Danziger is At It Again  
By John R.Gilligan

ONCE AGAIN I FIND I MUST WRITE AND COMPLAIN ABOUT AN ARGUS JEFF DANZIGER CARTOON.THIS ONE APPEARED ON THE EDITORIAL PAGE IN THE 3 MAY 08 EDITION of the Time Argus SHOWING JOHN MCCAIN'S SKULL CAP TURNED UP AND SHOWING HIS BRAIN AS A MINIATURIZATION OF PRESIDENT BUSH STANDING IN THE CAVITY. VERY FUNNY LIBERAL HUMOR, HA HA HA.

THIS I MATCHED BY THE ALMOST WEEKLY RANTINGS OF STRAT DOUHAT IN THE LETTERS PAGE.HE SEEMS TO GET LIMITLESS SPACE WHILE JUST ABOUT EVERYONE OF MY SUBMITTALS IN THE LAST 5 YEARS GET LOST, DELAYED OR OTHERWISE DERAILED. BOTH THE CARTOONS AND LETTERS ARE VILE, VICIOUS AND MANY TIMES UNFOUNDED.

AS I WROTE LAST MONTH & DEBUNKED A DANZIGER ANTI-MILITARY PROCUREMENT CARTOON; I FIND I MUST TAKE ISSUE WITH THIS ONE AS WELL. JOHN MCCAIN IS NOT PRESIDENT BUSH AND PRESIDENT BUSH IS NOT JOHN MCCAIN. THEY BOTH HAPPEN TO BE FIGHTER PILOTS WHICH TAKES CONSIDERABLY MORE INTELLIGENCE AND SKILL TO THAN WRITING AND DRAWING CHILDISH LETTERS AND PICTURES THAT WOULD BE MORE APPROPRIATE ON THE WALLS OF A MEN'S ROOM THAN AN EDITORIAL PAGE.

A RESPECTED JOURNALIST, BERNIE GOLDBERG, RECENTLY WROTE A BOOK ENTITLED "100 PEOPLE WHO ARE SCREWING UP AMERICA." IN IT JEFF DANZIGER PLACED AROUND 34TH. ONLY TO BE OUTSCORED BY ANOTHER FAMOUS VERMONTER HOWARD DEAN WHO MADE THE TOP 20. IN THE BOOK MR. GOLDBERG CITED  DANZIGER'S VICIOUS ATTACK ON CONDOLEEZA RICE DEPICTING HER AS 'AUNT JEMIMA." AGAIN CUTE LIBERAL HUMOR.

YET IF A CONSERVATIVE LIKE ME WANTS A CARTOON SHOWING OUR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION AS THE 3 STOOGES, LARRY, CURLY AND MOE, OR BETTER YET INCLUDE HOWARD DEAN AND SHOW THEM AS THE MARX BROTHERS, GROUCHO, HARPO, ZEPPO AND CHICO. THE TIMES ARGUS WOULD JUDGE IT TASTELESS AND MEAN SPIRITED. FAIR & BALANCED???

I WOULD LIKE TO THINK THE ARGUS IS BETTER THAN DANZIGER BUT SADLY THEY ARE NOT AND THAT IS WHY A GROWING NUMBER OF MY FRIENDS AND ASSOCIATES NO LONGER READ IT.
 

JOHN R.GILLIGAN
C.P.M., A.P.P 
CAPTAIN USAF, RETIRED RESERVE
BARRE, VT.