View Full Version : Cartoon in Ft. Worth Star Telegram
bunny213
09-03-2005, 11:55 AM
In this mornings Star-Telegram is an editorial cartoon that was picked up by a paper from a cartoonist in Canada. I am so upset...what is this man trying to do? Haven't the people of the U.S. enough to deal with right now? My husband has written to the Star-Telegram ... and I am going to cancel our subscription. This cartoon more or less dares the terrorists to do better than Katrina did.....did anyone else see this cartoon? I am shocked and dismayed at the judgement of this newspaper. I apoligize to the people in Canada, you are wonderful and good neighbors...I am not upset with you...just this individual....he's a disgrace.
Barb in Texas
Pugdog007
09-03-2005, 12:10 PM
:sad2: Unbelievable.
Lisa loves Pooh
09-03-2005, 12:18 PM
Wow!
Is Fort Worth receiving refugees?
Free speech or not--and insensitive thing to publish.
(sorry barb---I think I had in my mind that I couldn't see the picture in your post---but then decided not to type that...and totally wrote the inappropriate thing. Nothing wrong with your post!!! It's the publication!!!)
bunny213
09-03-2005, 12:23 PM
I'm sorry if you thought that my post was insensitive...that's the last thing I am or want to be. I have been in tears over all the heartbreak that people are going through....but I'm just so mad at this paper...please don't be mad at me..I wasn't trying to be mean...I'm just mad and upset. And I don't want anyone else hurt. Barb
Free4Life11
09-03-2005, 12:28 PM
Where can I see the cartoon?
Lisa loves Pooh
09-03-2005, 12:30 PM
I'm sorry if you thought that my post was insensitive...that's the last thing I am or want to be. I have been in tears over all the heartbreak that people are going through....but I'm just so mad at this paper...please don't be mad at me..I wasn't trying to be mean...I'm just mad and upset. And I don't want anyone else hurt. Barb
:blush:
Barb I am terribly terribliy sorry--I will fix my post..and I meant publish.
So sorry!!!!
WebmasterKathy
09-03-2005, 12:30 PM
Not sure about refugees to Ft. Worth. Here's a partial list of cities and the number of refugees they're expecting to shelter:
Houston: 33,000
Dallas: 25,000
San Antonio: 25,000
Austin: 5,000
Tyler: 500
Beaumont: 1,450
Memphis: 10,000
Baton Rouge: estimates as high as 300,000
gradtchr
09-03-2005, 12:32 PM
Fort Worth is taking refugees as are many of the suburbs even though they are in much reduced numbers.
Aimeedyan
09-03-2005, 12:34 PM
I know Tarrant County has taken in many, I have family there aiding in the efforts. I am in Waco and we have taken in lots of families as well, just not enough to make the press.
ElizK
09-03-2005, 06:21 PM
I saw it. Pretty disgusting, wasn't it.
eleanor
09-03-2005, 07:08 PM
As a canadian may I say that I am sorry about the cartoon. We have some really disgusting reporters and cartoonist in this country, Talk about arrogant. They seem to think that they are superior for some reason, as you can see they are wrong.
LoraJ
09-03-2005, 07:49 PM
???
Where can we see this?
goin2disneyagain
09-03-2005, 07:55 PM
How sickening!! That really disgusts me. :mad:
DisneyLovingMama
09-03-2005, 07:59 PM
Can you tell us the cartoonist or what the cartoon was? For those of us not in Texas?
Was it this one by any chance? I don't really see it the way you do though, if it is.
http://www.cagle.com/working/050901/rice.gif
MagicKingdom05
09-03-2005, 08:31 PM
That's sick and the person should be fired.
Charade
09-03-2005, 08:52 PM
Oh now that's just awful!!
DawnCt1
09-03-2005, 09:28 PM
As a canadian may I say that I am sorry about the cartoon. We have some really disgusting reporters and cartoonist in this country, Talk about arrogant. They seem to think that they are superior for some reason, as you can see they are wrong.
No need to apologize. We have some pretty disgusting cartoonist adn reporters here too.
Free4Life11
09-03-2005, 09:30 PM
Here is the link to the cartoon:
http://caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7BB08B6BB6-D5B9-43E5-9BA1-12B19E11F91D%7D.gif
I think that is incredibly poor taste. I would have cancelled my subscription and written a letter too.
DawnCt1
09-03-2005, 09:31 PM
I am feeling optomistic tonight. Is it remotely possible that the cartoonist is saying that the terrorist is insignificant? I am trying to put this in a better light. Maybe it isn't a dare but an insult.
tiggersmom2
09-03-2005, 09:33 PM
Was it this one by any chance? I don't really see it the way you do though, if it is.
http://www.cagle.com/working/050901/rice.gif
I don't see that cartoon as horribly offensive. Just someone trying to make light of a horrible situation. I know I will probably be flamed but oh well, the cartoon just doesn't offend me. :confused3
I don't see that cartoon as horribly offensive. Just someone trying to make light of a horrible situation. I know I will probably be flamed but oh well, the cartoon just doesn't offend me. :confused3
Apparently, that is the wrong cartoon.
nliedel
09-03-2005, 09:35 PM
I don't see it as a dare, merely reality. What Katrina did was beyond the scope of understanding. Two horrific tradgedy's by nature in the past year. Unbelievable.
No, I don't think that there was any challenge at all intended. More likely just saying what the President did, that it looked like destruction from a major weapon.
Jen D
09-03-2005, 10:13 PM
Didn't offend me. It was just a comment on the magnitude of the damage... saying Mother Nature was able to cripple us in a way terrorism couldn't. You could also look at it as commenting on us being so focused on one threat we ignored the natural threats that have always been there.... although I think it is more the former message than the latter.
:confused3 The message may be clumsily executed but I didn't find it offensive.
(On edit) and that goes for both cartoons, which are basically variations on the same theme.
DisneyCP2002
09-03-2005, 10:23 PM
I have one I found in the Dallas paper today. Will share the pic once it's uploaded. Hopefully this posts right:
http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y239/DisneyCP2002/NOLA2.jpg
The lifeguard is the gov't and it says "Just a sec, I misplaced my whistle"
The arm is black and it says New Orleans
Lisa loves Pooh
09-03-2005, 10:39 PM
Sadly--that Dallas editorial with the lifeguard--is very right on with how those people felt in NOLA I bet :(.
http://caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7BB08B6BB6-D5B9-43E5-9BA1-12B19E11F91D%7D.gif
Upon viewing this one--it doesn't seem as bad as I thought it would be. So I don't know. I expected it to be more vengeful/spiteful--and hard to see it that way with an elderly couple depicted as saying the words.
profdsny
09-03-2005, 11:21 PM
If that's the one, I'm not sure of the reason to be upset. Granted it is uncomfortable, but that is what a good political cartoon does. My take on it is that terrorists think their little action have some impact, when basically they are pretty much insignificant, and their actions don't really effect much. However, I'm sure it can be taken a number of different ways. Disagree with it, which is certainly your right, and tell the paper you disagree, but don't cancel. If I canceled my paper every time I disagreed with a political cartoon, or thought it was out of place, I'd never have a paper. As it is, some cartoonists I never look at. My way of boycotting them.
Lebjwb
09-03-2005, 11:44 PM
Sadly--that Dallas editorial with the lifeguard--is very right on with how those people felt in NOLA I bet :(.
http://caglecartoons.com/images/preview/%7BB08B6BB6-D5B9-43E5-9BA1-12B19E11F91D%7D.gif
Upon viewing this one--it doesn't seem as bad as I thought it would be. So I don't know. I expected it to be more vengeful/spiteful--and hard to see it that way with an elderly couple depicted as saying the words.
IS this the cartoon?
I took this to mean that the victims of the hurricane are still standing and are tough. That they could withstand Katrina and that nothing, not even a terrorist attack could knock them back.
Am I wrong?
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