Trudeau says that criticizing a poor downtrodden minority like the Muslims is "punching down" and equivalent to hate speech.
Perhaps he should read Voltaire and figure out who is really running France.
Posted on 04/18/2015 5:22:23 AM PDT by Rummyfan
I don't think I've read "Doonesbury" since the Eighties, although I assumed it was still out there somewhere - like "Blondie", but less edgy and with worse draftsmanship and drearier characters. So I didn't pay much attention when Garry Trudeau became the first cartoonist to be awarded the George Polk Award?
The Polk Award is named after a journalist shot dead at point-blank range in 1948 while covering the Greek civil war. So you might have thought it would be in ever so mildly bad taste to use the opportunity of a Polk acceptance speech to piss on the graves of a group of journalists similarly murdered. Nevertheless, that's what Mr Trudeau did:
Charlie Hebdo, which always maintained it was attacking Islamic fanatics, not the general population, has succeeded in provoking many Muslims throughout France to make common cause with its most violent outliers. This is a bitter harvest.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
FU Mr. Jane Pauley.
FU Mrs. Jane Pauley, for that matter.
Being a good “progressive” and a member in good standing of The Party of Tolerance, of course Trudeau doesn’t believe in free speech.
Steyn references another cartoon he did .... despicable doesn't begin to cover it:
In 2012, Garry Trudeau drew a series of strips about a Texas law requiring an ultrasound before an abortion. Trudeau's point of view was ferocious: He had one of his characters pronounce, "By the authority invested in me by the GOP base, I thee rape."
Trudeau apparently thinks that ultrasound is a form of rape. I’ve heard that a lot from liberals lately. This is the kind of “thinking” Afghani male peasants indulge in to control and destroy women.
There’s a trick to the whole think. You have to state you’re for it and then make the exclusions near total.
They’re for free speech... As long as they approve of it. Everything else is too dangerous.
They’re for Christianity... As long as the tenets and exercise don’t offend their delicate sensibilities.
They’re for self defense... Except if it results in the harm of someone else... Including attackers.
There’s not a single positive thing in left-wing liberalism that isn’t up for sale. The whole philosophy is principles of ease that come and go
Garry Trudeau’s halcyon days were during Watergate and he’s been trying to relive them ever since. His public struggle to remain relevant is an embarrassment. You could say he’s the Willy Loman of the cartoon world.
I haven't read Doonesbury in ages, either. I do remember the Watergate panels where a stone wall was being built in the foreground of the White House, and wonder why he didn't repeat that on any given scandal involving Dems.
Maybe he did, but as I said, I haven't really looked at the strip with any consistency. It doesn't help that the local rag is Gannett, and they have been going out of their way to alienate those than can not only read, but think as well.
Trudeau says that criticizing a poor downtrodden minority like the Muslims is "punching down" and equivalent to hate speech.
Perhaps he should read Voltaire and figure out who is really running France.
You are not alone when you say you don’t like Doonesbury.
Way back in time, when he first came to light I didn’t like him then and as time went on, my dislike for him turned to hate.
He draws some pretty crude looking cartoons and they are always politically slanted to the left.
Gary Trudeau is still around and writing “cartoons”? I thought he was living somewhere in a homeless Park in San Francisco, carrying a “will loaf for food” sign, and crapping on the sidewalks.
The only time I recall finding him funny involved one of his characters ridding his block of drug dealers by blasting them with elevator music through a loudspeaker.
Incidentally, I just read Steyn's "After America," and after reading that you'll be on board to kick every last Muslim out of Europe and back to their pestholes where they belong.
#7 he could have had those days back again with obama and both Clintons but he likes being petted on the head by the cocktail crowd.
i like Bill the cat. Ack!
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.