Newspaper Apologizes for Political Cartoon and "we will not be accepting any further work from the cartoonist"

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy wrote on Twitter this week that The Quad City Times had "no right" to print the editorial cartoon critical of his visit. 

Via NBC News:

"Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy called out an Iowa newspaper for printing a cartoon he described as 'bigotry.'

"The Quad City Times, a daily paper based in Davenport, Iowa, issued an apology and retraction after a cartoonist depicted Ramaswamy greeting a group of Trump supporters who shout racist things back at him. 

"'We apologize today for letting such an image slip through our editorial process and into our opinion page Wednesday in the form of a political cartoon,' Times executive editor Tom Martin said in the apology. 'The cartoon, while intended to criticize racist ideas and epithets, uses a phrase that is racist and insensitive to members of our Indian American community.'

"The statement said the paper has severed ties with the cartoonist who drew it, as well.

"'The oversight that allowed it to run is inexcusable, and we can and will do better,' Martin said."

 

The paper apologized, punishing the cartoonist, Leo Kelly, by stating that they will never buy from him again. The editor who approved it got a pass (to quote The Daily Cartoonist).

This is a terribly spineless newspaper editor. Apologizing to this snowflake Republican ... for what? This is capitulating to at best the bullying aspect of the party which has a long history of bigotry, and at worst; kowtowing to white supremacists and Nazis. My guess: advertisers threatened to pull out.