Cartoon offensive, unfair to conservatives

Joseph Sharpnack's cartoon in Oct. 23 was over the line and extremely offensive! The drawing labels “99 percent of Americans supporting jobs, health care, education and saying no to corporate greed,” while the other 0.000001 percent of Americans support the Tea Party and are questioning “Why should millionaires pay taxes?” all while poking fun at Fox News.

This is offensive to those of us who properly, within the boundaries of our Constitution, lawfully, respectfully and peacefully come together to represent our conservative views. We are larger than 1 percent and if our media (local and national) were properly doing their jobs, Fox News wouldn't be the only news outlet to report on Tea Party opinions.

Sharpnack has blatantly misrepresented a group of individuals and I feel it necessary to tell him, “He is wrong!” We are the Tea Party and we are more than 0.000001 percent strong! Contrary to left wing media belief, we care about jobs, health care and education just like the other 99 percent of Americans he represented in his drawing. However, (also contrary to left wing beliefs), we also care about immigration, rights of the unborn, upholding our Founding Fathers ideals within the boundaries of our Constitution, the military, world peace and so many other topics that he didn't mention in his degrading cartoon.

While he makes fun of Tea Party members, keep in mind that we are doing our best to uphold the Constitution, which guarantees him freedom of speech, even if he is wrong.

Laurie T. Mead

Cedar Rapids