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Audacity of Truth
Spinsational:
"We were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises that were in front of us that I think we lost some of that sense of speaking directly to the American people about what their core values are and why we have to make sure those institutions are matching up with those values."
-Obama, explaining recent Democrat losses, 1/20/10
Velvet Lair- The sexiness of winning the battle of good versus evil January 26, 2010
- Ever wonder why? January 12, 2010
- The decision to bench Peyton Manning: Right or wrong? December 28, 2009
- Is my dad turning into a metrosexual? November 24, 2009
- My “Things To Do For Christmas” list November 23, 2009
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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“Many moonbat readers are equating criticism of Toles’ cartoon with the Muslim world’s violent reaction to the Danish forbidden cartoons.”
That in itself says volumes about the intellect and politics of these people. And people wonder why it’s always the radical socialists that become fascists..
Equating exercising your freedom of speech to criticize something with attempting to silence someone using force is not a rational position, and illustrates that the entire foundation of this country and it’s way of life are foreign to these people. It’s like Tim Robbins whining on national TV that he’s being censored and that a chill wind of censorship is blowing through the land. Yeah Tim, that’s why you are on the news irritating me, because there is unbridled censorship in this country.
From the Post article:
“Fred Hiatt, The Post’s editorial page editor, said he doesn’t ‘censor Tom’”
He just talked himself out of a job with Google.
I thought Political Cartoons were suppose to be funny.
How is this funny?
Who would find this funny?
In my opinion, this was just sick.
“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.”
Criticism of hte civilian leadership must be turned into criticism of the military.
Didn’t I just hear from Hillary how dissenting is patriotic?? Now the same side that says it’s patriotic says it should equate to bomb threats??? Talk about a double standard. It is so pathetic what these people use for logic and common sense. Criticize the Right, no problem. Criticize the Left, “you damn Nazi”. LOL Clue, if you don’t have one, buy one. – Lorica
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I am glad that Trudeau went to see the troops. Fox News Sunday had the rehab center in DC as a spotlight a couple of times in the last year. It is an amazing place. God Bless Our Troops – Lorica
No, this is no critism of any kind.
This is suppose to be a political cartoon….still trying to see the humor in it…
I hold it in the same contempt as I would someone drawing the hanging of a blackman and comparing it to Democrats. Would you find that funny? I wouldn’t, and I don’t find this funny either, especially being former military.
It isn’t supposed to be funny. It is suppose to be sad.
The sad part is the tragedy that the joint chiefs can’t be honest and admit that the cartoon speaks truth. I guess who really cares what the joint chiefs have to say, nobody even knows who they are. Who are they???? A bunch of pinhead military bureaucrats so far up Bush’s arse that they don’t even know the mess that has been created in Iraq.
Maybe the joint chiefs should quit reading cartoons and get their butts over to Iraq and/or Afganistan and get to work.
~Abe
Tole’s “cartoon” reminds me a lot of WaOp’s old Herblock’s “cartoon” the day after the Columbine shootings.
Where the dead were arranged to spell out “NRA”.
Not humorous, not deep. Though I’m sure the “artists” think so… Just disgusting!
Nor the wisest move, considering WaPo’s rapidly dwindling readership numbers.
Jack.
“…and I don’t find this funny either, especially being former military.”
Well, Sanity, I’m CURRENT military I serve not to defend freedom of speech and expression that I appreciate, but ALL speech and expression. The cartoon clearly speaks to the government turning a blind eye to how hard they’re pushing their enlisted forces with high deployment days and dangerous missions. Not all political cartoons are designed to get a belly laugh. Sometimes they’re supposed to make you think. Try it sometime.
Well Jeff congrats but anyone can say I am CURRENT, but if so, I will take you at your word, until you prove otherwise.
I am cut to the quick, I am told to think…lol
First of all the “cartoon” is tasteless.
It is not designed to make you think but to castigate and try and give yet another blackeye to this administration, and on somethings this administration does not need the help to give itself its own blackeye.
I did not say it should be banned, but I did say I did not like it and that it was tasteless. I did not find it funny. That is My RIGHT to have an opinion.
Jeepers, jeff, I guess you don’t think sanity’s allowed to have an opinion, huh? Only yours is O.K? Is that it? So, when Sanity has a tough time ‘getting’ the ‘cartoon’ you decide to make derogatory comments?
Jeepers, how nice of you! How truly good of you to pint out how we have failed to measure up to your standards.
By the way, I think the cartoon is a lie, printed to satisfy the Leftist agenda of the Post.
The Post has an Agenda? Say it isn’t so!!
Wars kill people. Those deaths offend other people. The offended people want to stop the killing by trying to stop the war. If the cartoon of an amputee lying in bed makes you nuts, go to a VA hospital and see the real thing. If that doesn’t make you want to stop the war and the killing then there is something wrong wit you. Peace
Benning,
Jeepers?
“By the way, I think the cartoon is a lie, printed to satisfy the Leftist agenda of the Post.”
Wow. Even if I was a righty I would think you’re a little (insert sound of coo-coo clock). The cartoon is a lie? What does that even mean? Does it make sense to you? The cartoon is the cartoonist’s opinion. You attack it as a “lie,” But you accuse me of squashing someone else’s opinion. Nice. Well played, sir. And just for the record, sanity does measure up to my standards. He makes clear points and does his best to back them up (the sarcastic comment about the Post’s “agenda” notwithstanding). I don’t think he would even accuse a cartoon of lying.
“(the sarcastic comment about the Post’s “agenda” notwithstanding)”
…I’m always mildly amused when the lefties start vibrating and lashing out when their pet lap dogs in the rabid leftwing media get “outed”. Shine the spotlight of truth on any group of editers at one of the Amerika Pravda outposts that pass themselves off as fair and balanced journalists, and they scatter like a kichen full of cockroaches when the light is snapped on, while the al Qaeda-bats stand there in their glorious frenetic truculence, and faux outrage, and defend the undefendable….
- Bang
Bang, you sound like the unibomber. You copied my sentence (which I think a deaf person could hear how firmly my tongue was planted in my cheek) and replied to it with words like “lashing out,” “rabid,” and, I’m not sure I get this one, “vibrating (?)”
I thought we were the one’s who were supposed to be unhinged? reply to this post if you like, just please, no letters or packages.
- Well I think jeffs response did a excellent job of proving my point. “Out” their feckless, biased propaganda mills, and the cups start rattling on the shelves… *chuckle*…
- Someone should go for their Doctorate on BDS, while there still is a gaggle of leftist loonies before they all dissapear. Someone else with a working brain cell should go over to the DNC and paint 10 foot letters in red across the front window: …. “HEY DEMWITS – HE”S NOT RUNNING AGAIN!” …
- Bang
NO BUT HIS REPUBLICAN’S ARE. peace
“HEY DEMWITS – HE”S NOT RUNNING AGAIN!” …
How long has Bubba been out of office, and republican blogs can’t get through a thread without somehow blaming HIM for anything and everything. Don’t try to pull some Jedi mind-trick on that one. And who says things like “feckless propaganda mills?” You elitist, you.
“…I’m always mildly amused when the lefties start vibrating and lashing out when their pet lap dogs in the rabid leftwing media get “outed”"
The post editorialized in favor of the war. Out indeed.
And thank goodness too! The only thing worse than the Republicans are the Democrats. It will be probably a decade before the Democratic party finishes it’s collapse and is replaced by the Libertarian party. At that point, we can have reasonable debate between the parties and expect real progress.
Don’t feel like supporting the Democrats is a waste of your time though Steve. It is opinions like yours that hasten the move towards progress. As it becomes clear that they are only offering hollow statements with no meaning behind them (such as ‘peace’, ‘no blood for oil’, ‘not with my uteris’ etc), Americans will increasingly shun the party of appeasement (both domestically and internationally). And then we can move on towards more meaningful platitudes like “peace via freedom”, or “global interdependance means global peace and prosperity”.
So when you say “peace” at the end of each statement you make, it’s ok that you don’t understand what it takes to create peace (i.e. freedom). Making the Democratic ideal known to the world is the most efficient way of ending the party and beginning the real Republican/Libertarian debate. You are furthering the march of freedom albeit unintentionally, but I nevertheless salute you.
“The post editorialized in favor of the war. Out indeed.”
Which proves what exactly? If you don’t know Andrew I’ll inform you. The Wapo does have a a few non-Liberal writers.
So lets see. I guess that example is ment to offset 39 straight days of front page coverage of Abu Graibe, which as it turns out, envolved a handfull of unsupervised, or poorly supervised people out of 140,000+ troops on the ground. Right. Check. When the checks from Soros dry up, the NYTrash will be history.
You really don’t want to go there Andrew. There isn’t enough room on this, and several other blogs, to document the wild, baseless accusations and attacks on Bush and his administration, all left wing Op-Ed pieces written under the guise of “news”. Worse, most containing outright unfounded, or un-sourced, blantant lies.
- Rather, Mapes, and the DNC thought they were big enough and important enough to take a bundle of phony memo’s that the fenatical writer had been shopping around for years, and run a scam on the public right in the middle of a presidential campaign. Unfortunately they weren’t aware they were backing a guy who shot himself in the ass twice with gernade launchers, and gave himself medals for it.
- I don’t begrudge your propaganda rags. I find it amusing you keep denying the obvious. That is certainly “feckless”, and pitiful denial politics.
- Bang
“Which proves what exactly? If you don’t know Andrew I’ll inform you. The Wapo does have a a few non-Liberal writers.”
Not writers. An Editorial. The voice of the editorial board of the paper.
“ou really don’t want to go there Andrew. There isn’t enough room on this, and several other blogs, to document the wild, baseless accusations and attacks on Bush and his administration, all left wing Op-Ed pieces written under the guise of “news”.”
Whatever. The point is on the war? The Post basically said ‘lets roll into iraq.’
- Andrew…. How old are you?…I think you’ll find that most “editors” on major newspapers got to be editors by being journalist/writers first. As the typical leftist debater is want to do, you’re wandering off point.
- The point is the left enjoys the support of the truculent, alarmist, pravaracation riddled, hatchet job articles, eminating from a long list of obviously biased MSM sources, and writers. The left and their press/TV lackies have raised misrepresentation to an art form.
- That is the “whatever”…
- Bang
“Andrew…. How old are you?…I think you’ll find that most “editors” on major newspapers got to be editors by being journalist/writers first. As the typical leftist debater is want to do, you’re wandering off point.”
The point i’m making is that the editors (who thanks to you were journalists first) took the editorial position that the US should invade iraq.
No need to argue abu gonzales conspiracies. Nothing. They flat out said it.
You’ll never win, andrew. They need this “boogeyman” argument so bad, they’ll never let it go. They have to be the victims of some vast liberal mainstream media bias or everything else they’ve built up in their heads will just crumble. There HAS to be a liberal media out there, plotting against them, holding them back, trying to abort their babies on the secular holiday that used to be christmas, or else…what are they fighting for?
You’ll never win, Big Bang Hunter. They need this “Iraq was for nothing” argument so bad, they’ll never let it go. They have to be the victims of some vast conservative/corporate/theocratic conspiracy or everything else they’ve built up in their heads will just crumble. There HAS to be a conspiracy out there, plotting against them, holding them back, trying to force religion on them, steal all of their money to give to oil companies, and force them to not have sex, or else…what are they whining for?
I have to come clean. My previous post was somewhat plagiarized.
” There HAS to be a conspiracy out there, plotting against them, holding them back, trying to force religion on them, steal all of their money to give to oil companies, and force them to not have sex, or else…what are they whining for?”
Its not conspiracy that the Post favored the war. Just the usual pro-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.
“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