Toles on Today's Cartoon (WP): Reaction to All He'd 'Seen and Not Seen'

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Toles on Today's Cartoon: Reaction to All He'd 'Seen and Not Seen'

By Dave Astor

Published: June 21, 2005 1:30 PM ET

NEW YORK Was today's Tom Toles cartoon about the Downing Street memo at least partly aimed at Toles' own newspaper -- The Washington Post?

"I'd say it's my reaction to all that I had seen and not seen," replied Toles, without getting more specific -- meaning he could have been referring to how various media outlets covered the memo. He added that the Post allows his cartoons to differ from the newspaper's editorial stance.

Toles estimated that his cartoons, in fact, differ from the Post editorial stance about 25% of the time. "When the Post hired me in 2002, it was made clear to me that they were looking for an independent voice," he told E&P. "The fact that they ran today's cartoon is evidence of that."

Today's cartoon shows a newspaper correction noting that the Downing Street memo "seems to be at odds with pretty much everything you remember seeing and hearing in the media in the runup to the Iraq war." The correction concludes: "Your memory is in error. We regret your mistake."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/opinion/toles.html?name=Toles&date=20050621

The article had no link to the cartoon it discussed.

Dana Milbank is gonna be pissed again.

LOL

oh yeah...

:rofl:

Definitely on the mark!

:thumbsup: to Tole!

MSM reality's been almost that bad.

Way to go Tom Toles.