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“A recent report reveals the world’s nearly 3,000 billionaires increased their wealth by $5 trillion last year....Which prompts Mark Whitaker to ask: When is more than enough, enough?,” host Jane Pauley announced at the top of the segment. Whitaker went on to warn viewers: “The wealth gap has reached stratospheric levels. The richest one percent of Americans now has almost 13 times the wealth of the bottom 50 percent. It’s led some to consider: Maybe you can be too rich.” He turned to a far-left, European philosophy professor to explain her socialist ideology of seizing wealth by giving it a...

Sometimes people are slow to learn a lesson, but fanatical Islamists are nothing if not diligent in their pedagogic urges. Lately they have taught us, again, that the only provocation required to inflame them is our existence—which means some people have a lot to apologize for after the latest assault on Western values, along the seaside in Nice. Let’s start with Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau who, barely 15 months ago, suggested that the satirists at the French magazine Charlie Hebdo were complicit in their own assassinations. “Charlie Hebdo, which always maintained it was attacking Islamic fanatics, not the general population,...

U.S. Congressman George Miller, a senior Democrat from California who has long championed education system, labor, health and the protection of natural resources, announced on Monday that he will not seek a 21st term in the House this fall. “This is a great institution and I cannot thank my family and my constituents enough for having given me the honor and privilege of representing my district in Congress these past 40 years,” the 68-year-old Miller said on his website. ““I will leave Congress with a full heart and a crowded plate, because the challenges of our times demand our constant...

The Chicago Tribune has decided to pull the daily comic strip "Doonesbury" for the entire week from its newspapers and website. The controversy is over a week-long series of satirical material that makes fun of Sarah Palin, the failed Vice-Presidential candidate and the Alaskan Governor who quit her job after just over two years to become a conservative pundit & Tea Party icon. Facing hefty amounts of criticism and charges of censorship, Chicago Tribune's Senior Vice-president and Editor Gerould W. Kern released a statement, which will be printed inside of tomorrow's newspaper. The statement reads: "This week we are not...

Being as how it's been VERY difficult for Garry Trudeau of Doonesbury fame to choose an icon for Obama in his comic rag, since Obama is all complex and stuff, I have a proposal for Mr. Trudeau. Using the Buffoon-In-Chief's own slapstick schtick over his "forgetfulness" when it comes to the commoners who fight his wars for him, I propose that we nickname Barry "The Full Monti", in honor of Mr. Obama showing that he has no clothes when it comes to the memory of Medal of Honor recipients, living or otherwise. As for Mr. Trudeau's Obama icon, I propose...

Never thought I'd see a Doonesbury comic like this. Disillusionment, anyone?

Doonesbury is doomed. ... One lesson the book provided was simply that the put on is mightier than the put down. Insults are easy as any observer of the current election cycle can attest. Ragging on the opposition with grace and humor takes intelligence. When humor is lost, so is one’s advantage. This is why Garry Trudeau is sunk. A pair of Sunday comics paints such a stark contrast between political observation and humor that it shows why old comics should fade away. On this day both Garry Trudeau (Doonesbury) and Chris Muir (Day by Day) opined on current issues...

NEW YORK "Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau again listed American war dead in his Sunday comic this Memorial Day weekend. The strip is titled "Operation Iraqi Freedom -- In Memoriam -- Since 4/28/04-- Part 1." Included are the names of hundreds of soldiers. So many, in fact, that the listing will continue next week in "Doonesbury." The names fill six panels. The first two panels carry a soldier playing taps and a line of soldiers saluting. Ted Koppel will read the names, and show photos, of 900 American dead on a 45-minute telecast of "Nightline" on Memorial Day. Last Memorial Day...

Why is Garry Trudeau doing a "Doonesbury" sequence inspired by disgraced Republican-friendly reporter Jeff Gannon? "I'm not sure it's commonly understood to what lengths this administration is willing to go to bypass the 'filter,' as Bush calls the media," the cartoonist replied in an e-mail interview. "The president made it official Wednesday -- his Justice Department (news - web sites), fresh from signing off on torture, apparently thinks propaganda's OK too." When asked if he thought the press has underreported the Gannon episode, pundit payola, and other examples of media manipulation, Trudeau said: "It's not that it's been underreported so...

In Portland, Ore., two shock-jock disc jockeys, Marconi and Tiny, were fired by radio station KNRK. On their May 12 morning show, they played the audio portion of the beheading of American Nick Berg, laughing and joking after hearing Berg's screams, as these crazed Islamic terrorists threw him on the floor and one of them used a large knife to cut off his head. These two unbelievable creatures repeated the audio several times – as the station was flooded with phone calls and e-mails of understandable rage. At the end of the program, they were fired and apologized for, on...

Papers Warned About Upcoming 'Doonesbury' Strip With 'Head on Platter' By E&P Staff Published: May 14, 2004 1:11 PM EST, updated at 2:23 PM NEW YORK Clients of Gary Trudeau's "Doonesbury" comic were alerted today to the fact that the May 23 strip, drawn in April, "contains the image of a head on a platter." Lee Salem, editor of Universal Press Syndicate, referred to the strip's content as "an unfortunate coincidence," explaining, "Given its timing following the recent grisly tragedy in Iraq, and the realities of Sunday color-production cycles, we felt we should call this to your attention." Universal will...

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<p>"Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau apologized on the strip's Web site for using an Internet hoax on presidential IQs as the basis for Sunday's strip.</p> <p>The strip, a purported conversation between an unseen President George W. Bush and an adviser in the White House, cites as fact a purported ranking of presidential IQs based on public statements and writings. In the "study," Bush is said to have an IQ half that of former president Bill Clinton and a little more than half the average presidential vocabulary.</p>

NEW HAVEN -- Standing at the front of an auditorium that looked like a castle dining hall, cartoonist Aaron McGruder, of "The Boondocks," leaned into the microphone and said, "All right. Yale." And the packed house applauded, just like that. Through the rest of his nearly two-hour talk on Saturday, McGruder, a 28-year old who looks no older than his college audience, drew guffaws, groans, and loud applause at Yale University's eighth annual Black Solidarity Conference.