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Is QC Times sorry for racist cartoon on Ramaswamy, or sorry it got caught?

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Last week the Quad City Times ran a completely racist cartoon on GOP Presidential hopeful, Vivek Ramaswamy.

It has since removed the cartoon from it's on-line edition and apologized. And one of the interesting things to me at least, is what Ramaswamy said afterwards.

In a tweet, the Presidential Candidate said this: "It’s sad that this is how the MSM views Republicans. I’ve met with grassroots conservatives across America & never *once* experienced the kind of bigotry that I regularly see from the Left. Iowa’s ⁦@qctimes absolutely has the right to print this, but it’s still shameful."

As I have told you many times, my experience is the same. Since being in Iowa, the only antisemitism I have personally experienced, has exclusively come from the left.

As I noted, the newspaper did apologize. "We apologize to Republican primary presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, the Indian American community and our readers for publishing the offensive material in the Quad-City Times and Dispatch-Argus,” Quad-City Times executive editor Tom Martin wrote.

“We seek to share diverse ideas on our opinion pages – editorials, cartoons and commentary that provoke thought and constructive ideas. Dividing and disparaging with any racist images or rhetoric does not fit that mission or our ideals as a local news company. The oversight that allowed it to run is inexcusable, and we can and will do better.”

He also said “Racist and hateful ideas, words or images have no place in our publications, much less our society."

But I used to work in newspapers. You didn't just receive a cartoon, you looked at it and you first of all wanted to see if it made you laugh or at least think. Who approved it to run? Has that person been fired? And is the QC Times sorry for it's racist cartoon on Vivek Ramaswamy, or sorry it got caught?

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