Pathetic. Juvenile. Purile. Liberalism at it's finest.
Posted on 07/26/2005 12:53:30 PM PDT by pcottraux
Some Papers Pull, Edit 'Doonesbury' Strip By DAVID TWIDDY, Associated Press Writer 2 hours, 55 minutes ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - About a dozen newspapers have objected to use of toilet humor in Tuesday's and Wednesday's "Doonesbury" comic strip, and some either pulled or edited the strip.
Kansas City-based Universal Press Syndicate, which distributes the strip to around 1,400 newspapers, said it had received some complaints from editors about a reference to presidential aide Karl Rove.
In the strip, a caricature of President Bush refers to Rove as "turd blossom."
Lee Salem, editor at Universal Press, said the complaints, from 10 to 12 newspapers, weren't unexpected, given the concerns many editors have about language in the funny papers. But as opposed to other times when editors have objected to Doonesbury content, the syndicate did not send out replacement strips.
"Given the coverage of Karl Rove, we thought it was appropriate, especially given the history of the strip," Salem said.
Among those with concerns was the Providence (R.I.) Journal. There, editors simply removed the offensive word from the strip's final panel.
"I didn't think (taking out the word) hurt it," Executive Editor Joel Rawson said. "I would prefer to run the strip and if we can edit it, that's fine."
Rawson said the paper would take the same approach with Wednesday's strip.
Trudea has been empty of ideas since he came back from his vacation 20 years ago. So of course he has to resort to sensation when he can't make his points with wit.
Trudeau
But Bush really does refer to Rove as "Turd Blossom," among other meant-in-fun nicknames. It's meant in a positive way, if you think about it: unpleasant boyhood surroundings, but Rove "blossomed" nevertheless.
Maybe there's some other reason for pulling the strip I'm not seeing. For example, the fact that it hasn't been funny since roughly 1979?
Turdeau?
Disgusting.
(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
Turdeau.
Turdeau
"Doonesbury" is still around? Who knew!
liberal leftists demoncRAT Trudeau hasn't anything useful. He went out for drugs and never came back.
Pathetic. Juvenile. Purile. Liberalism at it's finest.
Actually he is the lead editorial writer for the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Trudy?
We 9fortunately) only get TD's turdbeau strip on Sunday's, but it is center of the first page of the comics.
They are (now) uniformly "hate Bush" repeats. Much like he did against Nixon for two years straight in the 70's.
Crankshaft's writer/drafter is very simpathetic to the country's threats in his two strips.
BC even more so.
I'm getting the sense that we all here hate "Doonesbury" as much as I do.
"Doonesbury" is about as painfully unfunny as Tina Fey writing a "Police Academy" movie starring Queen Latifah.
It just doesn't get any lower than that in the humor chain.
"Toilet humor" from an irrelevant, washed up leftist "cartoonist".
Wow, that's an original idea ole Garry Trudeau (whose name is mysteriously missing from this report) had there, huh? How creative. [Sarcasm]
He is? I always thought he was a cartoon character. Oh wait, Philadelphia Inquirer...never mind.
I guess drawing actually characters is too much work.
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