MSNBC and Cincinatti Post Cartoonist disrepects America's war dead. Disgusting political cartoon

Newsweak/MSNBC website/Cincinnatti Post / ^ | May 17, 2004 | Stahler

[CygnusXI]

I beg to differ, respectfully.

Wording is EVERYTHING in humor. Look what is said...
"The flag draped coffins don't look so bad now."

Not.. "The coffin flag scandal...", but "The flag coffins don't look bad.".

If it does mean what you say, then the cartoonist needs to be more clear. Because to me, the CLEAR message is "The flag draped coffins don't look so bad".

But, as was said before-- tasteless either way.. Just different degrees..

[rockrr]

To their credit (nominally), MSNBC (the Internet news side) had a bunch of moderate to conservative writers & researchers on their staff (at least when I worked there 1998 - 2000). When they hooked up with Newsweak, they would simply link to the Newsweak site without comment or endorsement. Later (after I left) I noticed that they appeared to be assimilating into the Newsweak style. Mores the pity.
They are all newswhores now.

[Huck]

I hear ya. I think you'd have to be completely blind not to see how it could be interpreted the way you describe. At best it was an unintentional double entendre, but it might have been intentional.

[VoiceOfBruck]

If they left could get away with it, they would dance in the streets and parade around the dead bodies of American soldiers.

That's basically what they're already doing.

[weegee]

When the Ted Rall Tillman strip was run, MS-NBC refused to run it as it violated their standards of fairness and taste.

I asked the lead editor to send me a list of just what those standards were. I still have not received a response.

Ted Rall's crime was not in criticizing dead soldiers or the Bush administration, his crime was that he made Democrats look bad (even though they say these same things on Democratic Underground every day).

[weegee]

In the nature of EQUAL TIME and fairness and accuracy in reporting:

U.K. Has `Indications' Iraqi Abuse Photos Are Fake

U.K. Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon said there are signs that photographs the Daily Mirror published purporting to show British soldiers abusing Iraqi prisoners may be fake.

``There are strong indications that the vehicle in which the photographs were taken was not in Iraq during the relevant period,'' Hoon told members of Parliament in London. The photos showed troops urinating on an Iraqi in the back of a truck.

U.S. calls for Arab retractions

The day after a WorldNetDaily report revealed that photos circulating in the Middle East that depict GI's raping Iraqi women were fake and had originated from pornography sites, the U.S. Embassy in Cairo issued a statement calling on Arab news outlets to publish retractions.

The embassy statement read, "We have done a thorough investigation of the origin of these photos and have conclusive evidence that they originated on a pornographic web site. They are clearly staged photos, done by actors, as the site itself states."

The Al Wafd newspaper published four photographs on the top of its front page that were alleged show American soldiers sexually abusing female prisoners in Iraq. Al Osboa and Al Mussawer published two of the same photos

The U.S. Embassy called the publication of these pornographic photos, with headlines alleging the involvement of U.S. soldiers, a "fundamental violation of journalistic integrity," and stated that their publication needlessly inflamed an already heated atmosphere.

[massiveblob]

The people that make these cartoons are just crazy. Hopefully the cartoonist and publisher don't get away with this. Completely disgusting and revolting.

[adaven]

That's just sick.

[Contra]

These sickos are just plain anti-American, there's no other explanation. They also should be lumped in with the terrorists, because as our President said, "you're either with us or with the terrorists." These a**holes are with the terrorists and should be considered the enemy.

[sport]

Liberals are not, after all is said and done, really human. Totally different species ~ different planet ~ should be sent back!


5 posted on 05/10/2004 12:06:05 PM PDT by muawiyah

Strongly Agree!

[sport]

All any liberal cares about is their oun individual worthless hide.

Nothing else is sacred to them.

To save it, nothing is too degrading to do.

They will lick any boot they have to, kiss any a$$, eat any amount of sh!! and on, and own.

The shame is that they live and prosper off the sacrifices of better people tham them. Like tapeworms.