• Re: OT: WaPo cartoonist resigns

    From moviePig@21:1/5 to Rhino on Mon Jan 6 11:29:34 2025
    On 1/5/2025 9:42 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-01-04 10:58 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 1/4/2025 6:28 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-01-04 6:03 PM, moviePig wrote:
    On 1/4/2025 5:17 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-01-04 4:58 PM, moviePig wrote:

    Read it and weep...

        https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-
    washington- post


    I don't disagree with her basic principle but I wonder how many
    times she held Biden and his administration to account? I'll bet
    she found reasons to give them a pass....

    Alarmingly irrelevant, but here you go:

    Irrelevant? Hardly! You don't get to cry "hypocrite!" at tech bros
    unless you're free from hypocrisy yourself. Given how the WashPost
    refused to see Biden's mental decline until the June debate despite
    it being obvious to anyone with eyes, I have every right to be
    suspicious of her only being upset now that she can't depict the tech
    bros in a negative light.


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/19/biden-fantasy-
    world- ann-telnaes-cartoon/

    ...and...


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/05/ann-telnaes-
    cartoon- biden-israel/

    ...etc.

    Those links would be great if I had a subscription but I don't: I get
    a big subscription window that covers much of the cartoon and doesn't
    let me scroll down to see the caption.

    They're some of her Biden cartoons.  I arrived at the links via Google
    ("telnaes cartoon biden") and encountered no paywall.

    However, *her* potential bias ("hypocrisy") isn't the issue here.
    E.g., she could even be hired as Ultra-Liberal Attack Dog.  What's
    disturbing is the Voice From Above (Bezos? Trump?) exerting editorial
    censorship.


    As usual, you have a competely wrong-headed attitude here but if you
    didn't understand my first explanation, you won't understand my second either.

    Your "first explanation" is that she should be bipartisan, right? Why?

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to Rhino on Mon Jan 6 11:27:16 2025
    On 1/5/2025 9:40 PM, Rhino wrote:
    On 2025-01-04 6:42 PM, danny burstein wrote:
    In <vlcg6r$lv7u$1@dont-email.me> Rhino
    <no_offline_contact@example.com> writes:

    [snip]

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/19/biden-fantasy-world- >>>> ann-telnaes-cartoon/

    ...and...


    https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/04/05/ann-telnaes-cartoon- >>>> biden-israel/

    ...etc.

    Those links would be great if I had a subscription but I don't: I get a
    big subscription window that covers much of the cartoon and doesn't let
    me scroll down to see the caption.

    A good mechanic doesn't blame her tools.

    I'm at a loss to see the relevance of that little nugget of wisdom....

    I didn't choose to post links that were behind a paywall for someone
    that isn't about to pay to look at them.

    (Neither did I.)

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  • From moviePig@21:1/5 to EGK on Mon Jan 6 11:35:24 2025
    On 1/6/2025 1:57 AM, EGK wrote:
    On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 21:42:45 -0600, super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:

    On 2025-01-05 23:31:40 +0000, EGK said:

    On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 17:06:03 -0600, super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid>
    wrote:

    On 2025-01-05 21:40:36 +0000, EGK said:

    On Sun, 05 Jan 2025 18:17:30 +0000, BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid> >>>>> wrote:

    super70s <super70s@super70s.invalid> wrote:
    On 2025-01-05 03:00:15 +0000, anim8rfsk said:

    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    Read it and weep...

    https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post >>>>>>>>>

    I won’tshed a tear. She’s a drooling moron that doesn’t even know what
    democracy is. Good riddance.

    What do you think democracy is, mega-billionaires outbidding each other >>>>>>> to push their personal agendas through? Because that's what's going on >>>>>>> now (with Trump, at least).

    You say as if it isn't the same thing under Democrat rule just with a >>>>>> different set of billionaires.

    Biden giving George Soros the medal of freedom said it all.

    Payback for Trump's ridiculous decision to give one to Rush Limbaugh.

    So you're all about payback then? That says a lot about you too.

    I want to see you being equally sanctimonious about payback when the
    Trump Revenge Tour begins in a few days or that says a lot about you.
    <laff>

    That's all you guys ever have to offer is "whataboutism" It's always
    'yeah, but but, but TRUMP!. He's a Nazi. Trump is a fascist, Trump is a threat to our Democracy" Apparently just saying that absolves the left of everything.

    Well, yes, arrant Nazism/fascism does tend to overshadow quite a bit...

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  • From anim8rfsk@21:1/5 to moviePig on Mon Jan 6 22:55:00 2025
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
    On 1/5/2025 1:17 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
    anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net> wrote:
    moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:

    Read it and weep...

    https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post

    I won’tshed a tear. She’s a drooling moron that doesn’t even know what
    democracy is. Good riddance.

    I wonder how many cartoons she drew showing the press on their knees before >> Biden for three years, dutifully repeating the White House lie that he was >> 'sharp as a tack' and 'mentally running circles around everyone in the
    room', when they all knew he was in the corner watching squirrels out the
    window and slurping pudding.

    See for yourself...

    https://x.com/AnnTelnaes/status/1375204842684116993/photo/1


    If that’s supposed to be Biden, then she can’t draw either. One more reason to fire her.

    --
    The last thing I want to do is hurt you, but it is still on my list.

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