[Vision2020] Offensive Cartoon (in my opinion)

[Kai Eiselein]

What am intolerant of, Sue, is people who blindly follow an ideology, left 
or right.
I am intolerant of people who find spooks in every nook and crany, who can't 
see anything for what it is without the myopic lenses of that ideology.
By the way, if you go back and read my orginal post, I never mentioned how I 
felt about the cartoon itself. Not once.
Someone with blind allegiance to to his ideology is the one who read racism 
into my post, played the race card and fired the first shot.

As for that opinion writer, if you recall, I had some fairly heated debates 
with him on the pages of my paper. Those debates, and his columns, appeared 
before I became editor.
He is currently the editor of the Eagle's sister paper, the Boomerang.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sue Hovey" <suehovey at moscow.com>
To: "Kai Eiselein" <editor at lataheagle.com>; <debismith at moscow.com>; 
<vision2020 at moscow.com>; <thansen at moscow.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 7:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Offensive Cartoon (in my opinion)


> Well I am one of your subscribers, and not only do I think it's racist, I 
> fail to understand how your explanation of the cartoon speaks to the 
> creator's intent.  Furthermore, if having a daughter "of color" somehow 
> frees one from being characterized as racist then must we conclude Thomas 
> Jefferson and his ilk were somehow less racist than their counterparts?
>
> And frankly, Kai, I don't see you as racist so much as I see you as 
> intolerant of those whom you identify as your intellectual and 
> philosophical inferiors.  And no, don't cancel my subscription.  I enjoy 
> your paper but I never read it for philosophical or political content.   I 
> gave that up when you fired the opinion writer whose columns didn't fit 
> the ideological framework on which you publish.
>
> Sue Hovey
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Kai Eiselein" <editor at lataheagle.com>
> To: <debismith at moscow.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>; <thansen at moscow.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 4:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Offensive Cartoon (in my opinion)
>
>
>> Explain to me how it's racist.... it strikes me as a play on the " a 
>> 1,000
>> monkeys pounding on 1,000 typewriters could write a novel" thing.
>> And if you are going to call me a racist, Tom, do to my face, in the open
>> and not through the side of your mouth with spittle dribbling down your 
>> chin
>> as you automatically salivate at anything you may perceive to be racist. 
>> I
>> will remind you that my daughter is one of those subscribers "of color".
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>> To: <debismith at moscow.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>; <thansen at moscow.com>
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 6:15 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Offensive Cartoon (in my opinion)
>>
>>
>>> Yet Kai Eiselein of the Latah Eagle feels . . .
>>>
>>> "Actually, I think a chimp could have done a better job than the
>>> self-important, bought-and-paid-for, moronic, buffoons who are, and have
>>> been, "running" the country."
>>>
>>> So, an employee of the Latah Eagle finds humor in an extremely racist
>>> cartoon of the New York Post?
>>>
>>> I wonder if Latah Eagle subscribers of color are aware of Mr. Eiselein's
>>> brand of "humor"?
>>>
>>> Hmmm.
>>>
>>> Tom Hansen
>>> Moscow, Idaho
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> You are not the only one. i understand the YWCA of the USA is 
>>>> soliciting
>>>> signatures asking the New Yorker apologize for being racially
>>> offensive....
>>>> http://news.prnewswire.com/ViewContent.aspx?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/02-
>>> 18-2009/0004974790&EDATE=
>>>
>>>> or www.ywca.org.
>>>> Debi R-S
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>>>> From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>>>> To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 5:13 PM
>>>> Subject: [Vision2020] Offensive Cartoon (in my opinion)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> > Am I the only person that sees this cartoon as extremely offensive?
>>>> >
>>>> > http://www.nypost.com/delonas/delonas.htm
>>>> >
>>>> > Tom Hansen
>>>> > Moscow, Idaho
>>>> >
>>>> > "For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist
>>>> > Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever 
>>>> > to
>>> go
>>>> > to work."
>>>> >
>>>> > - Roy Zimmerman
>>>> >
>>>> >
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>>>
>>>
>>> "For a lapsed Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist
>>> Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to 
>>> go
>>> to work."
>>>
>>> - Roy Zimmerman
>>>
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