DEVELOPING: SECRET SERVICE CONCERN AFTER LOS ANGELES TIMES COMIC DEPICTS 'BUSH ASSASSINATION'

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[ConservativeMan55]

DEVELOPING: SECRET SERVICE CONCERN AFTER LOS ANGELES TIMES COMIC DEPICTS 'BUSH ASSASSINATION'

[ConservativeMan55]

Yes, and the problem with that is that it is extremely hard to get a newspaper up off the ground. Extremely hard!

[billhilly]

Yes, he did kill him. The picture that is so famous was taken a second before the bulet slammed into the head of the Viet Cong soldier. As I recall, the picture was not a compliment to the marksmanship, or zeal, of the shooter.

[Howlin]

The offending graphics were removed; FR doesn't counsel calls for murder.

[b4its2late]

Now you've done it. Make me spit coffee all over my screen and keyboard......

[lawdude]

"But this is an editorial cartoon in a mainstream newspaper. It does not threaten the President and it probably intends to show him as a victim of politics.
"

Nice try at equivocation. First impressions (which guide most thought) are to most anyway, that this supports or advocates assassination. If it requires a PhD in psychology to garner the "true intent" of the cartoonist, it probably isn't his true intent! I have found most to be too dense to have deep-seated thought.

Disgusting and totally inappropriate, but alas, prolly legal.

Of course, if a conservative did this, he would be jailed for life without benefit of that nasty old, unnecessary trial.

[Miss Marple]

Well, the way I see it is that the cartoonist will get a visit from the Secret Service, which he should, just like that Craig Kilborn graphic with Bush in the Cross Hairs deserved one (although I don't know if they checked on that or not).

Then, Mr. Ramirez should apologize in the paper for a poor concept, although well-intended.

And that should be the end of it.

[Helms]

"I prefer being in the company of the Secret Service, looking very closely at this

[vikingchick]

Thanks for the back story.

[Libloather]

I gotta get off this thread.

Done?

[Prodigal Son]

We don't shut down carriers of opinions we don't like in this Republic.

Who is we? Are you part of the government? We don't like Salon. Salon's stock isn't worth toilet paper. If Salon goes bust it is because "we" the public didn't like it and shut it down. The First Ammendment doesn't cover that.

There are different ways of shutting things down. Some are prohibited by the First Ammendment- others are not. People have every right to boycott an enterprise and to agitate for their fellow citizens to do so. If "we" can shut the doors of the LA Times in this fashion, so be it. Where's the problem. That's capitalism at its finest.

[TheOtherOne]

The cartoon, was not offensive. Your editorialized version showing a gun to the president is offensive and makes a nice contrast.

1. We have a political cartoonist who made a cartoon depicting 'politics' killing the president against a backdrop of Iraq.

2. We have an Internet forum poster who posts a picture of the President of the United States with a gun to his head.

Seems to me, the SS should be visiting you soon, ehh?

[atomic conspiracy]

Commie rags flourish in Texas! Waco Trib-Herald and Austin's newspapers, the dailies and weeklies, come to mind.

How right you are. The Wacko Trib-Hairball and the various fossil hippies in Austin regularly make fools of themselves trying to imitate their aristocratic masters in the British trotskyite press. They undoubtedly believe that none of us benighted rednecks are smart enough to recognize the source. (I am a naturalized redneck, btw, an immigrant from Airstrip-One/Trotskyana, formerly the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.)

[vaudine]

Does anyone know who owns the LA Times. Follow the money. Maybe it is supported by Commie/Socialist front orgns.

vaudine

[b4its2late]

Ramirez will probably become famous now.

[KCmark]

Well that's good. I got the same reply on the other thread. Good or bad, FR is now a major representative for the conservative movement.

[Steel Wolf]

Wanna bet the cartoonist has had a very loud, very one soded conversation from the Sec. Svc. I just betcha he will be watching his ass in the future.

Now, if it was klinton, I just might alter my views.

It would be just as wrong with Bubba's head up there as it is with W's. Advocating or depicting the killing of our public officals is a road that we have no business going down. As pointed out earlier, the vast majority of assassins in our nation's history have been liberals.

The last thing they need now, with so much rabid anti-Bush sentiment, is encouragement from a major newspaper. It may not have been intended as encouragement, but it was negligent to think that this would have a benign effect.

[jack gillis]

"People react viscerally, as it's so much easier than thinking."

The author's intent .... when the writer get's them to THINK afterward, and talk about it, they've really done their jobs.

[solo gringo]

This is a piece of garbage that has no place in print with all the nuts in our country they would like to take a shot you know it i know it and the secret service knows it.This crap has to be answered to.

[hellinahandcart]

It's not necessarily that cartoon the cartoon "needs an explanation," rather, it could be that it makes you "think it through," and that's a good thing.

For me, it's that the cartoon is too esoteric. You can't "think it through" unless you already possess the information necessary to think it through. And, as has been pointed out, half the audience didn't live through that time and they're not going to see it as a twist on a famous photo. Or as a slam on the character-assassination of our Pesident by the left (which it is).

I'm 45 and I barely remember that picture myself.

[ConservativeMan55]

Does Ted Turned own them?