Yesterday, Michelle Malkin linked to a copy of the infamous Washington Post cartoon by Tom Toles ridiculing a quadruple amputee soldier in a hospital bed. You can view it here. She also included a copy of a letter from the chairman of the joints chiefs and all the service chiefs condemning Toles shameless cartoon.
Today, Malkin notes The Post has published the chiefs’ letter and links to it.
There's been no word from The Post as to why it would ridicule a service man who had lost four limbs serving his country. Doesn’t The Post realize service men and women defend The Post; and it possible for The Post to publish and earn a nice profit?
We'll keep following what happens. Let's hope The Post somehow develops enough decency to issue an apology.
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Malkin has more on the infamous Toles' cartoon
Posted by JWM at 9:41 AM
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I wonder if the Post would consider publishing a cartoon of, say, a highly paid anchor receiving his checks in bed while tended lovingly by news executives?
Nahhhh.
-AC
I finally got a look at the cartoon. I will say I don't appreciate it. I thought it was tasteless and extremely insensitive to our military and their families. However, I didn't see it as ridiculing the serviceman. It appeared to me to be a hard slap at the SEC/DEF. Ridiculing him for insensitivity to the troops in deference to partisan policy and using spin to legitmize it.
To my mind, the biggest insult to the serviceman/woman was unintentional. Those are always the unkindest cuts of all. In the cartoonists effort to ridicule Rumsfeld and the administration he serves, he trivialized the sacrifices of our serviceman/women.
That he accords our servicemen/women no respect, but rather uses them as convenient props to make a point he could have made another way, but not as easily is, by far, the lowest of insults. His target was Rumsfeld, whom he was trying to ridicule, his prop, the amputee soldier didn't even rise to the level of ridicule.
How much more contemptible can one man be? Not much.
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