I have always considered subscribing to a newspaper a mark of the cultured man. I have been a subscriber to The Salt Lake Tribune for 35 or 40 years. Yet even the cultured man has his limits, and I have reached mine.
I am regularly disgusted by the depths to which “cartoonist” Pat Bagley will sink in his hatred of anyone with whom he disagrees, and each time I think he can go no lower. But he truly reached his nadir Sunday with the drawing of a whistling President Trump putting multiple bullets into a postal worker.
I know it will be his nadir, at least for me, because I will no longer subscribe to The Tribune.
I am a libertarian. I didn’t vote for Trump before, nor will I this time. But he is the president, and to attack him by showing him whistling after shooting a postal worker is an outrage. It is not funny, nor clever, nor anything but moronic and disgusting. And presumably Bagley is subject to some editorial oversight, and that oversight, such as it is, thought this was fine.
Bagley has the freedom to post his dirt, and I have the freedom to not subscribe to The Tribune anymore, especially knowing my subscription fees help pay him, and the editorial board which is unequal to the task of exercising dominion over him. I will not contribute one more cent to help put additional swill in Bagley’s trough.
Chase Kimball, Salt Lake City
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