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Long-time Iowa farm cartoonist fired after creating this cartoon

If only 1,000 of those 24,000 subscribers cancelled or just threatened to cancel their subscriptions to Farm News out of Fort Dodge, Iowa unless Rick Friday is hired back immediately, they would find out that truth is still more important to Americans than political correctness. 

Long-time Iowa farm cartoonist fired after creating this cartoon

Rick Friday has been giving farmers a voice and a laugh every Friday for two decades through his cartoons in Farm News.
Now the long-time Iowa farm cartoonist tells KCCI that he has been fired.
Friday announced Sunday that his job was over after 21 years in a Facebook post that has since gone viral.
FACEBOOK POST:
“Again, I fall hard in the best interest of large corporations. I am no longer the Editorial Cartoonist for Farm News due to the attached cartoon which was published yesterday. Apparently a large company affiliated with one of the corporations mentioned in the cartoon was insulted and cancelled their advertisement with the paper, thus, resulting in the reprimand of my editor and cancellation of its Friday cartoons after 21 years of service and over 1,090 published cartoons to over 24,000 households per week in 33 counties of Iowa.
“I did my research and only submitted the facts in my cartoon.
“That’s okay, hopefully my children and my grandchildren will see that this last cartoon published by Farm News out of Fort Dodge, Iowa, will shine light on how fragile our rights to free speech and free press really are in the country.”

Comments (6)

  1. Steven Patrick Lynch

    People reading political correctness destroys varactor and courage. They are trying to shape people into sheeple.

    1. Pat Shannan (Post author)

      What’s “varactor?”

  2. jacob

    and that’s why we people should shun doing any business w/ those powerfull corporations

  3. Dr Samiuels

    Went to Farm News and they have blocked all contact info can not call to complain about this travesty of firing this gentleman with the truth

    Editor’s Update: Here is the main number: 515-574-4451, even though they do not answer by identifying it as “Farm News,” it is the correct number.
    Also: Toll-Free Number
    800-622-6613 ext 451

    1. Pat Shannan (Post author)

      Then let’s find their business phone line. They cannot be without a phone for very long if they wanna stay in business. We’ll see what we can find online and post it here if we are successful. Thanx for the idea.

  4. Jean

    Truth hurts. How dare he depict something so accurate. Truth went out of style
    when they invented political parties.

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