DOONESBURY: Garry Trudeau Whines About 'Unfair' Dean Coverage

uComics.com ^ | February 3, 2004 | Garry Trudeau

[L.N. Smithee]

"Fair?"

This from a guy who once included into his strip a bogus Internet-quelled survey claiming that George W. Bush's IQ was the lowest recorded in the history of the country. Even after being forced to admit that he had been taken in by the hoax, he followed up with a series of gaffes by W. illustrating that the hoax was believable.

[Pikamax]

He and Dean are good friends.

[smith288]

THis guy should be put in editorials ONLY and no longer in the comics. (i have asked the columbus dispatch numerous time)

[Old Grumpy]

What else could you expect from that commie creep?

[over3Owithabrain]

Actually, for once Doofusbury is right. Dean got the liberal Democratic media-attack treatment that is usually reserved for conservatives/Republicans. Not so fun to be on the other side of it, eh Garry?

[js1138]

I thought the cartoonist with the French-sounding name was pushing Clark. Or was that last month's delusion?

[swilhelm73]

I'm sure that someone will now post the strip that criticized the media for unfairly labelling Quayle an idiot...right?

Or the strip complaining about the one sided coverage of the "government shutdown" in the 90s...right?

Or the strip complaining about the press calling Schwartzenegger a NAZi...right?

Oh wait...he never wrote about that.

Guess Trudeau now sees what its like for your candidate to be at the end of the Clintons "Politics of Personal Destruction" machine.

[Tricorn]

A bunch of lefties jumped on the Dean bandwagon a little too early. But it looked like such a sure bet, didn't fellas?

I say "Howard", you say "Dean"
HOWARD!
DEAN!
HOWARD!
DE--

Aw, forget it...

[theDentist]

This guy gets more and more mean-spirited each year. I'd imagine is mostly becuase he realizes he's stuck with Jane "Has Been" Pauley for so long, and he hasn't a Pre-Nup.

[L.N. Smithee]

This guy gets more and more mean-spirited each year. I'd imagine is mostly becuase he realizes he's stuck with Jane "Has Been" Pauley for so long, and he hasn't a Pre-Nup.

Oh, come on. She's gotten the short end of that deal.

I had a crush on Pauley when I was in HS, and the Today show had those sets without the big desk. Pauley had long hair tastefully tied over her shoulder, and wore skirts that just covered her knees. She was as close to glamour in the AM as there was back then. She caught a lot of heat and hate for not being Barbara Walters.

[prion]

Ha! Howard Dean wishes he'd screamed "Yeah!" Alas for him, it was more like a "Yeeeearrgh!"

[L.N. Smithee]

Ha! Howard Dean wishes he'd screamed "Yeah!" Alas for him, it was more like a "Yeeeearrgh!"

The first thing I thought when I heard it was that it sounded like whichever one of the Young brothers said "Yaaaargh!" at the end of AC/DC's "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap."

[lilylangtree]

demonRAT Trudeau still alive? I thought he was dead!

[Atlas Sneezed]

Actually, for once Doofusbury is right. Dean got the liberal Democratic media-attack treatment that is usually reserved for conservatives/Republicans. Not so fun to be on the other side of it, eh Garry?

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I agree entirely. While Dean's campaign failed for dozens of important reasons before the scream (consider the Iowa vote), it is frightening how his coffin was nailed by the whim of the media.

To be honest, seeing the rant on video did not impress me as being much more than what is was, a pep rally for disappointed troops. Not dignified, but neither is flipping pancakes.

[Pikamax]

Media grew to dislike Dean and Dean became more nasty to the media, the scream was just the opening they needed to slam him down.

[glock rocks]

He and Dean are good friends.

Come to think of it... has anyone seen Trudeau and Dean in the same room?

Yeaaaaaarrrrggghh?

[RightWingAtheist]

For once, a Doonesbury cartoon that's actually funny-for all the wrong reasons. Trudeau might have been subversive at one point, but literaly all he does now is re-hash the media's talking points, with added illustrations. He's sort of "Krugman for Dummies"

[N. Theknow]

demonRAT Trudeau still alive? I thought he was dead!

Easy mistake. Usually the stench becomes obvious after death.

[Mike Darancette]

The Democrats are the "Party of the People" no more. The most populist person to have a good shot at the Democrat Presidential nomination in many years was scuttled by the "Machine".

From that high watermark day of the campaign when the man who received the most presidential popular votes in 8 years endorsed Dean's run to the depths of that cold Iowa night the political assination of the man from Vermont was brutal and complete.

That Iowa Caucus night primal scream was not the cause of Mr. Dean's political demise but the effect of seeing how utterly effective the Democrat Machine can be.

This should stand as a stark lesson to all just where "Grass Roots Populism" stands with the National Party Machine. While Dean and his outsiders were decrying the war, Washington insiders, tax cuts for anybody and repeating the mantra, "anybody but Bush" the National machine had another mantra "anybody but Dean"

[NYCVirago]

Actually, for once Doofusbury is right. Dean got the liberal Democratic media-attack treatment that is usually reserved for conservatives/Republicans. Not so fun to be on the other side of it, eh Garry?

Agreed. When the media decides you need to be destroyed, they won't let go until they do it. Of course, Dean's main wounds were self-inflicted, but they wouldn't have gotten as much coverage had he been the "favored" candidate (see the relatively light coverage on Kerry getting Botox.)