The same newspaper that defends ANN COULTER has fired ED HALL -- what's wrong with this rag?

The same newspaper that defends ANN COULTER and pays her our money weekly has just fired cartoonist ED HALL. Apparently freedom of the press belongs only to fascists, or rich Republicans who own a failing chain of newspapers (Morris Communications).

Rather than listen to vox populi, the Record has listened to vox rex -- it's time to picket the ST. JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL office on San Marco, the home of dull Republican corporate oligarch (retired) PHILIP A. MCDANIEL on Water Street, and the offices of the St. Augustine Record and the St. Johns County School Board.

All of those organizations could benefit from a unionization drive.

I for one won't be giving one dime to the ST. JOHNS COUNTY CULTURAL COUNCIL.

I see no reason why a COUNCIL dominated by corporate oligarchs should be given any tax money, or recognized as anything other than a part of the political machine.

PHILIP A. McDANIEL should be indicted for impersonating a human being. While School Supt. JOSEPH JOYNER at least had the dignity and class to call back and try to explain his actions (he indicates he is overly sensitive, as are some school administrators), McDANIEL offered no excuse at all.

The St. Augustine Record and Morris Communications must reinstate Ed Hall, or be regarded as no newspaper at all -- simply a collection of ads separated by random news stories of no particular importance, without any investigative reporting, accepting handouts from large organizations and overcharging the bereaved for obituaries. (Ever notice how whenever someone famous dies and their obituary in the New York Times shows they lived in St. Augustine or had kinfolk here, the Record doesn't cover it unless it is paid? This was even true when Doc Severinson's jazz pianist died here -- not a word from the Record. See NY Times obituary of Ross Tompkins (below).

The Record still owes bigtime apologies for its bigotry in the 1960s. While other SOuthern newspapers that were bullets in the KKK's gun have self-reported their errors in recent years (including the Lexington, Ky News-Leader), the Record still has yet to apologize. Even our City of St. Augustine made a water-down apology. The St. Augustine Record remains unrepentant, an apologist for the varmints who want to control our minds by cutting off the news at its source -- even firing a cartoonist who offended one of the good friends of the St. Augustine Record's publisher, School Superintendent JOE JOYNER.

Perhaps PHIL McDANIEL and his City-subsidized spouse would now like to draw cartoons.

Brandishing emotional problems with First Amendment protected activity, furious fatuous reckless feckless thug PHIL McDANIEL is lower than whale droppings at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. I hereby challenge PHIL McDANIEL to a debate on artistic freedom of expression.