TOON: Sunday's Doonesbury (Bush's False Dichotomies)

[Hissyspit]

Trudeau is on a roll... Notice yet another piece of the plume actively falling off his "imperial" Centurion helmet in the first panel. (As usual when there's a good one from him, a few votes to put it on Greatest Page, please, so that others may find. Thanks.)

[Nikki Stone 1]

1. "Tearing the country apart"

So damned true.

[WePurrsevere]

2. Sadly I think that has been BuSh*'s choice. As always Trudeau is right on.

:kick: & R'd.

[Hissyspit]

3. Good Sunday morning, everyone!

This is in most Sunday edition newspapers around the country, I would guess, although my local paper shrinks it down so it's hard to read and puts it in the editorial section.

[DemoTex]

4. It's bad luck to cross the Rubicon.

Any Centurion worth his salt knows that!

:kick:

[kineneb]

21. and he done crossed it some time ago...n/t

[Hissyspit]

24. LOL I can't help but post this:

Centurion helmet with full plume:



So much for empire. Those pesky uprisings!

[H2O Man]

5. Fantastic.

It is so good.

[WatchWhatISay]

6. It goes right along with the way republicans are taught to answer question

from the press.

As soon as they recieve a question they dont like, they invariably switch it to rebutting with questions they would rather answer instead:

Are there difficulties in Iraq? Yes
Is Democracy fully functional there now? No
and blah, blah, blah - they answer a bunch of irrelevant questions of their choosing, and never answer the qestion acutally asked. And almost always they get away with it. Really chaps my ass.

Rumsfield is the first one I noticed doing this, because he does it so often and always with that whiny, nasal tone in his voice. But Condi did it a lot in her interviews last week, and Bush does it too.

In fact Republicans pundits, politicans and journalists do it all the time. Any skilled journalist recognize it as soon as it comes out of their mouths, stop them from blathering on, and call them on it immeadiately. Otherwise its just campaign rhetoric or propoganda that costs them nothing.

[exlrrp]

11. Its a more effective version of the Stonewall

This is one of the Bush Administratiions best media ploys and their lapdog MSM goes along with it every time. They just wear out the MSM with their constant recitations of their talking points. And it works likie a charm. They know that If all they keep doing is mouthing their talking points, its all that ever get written down. They know that, far from this cartoon's implications, thhat there will be no one in the media to follow through and get the question answered.
Whats amazing is that no one ever says: HEY! Answer the freaking question!! The Bush adnministration counts on that.

[Olney Blue]

13. And Tony Snow does it constantly.

[Senator]

7. The meme to flog: "... OR a mushroom cloud..." (the real terrorist act)

That "bomb threat" against the whole of American People overshadows anything 20 guys with boxcutters could do.

It at least must be made his legacy.

At best, the First Article of Impeachment.

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[usregimechange]

8. It is about time someone called him on that

[Timbuk3]

9. He'd already answered that question

Via his mentor and financial backer, Grover Norquist.

"My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years," he says, "to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

[Ezlivin]

10. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram CENSORS Doonesbury

I just finished the paper and decided to come to DU to read the news.

Thanks for publishing the ENTIRE Doonesbury strip. Our paper deemed it necessary to omit the first two panels. Why? Hell if I know.

Now I'm starting to wonder if they've ever left the strip alone. How would I know unless I compared it with the "official" version?

Free press my ass.

[exlrrp]

12. Mine too!!

I read this in the Oregonian and the first two panels were gone. I think this is more about spacing than censorship though, the Big O is pretty bluish

[Hissyspit]

15. The first two panels of Sunday comics have often been optional

for decades now. That's why the joke or narrative in those panels often seems added on or superfluous. I doubt it was a censorship issue (unless they USUALLY run the first two panels, then that would be suspicious).

[Ezlivin]

17. Thanks for the IQ boost

Your explanation was nice and concise.

I rest my paranoid mind now...

[svpadgham]

25. In this case it's not really censorship

I've never read the Ft.Worth paper, but in many papers around the country the publishers will omit the first two panels in some of the Sunday comics. A lot of times those panels are stand alone tid-bits that have no bearing on the rest of the strip. They cut them so they can fit more comics on the same amount of paper. I've seen it done on Garfield, Foxtrot, and some others. It's just being cheap.

[Felinity]

14. Ben Sargent cartoon in the Austin American Statesman today

It's getting harder and harder to drown out reality.

Here's the link:

http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/index.html

If there is a trick to making this a hyperlink, I don't know it. Please advise.

Edit--it worked!

[Hissyspit]

16. Welcome to DU and thanks for the TOON!

:patriot:

:toast:

To make a link work, just type it into the post. Same with the URLs for images.

Note that on Democratic Underground, if you use HTML code for anything, you need to use the square brackets (which I can't type in to demonstrate), instead of the point brackets < >.

[Felinity]

26. Thanks for your help! n/t

[Hissyspit]

18. Here's the cartoon:

[CatWoman]

19. gladly recommended

and :kick: ed!!!

[Quantess]

20. Do you support the prezdumbent or do you support terra-ists?

Do you want your civil liberties taken away or are you a terra-ist?
Only a terra-ist would complain about the Constitution being used as bird cage lining.

[eppur_se_muova]

22. What documentary is this taken from ? nt

[Hissyspit]

23. No, there is something false about this:

Shrub would NEVER call on Mark in real life. Trudeau is showin how it SHOULD be in real life. Helen Thomas and David Gregory are the closest to this we've actually come.