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 character’s arrival in McGinniss’s real life marked the beginning of a beautiful relationship. This month, Doonesbury’s 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 you’ll see Hedley reading excerpts from McGinniss’s 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 Palin’s security detail in the excerpt Hedley reads. “A housewife who happened to be governor. I’d fly cross-country with her many times and she’d 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 ...
Turn about is fair play.
“Cathy”! LOL! that’s tough to beat in the unfunny department.
LoL!
Gret interview. I miss all those guys, Larson, Watterson and Breathed.
The only comics I got excited about were Doctor Strange and the Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers. That time is past and so is Trudeau’s.
Can you elaborate? Has she made fun of people with mental illness? I apologize; I’m not sure what your statement means.
Excuse me if I don't take you seriously, considering you read this item about what her husband is doing and instead of attacking that, you sought to PC someone, probably to inflate your ego.
On the scale of "attacks" from 1 - 10 mine was about 0.01. Especially since I did not have to spy (she said this about herself), like her husband promotes, and the picture of her is public.
The issue I brought up in asking "How about if someone..." is fair turn-about. How would Trudeau and his family like it?
Considering the quote from my first post, obviously they wouldn't: "Pauley is known for revealing very little, if anything, of her private life, which made the disclosure of her bipolar disorder all the more unexpected."
The fact that you have no problem worth enough to mention in this thread the real attack done on Palin and her family, shows there is something wrong with you.
You are a Troll and a Lunatic.
Have a nice day.
With one exception, “The vanishing liberal”
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