Posted on 09/11/2011 9:07:38 PM PDT by Steelfish
In Doonesbury, Palin Biography The Rogue Gets A Comic-Strip Tease
Michael Cavna September 11, 2011
It all started in the summer of 2010, when author Joe McGinniss migrated from Massachusetts to Alaska, to be closer to nature. Human nature, at least, as it plays out on the Sarah Palin homestead.
The self-assigned Palin biographer, as you may recall, made headlines by renting a residence in Wasilla and moving in next door to Palin as if moving in on his prey. The former Alaska guv sounded ticked. McGinniss sounded tickled. And much of the public chose sides over all this northern overexposure.
And then there was a fictional twist that McGinniss never saw coming.
In this surreal world, a stranger faux Fox News reporter Roland Hedley from the comic strip Doonesbury moves in next to McGinniss. The snooping khaki-clad interloper sets up surveillance. Perhaps most unnerving, the stranger begins hectoring the author with back-porch taunts: Moving next to Palin was seriously creepy, he says. How does it feel to be stalked, stalker?
But the fictional characters arrival in McGinnisss real life marked the beginning of a beautiful relationship. This month, Doonesburys creator, Garry Trudeau, has partnered with McGinniss for a cartoon collaboration. (A wild rumpus, as Joe put it, Trudeau says.)
Check out the funnies Monday, and youll see Hedley reading excerpts from McGinnisss bio, The Rogue: Searching for the Real Sarah Palin, ahead of its Sept. 20 release date.
You know what she was? says a member of Palins security detail in the excerpt Hedley reads. A housewife who happened to be governor. Id fly cross-country with her many times and shed spend the whole trip looking at People magazine.
From her preference for gossip tabs to her employment practices, from parenting to personal romance, these are among...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Lol love that one,
These people are freaks.
I lived in Indy (1975) when Jane was a local noon news talking head. Thought she was cute but it seemed like there was something wrong with her. She always acted like her a$$ hole was starched.
Later when I heard she married Gary Trudeau, I knew she was a liberal Jane Fonda wanabe.
Ughh Cathy was a worthless bit of ..
Well, I dont even know what the fudge that was
That is pretty funny!
Someone has to inform Trudeau that Obama is president now, and maybe a few Biden gaffes would be comedy gold.
It [Bloom County] was meant for youthful eyeballs -- and there be none of those ogling newspaper comic pages now. Old-timers chuckling over "Doonesbury" and "Beetle Bailey" are pretty much all that's left. They clip out their favorites, stick 'em on the fridge, and put the rest under their parakeets to sh*t on.
I do think Breathed managed to sum up Doonesbury's true worth right there. The parakeets don't have to read it to comment on it.
Not to mention Doonesbury has been a leftist unfunny since the get go.
I have heard from a very reliable inside unnamed source that “Bill the Cat” is Trudeau’s alter ego.
Poor taste to attack someone’s mental health. I’m sure that 1) she didn’t ask for bipolar disorder, and 2) there is plenty else to criticize her for.
I’ve never understood the appeal. Give me Calvin and Hobbes any day.
Wow, she looks like Hillary Clinton and Jane Fonda’s love child.
> The greatest political comic strip of all time was Bloom County.
Nope, it was Walt Kelly’s Pogo.
Pogo is where the famous line, “we have met the enemy and it is us”, comes from.
I used to struggle to "get" Dunesbury - and then I did.When I realized that Trudeau was mocking Reagan's illness, that tore it for me. Trash. Worthless.
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