Posted on 02/03/2006 7:06:17 PM PST by Former Military Chick
Sorry; too little, too late.
You haven't missed much. His cartoon is an unfunny, ghost-drawn piece of leftist drivel.
I stunned. Surprised and stunned. Well, suprised, stunned and happy that a part of Trudeau is good. Really good. Really surprised...
A little background on Gary Trudeau and Doonsbury:
What you read today in the strip has little relevance to it's origins, only the characters are the same.
Love or Hate his politics, Trudeau is a genuis. You may have at one time heard Rush Limbaugh state how he "uses absurdity to illustrate absurdity". Trudeau had the idea first. The comic really was absurd. In the late 80's, Trudeau aged the characters. BD is no longer the College Quarterbck wearing the football helmet constantly, and enlisting in the Army to get out of midterms. Zonker no longer sits in Walden puddle (Walden was the college that all of the main characters attended), and contemplates existence.
Agree or dissagree with the message, Trudeau was a genius at communicating that message. And it had effect.
Rush Limbaugh, and a lot of people who followed him on Conservative Talk Radio uses his medium in the same manner that Trudeau uses his. Both were true pioneers in their respective fields.
If a liberal radio talk show host had anything near the ability of Trudeau to communicate (and Al Franken doesn't even come close...he wasn't a very good comedeien either), Talk radio competition would be brutal.
This conflict was the Character BD's third war. He served a tour in Vietnam, Desert Storm, and Iraqi Freedom. Maybe one of these days i'll tell you of Phred the Terrorist, a Vietcong friend of BD. (they met when they both got lost on missions).
That pretty much sums it up FMC. I don't like Trudeau nor his politics, but he has apparently shown compassion for our troops and it should be accepted for what it was intended to be. Thank you for posting, and I agree with you completely that more of those in the spotlight need to do more than they have to date.
Gary Trudeau, author of Dunesberry, is pretty much to the left and has taken on about every Republican in his "cartoons" that I can think of going back a lot of years.
Trudeau has a whole lotta good ground to cover before I'll give him any measure of respect.
It is easy for us conservatives to despise Trudeau for his left wing politics. It is far harder to give credit where credit is due. Like Paul Newman, another leftie, Trudeau is willing to put his money where his mouth usually is. This is very unlike limousine liberals as a class. I do not applaud Garry for his politics, but I do think he deserves our approval for his unselfish support of our injured troops. I also approve of his choice of a wife--Jane Pauley was, is now and always will be a cutie.
Nothing wrong with your posts or your comments. Entirely reasonable.
Neither link works for me.
The first I get “this is an attack page” warning
The second says the page doesn’t exist.
Did anyone else connect at either page?
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