'Treason' Cartoon Draws Strong Reaction [Ex-publisher in FL blasts an anti-NYT cartoon]

editorandpublisher.com ^ | July 5, 2006 | E&P Staff

[summer]

NEW YORK A number of Tallahassee (Fla.) Democrat readers were upset with a cartoon saying that The New York Times' motto is "All the Treason Fit to Print."

The June 28 cartoon was by Mike Lester of the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune and Cagle Cartoons.

Lester drew Uncle Sam holding a copy of the Times that featured a front page with the headline "All the Treason Fit to Print" and the subhead "U.S. Anti-Terror Program: Details Inside." Uncle Sam says "I hate getting American soldiers' blood on my fingers," as his hand drips red.

Democrat Associate Editor Mark Hohmeister, in a piece posted today on Tallahassee.com, said he chose to publish the cartoon even though he didn't agree with it. He added that the letter that "really gave me second thoughts" was from former Democrat Publisher Carrol Dadisman, who wrote: "In more than 50 years of various responsibilities for newspapers and editorial pages, I've defended a lot of editorial cartoons. But this one is indefensible."

[MNJohnnie]

Good on you for fighting back against their nonsense.

[Raycpa]

I suppose the NYT employees will be rioting after this.

[ExTexasRedhead]

Liberals like to "dish it out" but they can't take it when the same tactics are used on them. They better grow thick hides before the next election as turnabout is more than fair play.

[popdonnelly]

Mr. Dadisman is apparently afraid of freedom of the press. Probably because someone had the temerity to disagree with him. Typical of the Left in general. They can write and draw all kinds of scurrilous and obnoxious things about their political opposition. But let something get published that they don't like, and they act outraged. Like Mr. Dadisman, who is afraid there are people who will agree with the cartoonist.

[Chickenhawk Warmonger]

What about all the CRAP from Ted "I'm a Baby" Rall? He's the libs' darling and his little drawings are disgusting.

[VeniVidiVici]

"In more than 50 years of various responsibilities for newspapers and editorial pages, I've defended a lot of editorial cartoons. But this one is indefensible."

LOL! Pot, kettle, black.

This is along the same lines as the left believing that Freedom of Speech means Freedom from Criticism.

They're so dense.

[mikemc282002]

He never knew it, but for my remaining years in dealing with him, his big phocking mouth cost him literally tens of thousands of dollars in upcharges.

Post of the day. Good for you.

[GATOR NAVY]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinion/ssi/images/Toles/c_01292006_520.gif

Or this one?

[ErnBatavia]

I think I'd missed that great compilation....but it's now safe in the ErnBatavia archives! Thanks...

[summer]

Glad you liked it. :)

[summer]

Re your post #41 - Thanks, MNJohnnie.

[phillyfanatic]

One knows it is OK for the MSM to blaspheme Judeo-Christianity in cartoons, but not Islam , of course. It is fine to BBQ Bush with vile, hate and slime, but shots at their sacred cows, Oh the humanity! The Left is not only humorless , it is wussy and hypocritical with just a touch of treason thrown in to keep their bile going on Kos.

[summer]

Re your post #34 - Yes, it was tame, but as you mentiond, it certainly hit home for the ex-publisher who's complaining. Thanks for your post. Dog.

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

The left has infected most newspapers, and so it is in control of their content. No surprise that one leftie jumps to the defense of another leftie when the leftie does something illegal, immoral, unconstitutional or treasonous.

[Brytani]

If you receive a response please ping me, I'd love to hear if they ran that cartoon, her opinion of it and if they didn't run it, why not.

[Grampa Dave]

He should visit Free Republic to see the cartoons we have about the traitorous NY Slimes.

[summer]

The left has infected most newspapers, and so it is in control of their content

Yet, it seems they still can't win elections.

[Grampa Dave]

INSTRUCTIONS FROM Grampa Dave:

 

Want to smash the NY Slimes?
Check your mutual funds to see if they own NYT, the NY Slimes Stock

 

 

How many of us own mutual funds which own NY Slimes stock and even worse have increased their NYT holdings this year.

NYT investment by a mutual fund company is a terrible investment re the dollar loss in Stock value the last 2 years. Those investments are an attempt to keep the NY Slimes afloat with our mutual fund $'s.

Now it is very evident that the NY Slimes is an agent and abettor of the al Qaeda Serial Killers. The Slimes is endangering the lives of our families, friends, innocent Americans and every warrior of ours.

Go to this link to see if your mutual fund owns NYT.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/ownership/ownership.asp

When the MS Money stock home page comes up, enter NYT into the search area and hit enter and the following screen will show up re ownership of the NY Slimes stock:

The New York Times Company: Ownership Information

• Shares Outstanding 145.00 Mil
  
  
• Institutional Ownership (%) 83.40
  
  
• Top 10 Institutions (%) 58.60
  
  
• Mutual Fund Ownership (%) 42.64
  
  
• 5%/Insider Ownership (%) 7.77
  
  
• Float (%)
  
  

Highlight the Mutual Fund Ownership and hit enter.

If thousands of Freepers, whose mutual funds own shares of NY Slimes did the following:

1. Sell those mutual funds or trade them for funds not owning NYT.
   
   
2. Send a letter to the fund managers and the CEO's of the mutual fund company telling them why you sold/transferred their mutual fund owning NY Slimes stock. Then demand to know why they are wasting your precious $'s on a treason/sedition company which is a terrible investment.
   
   
3. Contact the SEC to investigate why this mutual fund and mutual fund company invested your $'s in one of the worse investments of the past 2 years. Was the investment of yours and others a political bailout of the NY Slimes.
   
   
4. Send this how to re Mutual Funds with NYT stock to everyone on your email list for a wakeup call.
   
   

We might have a lot more impact than trying to boycott companies which sell to the elite liberals of NYC and advertise in the NY Slimes.

INSTRUCTIONS FROM Grampa Dave:

 

Want to smash the NY Slimes?
Check your mutual funds to see if they own NYT, the NY Slimes Stock

 

 

How many of us own mutual funds which own NY Slimes stock and even worse have increased their NYT holdings this year.

NYT investment by a mutual fund company is a terrible investment re the dollar loss in Stock value the last 2 years. Those investments are an attempt to keep the NY Slimes afloat with our mutual fund $'s.

Now it is very evident that the NY Slimes is an agent and abettor of the al Qaeda Serial Killers. The Slimes is endangering the lives of our families, friends, innocent Americans and every warrior of ours.

Go to this link to see if your mutual fund owns NYT.

http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/ownership/ownership.asp

When the MS Money stock home page comes up, enter NYT into the search area and hit enter and the following screen will show up re ownership of the NY Slimes stock:

The New York Times Company: Ownership Information

• Shares Outstanding 145.00 Mil
  
  
• Institutional Ownership (%) 83.40
  
  
• Top 10 Institutions (%) 58.60
  
  
• Mutual Fund Ownership (%) 42.64
  
  
• 5%/Insider Ownership (%) 7.77
  
  
• Float (%)
  
  

Highlight the Mutual Fund Ownership and hit enter.

If thousands of Freepers, whose mutual funds own shares of NY Slimes did the following:

1. Sell those mutual funds or trade them for funds not owning NYT.
   
   
2. Send a letter to the fund managers and the CEO's of the mutual fund company telling them why you sold/transferred their mutual fund owning NY Slimes stock. Then demand to know why they are wasting your precious $'s on a treason/sedition company which is a terrible investment.
   
   
3. Contact the SEC to investigate why this mutual fund and mutual fund company invested your $'s in one of the worse investments of the past 2 years. Was the investment of yours and others a political bailout of the NY Slimes.
   
   
4. Send this how to re Mutual Funds with NYT stock to everyone on your email list for a wakeup call.
   
   

We might have a lot more impact than trying to boycott companies which sell to the elite liberals of NYC and advertise in the NY Slimes.

[Mia T]

Leakers... traitors... and now terrorists, themselves.
If this doesn't convince Bush that the Times is a clear and present danger and must be prosecuted, nothing will.

"What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."

James Madison

 

When the founders granted 'The Press' special dispensation, they never considered the possibility that traitors in our midst would game the system. But that is precisely what is happening today. (Hate America? Support jihad? Become a 'journalist!')

This was bound to happen.

The premise behind the First Amendment as it applies to the press--that a vigilant watchdog is necessary, sufficient--indeed, possible--to protect against man's basest instincts--is tautologically flawed: The fox guarding the White House, if you will.

Walter Lippmann, the 20th-century American columnist, wrote, "A free press is not a privilege, but an organic necessity in a great society." True in theory. True even in Lippmann's quaint mid-20th-century America, perhaps. But patently false in this postmodern era of the bubbas and the Pinches.

When a free and great society is hijacked by a seditious bunch of dysfunctional, power-hungry malcontents and elitists, it will remain neither free nor great for long. When hijacked by them in the midst of asymmetric warfare, it will soon not remain at all.

If President George W. Bush is serious about winning the War on Terror, he will aggressively pursue the enemy in our midst.

Targeting and defeating the enemy in our midst is, by far, the more difficult task and will measure Bush's resolve and courage (and his independence from the MPRDC (mutual protection racket in DC)) more than any pretty speech, more even than 'staying the course.'

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[Grampa Dave]

Bumping the reality of the Ny Slimes.