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SEATTLE CARTOONISTS RESPONDS TO SCOOP SKETCH
The Palmetto Scoop’s award-winning cartoonist Mike Beckom made headlines Wednesday with his response to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer cartoon that played on regional stereotypes to attack South Carolina.
David Horsey, an editorial cartoonist for the Post-Intelligencer, published a cartoon Monday that asked, “How many non-union South Carolinian workers does it take to attach a wing to a Boeing airplane?” Horsey’s answer: “Five… and a dog.”
In the cartoon, the five workers are shown struggling to duct tape the wing together while a Confederate battle flag and a noose hang overhead. [VIEW THE CARTOON HERE]
The cartoon was in reference to Boeing’s decision to locate a new 787 Dreamliner facility in North Charleston rather than expand its Everett, Wash. plant — largely due to the fact that South Carolina offered financial incentives and an open shop.
Beckom returned fire.
In his cartoon, Beckom featured a lawnmower repair man saying, “Yep, I got her purrin’ like a kitten. Just hadda take out them whiney, unionized, know-it-all Yankees.” A picture of a Boeing jet was featured in the background. [VIEW THE CARTOON HERE]
The battle between Beckom and Horsey was featured on television stations across South Carolina. Fox Carolina in Greenville spoke with Horsey.
“The good workers of South Carolina I’m sure will do a good job, they’ll just be doing it for a lot less money than the guys in Seattle are getting paid to do the same thing,” Horsey said.
Horsey did apologize for the noose in the cartoon, saying it may have been “over the top.”
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I, as a Seattle resident, would like to apologize. The greater Seattle Boeing Union members never realized how good they had it and they forgot that there were people lined up who could work them out of a job.
I’m still waiting for the protesters to line up outside the PI offices over the use of the Confederate Battle Flag, but fortunately, the PI was such a well run newspaper they had to stop publishing a print version.
I live near Everett, WA and most of my neighbors work for Boeing, half of them in the machinist union.
Western Washington in the past 20 years has seen a huge influx of people fleeing the cities they have made unlivable with excessive regulation and very high taxes. They moved here and… did the same thing.
The criticisms of the union attitude is 100% justified.
The front of their union hall has a life-size bronze statue of…. strikers around a burn barrel. I’ve seen it with my own eyes. During the last strike, the union crowed their goal was to bankrupt Boeing and bring it to it’s knees. On their official website, on the front page.
Boeing is right to dump them and leave, but this area is going to start hurting as small businesses fold.
My advice to South Carolina is to work very hard to make a great airplane and really piss off the fat, lazy union retards here in the pathetic northwet.
There is another newspaper in Everett, WA called The Herald that is posting some low grade homur about Southerners. Read about it here in this post:
http://everettwablog.com/?p=2216
Cool website, I’ll bookmark it