'Doonesbury' Creator Apologizes for Citing Bush IQ Hoax (thanks to Drudge Report )

foxnews ^ | 9/7/2001 | foxnews

[TLBSHOW]

"Doonesbury" creator Garry Trudeau apologized on the strip's Web site for using an Internet hoax on presidential IQs as the basis for Sunday's strip.

The strip, a purported conversation between an unseen President George W. Bush and an adviser in the White House, cites as fact a purported ranking of presidential IQs based on public statements and writings. In the "study," Bush is said to have an IQ half that of former president Bill Clinton and a little more than half the average presidential vocabulary.

[buffyt]

I stopped reading Doonesbury a long time ago.....

[Common Tator]

Clinton's supposed 182,

They are confusing IQ with the number of times Clinton had sex in the oval office with a female news reporter.

NO the female news reporter was not Peter Jennings althought it is rumored that Peter auditioned for the task. Someone said Jennings failed the audition because his Vagina Monologue was too short.

[Elvis van Foster]

I love Trudeau's classless reply. How could a person with the word "Sucker" plastered on his face be so cheap?

[TLBSHOW]

BUMP

[alloysteel]

The thing is, the "Former Occupant of the Oval Office, 1993-2001" just isn't all that smart. Not nearly as smart as even his venomous viper of a spouse, for example. I have been in the presence of TOWERING intellect, and neither of them show up as more than spluttering birthday-cake candles in the beam of a million-candlepower searchlight.

[BUMPA31]

another little person steps in his own kaka.
liberals suck as humans.

[OldFriend]

The quality of the apology equals the quality of the cartoons........in other words.....crummy.

[lowbridge]

I wonder if Trudeau will create a strip showing an anti-Bush cartoonist being taken in by an anti-Bush urban legend.

Nah, no one would believe it, right Mr. Trudeau?

[yooper]

"Clinton's supposed 182"

That should read "THE Clinton's supposed 182." What we are failing to recall here is the "buy one, get one free" presidency. 182 is the TOTAL IQ of Bill AND Hillary Clinton. The score averages out to both of them being at the "moron" level.

But then, I didn't have to tell y'all that, did I?

[subterfuge]

Trudeau didn't apologize, his "people" did. That way, later in front of his lib buds, he can say it wasn't of his doing. simple.

[observer5]

"Clinton's supposed 182, They are confusing IQ with the number of times Clinton had sex in the oval office with a female news reporter. "

Or could it be the number of times Clinton RAPED a woman and it never got reported?

There is practically no more eveidence demonstarted in the MEDIA COVER UP of the Clinton RAPES. Just imagine the media, if there was a woman out there caliming she was raped by Bush. Ha Ha Ha. What a circus this would be.

[Ann Archy]

The creator deeply apologizes for unsettling anyone who was under the impression that the President is, in fact, quite intelligent," the site says.

Read this carefully.

[Aeronaut]

Read this carefully.

That popped out immediately, without careful reading. That's a limp apology if it even is one.

[Ann Archy]

It's no apology at all!! He says "he;s sorry for unsettling anyone who thinks Bush is intelligent."

[F16Fighter]

"Read this carefully."

Worth saying again.

The so-called "apology" and rebuttal is in a sense worse than the original BS -- Drudge should pick up on that story...

As for Trudeau -- he is, and always will be an unfunny turd -- much in the same tradition as fellow unfunny turds, Michael Moore and Al Franken.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

"Clinton's supposed 182"

Yeah! And mine is 183.

[Ann Archy]

Turdeau worded the "apology" very cleverly, didn't he?

Read it carefully, freepers...it's no apology at all.

[Interesting Times]

By pretending to apologize for one obvious lie, Trudeau thinks he will be mistaken for a man of integrity, and his other 14,667 lies will be ignored...