Names & Faces: Sketch Comedy (McGruder says "liberals need to be meaner" to win in 2004)

Washington Post ^ | 12.17.03

[mhking]

Left-wingers tend to like cartoonist Aaron McGruder for his comic-strip assaults on the Bush administration in "The Boondocks." But at a dinner Sunday night marking the 138th anniversary of the Nation magazine, McGruder earned boos for saying liberals need to be meaner if they want to win back the White House.

The cartoonist revealed that he voted in 2000 for spoiler candidate Ralph Nader, and also had the nerve to blast Al Gore for losing. "Noble failure is not acceptable," he told The Post's Richard Leiby, recounting his remarks yesterday. "You've got to be prepared to get your hands dirty. You need to do whatever it takes."

An unscripted reference to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice -- whose love life has been the topic of McGruder's strip -- also caused some discomfort in the audience, which included actress Uma Thurman, director John Waters and author E.L. Doctorow.

"I've met Condoleezza Rice and called her a murderer to her face," McGruder said. From his studio, the cartoonist opined, "This is what I do. I am always going to speak honestly. I'm always winging it, and that's one of the things that gets me into trouble."

[mhking]

This moron insists in his comic strip that Dr. Rice wouldn't be so "hell bent on destroying the world" if she had a man.

Just damn.

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[cyborg]

Are you a player-hater? (For Brothers Only).(resentment against successful African Americans)(Brief Article)
Ebony, July, 2002, by Kevin Chappell

IT'S been a term used to describe the dislike of a Brother's conquest of women. But as of late it has taken on a new meaning. Player-hatin'. We're all guilty of it at some point in our lives, some of us more than others.

If there's one thing some Brothers can't stand more than a good-for-nothing Brother is a do-something-good Brother, one who is handling his business, one who is on top of his game. Just the other day, I was at lunch with a few guys when a clean Brother stepped out of his top-of-the-line luxury car and walked into the restaurant. Not a minute passed before one of the Brothers I was with said, "Would you look at this perpetrating Brother. Who does he think he is?" Messed up his whole meal. May have messed up his whole day. Just the thought of another Brother doing good is enough to turn some Brothers into haters of the worst kind. Even the next week he was still talking about the so-called "fake" Brother.

While we use up all of our energy hatin' the successful Brothers, they are using their energy to plan their next move. Spend some time with a few successful Brothers, and you will quickly realize how their minds work. They are calculating, planning, figuring, and anticipating--while the player-hatin' Brothers are just calculating their next snappy put-down. It may get a laugh or two from their buddies, but when it comes down to it, that player-hatin' Brother knows he's the one coming up short.

This player-hatin starts early in life. You remember the guy in school who knew all the answers and seemed to have it together? He was the one people put down the most. Chances are he is also the one people are still hatin' because of his achievements in his life.

If you're comfortable with the goals you set for yourself and the steps you plan to achieve them, then feel free to give a little dap every now and then to a Brother whose goals may have paid off a little more than yours. Now, more than ever, we need one another. It's hard enough being a Black man with just about everyone already doubting you, without having your own hatin' on you. No cultures look down on successful people as much as we do. It's been called the "crabs in a barrel syndrome, an animalistic instinct that many of us have that makes us want to pull another Brother down just as he is about to claw his way out of the crowd and into a better life.

Instead of player-hatin', why don't we congratulate and shake the hand of the Brother who made his mark in the world. Give him props; ask him how he did it. Ask him where he went to school. What subject did he major in? Did he work at an internship? Where was his first job? Does he have any investment tips, any advice, any wisdom that he would care to part with? Being a player starts with us. Our curiosity, our desire, our will to do better than previous generations are the keys to making it to new and uncharted heights.

It's an easy change that can make a player-hater into a player himself. The kind of player that--whether we admit or not--we all aspire to be. I bet somewhere down the line some Brother may have told Michael Jordan that he didn't have game. They probably told Jesse Jackson that his speech impediment would keep him grounded in his South Carolina hometown. Somewhere down the line, I bet there's even a Brother who looked at Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and said that he couldn't motivate people to change. Luckily these men didn't fall prey to all of the player-haters and just kept their eyes on the prize
(shamelessly filched from find articles website)

[11th Earl of Mar]

also had the nerve to blast Al Gore for losing. "Noble failure is not acceptable

Sore Loserman committed "noble failure"?

Ha, ha. Isn't that rich!

[Diva Betsy Ross]

If the liberals want to be lead by a cartoonist, it is their fault when they are creamed.

[metalboy]

This McGruder is a racist plain and simple. I read his crap. If this dude was white he`d be protested out of existence, but once again, blatant hypocrisy of the left rears it`s ugly head. They`re just a bunch of mutts, all of them, and this country would be better off without them. I`m just curious, Adolf Hitler if he were alive today would be 114. So say he never killed himself and it was just announced today that he was caught in some old age home by CIA agents..Would Madeline Albright start saying, "Bush had him all the time and was just waiting for the right time to tell the public"...Would people take to the streets (like the pic below)and hold up signs like this for old Adolf? Just a bunch of mutts, all of them.

[cyborg]

Sign holders should keep in mind that were Saddamy free, they'd be fodder for rape rooms.

[Alouette]

Condoleezza Rice -- whose love life has been the topic of McGruder's strip

He is fixated on her. He must have asked her on a date and she ignored his calls.

[sandydipper]

The lot of them cause me to giggle - Does anyone (his Mom included) think that the Rev. Tawana Sharpton has any chance of being president. Did he ever pay the $65,000.00 for defaming the New York posecutor? If he didn't can't his "matching funds" be garnered?

[Charles Henrickson]

McGruder commits the two cardinal sins of a cartoonist: 1) He's not funny, and 2) He can't draw. This parody by B-Chan nails it:

[mhking]

McGruder commits the two cardinal sins of a cartoonist: 1) He's not funny, and 2) He can't draw.

There are definitely far funnier strips out there; to wit, today's "Day By Day"...

[goodnesswins]

AS IF he is worthy enough to lick the bottom of Condi Rice's shoe's....what a POS. Bio below (yeah, he has a degree in African American Studies.....)

Aaron McGruder
Just a few years ago, when he was still a young college student, Aaron McGruder decided to create a comic strip that reflected both his love of hip-hop culture and the true racial diversity and complexity of the world in which he lived.

The result was The Boondocks, the story of a group of African-American city kids adjusting to life in white suburbia. Combining childhood antics with contemporary political and social satire, the strip explores the terrain where dashikis and Brand Nubian CDs meet The Gap and Hanson.

After an initial debut on the Internet, The Boondocks made its print debut in 1997 in The Diamondback, the independent student newspaper of the University of Maryland. It received rave reviews and quickly drew national attention. After Aaron "escaped" from the University of Maryland with a degree in African-American studies, The Source, one of the country's largest urban music magazines, began publishing the strip. Universal Press Syndicate began syndicating The Boondocks to newspapers in 1999.

The strip has garnered considerable national and international media attention since its debut in newspapers in April 1999. Stories about The Boondocks have appeared in Time, Newsweek, People, National Journal, The Washington Post, London's The Guardian, and numerous other newspapers and magazines, and Aaron has been profiled on all three major U.S. television networks, PBS’s The Charlie Rose Show and Johnnie Cochran Tonight, among others.

Through his work, Aaron seeks to provoke thought, help improve the state of racial discourse and expand the types of humor found on newspaper comics pages.

Aaron currently resides in Los Angeles, where, when he isn't busy meeting the demanding deadlines of a daily comic strip, he's working on a host of other interesting ideas for The Boondocks. He is a near-fanatical "Star Wars" fan and a hip-hop enthusiast of the greatest magnitude.

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: I am always going to speak honestly.

Seems I've heard this before. From Hitler. From Stalin. From Bill and Her Ankleship, too.

Seems like this old tune always comes from the mouths of evil...

[sauropod]

Damn! John Waters>???!!!

I used to really like his stuff.

Into the dustbin of history...

[sauropod]

""I've met Condoleezza Rice and called her a murderer to her face," McGruder said."

I'd like to meet McGruder and call him an as*hole to his face!

[general_re]

After Aaron "escaped" from the University of Maryland with a degree in African-American studies...

Well, there you go - I always wondered what you do with a degree in AAS...

[sauropod]

"help improve the state of racial discourse ....

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.... /sarc

[steve8714]

I'm sure he needs to attend events like this if he wants to ever work in movies again. Being gay just isn't enough.

[Check_Your_Premises]

"liberals need to be meaner if they want to win back the White House"

Yep that's it. Lefties just aren't taking enough cheap shots at the President. They are just missing to many opportunites to turn the tragic deaths of our boys into political points. They just aren't jumping on every setback in the war against radical Islam like they could.

Try harder guys. That is the ticket. It will REALLY resonate with the American people!

Maybe you can get Osama to endorse Howard Dean!!!

[Defendingliberty]

I love Boondocks...as I've said Mcgruder thinks he's nailing us, he is really demonstrating the cockeyed thinking of the left...Huey Freeman comes off as a closet conservative