the email addresses to the parties concerned)

http://www.azcentral.com/php-bin/slideshowx.php?referer=azcentral&ssid=3708&slide_nbr=6&numslides=57&go=1&go=1

Here are the addresses, phone, and email contact, information of the folks responsible for this abomination.

I hope they here from us en mass and LOUD! Semper Fi-IM

------------------- Managing Editor Randy Lovely 602-444-8790

randy.lovely@arizonarepublic.com

Editor Ward Bushee 602-444-8087

ward.bushee@arizonarepublic.com

Editorial Cartoonist Steve Benson 602-444-8035

steve.benson@arizonarepublic.com

randy.lovely@arizonarepublic.com ward.bushee@arizonarepublic.com steve.benson@arizonarepublic.com

Company Addresses: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/newsroomphone/byassign.php


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: americans; enemedia; gunnyg; history; marine; marines; usmc; usmcemblem; veterans
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To: InfantryMarine

You just CAN'T believe how low the press want to go to defile the Marines!!! It's so sickening...


61 posted on 06/14/2006 7:49:04 AM PDT by Toidylop
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To: InfantryMarine
The desecration of the Marine Emblem is not the only attack on the Marine Corps.

I ran across this a couple of days ago

Not too sure how or where to Post this so perhaps someone could do it for me?

Thereafter, the Daytona News need to be taken to task and help accountable for having a columnist of his ilk.

Although a search of this paper’s article did not show this particular article as appearing in print or on their site, they should nevertheless be made aware (in the event they are not already) of this slimeball’s lack of character and his bias toward the Military.

Daytona Beach News-Journal Online -- Opinion

"Award winning writer Pierre Tristam's thoughts appear every Tuesday."

http://www.news-journalonline.com/

THE ARTICLE:

May 26, 2006
My Lai, Iraq

THE FEW, THE PROUD, THE MURDERERS

By PIERRE TRISTAM

Of course the first line of defense, for those craven enough to defend atrocities just because Americans commit them, is to say that Iraqis do worse. And in fact the U.S. military, after lying about the massacre of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha last year, then lying about the number of Iraqis killed, then covering up the massacre until a Time magazine article made it impossible to keep lying, attempted that very line of defense: As Time reported in March, "Lieut. Colonel Michelle Martin-Hing, spokeswoman for the Multi-National Force-Iraq, told Time the involvement of [military investigators] does not mean that a crime occurred. And she says the fault for the civilian deaths lies squarely with the insurgents, who "placed noncombatants in the line of fire as the M! arines responded to defend themselves.'" All lies, of course. There were no insurgents hiding among civilians. There w as no crossfire. The Marines weren't defending themselves. They were out on a rampage, murdering at point-blank leisure, logding bullets in the heads of women and children, My Lai-style. (AN EXCERPT)

http://www.counterpunch.org/tristam05262006.html

HIS BIO:

Pierre Tristam www.pierretristam.com
· Occupation: Hack writer (journalist)
· Location: United States

About Me

I'm an editorial writer and columnist at the Daytona Beach News-Journal in Florida. The name notwithstanding, I'm not French except by education. I'm Arab by ethnicity (ex-Lebanese, to be precise), Jewish by intellect, Catholic by failed conviction, liberal by nature, and above all (and most gratefully, current presidency excepted), American by choice and nationality.... “Il n’y a rien de si dangereux qu’un homme indépendent comme moi, qui aime à rire et qui hait les sots.” [Voltaire]

http://www.blogger.com/profile/8713012

62 posted on 06/14/2006 7:51:22 AM PDT by seasoned traditionalist
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To: usmcobra

thanks for the ping, I wonder if anyone has the time to get this info to one of the Radio hosts. That would really get the word out. I would, but I'm at work right at the moment.


63 posted on 06/14/2006 7:53:00 AM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (In a world where Carpenters come back from the dead, ALL things are possible.)
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To: InfantryMarine

This really angers me. I’m talking cage rattling anger. We have a lot of friends who are in the corps and they are the greatest, my son looks up to them and wants to be one. We have worked with them the last 3 years with the toys for tots, we have gone to the ball, and when a Marine falls, his family is still part of the corps and they attend the ball also. They are not forgotten. And the fact that it was a cartoonist, that M*******F


R. great now all of us will be smeared.
I have designed shirts for the recruiting stations that they sold and given away. I designed a whole line of merchandise for them and they loved it and it was the biggest compliment to me.
Fn terd!


64 posted on 06/14/2006 7:53:25 AM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Dr. Thorne
use the email address and submit it to as many b.s. websites as you can find.. drive up his spam!
steve.benson@arizonarepublic.com

65 posted on 06/14/2006 7:54:43 AM PDT by sten
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To: InfantryMarine

This cartoonist is an absolute loser, I won't even refer to him by name. I sent a email last week and ripped him and he replied with a smarta$$ remark. Subscribers to the paper shouls just cancel.


66 posted on 06/14/2006 7:55:18 AM PDT by jazusamo (DIANA IREY for Congress, PA 12th District: Retire murtha.)
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To: Al Gator
1 five gallon can of roof coating (tar, hot!)
67 posted on 06/14/2006 7:55:25 AM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah" = Satan in disguise)
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To: Antoninus

None here. Every day, nearly, a new outrage from a group of people who rely on these very same military forces to maintain their right to publish their pap. Marines now, but all the armed forces get their turn, unfortunately.


68 posted on 06/14/2006 7:58:51 AM PDT by MizSterious (Anonymous sources often means "the voices in my head told me.")
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To: seasoned traditionalist


It's interesting how this "hack" keeps asserting that the US government is "lying" but offeres no facts of his own...just merely thinks because he "thinks" something...it must be true.

This is idicative of the delusional left...and their willingness to slander the current administration and this nations military at all costs.

Thanks for outing this guy...hopefully, in the fullness of time...he will be dealt with appropriately.


69 posted on 06/14/2006 7:58:57 AM PDT by in hoc signo vinces ("Houston, TX...a waiting quagmire for jihadis. American gals are worth fighting for!")
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70 posted on 06/14/2006 8:00:27 AM PDT by firewalk
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To: Pyro7480
I'm a native Arizonian, and Benson has for years been one of the most disgusting, hateful "cartoonists" ever. When the Israelis bombed the Bekkaa Valley in response to attacks, he drew a cartoon of the Israeli Prime Minister looking like a Japanese dropping bombs yelling "Torah, Torah, Torah."

He's a pathetic toad, and I told his editor so.

71 posted on 06/14/2006 8:08:43 AM PDT by LS
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To: InfantryMarine
Feed Benson to the terrorists. Then let's see him scream for a Marine to save him.
72 posted on 06/14/2006 8:10:04 AM PDT by Earthdweller
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To: cvq3842

Saddam's Iraq doesn't exist anymore, courtesy of the USMC.


73 posted on 06/14/2006 8:11:11 AM PDT by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: InfantryMarine

Of course this scuzzbag has won a Pulitzer Prize.

And remember, Arafart won the Nobel PEACE Prize.

__________________________________________________________-

http://www.azcentral.com/specials/special10/articles/1221bensonbio02.html

Jan. 2, 2002

Steve Benson . . . has won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1993. He’s a former president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. His cartoons appear in 120 papers across the country. Steve, 47, is an Eagle Scout who graduated cum laude from Brigham Young University with a degree in political science.


74 posted on 06/14/2006 8:11:24 AM PDT by MrCruncher
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To: netmilsmom

I am a mother of two former marines and this really makes me ill.

What a scumbag he is.


75 posted on 06/14/2006 8:11:59 AM PDT by sweetiepiezer
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To: longtermmemmory

Not The Malden Observer!


76 posted on 06/14/2006 8:13:56 AM PDT by massgopguy (massgopguy)
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To: eyedigress

Jeebus! Wasn't he one of the Coneheads on SNL?


77 posted on 06/14/2006 8:14:42 AM PDT by IGOTMINE
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To: DoughtyOne

HERE is a leftwing write up of this scuzzbag from Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Benson
________________________________________________________
Steve Benson
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Steve Benson is a Pulitzer Prize-winning U.S. editorial cartoonist for The Arizona Republic. Benson is the grandson of former U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and former LDS church president Ezra Taft Benson.

Benson's more controversial cartoons include one that depicts a firefighter carrying an child from the Oklahoma City bombing similar to a well-known photo of a firefighter's futile rescue of 1-year old Baylee Almon. The child in the cartoon says, "Please, no more killing..." to which the firefighter, labeled "Death Penalty Fanatics," replies, "Quit your whining!" The cartoon, published June 11, 1997, angered some firefighters nationwide. Almon's mother called for Benson to apologize for using the image. Benson, however, stood firm even as his paper issued an apology for printing the cartoon.

Late in 1993, Benson publicly left the LDS Church after claiming that its leadership was covering up his grandfather's senility and allowing church members to believe Ezra Taft Benson was still in charge of the church's day-to-day affairs. Benson self-identifies as an atheist and is often the target of those who advocate ultra-conservative anti-secular views.


78 posted on 06/14/2006 8:15:51 AM PDT by MrCruncher
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To: InfantryMarine

Called and told them that maybe Steve should be in Iraq and doing cartoons for the terrorists.
This is truly uncalled for.

Hubby fought in Vietnam and I have two sons that are former Marines and cannot stand that someone uses their freedom of speech like this.

This guy is scum.


79 posted on 06/14/2006 8:20:21 AM PDT by sweetiepiezer
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To: in hoc signo vinces
Thanks for outing this guy...hopefully, in the fullness of time...he will be dealt with appropriately.

Please let me know how I can help. This kind of thing outrage just makes my blood boil.

80 posted on 06/14/2006 8:23:16 AM PDT by seasoned traditionalist
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