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Editorial cartoon ‘mean-spirited’
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Oct 03, 2008
Dear Editor,

The editorial cartoon in the September 26 Flamborough Review is about as mean-spirited as cartoons can get.

Depicting (Liberal leader) Stéphane Dion as the pilot of an aeroplane, which has blown up in mid-flight may be wishful thinking on the part of the cartoonist, but it also is just following the media herd in belittling a leader whose well thought-out environmental policy is “too hard to understand.” It is too hard – for those who have no intention of trying to understand.

The art of the cartoonist legitimately exaggerates and laughs at the errors and foibles of people in public life, but there are lines that fairness and good taste demand not be crossed.

Fairness and good taste require me to write this even though I have never voted Liberal.

Helen Brink, Greensville

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