Liberal bias on funny pages not funny

It’s bad enough that we read liberal hogwash in the “Letters to the Editor” but now we are getting it in the comics. I’m referring to the comic strip titled Soup to Nutz in The Herald on June 19. The liberal-biased cartoonist compares the president to the dummy Charlie McCarthy and the vice president to Edgar Bergen. It is neither funny nor true.

If we are going to allow this, why not some reference to the fact that Sen. John Kerry, unlike Bob Dole, has failed to resign from the Senate while running for the presidency. He has only shown up in the Senate some 14 times out of more than 200 days. Another joke could be founded on the fact that Kerry bounces like a rubber ball on every main issue, voting yes one minute then no the next, or vice-versa. I could see a teeter-totter-based cartoon here. Incidentally, this is not the first time this cartoonist has stooped to such tactics to criticize Republicans.

Just your consideration of fairness – the one-sid

ed, additional access to your many readers is not right. It should tell you that partisan politics does not belong in the comics. How many times have you seen the comics ridiculing Democrats? Even without the reaching for another audience for his liberal-biased, unfunny ideas it is a lousy cartoon and I think you should cancel it.

DOUG McLAUGHLIN

Camano Island