Comments on: Newspaper apologizes for Keith Knight cartoon http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/ The source for industry news for the professional cartoonist Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:54:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: F H Staley http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77765 F H Staley Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:31:52 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77765 Ain’t nothing that a whole lotta newspapers haven’t written stories on before, from the start of the primary(s) up until the election This cartoonist is just pointing out in illustration what they pointed out in words! Soooooooooo many non-Black Obama canvasers and staff members were greeted in just the manner pointed out in the comic strip sooooooooo why the need for an apology? It is, sadly, still a fact of life in the good ol' USofA . . . Ain’t nothing that a whole lotta newspapers haven’t written stories on before, from the start of the primary(s) up until the election

This cartoonist is just pointing out in illustration what they pointed out in words!

Soooooooooo many non-Black Obama canvasers and staff members were greeted in just the manner pointed out in the comic strip sooooooooo why the need for an apology?

It is, sadly, still a fact of life in the good ol’ USofA . . .

]]> By: Rich Diesslin http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77730 Rich Diesslin Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:22:24 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77730 Joe, might be awful to you, but I think Ramirez's cartoons were right on and I look forward to more of the same. I guess he'll be one of the few will have plenty of material to work with over the next 4 years. Joe, might be awful to you, but I think Ramirez’s cartoons were right on and I look forward to more of the same. I guess he’ll be one of the few will have plenty of material to work with over the next 4 years.

]]> By: Wiley Miller http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77728 Wiley Miller Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:40:19 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77728 "I did, however, give birth to my own Downs Syndrome grandchild." So THAT'S why you weren't at last year's Reuben Awards... “I did, however, give birth to my own Downs Syndrome grandchild.”

So THAT’S why you weren’t at last year’s Reuben Awards…

]]> By: KRANKY (JOE RANK) http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77727 KRANKY (JOE RANK) Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:23:56 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77727 Wiley, that was 2006? Who were the other two conservative nominees? Was Trudeau's comment in any way directed at them? ( Since you were eyewitness ). Although I would not be so hyperbolic, I can appreciate the opinion towards Ramirez. Much of his product about our new president Obama during the campaign was truly awful and in lockstep with the lowest merchants of smear and slime that define the far right. I would hope that emotions now calm. Plenty of good cartoon material will fade, but at least I have Arnold in state! Wiley, that was 2006? Who were the other two conservative nominees? Was Trudeau’s comment in any way directed at them? ( Since you were eyewitness ).
Although I would not be so hyperbolic, I can appreciate the opinion towards Ramirez. Much of his product about our new president Obama during the campaign was truly awful and in lockstep with the lowest merchants of smear and slime that define the far right.
I would hope that emotions now calm. Plenty of good cartoon material will fade, but at least I have Arnold in state!

]]> By: Wiley Miller http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77726 Wiley Miller Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:14:10 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77726 Just for the record, this report from Bob Harvey on the event: Editorial Cartooning -- Mike Lester of the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune; Glenn McCoy of the Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat; and *Mike Ramirez of Investor's Business Daily. Interestingly, as E&P’s David Astor observed when the nominees’ names were first published, all three finalists are conservatives in a cartooning profession consisting mostly of liberal and centrist creators. (Makes me wonder which chapter did the editorial cartoonist selection this year.) Doonesbury’s Garry Trudeau announced the winner in this category, and his tongue-in-cheek recitation of the names of the finalists acknowledged the oddity: Lester “on the right,” McCoy “on the far right,” and Ramirez “on the knuckle-dragging right.” http://gocomics.typepad.com/rcharvey/2007/05/index.html Just for the record, this report from Bob Harvey on the event:

Editorial Cartooning — Mike Lester of the Rome (Ga.) News-Tribune; Glenn McCoy of the Belleville (Ill.) News-Democrat; and *Mike Ramirez of Investor’s Business Daily. Interestingly, as E&P’s David Astor observed when the nominees’ names were first published, all three finalists are conservatives in a cartooning profession consisting mostly of liberal and centrist creators. (Makes me wonder which chapter did the editorial cartoonist selection this year.) Doonesbury’s Garry Trudeau announced the winner in this category, and his tongue-in-cheek recitation of the names of the finalists acknowledged the oddity: Lester “on the right,” McCoy “on the far right,” and Ramirez “on the knuckle-dragging right.”

http://gocomics.typepad.com/rcharvey/2007/05/index.html

]]> By: Mike Lester http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77725 Mike Lester Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:13:51 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77725 "knuckle-draggers" wasn't directed toward me. I'd remember if I had been singled out. Didn't happen. I did, however, give birth to my own Downs Syndrome grandchild. “knuckle-draggers” wasn’t directed toward me. I’d remember if I had been singled out. Didn’t happen. I did, however, give birth to my own Downs Syndrome grandchild.

]]> By: Alan Gardner http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77724 Alan Gardner Sat, 08 Nov 2008 17:11:48 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77724 Mike Wakowski - Lester did not use "Obamatrons" on this thread. Your comment is off topic and irrelevant to this discussion. Please bring them back in line. Alan Mike Wakowski – Lester did not use “Obamatrons” on this thread. Your comment is off topic and irrelevant to this discussion. Please bring them back in line.

Alan

]]> By: Wiley Miller http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77723 Wiley Miller Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:56:36 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77723 "Wiley, I believe you’re wrong about Trudeau. I may be wrong, but I don’t think so." Well, I was there, Mike. The "knuckle-dragging right" remark was actually directed at Mike Ramirez, who won the award that night. Mike Lester, by the way, won the Best Book Illustration award that night. “Wiley, I believe you’re wrong about Trudeau. I may be wrong, but I don’t think so.”

Well, I was there, Mike. The “knuckle-dragging right” remark was actually directed at Mike Ramirez, who won the award that night. Mike Lester, by the way, won the Best Book Illustration award that night.

]]> By: Mike Wakowski http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77722 Mike Wakowski Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:52:45 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77722 Wiley, I believe you're wrong about Trudeau. I may be wrong, but I don't think so. Mike Lester invited comment with his name-calling and request to "Obamatrons". Wiley, I believe you’re wrong about Trudeau. I may be wrong, but I don’t think so.

Mike Lester invited comment with his name-calling and request to “Obamatrons”.

]]> By: Wiley Miller http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77721 Wiley Miller Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:32:34 +0000 http://dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2008/10/29/newspaper-apologizes-for-keith-knight-cartoon/#comment-77721 "as Mike Luckovich so aptly characterized him at the Reubens a couple years ago…" It was actually Garry Trudeau who was presenting the editorial cartoon category who said that, not MIke Luckovich. All 3 nominees that year were conservative cartoonists. The rest of your post was a tirade mostly against Mike Lester, which is puzzling since he had nothing to do with the cartoon that is the subject of this thread. “as Mike Luckovich so aptly characterized him at the Reubens a couple years ago…”

It was actually Garry Trudeau who was presenting the editorial cartoon category who said that, not MIke Luckovich. All 3 nominees that year were conservative cartoonists.

The rest of your post was a tirade mostly against Mike Lester, which is puzzling since he had nothing to do with the cartoon that is the subject of this thread.

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