Cartoonist mistaken

The cartoon by Glenn McCoy of the Belleville News-Democrat (12/24, Opinion), depicts two characters. The first remarks: “Time (magazine) gave it’s Man of the Year award to a power-hungry, ego-driven socialist.” The second responds: “Al Gore’s parents must be proud.”

It is evident from this cheap shot that either Mr. McCoy has never read anything about socialism, or he has never read anything about Mr. Gore’s policy proposals.

The fact that he uses “it’s” instead of “its” indicates that not only is he unable to read; he is unable to write.

I appreciate your desire to balance the political opinions of cartoonists published in The Star, but it would be an improvement if you could find a conservative cartoonist who is not a functional illiterate.

Deborah Borek
Kansas City

Comments

[Jim]

Buddy, do you think I'm a professor or something? A few weeks ago, you said something about missing class and now you call me a "libbie prof." Just wondering where you got that idea.

[Jim]

Just ribbin' you, Eng. It's Buddy who obviously doesn't have a sense of humor.

[BuddyT]

Ignore Lib Jim, Ramblin', that is what libbie profs do when they get caught with their "intellectual pants" down...

I wonder if old Iggy is advising Lib Jim, lmao...what a pair of zeroes....

[Engineer]

Jim
I make a lot of worse errors than that. Just don't proof read very well.

[Jim]

"Apparently your problems with understanding and comprehension greatly surpas the ability to differentiate among its, it's and it is."

Or the ability to spell "surpass."

[Engineer]

My goodness Deborah Borek the shoe does pinch when it's on the other foot, doesn't it? But the most hillarious thing about your letter to The Star was to read the statement "I appreciate your desire to balance the political opinions of cartoonists published in The Star" just after having viewed the essentially Bush bashing cartoon page "The Year In Review" in the same issue of The Star. Apparently your problems with understanding and comprehension greatly surpas the ability to differentiate among its, it's and it is.

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

I am very much in tune with Al Gore's proposals and unrealistic fantasyland dreams. Sorry but here is a guy that sues tobacco for a lame reason, then his lawyer cronies benefit from the "suit". $1,000 a an hour is what they cooked up. Al has an ego as big big as GW's.
All thinks there is social program that can control the earth's natural progession like a remote control. Al and most that follow his fiction believes raising taxes on working class and enterprise somehow benefits a free market economy.
I would say as far as parents being proud, if your kid is a lawyer, there is not much to be proud of. Most lawyers are in the game to take what is not theirs at someone elses expense. There a a few decent ones but most are nothing but scumbag ambulance chasers like John Edwad.

[BuddyT]

AND, he is the pompous ass of all pompous asses........

[JUNGLEJACK]

... let's see, in 2000 Al Gore sought to deny the servicemen and women of the U.S. serving overseas the right to vote - thinking their votes wouldn't favor him. He then held the country hostage while throwing a temper tantrum (through his lawyers, of course) when the election didn't go his way.

Since then he has revived his old stand-by (the aging hippie environment cause) and promoted more government controls over private lives of U.S. citizens because some of us don't live the way he thinks we should.

So, to sum up:
power hungry? check
ego driven? check.
socialist? check.