The Herald-Leader continues to dig its own grave, almost to six-feet
This political cartoon making fun of John Calipari ran in the Lexington Herald-Leader today and I have a very good feeling it isn’t going to go over well.
I feel sorry for whoever is working the newspaper’s cancellation desk because it’s going to be a busy day on the phones. I hope they packed a lunch.
276 Comments for The Herald-Leader continues to dig its own grave, almost to six-feet
I honestly can’t believe people still subscribe to that crap paper.
Wtf?
How could you be so dumb to run something like this?
I don’t have a HL subscription, but I’m going to call and cancel anyways.
Joel Pett, the cartoonist, was a longtime political cartoonist at the Bloomington Herald Telephone (aka the Horrible-Terrible) during the Knight years.
Who knew Jerry Tipton could draw?
I think it’s time that KSR stops mentioning them in daily news. But you have to have something to put in here, right?
That’s the most insulting thing I’ve seen from the LHL. I never read their paper, and they are just trying to get people to come to the site. Unbelievable. If Cal threatened to shut them out before, what is it going to be like now?
They even have John Clay jumping on the bashing bandwagon today…….idiots.
I generally think fans overreact to the local media, but I must say the HL has taken a pretty negative stance on UK. Tipton really is a caricature this point, coming up with new and creative ways to spin stores to the negative. That said, it has lost almost all of its relevance so I don’t think it really matters.
5- If you don’t like it, go to a different website and stop coming to this one.
Ever since I found KSR, I stopped checking the HL website. Thank you KSR, and R.I.P. HL.
WOW, are they trying to put the Herald under? unbelievable
The Herald Mis-Leader
Just dumb business move on HL’s part. They wonder why subscription #’s continue to decline.
Joel Pett is lucky that he doesn’t have a Twitter
The LHL has been irrelevant to me for a long time. I don’t read it, link to it, or think about it.
Time to short sell LHL stock.
IMO, UK should just disassociate themselves from the LHL / any LHL employee & be done w/ it. Revoke all access, deny any request made & be VERY PUBLIC as to WHY the LHL has been banished (via other media avenues).
Dollar signs on the trophy, that’s uncalled for and totally offensive.
was this drawn by joel pett or “not joel pett”?
never mind– the LHL is incapable of self-deprecating satire…
This newspaper needs to die slowly and painfully.
This is the LEXINGTON Herald Leader. Go away if you want to hate on the University of Kentucky or just accept the bankruptcy that’s coming your way.
WTF? I already didn’t read that paper, because it was too conservative for me….
But now….wow…just wow…. they omg idk wtf they are thinking?
I guess they are hoping that they can try to save their dying medium by being outlandish???
Email Joel Pett- [email protected]
I cancelled my subscription to LHL decades ago. This is a classless cartoon. Shame on LHL.
No surprise here…Pett is from Bloomington and an IU grad. Actually reached out to him to help with a creative cartoon for a symposium on UK campus about 3 years ago and he was total jerk. So what else would you expect.
RICHIE FARMER RUNS THE HERALD LEADER!!!!
i’m thinking of subscribing just so i can cancel.
Now more than ever, boycott the HL. Don’t buy any of their advertisers products and let them know as long as they advertise in the HL you will not buy their products.
Is this a joke? Run in the local paper? What were the editors thinking?
The best thing to say to that cartoonist is
a) I’ve never thought about your subpar comic strip.
b) I will never think about it again, and very few people do.
I had a subscription to the LHL for many years mostly for the sports and local news. Once i discovered KSR, the sports was unnecessary and with the strong anti UK bias the LHL pushes, I couldn’t justify spending the money to encourage them to keep bashing UK. Why does the paper think its ok to run down one of the great things the state has? Go ahead and bash the horse industry too, LHL. Why stop at UK?
Oh good grief
26) well done sir!!!
I actually wouldn’t be surprised if there are few cancellations because of this, mostly because any person who is enough of a UK fan to be offended by this probably already cancelled their subscription years ago due to an overdose of Tiptonite.
That’s terrible! Everybody cancel
Guys, I’m the most ignorant person to walk the face of the Earth. Making ridiculous cartoons is all I can do. I’m like a cat. I do something my owners don’t approve of, then I scamper off to a corner and lick my own butt.
The left half of the cartoon is just a low blow. With that said, newspapers should be able to report the news without bias and report both views of the story. That cartoon is certainly one view. And to be honest, I haven’t heard one good reason why Home/Away is such a bad thing, so the cartoon may be half right (the right half).
Apparently, this dude’s got a major problem with UK- his background http://www.cartoonistgroup.com/properties/pett/about.php includes this tidbit,
“Pett’s cartoon collections are available in four paperback collections, the latest being “Just Don’t Inhale.” Joel Pett is proudest of his college intramural golf title and of shutting out a University of Kentucky basketball player in a game of HORSE. His list of embarrassments is endless.”
#34 Everybody already cancelled
I will NOT cancel my subscription today.
…I cancelled it a long time ago.
21 what the heck,to conservative, lol, are you kidding me? Joel Pett is so far left he doesn’t even watch NASCAR because they always turn to the right.
I literally feel like someone punched me in the stomach. This is terrible stuff from a Benedict Arnold.
#LexHeraldLeaderDoesntExist
Let Joel let you know how you really feel..
P – 859-231-3443 E – [email protected]
Could you imagine the fallout if the C-J ran a cartoon poking fun at Ricky?? Guarantee Mock-Turt would pull their media creds for the Yum Center.
43 thx but I’d rather have the editors email addy
You didn’t hear? The LHL is offering free courses on how to be an a$$-clown & this IU drop out is teaching it while Jerry Tipton plays piano from the unemployment line! He probably created half of the twitter accounts that were firing on A. Bennett!
I think it is time for a full boycott of the Herald Leader. They have past their usefulness and are completely out of touch with its customer base.
What’s wrong with the cartoon?
BBN stand up, call LHL let them know how u feel! 859-231-3367 / 800-274-7355 / 859-885-5775. We shouldn’t stand for this! Coach Cal doesn’t deserve that!
piss on the HL and the prejudiced people who work there. Hopefully, they will cease to exist very soon.
This cartoon is unforgivable. It smacks of harassment. It ranks there with the astrick shirt Nike put out for us. I dropped newspapers two yrs ago. Don’t even read them
Online. More accurate box scores and info elsewhere. Go find a corner to die in HL and CJ
I say we flood this douchebags inbox.
How dumb can they be to let this go out?
That’s a shame, he’s actually a very well-respected cartoonist. He’s best known for this climate summit cartoon: http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kzkn7u08uQ1qzgomco1_500.jpg
this is unbelievable. we’ve got the best coach in the land, who not only wins but is able to maintain a team of players who are respectful and academically sound, then to see something like this that is in such poor taste coming from the hometown rag, is appalling
Who is the Herald_Leader trying to reach with this cartoon? Talk about not knowing your audience.
The best thing I can say about the LHL is that the comments section is what led me to KSR over 5 years ago and I have not been back since.
I knew it must have been an Indiana fan.
News Flash– Lousy LHL ceases to exist!
Ryan, other than last year, the only thing that was interesting about the UK/IU series was Mike Davis totally freaking out. BTW, I’m 27 years old.
Who cares??? Haters gone hate.
He has a facebook page with this cartoon posted on it. Make sure to let him hear about it there too.
1 word. Stupid.
Stopped buying it years ago. Their anti-coal and anti-eastern KY stance makes me SICK.
Ill give you an example. I work in adventure tourism in a southeast KY county. We had a big ATV event that they wanted to do a story on last October. I thought it may help get people down here to it, so I agreed.
When they ran the story, they misquoted me AND made sure to close out the story with paragraphs about how dangerous ATVs are and how many people they kill a year. I sent them an email ripping them a new one and told them we didnt need their coverage.
I honestly hate the HL.
And this…wow. Im honestly speechless they would be stupid enough to let this go through. Hopefully this is the straw that bankrupts the camels back. Go riddance.
40. Apparently you don’t watch NASCAR either (not that it matters).
but HL was quick to capitalize on the tourney win (that they assume will be vacated it seems) with books and a $2 special insert newsprint poster! and plaques!
yeah, everyone should vacate this POS rag
40–i’m not a race fan, but doesn’t nascar always turn to the left?
The only thing that really offends me about this are the dollar signs on the trophy. That’s a cheap shot and slanderous to a great group of kids we had this year.
I’m sure I’m not the only KSR reader who wishes the home-and-home series with IU continued. And unfortunately, Calipari has had two final fours vacated (whether they were his fault or not is ultimately irrelevant in the eyes of everyone outside the Commonwealth – I think it’s pretty clear that he had no part or responsibility for either violation but that’s the breaks.) But I sure am glad that we have Sandy Bell to make sure that everything is in order.
In all honesty, Joel Pett is one of the most acclaimed cartoonists in the country and probably the only person worth his weight on the H-L staff, unlike Tipton, Merlene Davis (the worst), and several others. But he should probably stick to politics and lay off the inflammatory basketball stuff. He had to know that this was going to piss a lot of people off.
Cancel? I never subscribed to them in the first place! Won’t help flooding Pett’s inbox. He loves the attention. He never gave two craps about the truth. Never will.
Pretty bad when our hometown newspaper knows that UK/Calipari are shady at best.
cancel your subscribtion now, what a waste of paper. Its like if the courier bringing up Karen Sypher everytime Pitino accomplshes something.
i also believe pett is a IU grad
I can think of some pretty “hilarious” cartoons about the death of the LHL. Fight fire with fire, Drew.
40) c’mon, man. Seriously?
Don’t call the LHL and complain start calling their sponsors and complain. Hit them in the DOLLAR SIGNS and see them die.
I cannot wait for traditional newspapers to all die out.
Why does UK even give these guys press credentials? There is no law saying they have to.
Why does the local paper hate so much? I live in Omaha, Nebraska. Our local paper never says a cross word about the Huskers even when they suck. I guess I figured most papers were homers.
This.. is… AWESOME!
#60- post a link to his fb
This is why I cancelled my subsciption to the rag that these morons call a paper. And if I may add, this is why print media is in hospice care. Arrogant jackasses that don’t understand what pays their bills.
Go Hell Lexington Herald Leader and take the Courier Journal with you!
This IS the DUMBEST thing the Hearld-Leader (Cheater) has ever done. PURE Stupidity!!!!! Go Kats!!!!
40. you watchin NASCAR in a mirror?
Awful!
Fail
I wish the LHL employees would strike, and say until this idiot ‘cartoonist’, tipton, AND the editor are removed, they are not working. These 3 people could (and will) ultimately cost everyone their jobs at the LHL.
Does any real business still advertise in that paper anymore?
How can anything good come from going against BBN? Wow that’s just pitiful.
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Joel-Pett/42714878513
I cancelled my subscription a long time ago. The LHL could go go bankrupt today I would be happy.
I mean, do you really expect the Herald-Leader to be homers for the local team? That’s not journalism. Or maybe the HL is just trolling, which is hilarious.
68 freda feltcher . . . i drew a picture of you with a fat ass, and a single horn sticking out of your forehead. You were wearing a dunce cap that stated that your IQ was 61. I know all of this just like the HL “KNOWS” that Cal is “shady at best.”
Sometimes I think, are they completely unaware that the fans that they are appealing for money for are rabid fans of the team they constantly try to dismantle. Un-freaking-believable. Hope they have fun at the unemployment office because I can’t see them selling ads if people drop their paper. Then my tax money gets to fund them. Fantastic!
OMG forgive my brain fart. Got to stop picking that pipe up so early in the day. lol.
MATT- YOU GOTTA SEE THIS PETT CARTOON!!! ITS RICHIE FARMER RELATED–>> http://www.facebook.com/#!/photo.php?fbid=10150827318610155&set=a.438477340154.225335.46341310154&type=1&theater
The Herald-Leader accomplished what they set out to do. They got people talking about, and all that’s doing is creating more of a buzz for the LHL.
Negative publicity is better than no publicity at all.
The HL has been limping along for a while now. A black-ball from Calipari and Branhart here is an appropriate response to this cheap shot. That should expedite the inevitable demise of this sloppy student newspaper. Its Old Yeller time for the HL.
Plus, the idea of political cartoons is to piss people off. If they don’t, the cartoon isn’t doing its job. Looks like this one is doing its job.
At least this should take some attention away from Bennett for the time being. Focus you energy on the LHL
Oh yeah, and if Barnhart doesn’t do something about this – then he is a bigger b!tch than I thought…
Instead of cancelling subscriptions why not once a week, until hell freezes over, run a complete list of every advertiser in the rag so the fans can inundate them with the reality and consequences of supporting the LHL….
just another reason NOT to read/subscribe to the HL!
Cracks me up. Tons of people on this website slam UK basketball and football, making comments when they want to, but the newspaper posts a carton and the same people go wild and in an uproar.
90. Don’t you think that cartoon is at least appropriate? There is PROOF that Farmer is a crook. Nothing on Cal though.
Cartoon was on Kentucky.com – Now it’s gone!!! Wow, that was fast!!
Does anyone subscribe to a newspaper anymore, at least anyone under the age of 60?
The LHL has made their living being the “watchdog” or being the contrarian of Kentucky athletics for decades, they aren’t changing now.
Also, he apparently forgot about last year’s final four trophy.
#100 – It’s still there. Towards the bottom of the page in “Opinions”. And you know what they say about opinions.
99) Yes. I think it is appropriate.
The big question is, what will take the place of the building on the corner of Midland & Main? I know, THE NEW RUPP!!! R.I.P. Herald Leader
100 – You really are “Country Dumb.” The cartoon is still there.
If anyone is surprised that this “gem” came from the hand of Joel Pett, I have a bridge in London to sell you…
Yet this is far from the stupidest thing he’s ever drawn. Political cartoons are probably most ineffective of speech since they are nothing more than gussied up bumper stickers.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/AM-Photography/215582465219684
Go here just give it 1 minute
It hurts when I swallow…
100–it’s still on there. on the Politics page there’s a link for petit may 8
I LOVE ME SOME COACH CAL, BUT HAS OVERSTEPPED HIS AUTHORITY TO END THE INDIANA GAME. IT WAS A HELL OF A RIVALRY AND SHOULD BE CONTINUED. CAL IS NOT BIGGER THAN THE PROGRAM.
Thank God you wrote that in all caps Richie or we wouldn’t have seen it..
https://www.facebook.com/notes/john-calipari-coach-vacate/calipari-has-been-obsessed-with-rick-pitino-for-years/298338760181643
Funny thing is, when UK wins a tourney, the LHL is the quickest to seek to capitalize on it financially. They are just an all around crappy paper and institution…I have not read the LHL in years…I’m sorry they even receive any publicity for stunts like this one.
And they look cheap…..
richie?
this coming from a man who had a state employee bag his deer that he shot from a state vehicle?
you obviously know a thing or 2 about “overstepping authority”.
snap.
“Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do.” I find it amusing how so many in big blue nation cannot take a cartoon joke. Don’t act like this is different. All the trash fans berating recruits who pick other schools, and any espn reporter that doesn’t like UK has it out for us. Going through life like this is not healthy.
You would think your local paper would be a little more supportive of the local school. Not completely biased against it. Hopefully this will cause people to stop subscribing to these idiots! There was no reason for that cartoon!
The $$ on the NCAA trophy basically says that Coach Cal can do nothing right in the eyes of the Herald-Leader. It’s no wonder we have to pay the coach so much. It’s worth at least six digits dealing with these jack-wagons.
What is a “Newspaper”?
I don’t care what your excuse is, if you still have a subscription to that rag you are no fan of Kentucky basketball.
They just crapped on our National Title and a team chock full of great young men who don’t deserve to have their accomplishment belittled and demeaned by implying money bought it for them. It was their hard work and commitment to each other. I still can’t believe this is a local paper.
The LHL just evacuated the building… Someone called in a b threat Id say… Those idiots…. Just cancelled my subscription!
The HL obviously does not care about offending it’s readers. If you really want to get their attention start boycotting companies that advertise wig them.
I drew some cartoons for the local college newsletter here and reached out to Pett for some advice. Once he found out I was conservative, he scolded me and hung the phone up. Typical smug elitist liberal in the media.
Anybody have the number for the HL complaint desk?
Someone needs to post a list of companies who advertise in the lhl. If BBN contacts those companies and lets them know they will get no more of our business, it might make them think twice about where they spend their advertising dollars.
The HL is clearly jealous that Calipari could buy their crummy paper for peanuts and take a wrecking ball to it if he wanted.
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email this jerk!!!: [email protected]
facebook him too!!: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Joel-Pett/42714878513
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111. Indiana backed out. UK and Cal made several concessions to try to continue it.
Overall, I think Mitch Barnhart should come out and demand a formal apology printed on the HL’s front page. If they decline, then all of their reporters and journalists (snicker) should be banned from any and all UK athletic events, including the historic season that the baseball team is having.
#126….UK advertises in the LHL…you gonna boycott them? Grow up son…..it’s just a cartoon. You people are hilarious.
Pett, Joel Editorial Cartoonist 859-231-3443 [email protected]
Have at it.
#117
Nothing to do with taking a joke. When your hometown papers constantly bashes the basketball team and throws false accusation’s against them constantly then people get sick of it. Since Cal has been at UK its hard for the LHL to find negative things to say because Cal is a winner. We just won a national championship and its ashamed your hometown paper has to bash that because they can’t find anything else to bash. I cancelled the LHL a long time ago because I got tired of Tipton negative articles. If everyone in the BBN would cancel that would make a huge statement and hopefully make a change at the paper. Find me another paper that bashes the hometown team when they are winning ?
Lexington Herald-Leader is NCAA-No Class At All
are they still owned by a group in california?
a b-threat!? Wow. Who’s scared of a few bees?
In 1 year, the Herald Leader will be A) a pawn shop B) a Mexican restaraunt C) a check cashing store D) Family Dollar Store
Joel Pett has never been anything but a petty bitter liberal hack.
Garbage. Cal should buy them out and make them a recruiting magazine. Tipton could have a job tweeting teenagers questions. Could work.
Wow, do we overreact and make something that could have been ignored into a national event. A simple wikipedia search at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Pett tells you all you need to know.
If you know the cartoonist was born in Bloomington, went to Indiana University, is a national cartoonist, does not specialize in sports, apparently shares the views of many national writers who like to skewer Calipari, THEN IGNORE HIM.
Sure he embellished and sensationalized and stretched the truth. So what. A fourth grader does that and we ignore it; why not the same for this dude?
Thisis thde most discusting cartoon i’ve sen.There is no reason for something like this to be published in a hometown newspaper that should be supporting the state university.
The “Herald Leader “has hit a new low in its’ anti UK sentiment.
always been a big fan of joel pett’s work and this is no exception. it is a cartoon for crying out loud. are grown men and women going to let a cartoon ruin or even upset their day? All this aside from the fact that it is not entirely inaccurate. four and five years ago most everyone on this board was bashing Cal and several days ago were bemoaning IU being dropped from the schedule.
If you would like to call and tell Mr. Pett how much you appreciate his work his number is 859-231-3443
WE ARE PISSED!
Anyone else notice his signature at the top that says, “Herald Leador”? Looks like his spelling is as awful as his cartoons.
The IU trophy doesnt even make sense. They owe uk for even having a paper.
#139 because a 4th grader usually doesn’t know better. Someone chose to include this in the paper and this is where that person needs to know they made a mistake.
Herald Leader- RIP
Challenge: If you are a REAL BBN MEMBER drop this rag like a bad habit!
I like the idea of letting LHL advertisers know what you think about this. It’s the only language they understand.
36. There’s news, there’s opinion and then there are insults like this cartoon. This isn’t news. This is an obvious insult by a butt-hurt IU fan. A newspaper can print what they want but they have to deal with the consequences of something like this. A lot of UK fans will be upset about it and that’s not a wise decision while the paper is hanging by a thread and you’re business is in the heart of BBN.
#146. Now you’re just arguing with a 4th grader. And you know how that will end.
I dropped my subscription and have refused to buy a single paper years ago! They are an agenda driven paper pretending to be a news paper.
It’s not enough to bitch and moan about it here. If you have a subscription, cancel. Complain (civilly) to Rufus Friday, President and Publisher. Matt, you like the limelight, so organize a protest outside their HQ. Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning or no, demand an apology, or we start hurting the H-L where it counts by boycotting their biggest advertisers.
What more incentive do we need?
Biting the hand that feeds you is really stupid. The HL is dead and does not know it.
#boycottLHLadvertisers
While I do not care for the jab at Coach Cal because of the vacated seasons (it perpetuates a false perception), this is a clever cartoon and completely appropriate. The way Cal has approached this scheduling issue (especially his latest piece of propaganda on CoachCal.com) has been an act of disingenuous pandering. Besides….it’s an editorial cartoon….thicken your skin a bit people. This upset over a cartoon? Please.
Just put in a phone call to the help wanted department. I told them that they might want to start helping themselves by looking for another job because making fun of their biggest money maker was probably the worst decision they’ve ever made. I mean even if they believe that, you don’t bite the hand that feeds you. I’m completely baffled at how stupid they are.
The reason this scheduling stuff will blow over is because Cal knows the extent to which the majority of our fan base is servile and unquestioning as long as the team is winning. Wake up people. This is your program, not the coaching staff’s or the AD’s. People did the same thing when Pitino was around, tolerating his nonsense and snickering at his displays of attitude all because he was our own.
Look people….I am fine drop’n the IU game…UK just wanted it on a NEUTRAL floor…and IU wouldn’t do it….REMEMBER folks….you people were the ones that said the IU fans at home where TERRIBLE and we needed to stop going there…..Flip’n nuggets….
As for JP…..This really hurts….I’ve always been a fan of his…..but this joke was classless and beneath him…..(I thought)……shame on him…..LHL….editor…you should be fired. seriously.
157—So a media outlet should pander to the people that subscribe? It’s called a free press.
I don’t get it. Why would anyone put up a trophy for losing a game? That just doesn’t make any sense.
159—Fired for an editorial cartoon that offends a basketball coach and a bunch of fans? Really?
157….I agree thick skin is a good thing…but the left side of the cartoon is pety….
*petty
now…162…yes Fired….for being an idiot…..It’s not just the cartoon…it’s the LHL the last 4 years….and they are only getting worse….
Dee—Maybe, but it’s a good cartoon.
print media is dead. Is there any other place in the country where the university sports team is constantly dogged by the local newspaper to this degree?
158…..Why the hate for Coach Cal…I mean…it’s IU….they suck….I’d rather play Kansas, Texas, UCLA…..than IU….what is so great about IU…seriously??
This should be enough to get Matt and rest of the liberals on this site to change sides. This paper also supported Tubby .Tipton never came after Tubby like he has Cal.
Here is a copy of the email I sent:
Do you realize that you work for a Lexington newspaper? Do you also realize what institution makes Lexington what it is? If ignorance is the cause, then I can forgive you for your most recent cartoon trashing a team full of upstanding young men and a man who has been nothing but a boon for Lexington and our state as a whole. However, with the career longevitiy you have, I assume you aren’t completely ignorant and know very well what you published. That being said, I hope the high-fives you and your ilk gave each other after today’s release can carry you through the now-expedited decline of your already failing publication. I hope you have done a good job saving for retirement.
166….we will just have to agree to disagree….LHL and JP shouldn’t be taking “Cheap Shot’s” at Coach Cal….JP is better than that…..and that is what this Cartoon was….just a Cheap Shot…..and imo…..this was a straw that broke the camel’s back….and the Editor should be fired….I’m all for free speech….yea….but free speech does not give the right for poor performance….
I cant cancel my HL subscription………………
Because I did that a couple of years ago.
Our rabbitt died and I didnt need anymore papers to put in the bottom of his cage
169…I support Tubby…he is a good coach….#shorttermmemory
Time for the University to pull the lhl’s press credentials.
Seriously, the more attention he gets, the more negative the better to him, he will love. The best way to get him is ignore him. But that probably wil not happen. Please do not make his day and ignore it. He did so people would give him attention.
Hater’s going to Hate….I guess…..#SMH
#129, Concessions?
You mean the expansions to Rupp?
You know your on top when everyone takes a shot. You know your nervous on top, when you cry like a little baby.
Yes…I agree….UK should not allow the LHL in Rupp…..UK has their rights too.
Do our tweets go directly to twitter from here?
Don’t lose your composure guys…you’re not driving the ship, so it’s not your fault if it sinks.
143… hahahahahha
For all of those who are berating who has a beef about Canceling them or boycotting the LHL please take note of one thing. Even if your hometown paper isn’t a homer, YOU do not make light of accomplishments especially when the one is aimed at the students atheletes who made all of this come true. Had this been in Bloomington or Louisville their press passes would have yanked so quickly they would have paper cuts all over.
For years and years, the UK administration has looked the other way in the style that Tipton has done business in the past. (He never did write an apology to the Pattersons about PP stepping into his new truck) It’s one thing to have fun with an article, it’s another to bash the coach and his players. Had Pett done this in Bloomington when Knight grabbed kids, head butted, or even playfully act like he’s whipping a player, his credentials would have been pulled and knight would have personally ran him out of town, and you could bet your house it could be said about UL also.
This could eventually have long term effects for everyone who is employed by LHL. From the reporters all the way down to the folks who deliver it. All I can ask to the editors who decided to run this tasteless cartoon, In God’s name what were you thinking?
182….WELL SAID….100% agree….you hit the nail on the head.
Tomorrow’s cartoon – same thing but with Pett’s head mounted above it
I have been hearing for YEARS that the HL is struggling. When are they going to go belly up? This is just flat out unreal for a LOCAL paper. Seriously–who in the hell thinks this cartoon is funny except for the maybe 2 Louisville fans that get this paper?
Someone needs to teach the LHL the phrase: You don’t shit where you eat. This is just plan stupidity: piss off the people that still barely buy your product. Hope it was worth it morons.
what makes it even worse is that an editor approved this to be in the paper. does anyone at that newspaper stand have an mba and if so what on-line school did they get it from??
Regardless…Joel Pett is awesome.
185, Louisville has 2 fans that can read?
188, and you have that right as your opinion, and you know what they say about opinions.
158.) Are you serious? What do you suggest fans do exactly? It’s not being “servile” to love the overall work Calipari has done but disagree with him on a particular decision. He’s the coach, he makes the scheduling decisions for the program he runs and he should. Calipari doesn’t have to take a straw poll of the fans before every decision he makes. Agree or disagree with his scheduling the guy is a great coach and a better CEO of the UK basketball program.
tasteless, ignorant, disrespectful, spiteful, and just plain stupid.
LHL credentials to anything UK basketball related, should be shredded.
actually should have been done years ago with tipturd, but this is totally uncalled for.
W T F !!! ? folks ! this needs to be our battle cry to make em go away, ya know ….really, the paper sucks,the sports writers suck i’ve not read it in 2 yaers now …. wow wow wow ……..its only worth at this point & time is to start a campfire…. Paleeeeze
so any ideas? do a herald leader lock out ? occupy ? and no i aint gonna go to their site. dont like it ,never have never will, hmmmm protest on midland ave ?
This makes no sense. Why would the hometown paper even stand behind crap like this? This is a low blow if I’ve ever seen one
And any ‘UK fan’ here that is seriously criticizing Cal’s job so far needs to back up a step…where would the program be right now if it weren’t for Calipari and the revamping he has done?? Two years removed from the NIT we were in the Final Four, and hanging a Banner the year after. Give him a break on the scheduling and all of that…
any body know the record for comments ? 196 & counting
Don’t really understand why anyone thinks we owe IU anything at all. At one time it was a good rivalry when IU was relevant and Bob Knight was the coach-gave all the UK fans someone to hate. But IU hasn’t been a good rivalry for several years up until this one and UK has played them on neutral courts for many of those years. Now IU finally has gotten better, and demands to play on campus-fine. UK had rather play on neutral courts. Why does that make Cal the bad guy. It might be different if UK had never played them on neutral courts but that’s not the case. There are other border states they can play. IU needs UK more than UK needs them.
I ignore the LHL all the time. They are not worth my time and certainly not my money.
I have subscribed to that liberal rag for almost 14 years…. I have come close to canceling my subscription before because of 1) their total liberal bias 2) that hack Joel Pett’s constant liberal B.S. 3) Merlene Davis blaming everything in the world on the white man 4) Jerry Tipton. Today was the straw that broke the camel’s back. I just called and canceled my subcription immediatelty. Joel Pett & H-L both suck!
utter complete ignorance ………….
run em out of town & let The Kentucky Kernal take over, at least they have new ,fresh,bright ideas that folks can understand
This does not bode well for Joel or the HL to take a page from FJT
Can someone help get the big dildo out of my asz
173, I don’t want to start talking about tubby because I don’t think anyone misses him. I was just trying to make an example .
Im Joel pett an I’m a member of T.N.A.G.D.A
Or the national association of goat n donkey abusers
Nothing like going home to my favorite donkey after a long day
177 insults tend to work out a lot better when the person trying to issue the insult uses proper grammar. “You know your on top when everyone takes a shot. You know your nervous on top, when you cry like a little baby.”…you know someone is either an IU grad or UofL grad when they don’t know the difference between your and you’re.
Joel Pett is an IUsedtobe fan. He’s had a terrible year/decade/etc. The only bullets he has are his little forum in the H-L and his 2nd-grade artistry. Fire away, Joey!
Make it trend. #BoycottTheLHL
This crosses the line but where the hell is our 2011 Final Four trophy? I guess the LHL editorial board is not up to snuff, huh… Need a redo Mr. Pulitzer Prize !
it’s funny cause it’s true!people put up funny cartoons making fun of obama an bush an the government all the time.. get over yourselves he can draw whatever he wants just because you think he’s pickin on your savior your getting all mad.. I guess kentucky is just like L.A., winning forgives everything, right kobe??
When I read comments from people griping about how “liberal” a newspaper is, that typically signals to me that they don’t understand how newspapers have traditionally operated. Newspapers traditionally have a news section, a sports section, and an op/ed section. The op/ed section is where the editors post their OPINIONS (as opposed to news) on various topics. The HL is undoubtedly liberal in its editorial approach. There is little in its news reporting that I would consider liberal. Objective reporting posts the facts and doesn’t interject the writer’s opinions. Most of its national articles are wire reports from the AP and other sources. Tipton is annoying in his coverage of UK but he’s not liberal or conservative from a political standpoint. Joel Pett is an EDITORIAL cartoonist, so his job is to express his opinions in his cartoons, and he is generally liberal in his politics. He is paid to express his bias.
For the most part, the HL’s sports coverage has nothing to do with a liberal bias. Tipton is just a contrarian and would rather find fault with UK than praise it. For that reason, I find John Clay a more credible UK sports writer. That said, if you don’t like your political views challenged, by all means avoid the HL’s op/ed section and read the Wall Street Journal, or if that’s too hard for you, read Drudge, listen to Rush, and watch Fox News. You’ll find your mindset reinforced there every day.
Just added to the list, Knight, Davis, what’s his texting name, Crean, and Pett. I am excited that we don’t play Indiana, and share our spotlight, because they have none unless they play somebody relevant.
Drudge report is a republican mouthpiece. Fox News has to be fair and balanced, because they say so in their tag line. As for the Lex rag, they are the only horse in town and will always be in business, until another paper steps up. I don’t see any other paper coming on to the scene, so they can bash UK all they want in Ed cartoons and keep printing Tiptons sour articles and still stay in business.
JOEL PETT. What else would you expect him to write!
212 – No a newspaper can choose to focus on stories that promote their agenda, and ignore those that don’t… it happens all the time. Just look at what the NY times did when they called Geoge Zimmerman a “white hispanic”, that may be politically correct but that was the first time the term “white hispanic” had ever been used in the history of the NY times. Not saying the HL does it cause I don’t read that paper.
I agree with the dozens of posts wishing our alleged newspaper would just go away, but sadly there are way too many bleeding-heart Liberals in lexington for a “New York Times wannabe” publication like the Herald-Leader to ever reach circulation nummbers low enough to necessitate its going out of business.
What we need at the LHL is a cleansing. If you are a true CAT FAN and you still subscribe to the LHL, shame shame shame.
To #21,
Your use of the word “conservative” in your description of this paper proves you have NEVER read the Herald-Leader. Either that or you are easily the most Far Left person in the United States.
211 we are aware that he can draw whatever he wants. are you aware that we can boycott them if we want? see how that works?
Didn’t have time to read all of the posts at work but everyone needs to stop hitting their site also and maybe they will get the message!!!!
GO CATS!!!!!!
haha, #2 quoted on yahoo.com article. love it.
It is really sad when the herald leader allows this type of garbage in their paper. Coach Cal has more class in his finger than anyone at the newspaper. Keep your head up Coach Cal know matter what they right. You are not only an awesome coach but more importantly you are a great person and family man. Thanks again for being our coach.
Boycott the herald leader………….
Poor Jerry Tipton, along with everyone else at that paper, gonna loose his job if LHL keeps this up.
It’s just a shame that the amount of good Coach Cal has done for this state in such a short time isn’t shown as frequently as a couple of weak NCAA infractions that occurred years ago. For a Lexington paper to allow this type of insinuation to be published just weeks after his face and team was plastered in good grace on every front page possible is absurd.
Did someone call the misleader too conservative? Wow! I cancelled my subscription years ago because I thought they were way too liberal. Check out some of Pett’s political cartoons and tell me he doesn’t have an agenda. When they called me to ask about renewal I had pleasure of not just saying no, but HELL NO!
Who cares if the LHL is conservative or liberal, it is a CRAPPY paper…with some kind of agenda against UK. Everyone that takes the paper, CANCEL it. I did a few years ago…who needs it!
I didn’t know they had a Lexington Leader in Bloomington. Thank god for the world wide web. No wonder newspapers are becoming dinasaurs..
What’s the big deal. It’s in a bad taste, but that’s expected from LHL. The only inaccuracy is not putting last year’s final four on there. Other than that, it’s pretty accurate. Bad biz move for LHL, but that’s their stupidity. The cartoon is fine, it’s not that big of deal.
No TRUE Kentucky fan would EVER subscribe to the LHL….or even read that garbage paper for that matter. If you do, you’re NOT a true UK basketball fan. Plain and simple.
220 obviously your not over it you wanna fire an lynch him for a CARTOON! every one of you need a life for wanting to ruin a man career an life probably, because you didn’t like his cartoon… hey 220! how about i come boycott at your job an try an get you fired for your posts!!!!!!
petts been needing his ass kicked for a long time.
Pett, Joel Editorial Cartoonist 859-231-3443 [email protected]
Cancelled paper this a.m. Appalling!!!
212 Thanks for educating the world to how a newspaper works. I am sure you check out those news outlets you mentioned at the end of the post so you can have your views challenged.
I think it is pretty funny myself, I like it.
I read this earlier today & I am still pissed. It’s still in the pit of my stomach and I hate it.
Coach, please know that BBN is behind you and we will get even. It’s just a shame we have to fight a paper within the same town that houses your and our Cats.
@236, perhaps if, like many here, I was angered at how liberal I perceived the HL to be, or how conservative the Wall Street Journal was, you’d have a point. Like you, I’m sure, I’m perfectly content with my mindset. Unlike many, I’m not afraid to read Cal Thomas and others for fear they might say something I don’t agree with. Conversely, I don’t need to limit myself only to viewpoints that mirror my own to have peace of mind. I don’t find a myopic worldview particularly helpful, but to each his own.
NOT only cancel subscriptions BIG BLUE but also do not visit the kentucky.com webpage anymore. Quity giving them advertising hits! Let their number dry up just like their paper has!
This cartoon is beyond anything I would imagine from a so called hometown paper. Sickening.
What a sorry excuse for a newspaper. CANCELLED and boycotted
212- You are correct up to a point. The Herald Leader picks and chooses the news that it prints. The always pick more Liberally biased stories over conservative. THAT IS A FACT.
CANCELED before I left work after hearing of this. Ba_terds
How could you be so dumb to run something like this?
@243, and what exactly is a liberally biased story? Do you mean they’ll report on a GOP politician caught having an affair and ignore when a Democrat commits the same offense?
damn guys, who gives a coach k rats azz if it’s a liberal or conservative paper? I don’t give a damn if they are Obama’s mother or Romney’s father when they ditch our coach, they SUCK period.
Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeze
247- nicely done.
Embarassing to see our coach in a cartoon from the HL. This is pathetic.
so glad I don’t live there anymore is my first impression. this is totally unreal. no problem coach, bbn is larger than lexington.
Over 250 comments either mean 1 of 3 things:
1-We just signed a top 5 recruit
2-Matt is on the air
3-Somebody ditched UK
In my wildest dreams, never thought #3 would be the case and Cal targeted from our own Lexington newspaper. Crazy and Sad.
My husband canceled this garbage today. I am ashamed.
@239 Yes you are correct up to a POINT
SORRY 239
@ 246 Yes you are correct up to a POINT
I’m an idiot
#2 #2 #2 #2 #2, your comment made an Yahoo article lol
wow! what a piss poor approach to home town journalism. i’m assuming the herald leader editor was out of town when this crap hit the press. i’m still shaking my head. etc etc
Its just a cartoon. Grow up people. Dont you anything better to do with your lives?
#2 Funny stuff. Cancelled mine years ago!!
GO GET’EM BBN.
258 better than what? Commenting on this site? In that case, don’t you?
Pett is a very good cartoonist and other than the Indiana jibe he has a point to make about the obscene money that is in college sports. But the cartoon would be more effective if it didn’t target Calipari specifically (he didn’t invent this situation), but the absurdity of the bigger picture. The values of the country are completely out of whack; much as I enjoy the team. I enjoyed UK just as much when Rupp was making a tiny fraction of Calipari’s salary.
261…what does what you wrote have to do with the cartoon??
I’m just going to call them up and say, “why are you so stupid” and hang up.
Canceled our subscription 2 years ago.
Cancelled subscription. Lady I talked to assured that all cancelled subscriptions are reported to VP with reasons for cancellation. She told me she has had a bunch today.
If I was UK I would deny them press credentials to the game. Worthless piece of crap…He needs to be fired for all of the cancelled subscriptions alone. Funny how the Herald Loser was selling commerative editions for $2.00 after the big NCAA win. It’s is ok when they make money off UK, and then they approve this crap.
This guy is a damn queef. Send him straight to hell on the radio roast tomorrow.
If you advertise in the paper, stop. It’s not about subscriptions, it’s about advertising revenue. Cancel all on line and newspaper advertising for 90 days……. or until they fire the jerk! This behavior is unacceptable. He is just a mean, hurtful person, who really hasn’t worked a day in his life.
WHO CARES,!!!!!!!!!!! HERE GOES LEX KY AGAIN GOING OVET BOARD,OVER A CARTOON,..BUT……..ITS OKAY TI BURN THE CITY DOWN WHEN THE STUPID CATS WUN,..YOU ARE SOME ASS BACKWARDS WEIRDOS,WHO MAKE NO SENSE…YR OWN NEWSPAPER,WHATS THAT TELL YA,…YR NUTS,AN YR THE HATERS,YOU TOOK 14yrs to win,a. U hate ind,duke,flor,ten.ese,. Ect…u CATS….FANS,…ARE NOTHING BUT HATERS,..AND YR STUPID COLLEGE PROMOTES ARSONS,…YAL THE NEWSPAPER CARTOON IS YR REAL PROBLEM,….GROW UP.
Uk sucks,…setting fires is ok,but a cartoon,..lets all freak out,.yr a bunch of haters& jackasss….instead setting fires,..how,about learning how to read & write..YOU ALL DISH IT OUT,BUT CANT TAKE IT,..YR TWO FACES,YOU DOG YR OWN COACHES EVERY CHANCE YOU GET,I THINK SETTING FIRES TO MY INOCENT FAMILY MEMBERS CAR,WHO IS NOT FROM KY,IS MORE YR PROBLEM,THAN A DAM CARTOON..YR COLLEGE,CITYYIS NUTS….YR HATERS TO ALL TEAMS,BUT 14yr YOU TOOK TO WIN AGAIN,..AND INDIANA IS A HELL OF A SCHOOL,COMMON SENSE&Passion IS WHAT YR SCHOOL HAS NONE OF,..YOU HAVE A LOWER GRADUATE RATE THAN ALL THE SCHOOLS YOU HATE,..SO STOP SETTING FIRES,HATEING OTHER TEAMS,AN RUNNING YR MOUTH OVER A STUPID CARTOON.,YOU DINT CARE ABOUT COACH CAL,YOU WANT A WIN.THATS IT..I BET IT ALL HE DONT EVEN LIKE KY,HES JUST RAKEN YR MONEY,….TR AN ABUSIVE CITY….
Also….do you remember that this is usa,freedom of speach….just like freedom to set da.verious fires…hugh? Yr two ass stupid people,.oh lets beat up the homeless,set fires,and vandelize tr downtown.but,…joel pett from lex,cant speak.AND MOST LIKELY COACH CAL,COULD CARE LESS…YOU ALL ARE BURNING YRVOWN BRIDFE, .YOU ALL DINT GET TGE PAPER ABYWAY……IF YOU ALL WANNA STICK TOGETGER ON THUS,FIBE, BUT WGEN DOES LEX KY SRICK TOGETHER WHEN A DIG IS STABBED,OR A CHILD IS AVUSED,OR ALL THE BAD USDUSES I GEAR ALLL THE TUME IN YR CITY,….STAND UP FIR SIMTHING REAL!!!!!!!!!!!& GROW UP
What a bunch of babies. A CARTOON has your panties twisted? You all have skin thinner’n onions. Grow the F up. If you can’t handle anything negative about UK–especially in CARTOON form–you need a time out. Honestly, go suck on your pacifiers.
You all are the most two faced people,sycodic people in the entire country,…you dogged many coaches,that uk has had,…yr city hides the homeless during the horse games,its okay to set fire to the same city,an yr freakin out iver a stupid cartoon.that is not ment to be bad,….i bet coach cal whos a stand up dude who after tge final four told you dumb asss that he didnt win,the team did,..for all the love of basjettball yr sure so stupid who win the games’ ITS NOT THE COACH…USE ALL YR CAT ENERGY,..TO STAND UP FOR SINE REAL ISSUSES…..LIKE ANIMAL ABUSE…YR CITY HAS NOT HEAR…TO BAD,U GET WHAT U GIVE
Just sent this letter to the publisher and as a letter to the editor:
Re: May 8 ‘cartoon’
I am disheartened by the Herald-Leader’s editorial decision to publish an Indiana University alumnus’ tasteless and baseless slam at our newly-crowned championship coach.
Surely there are positions at the obituary desk of the Bloomington Tribune just waiting for someone of his caliber.
Dr. Kim Gorman, UK alum
Wow Aimee…. I….. just Wow. At no time in your incoherent rambling did you come anywhere close to resembling an answer. We are all, in fact, dumber for having listened to you. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul
Again, thanks for all the publicity KSR. It’s been a smooth ride back to #1
I am a huge UK fan and this is the fist time I have seen this cartoon. I have heard all the comments and up roar over this cartoon. Sorry but get over it its a cartoon in news paper. Its crazy how thinned skinned people are. Everyone on this site and radio show has said the LHL is irrelevant, so why in the world does everyone care so much about what an irrelevant paper’s cartoon is insinuating. I also love this site but please people, who should care this much about this cartoon. I know I could care less what this joker has to draw, it means absolutely nothing to me.