Are we allowed to read "Doonesbury"?

NY Newsday | 7/13/03 | Garry Trudeau

[NickRails]

I happened to read Doonsebury today, and I thought it was hilarious, but not in the way I think Trudeau intended it. Is he delusional, or do I not just get the joke? (I laughed in all the wrong places) Maybe he should have just said liberals are made of sugar and spice and everything nice, and conservatives etc...

[ChadGore]

link ?

[Jhoffa_]

He used to be at least willing to take a stab at his own side every now and then.. But since the 2000 election fiasco he's gone into full hate mode.

He's a bitter little man who comes to mind every time I hear the song: "Get over it!"

[Eala]

Are we allowed to read "Doonesbury"?

Sure, of course you're >i>allowed to... but why on God's green earth would you want to?

[RichInOC]

http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/

Never mind that...I still to this day don't buy Marvelous Mark coming out.

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[Eala]

A far better political strip is Chris Muir's Day by Day.

[Plutarch]

Nobody reads Doonesbury anymore, not even the liberals. If your newspaper stopped running it, no one would notice.

[byteback]

The last two weeks he's been on the Dean supportes and probably will next week too. He's good there because he understands liberals but when he rags on Conservatives it's funny because he doesn't understand Conservatism.

Rich Lowry from the NR was on some show yesterday talking about Michael Savage and he said that this shows that the Liberal Execs don't understand the other side. It's "I guess we need a Conservative and since George Will is already taken we'll get Savage". It's just funny because the don't get it!

[gogov]

Really delusional, isn't he. He actually believes it.

[arasina]

THANKS for the link! A far better political strip indeed!

[Eala]

You're welcome. About a week after I started reading it I just had to go all way back to the first and read them all. It was worth it...

[The Hon. Galahad Threepwood]

The really amusing thing is that Trudeau obviously did that entire strip without once noticing the irony in writing off an entire centuries-old political movement* by saying, "They're all intolerant and never listen to the other side."

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*As well as a cultural viewpoint which has been around since the first pointy-headed intellectual said, "Hey, let's stop living in caves and move into the lake!" and the rest of the tribe beat him to death with a mastodon's thighbone.

[NickRails]

That's why I don't get it.

If you want current immigration laws enforced, you're a racist.

If you don't support same sex marriage you're a homophobe,

etc etc etc

BUT, if you agree with exactly with the liberal party line, you're openminded.

[Moonmad27]

In a letter to the editor in a recent Ventura County (CA) Star, the writer said that Mallard Fillmore was too biased and must be gotten rid of - but Doonesbury was always fair and clever. The letter writer must have meant a different Doonesbury than the one they print side by side with Mallard.

[MayDay72]

"A far better political strip is Chris Muir's Day by Day." -Eala

...Took the words right out of my mouth...