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Audacity of Truth
"Change" You Can Believe In:
"Nixon didn’t try to do that. They couldn't control (the media). They didn’t try. [...] What the hell do they think we are, puppets?"
- Liberal opinion writer Helen Thomas, describing the Obama admin's penchant for heavily scripting public appearances & press conferences - 7/1/09
Class act from a liberal cartoonist
ST reader Fat Tone sent me a link this morning to an article about liberal cartoonist Garry Trudeau’s visit to the Pentagon to see troops who were wounded in the war on terror. It’s a story that will warm your heart. Read it here. Snippets:
During visits to Walter Reed, Trudeau said, he’s been “astounded” by the wounded troops’ lack of bitterness or self-pity and impressed by what he calls their “indomitable spirit.” So many express hope of getting better so they can return to their units, even when that likelihood seems impossible. “It takes your breath away,” Trudeau said.
Trudeau said he considers it “quite a privilege and an honor” to be able to sit at wounded troops’ bedsides and have them so openly share their experiences, as well as their hopes and fears, with a total stranger.
Army Spc. Joey Kashnow, a 4th Infantry Division soldier who lost his leg after being wounded in Taji, Iraq, in September 2003, was among the troops Trudeau met with today at the Pentagon.
“I think it’s fantastic what he’s doing,” Kashnow said of Trudeau’s support for wounded troops. Sitting with the cartoonist and chatting about his injury and the long healing process he’s undergoing, Kashnow said he’s glad to see people put politics aside as they focus on the troops.
Trudeau admitted that it’s no secret he’s not a strong advocate of the war in Iraq, but said B.D. is not about politics, but rather, about American support for its men and women in uniform. “We’re asking a great deal of our servicemembers,” he said.
Make sure to read the whole thing.
In the meantime, the Washington Post has responded to the backlash over this Tom Toles cartoon, which was so offensive that the Joint Chiefs of Staff got involved and sent a letter in protest of it.
Read more on the controversy over the Toles cartoon via Michelle Malkin, who makes the following good point:
Many moonbat readers are equating criticism of Toles’ cartoon with the Muslim world’s violent reaction to the Danish forbidden cartoons.
So, there you have it. Another example of liberal math:
Writing a letter and posting blog entries = issuing fatwas, threatening suicide bombings, and conducting armed raids.
Heh.
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I didn’t know that the Post favored the war. Good for them! I did too. I assumed they just supported the usual anti-war idiocy.
“I didn’t know that the Post favored the war. Good for them! I did too. I assumed they just supported the usual anti-war idiocy…”
…because the MSM hates America and wants to destroy Christmas and loves the terrorists.
By the way, WTF does this even mean: …”and force them to not have sex.”?
It amazes me that one tasteless cartoon can produce so many personal attacks.
Granted that two people may draw different conclusions, and noting the range of conclusions drawn by a wide variety of observers, whatever ‘point’ was attempted failed to produce a clear result.
Those who may claim it was intended to provoke thought, must admit the ‘toon appealed to emotions, not reason. Had the victim been bandaged, head to toe, in a body cast, or in a body bag, the Army would have been the clear target of the drawing. By drawing an amputee, (and ignoring the fact that the victim may have been proud of his service) the cartoon drew attention to the victim and ridiculed his sacrifice.
Note that there would be far less outrage if this was in the foreign press, where one expects an attack on American values. We may not always like it, but our troops protect those who despise democratic values.
Jeff, Don’t you guys think that conservatives are trying to enforce abstinence? That’s what that line in my parody of your post meant. I assumed you were just being funny, so I attempted to add to the humor.
“…because the MSM hates America and wants to destroy Christmas and loves the terrorists.”
I don’t believe your statement is accurate. The MSM only hates Republicans and other conservatives as far as I know.
- Actually, save for a number of obvious Bush hating obsessed writers, the majority of journalists in the so-called biased MSM are simply writing to inflame the people who are most likely to spend “emotion bucks”. Controversy sells, and the more outlandish and contra-conservative the better it sells. If you’re going to go for the compulsive crowd, you go for the stressed out group, fighting to get back in power. Which means the purpose behind cartoons of this sort is even more insensitive and baseless than they may seem to people they denigrate. This segment of the press/TV are intimately familiar with the credos of the left, and pander to that crowd just for the sake of the bottom line, much the same as what blogs like Daily Kos does, banking on the emotional confusion and personal issues of its flock for the sake of hits on the visit counter. Free enterprise in action…
- Bang