Newsday,
on Long Island, refused to run the strip for a week... The
Daily News in New York yanked the strip on October
4th, and has since run it only once. The
Dallas Morning News, while not pulling the strip, has
moved the artist's work away from the other cartoons. McGruder
said the following concerning his artistic response to Sept. 11th.
"There was plenty to talk about without making light of the
situation, and there was real opportunity to make legitimate criticisms
of the government and media. I struggled with it, and I really
thought I was going to get canceled from The Daily News. But this
is one of those critical moments in history, and I did not want
to look back and regret not having said something."
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