Doonesbury Creator Recalls Classmate Bush (smarmy hippie BARF alert)

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[twgiles]

NEW YORK - Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who has skewered politicians for decades in his comic strip “Doonesbury,” tells Rolling Stone magazine he remembers Yale classmate George W. Bush as “just another sarcastic preppy who gave people nicknames and arranged for keg deliveries.”Trudeau attended Yale University with Bush in the late 1960s and served with him on a dormitory social committee.

“Even then he had clearly awesome social skills,” Trudeau said. “He could also make you feel extremely uncomfortable ... He was extremely skilled at controlling people and outcomes in that way. Little bits of perfectly placed humiliation...

...Bush has created more harm to this country’s standing and security than any president in history,” Trudeau said. “What a shame the world has to suffer the consequences of Dubya not getting enough approval from Dad.”

[Kirkwood]

Hatred born from envy. I'll bet anything that he wishes he could trade his life to be POTUS. Some guys have the skills and intelligence to become great leaders, while others just draw cartoons and make cheap shots.

[Ann Archy]

Wow!! Bush is even better than I thought!!

[Callahan]

Gary is obviously trying to tell us he had a crush on young George W. and turned to a life of liberal cartooning when his locker room advances were rejected.

[elmer fudd]

Once upon a time he was funny. "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away."

[ottothedog]

The funny thing is, that if you were to ask G.W. about Trudeau, he would probably go, "Who?".

[Callahan]

I can just picture GWB goofing on poor Gary at a frat party.

[Redbob]

Not sure he'd call 'em "frat parties" though; we didn't have fraternities as such at Yale.

You were in a resident college, where you took your meals and had your room after your freshman year, and there were the occasional and fairly rare "secret societies" (of which I wasn't a member), but there were none of the national fraternities of for example "Animal House" fame.

[dennisw]

Trudeau said he penned his very first cartoon to illustrate an article in the Yale Daily News on Bush and allegations that his fraternity, DKE, had hazed incoming pledges by branding them with an iron.

[Euro-American Scum]

Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who has skewered politicians for decades in his comic strip “Doonesbury,” tells Rolling Stone magazine he remembers Yale classmate George W. Bush as “just another sarcastic preppy who gave people nicknames and arranged for keg deliveries.”

They still publish Doonsebury?

[cyncooper]

Well, what set Trudeau off on this reminiscing jag? Did he have repressed memory syndrome or what? I mean, why didn't he share his impressions back in, oh, 2000 or so.

And BTW, he's not helping Jane's new venture here (she has a new talk show debuting soon).

[cyncooper]

The article in the campus paper prompted The New York Times to interview Bush, who was a senior that year. Trudeau recalled that Bush told the Times “it was just a coat hanger, and ... it didn’t hurt any more than a cigarette burn.”

I went to the source and read the rest of the article.

Well, I ask again, what stirred this "memory" about GWB? And why did the New York Times not reveal this interview before?

Does it exist?

Who knows? These people have no credibility, we'll have to wait and see. But I doubt it.

[cyncooper]

Rolling Stone will publish the interview Friday.

Whoops, I missed this.

So the New York Times interviewed GWB back during his days at Yale, and lo these many years later we just get to hear about it.

Ooooookay.

[Interesting Times]

Doonesbury and the Winter Soldier

[CalRepublican]

Huh. The AP version of this story--which for some inexplicable reason is on Yahoo!'s homepage right now--is titled "Doonesbury Cartoonist Trudeau Skewers Bush."

Clicked on the link thinking , "Here we go. . ." only nd this completely meaningless, waste of time story. I don't even think the person that wrote that headline had read the friggin article.

[Sonny M]

Not sure he'd call 'em "frat parties" though; we didn't have fraternities as such at Yale.

You were in a resident college, where you took your meals and had your room after your freshman year, and there were the occasional and fairly rare "secret societies" (of which I wasn't a member), but there were none of the national fraternities of for example "Animal House" fame.

President Bush was a member of DKE fraternity at Yale and also a member of Skull and Bones society.

He also was the "commisher" of a stickball league, and has talked about his days in DKE including the branding aspect.

Gary Treadue and John Kerry were also members of the skull and bones society.

I believe DKE is a national fraternity.