Be Careful What You Wish For Bill Day
Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 4:25 pmAs I wrote when the Communist Appeal fired bolshevik, delusionally anti-gun, talentless cartoonist, Bill Day; I don't rejoice in anyone loosing their job.
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Ironically, Day constantly promoted the self-serving socialists and their redistributionist policies that caused the recession that helped lead to his dismissal. Policies put in place by those with no knowledge of business, that continue to this day to use the extorted earnings of responsible home owners/tax-payers to buy votes using the scheme they call "affordable housing".
Day also worked tirelessly to seal his own fate with his groundless bigotry against gun owning CA ( now many former) subscribers, expressed in his lame, juvenile cartoons.
Like so many of his hypocrite-elitist comrades, including CA Editor, Chris Peck, Day can dish it out, but not take it. I can acknowledge, and even appreciate, someone's clever criticism if they disagree with me, but Day's bitter hatred of opposing ideas lacked creativity and humor. No wonder he's had no offers from a new outlet for his Stalinesk propaganda. Maybe Michael Ramirez will take pity on Day and give him some pointers on talent and political satire.
With Pity,
Pat McGarrity
Director - Shelby County TFA
http://www.tennesseefirearms.com
"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite."
-- Thomas Jefferson
From The Memphis Flyer:
http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/let ... id=1104329
Letters to the editor
by Flyer Readers
Don't Slash Your Wrists
I read with sadness Commercial Appeal editor Chris Peck's recent Sunday column lament that he considered slashing his wrists over an accurate but incomplete story in a rival publication's account of his stewardship of the newspaper. The full story is far worse.
For 11 years of award-winning work at the CA as the editorial cartoonist, I often acted as its public ambassador-at-large. I always spoke proudly of the role the CA plays in this community. I talked to dozens of civic groups, gave hundreds of school presentations, and mentored many young artists. Then, one day a month ago, I was summoned to the personnel department. I sat next to Peck as I was told to relinquish my ID card and office keys and ordered out of the building within the hour.
That afternoon, I went home to inform my wife and three young sons of my layoff. It was a crushing experience to explain it to them, and they wept. So did I. After more than 25 years in a specialized career, I have yet to be offered any opportunities to display my talents for employment. Foreclosure on my home looms on the horizon, and my weekly unemployment check barely covers the groceries, let alone any insurance premiums for my family. I can forget the dream of sending my children to college. An ambiguous offer of freelance work was offered by Peck, as if I could support a family on it.
In short, I have joined the many former employees of The Commercial Appeal in an agony of nightmares and despair. Yet strangely, like most of them, I still love the newspaper and I pray with all my heart that it survives. I guess old habits die hard.
If anyone should consider slashing their wrists, it is those of us he has thrown to the wolves. But we will endure and survive somehow. I need to inform Peck that, as he has told us, the personnel department is available to help with counseling so that he can get a better perspective on life. The poor man. Please, Chris, don't slash your wrists.
Bill Day
Memphis
viewtopic.php?f=39&t=1857
Ironically, Day constantly promoted the self-serving socialists and their redistributionist policies that caused the recession that helped lead to his dismissal. Policies put in place by those with no knowledge of business, that continue to this day to use the extorted earnings of responsible home owners/tax-payers to buy votes using the scheme they call "affordable housing".
Day also worked tirelessly to seal his own fate with his groundless bigotry against gun owning CA ( now many former) subscribers, expressed in his lame, juvenile cartoons.
Like so many of his hypocrite-elitist comrades, including CA Editor, Chris Peck, Day can dish it out, but not take it. I can acknowledge, and even appreciate, someone's clever criticism if they disagree with me, but Day's bitter hatred of opposing ideas lacked creativity and humor. No wonder he's had no offers from a new outlet for his Stalinesk propaganda. Maybe Michael Ramirez will take pity on Day and give him some pointers on talent and political satire.
With Pity,
Pat McGarrity
Director - Shelby County TFA
http://www.tennesseefirearms.com
"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite."
-- Thomas Jefferson
From The Memphis Flyer:
http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/let ... id=1104329
Letters to the editor
by Flyer Readers
Don't Slash Your Wrists
I read with sadness Commercial Appeal editor Chris Peck's recent Sunday column lament that he considered slashing his wrists over an accurate but incomplete story in a rival publication's account of his stewardship of the newspaper. The full story is far worse.
For 11 years of award-winning work at the CA as the editorial cartoonist, I often acted as its public ambassador-at-large. I always spoke proudly of the role the CA plays in this community. I talked to dozens of civic groups, gave hundreds of school presentations, and mentored many young artists. Then, one day a month ago, I was summoned to the personnel department. I sat next to Peck as I was told to relinquish my ID card and office keys and ordered out of the building within the hour.
That afternoon, I went home to inform my wife and three young sons of my layoff. It was a crushing experience to explain it to them, and they wept. So did I. After more than 25 years in a specialized career, I have yet to be offered any opportunities to display my talents for employment. Foreclosure on my home looms on the horizon, and my weekly unemployment check barely covers the groceries, let alone any insurance premiums for my family. I can forget the dream of sending my children to college. An ambiguous offer of freelance work was offered by Peck, as if I could support a family on it.
In short, I have joined the many former employees of The Commercial Appeal in an agony of nightmares and despair. Yet strangely, like most of them, I still love the newspaper and I pray with all my heart that it survives. I guess old habits die hard.
If anyone should consider slashing their wrists, it is those of us he has thrown to the wolves. But we will endure and survive somehow. I need to inform Peck that, as he has told us, the personnel department is available to help with counseling so that he can get a better perspective on life. The poor man. Please, Chris, don't slash your wrists.
Bill Day
Memphis