Editorial Cartoons in the Gazette
To say The Gazette delivers a conservative point-of-view is stating the obvious. The paper's overabundance of conservative editorial cartoons and op-ed pieces indicate that I won't find a place in its pages for my viewpoints.
Often, when the views are ugly and not at all grounded in reality, I get angry and vow never to sumbit my work because I don't want to be associated with such a small-minded, smalltown paper.
There aren't even good personals to peruse.
On the other hand, if I only submit to liberal weeklies, won't I be simply preaching to the choir?
posted by kate @ 12:32 PM
4 comments
4 Comments:
if I only submit to liberal weeklies, won't I be simply preaching to the choir?
Yes.
And what a stupid cartoon.
Whenever I read small-minded, ugly, and ungrounded in reality liberal papers (pardon the redundancy), I find the truth in believing the opposite of what they report. So your op-ed's in The Gazette would provide the truth by others reading them and knowing it's not the truth. So go for it.
I agree that the yacht owner is stupid for trying to lower his monthly health insurance payment on the back of his yacht. Depends on how many kids he has I guess.
I feel very secure that once we get this health insurance plan, the cost of health care is going to plummet. The medical industry is going to recognize the plight we are in - Hospitial's will not raise their rates, Doctor's will not raise their rates, drug companies won't raise their rates -etc, etc.
Because they will know they have to sacrifice too.
Now that poor people all have multiple TV's, microwaves, cars, well read for yourself:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Welfare/bg1713.cfm
"The following are facts about persons defined as "poor" by the Census Bureau, taken from various government reports:
Forty-six percent of all poor households actually own their own homes. The average home owned by persons classified as poor by the Census Bureau is a three-bedroom house with one-and-a-half baths, a garage, and a porch or patio.
Seventy-six percent of poor households have air conditioning. By contrast, 30 years ago, only 36 percent of the entire U.S. population enjoyed air conditioning.
Only 6 percent of poor households are overcrowded. More than two-thirds have more than two rooms per person.
The average poor American has more living space than the average individual living in Paris, London, Vienna, Athens, and other cities throughout Europe. (These comparisons are to the average citizens in foreign countries, not to those classified as poor.)
Nearly three-quarters of poor households own a car; 30 percent own two or more cars.
Ninety-seven percent of poor households have a color television; over half own two or more color televisions.
Seventy-eight percent have a VCR or DVD player;
62 percent have cable or satellite TV reception.
Seventy-three percent own microwave ovens, more than half have a stereo, and a third have an automatic dishwasher.
********
So if we were to subtract the above percentages from 100, then we could designate the remaining as "dirt poor". I'll give up part of my yacht payment to support the dirt poor.
Conservative type newspapers are pretty awesome. You can use them to wipe your ass and sop up oil in your garage.
That cartoon is just dumb. Only the extremely naive out there still believe that Republicans are fiscally conservative and Democrats want to spend all their money. That is so 1996.
Post a Comment
<< Home