Dear Donna: Thank you for sharing that shameful, disgraceful “cartoon.” I wasted no time writing the editor, expressing my feelings about that libelous piece of garbage. I would expect to find it in a white supremacist, skinhead, Klan flyer, but in a local paper? I am not buying his explanation to you, and I’m sure no one else will, either.

I get my news from The Week, which is an excellent summary of stuff in general, and The Economist, which cuts out about 98% of the meaningless drivel one finds in US newspapers and mags. I don’t quite understand what it is that drives US publishers to do such a uniformly bad job in so many varied forms. But I was entertained when I read Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and learned the problem has existed at least since 1832.

My husband called the paper, and he said the editor said they’ve received more calls on this than anything in the last three years.

I suppose the fact that I sent emails to all my MoveOn group and local Dem clubs might have been a factor…

i’m sure this will make you laugh again: http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2006/11/say_goodbye.html

The Noose-Chieftain’s editorial cartoonist is even
worse than the paper itself. His snarkiness is
exceeded only by his ignorance. Since I live in a condo,
I don’t qualify to get the rag tossed in my driveway
every week — which I regard as one of the benefits of
condo life.