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Prize-winning cartoonist Garry Trudeau, creator of "Doonesbury," is poking fun at the constitutional question over Barack Obama's eligibility to be president, based on questions about whether he qualifies under the Constitution's requirement that the president be only a "natural born" citizen.

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...

The nuts ARE running the asylum in Chicagoland... Today's 11/27 cartoon in the PAPER carried a note: "TOday's Get Fuzzy strip does not meet our standards for taste, so please enjoy this substitute strip from 2002." So, they showed some strip. Curiosity got me wondering WHAT was so terrible that they had to pull it... So, to www.comics.com I went. HERE is the strip they refused to post. Clearly, a cartoon cat with his "thumbs up" review for the pretty puppy is too much for the Trib...but, they printed the Doonesbury "Watch it Brown Sugar" comment cartoon with President Bush...

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SYRACUSE NY--More than 5,000 tickets have been sold already for documentary filmmaker Michael Moore's Sept. 22 talk at Syracuse University, and tickets for the general public don't go on sale until Monday, a university spokesman said Friday. Even before tickets went on sale, the buzz Moore's visit created on campus prompted university officials to change the venue, spokesman Kevin Morrow said. Moore's portrayal of President Bush in his latest film, "Fahrenheit 9/11," has stirred political passions. Moore was initially scheduled to speak Oct. 17 at the Schine Student Center's Goldstein Auditorium. He had a scheduling conflict and asked the university...

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If children read anything in the newspapers anymore, it's still the Sunday comics section -- that inviting spread of colored cartoon art, that staple of Silly Putty advertising. One of the industry's best-known cartoonists is Garry Trudeau, the envelope-pushing baby boomer creator of "Doonesbury." He's now delivered controversy again with his signature. He sent to his syndicate a Sunday strip with a new topic: masturbation. "There's a new study that suggests regular masturbation prevents prostate cancer," says one of the strip's characters, the oh-so-relevant Reverend Scot Sloan. A few panels later, slacker Zonker arrives to announce "self-dating prevents cancer." Trudeau...

Nobody bites at auction for Doonesbury comic strips PORTLAND - Remember those Doonesbury comic strips that made fun of Portland's school funding problems? On Friday, supporters of Measure 26-48 were ready to auction off three more of Gary Trudeau's original strips. All the proceeds were meant to help out the Portland School District. There was only one problem - no one made a bid. However, that did not stop the measure's supporters from pushing their message about the upcoming election. "Anybody in Multnomah County can go and drop their ballot off. We need to have people do that. This...