Sarah Palin’s hated author-neighbor enemy Joe McGinnis will soon release his secret spy diary of sexy details about the Palin family’s Satanic backyard meth-gobbling rituals, and it is apparently super juicy, in terms of Sarah Palin being an awful moron! Blah blah, that is not the “news part,” because that is not “news.” The actual faux-controvery surrounding Sarah Palin’s mind-numbing existence today comes courtesy of the fact that McGinnis gave an advanced copy of the book to “Doonesbury” comic strip author Gary Trudeau, who pulled some random embarrassing anecdote from one of Sarah Palin’s old advisers as fodder for his most recent syndicated political cartoon. This is illegal, in journalism, according to the Chicago Tribune, which has removed the cartoon. Why? BECAUSE, UH, FACT CHECKING.
The Tribune gave some weird excuse that they could not run “Doonesbury” this week because they had not been allowed to “verify” the statements made in a political cartoon, but we will go out on a limb and assume it’s mostly because they did not appreciate being scooped about Sarah Palin’s delusional antics by its Comics Section. That is Serious Journalism territory!
Last newspaper-reading human on Earth Jim Romenesko noticed the Tribune’s print announcement that no one would have ever seen otherwise, which he helpfully reproduces for the Internet in a blog post:
“Doonesbury” creator Garry Trudeau is running excerpts from Joe McGinniss’s Sarah Palin’s bio in this week’s strips, which won’t be seen by Chicago Tribune print edition readers. The paper says in an A2 note that “the subject matter does not meet our standards of fairness [because] the strips include excerpts from a book that is not yet on the market and therefore unavailable for review or verification by the Tribune.” The book’s release date is Sept. 20. The Tribune is running “Thatababy” in the place of “Doonesbury.”
This will be known as The Day That Comedy Died, until next week, probably. [WaPo/Poynter Institute via Andrew Sullivan]
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Truth hurts?
TROOTH LIEBUL!!1!1
Yet the Trib publishes all the sewage spewed by the republican candidates as the truth.
Just Googled "Trib" and "spew" to see what you were talking about. Are you free this weekend?
Two things: politicians are protected as satire ('living performance art') and nothing Republican pols say is mean to be taken as actual fact or truth.
Gary Trudeau fucking sucks.
That seems a bit harsh, after all he is married to America's sweetheart, Jane Pauly.
You prefer "Family Circus," apparently.
http://www.drivenbyboredom.com/wp-content/uploads…
That's the one I'd choose too.
I remember seeing one of Billy and his mom where he's sitting at the computer and asks, "Mommy…what does jap scat mean?" I couldn't find it though.
I guess I more prefer radical pacifist Bill Keane to self-important patrician New Left baby boomer Gary Trudeau. I don't happen to like either of their comics, but I have a particular dislike for that whole category of asshole.
Downfist
However, Billl Keane did inspire this long-running parody, and for that I give him credit: http://dfc.furr.org/
Fucking snark, how does it work?
I read your list of what I presume you intend to be derisive descriptions of Trudeau, and yet, there is nothing there I regard as a negative. Maybe "self-important," it depends on the person. But as a self-important new left baby boomer patrician myself, I just don't see why you would consider these things negative attributes.
I prefer The Nietzsche Family Circus, myself. http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/
Who knew Duh Gov'Nuh read Wonkette?
You say that like it is a bad thing.
Really you should try it, it is just not that bad, if done right it can be sublime.
You should try "The Lockhorns." That Leroy, what a scamp, always getting drunk and wearing a lampshade at parties.
What a valiant stand they have taken defending the honor of those who have none.
Sarah would probably love to shoot Snoopy and Woodstock from a helicopter with a high powered rifle.
The Sopwith Camel would gun her down.
That gives one an awesome mental image. I can just see the bullet holes stitching up the side of Sarah's Jet Ranger.
Or that dumbshit bus she drove around for awhile before she got bored and quit.
"Sarah would probably love to shoot Snoopy and Woodstock from a helicopter with a high powered rifle."
They weren't her first choice, but the folks at Westboro Babtist Church had already called dibs on Peppermint Patty and Marcie.
"verify the statements made in a cartoon"????!!!!! You mean Ren and Stimpy aren't vetted? Fuck and all this time….
I think Prince Valiant and Beetle Bailey are true but I am always unsure if Peanuts has been vetted.
I’m pure sure Snoopy has been vet’d. Those cartoons have shown every side of him, and he definitely isn’t anatomically correct.
"I TOLD YOU I'D SHOOT, BUT YOU DIDN'T BELIEVE ME!!! WHY DIDN'T YOU BELIEVE ME?!?!?!!"
Next thing you know it's going to turn out that Wonkette posts cannot always be verified as being 100% factual.
Whattya think the "not intended to be a factual statement" disclaimer is for?
Complete the dang fence!
Pfft. They ran the strip where Thel asks Billy who lied about the presence of Iraqi WMD and he said "Not Me."
…and Dick Cheney is sneaking away wearing a "Not Me" t-shirt.
Of course, they will keep running the mind-blowingly stupid piece of excrement "Mallard Fillmore" without restriction.
I'll see your "mind-blowingly stupid piece of excrement" and raise you "racist, jingoistic, puerile, pathetic excuse for pencil scratching trying to pass itself off as artistic political commentary."
Sure you are not talking about Jack T. Chick?
The works of Jack Chick will tell future civilizations a lot about us!
How many operating while intoxicated busts has Trudeau had compared with Tinsley? Since Trudeau is one of those limousine libruls he doesn't have to drive shitfaced like Tinsley does. Tinsley draws like a man, drinks like a man and gets thrown into the pokey like a man. Trudeau probably just sips "wines" for the "taste" or some hokey shit. That's why Doonesbury will never have the same artistic sensibilities as Mallard Fillmore. Trudeau never spent a night in the drunk tank passed out in his own sick. Tinsley has, so he can relate to "real america" in a way Trudeau cannot even fathom.
Tinsley also blames the judges and cops for picking on him for "no reason" when they arrest him for drunk driving like a man as well. Or like a conservative at least.
Wow, I had no idea cartoonists lived such… lives.
Cartoonists are people too, my friend.
Until Bill Watterson brings Calvin & Hobbes back, I refuse to read political cartoons.
I read all of them, any of them that have been in front of me.
T
I want The Far Side back.
And don't get me started on Bloom County! Really, those three (C&H, TFS, BC), and occasionally The Boondocks were the only thing worth reading in the entire paper some mornings!
Bloom County: "Every clam you bake, every dog you wake, every leaf you rake, I'll be watching you."
Deathtongue forever!!!!
Bloom County. That ruled. My uncle got me into those as a kid. I don't know if I fully grasped the meaning of them plotting to flush every toilet in the pentagon all at once… but clearly something sunk in.
In real life Gary Larson wuz
a C'Addle dog catcherworked for the godless Humane Society.Gave him insight. "Cat Fud" is my all-time favorite… http://media.photobucket.com/image/far%20side%20c…
Cat Fud is my second favorite. http://tinyurl.com/6yjvxf3
oh thank you, I was JUST trying to 'describe' this all-time favorite FS to a friend at dinner last night and of course the funny was NOT communicated by my feeble attempts
I had a friend who was asked, in a job interview, what his three favorite Far Side cartoons were. The interview had already reached a point where he knew they were going to offer him the position; that question just made him certain he wanted to take a job with THAT college.
How did I know that would be an academic reference?
I seriously think you can judge a professor by their appreciation for Larson. If they have no cartoons on thier office door, don't sign up. If they have 1 bad one, don't try any jokes on them that haven't been fully beaten to death because they plainly got that from someone else. If they have 3 or more pretty funny ones, you are going to like the class – unless they have a whole wall full, in which case they are likley deranged.
And if they have 1 – just 1perfect one – on an otherwise blank door, you should take the class only if you are going to bring your A game.
On the door of my classroom, I have the one with the cavemen who have brought down a mastodon with one perfect arrow shot. One says to the other, "Maybe we should write that spot down." Under it, I've added, "Why historians get paid."
Wow, that is just the best. Bodes real well for the future!
I was out and about yesterday with my favorite gentleman caller, who is extremely intelligent, and he actually pushed a door marked "Pull".
Yes, we both thought of the Far Side cartoon.
exactly, I do it EVERY time! :)
Mark that one keeper. My current GF and I both had complete collections of Calvin and Hobbes books in the living room when we met. I think we spent an entire afternoon just reading them together and showing which ones we thought were best when we were kids.
Bloom County and Death Tongue reunion tour or GTFO.
Rock out with your tongue out.
"Steve's chest hair caught on fire!"
"How?"
"He put mascara on it"
"Why?" (to Steve, cigarette still in mouth, dazed)
"Looked . . . fluffy"
No, that strip had no impact on me at all.
I forget a lot of it. Far Side and C&H has stayed with me more… guess I need to break out my copy of Billy and the Boingers!
Man I miss Calvin & Hobbes…the great art on Sundays, the flights of Calvin's imagination, the Transmogrifier, Chocolate Frosted Sugar Bombs, the sexless parents, "Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooey"…they all spring to mind and I haven't seen the strip in years and don't have the books.
And political cartoons? They all suck since Paul Conrad lost it in the latter years.
Spaceman Spiff for the win!
Yeah, Conrad NAILED it.
I liked Jeff MacNelly before he started doing "Shoe," which started the unfortunate trend of political cartoonists doing daily strips. And, antique though his style looks today, I learned how to enjoy political cartoons by reading Herblock during Watergate.
I admit to being a full-fledged C&H geek, have every one of his 'greatest hits' compilation books and even laminated the VERY LAST strip and it's been on the side of my fridge ever since! http://calvinethobbes.free.fr/english/c_der.html
Yeah, I have a copy I saved as well… chokes me up just thinking about (seriously!)…
nice to know there's somebody at least as sappy as me…I LOVED that Calvin, and Hobbes was a true guru1
Thanks for the link!
Does this mean confidential sources will no longer be used unless they have published anonymously?
And I definitely remember the "Family Circus" cartoon where the Dad (did they ever have names?) claims that rainbows are made out of hearts and flowers. ALL LIES!
This is just like when the New York Times ran six months of Marvin strips in place of Judith Miller's reporting on Saddam's connections to al-Qaida and his acquiring nuclear weapons.
Because Judy and Marvin are both full of shit.
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We all know who the real victim is here!
Veritas?
Ziggy? Nothing ever goes right for that man.
Calvin and Hobbes.
The Katzenjammer Kids?
The girls in Apartment 3-G?
Josh Fruhlinger?
Oh how I miss the Comics Curmudgeon on Wonkette.
Brenda Starr, Reporter?
When I was in a boring class in grade school (which was almost all of them, really), I used to daydream that I was Brenda Starr, with naturally red hair and lots of exciting adventures.
Beetle Bailey.
Anybody forced to read Dilbert?
I live "Dilbert." It's not funny
Mark Trail?
Hi and Lois?
They were swingers who died of STDs back in the 80s.
Marmaduke, tied to the top of Mitt Romney's car?
Helga? Hagar does not appreciate that woman, I tell ya.
Freewheelin' Franklin?
No way!
Has to be Fat Freddy; every time he tried to go out and score some weed, he got burned.
And then his cat would shit in his shoes.
Fat Freddy's Cat was distinguished from all other cartoon cats (including Fritz) because he was often drawn from a rear view perspective, rendering visible his honest-to-God tomcat nuts.
I also enjoyed (if that is the word I want) the episodes of Fat Freddy's Cat where cockroaches would get killed, and someone would ask the King of Cockroaches whether the band should play Taps, and his invariable response was, "Nah, we got plenty more where they came from". I've often recalled those, usually at work.
Andy Capp's wife. She 'fell out of bed,' my ass.
Sure, bash Andy Capp all you want, but he makes delicious Hot Fries.
Zonker?
Hitler!
Wrong thread, CHaM
Oh shit, I was totes gonna say hitler.
Miss Buxom?
Buxley, dammit. And her flat-chested secretarial officemate is Private Blips, I shit you not.
Cathy or Irving? I can 't decide which is the bigger loser.
Garfield? That cat no likey the Monday.
Schmoos?
Under the intelligent and wise and far seeing leadershit of Sam Zell, the Tribune has a habit of ruining funny things (Doonsebury sort of counts) for instance, the Cubs (they're just pathetic.)
I'm actually meh about this as i'm still mourning the loss of Calvin and Hobbes.
"… you know like, 'People'… just, all of 'em, Katie."
McCormick was a Nazi, the Cubs are the worst team in professional sports, and the Tribune hasn't published a wise word since Royko got Alzheimers.
While living in Chi-town I used to say "The only real journalism in the Trib can be found in the funny pages". Who'd a knew that my joke was right.
Wait, so Bill Clinton wasn't really a floating animate waffle, or George W. Bush a floating dot wearing a cowboy hat, and later a Roman centurion's helmet?
Asterisk (*) they look like assholes so I believe that's the reason Trudeau used the symbol. Or was it President * as in not really? I think it's cause it looked like an asshole which certainly captured the spirit and character of Dubya better than any likeness could have.
Because the Supreme Court "elected" him.
Maybe it was a Vonnegut asshole/asterisk shoutout, but I thought it was a hanging chad reference/Roger Maris's 61 home runs kind of thing.
No, all of that was verified by the Tribune. Reagan as Max Headroom, too.
I'm sure the new tea-tard comic strip will be fully vetted.
Jeebus and Perry?
You know who else doesn't like cartoon representations of their leader?
Or canine ones. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1345008/R…
Aw, the poor little Nazi's can't take a joke. Just like Palin.
Haha. Wow that guy looks like Colonel Klink.
The Danes?
Christians?
Klingons?
You're not going to trick me into having a fatwa placed on me. No, sir.
Mormons?
Me?
Kim Jong Il
Isaac Hayes?
win.
W T C on the Simpsons?
Jay and Silent Bob's fans?
Smurfs?
I can't believe I missed this strip in my local daily fishwrap. Doonesbury is one of the few readable things they still have in it.
So there really isn't the "ever popular Donner Party snow globe" as described in the Far Side? Now what the fuck am I going to give at Christmas?
Not to worry. If it ran in the Tribune comic section, you can rest assured it has been fully vetted and is 100% true.
OT: I own a "Fargo" snow globe. In it, Marge aims her revolver at the big, dumb blonde guy as he stuffs Steve Buscemi's leg into a wood chipper. When you shake it, not only is there white snow, but bits of red carnage as well. It's one of my most prized posessions.
I had no idea there were TWO Fargo snowglobes! A friend had this'n: http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgko6dRRNO1qzm2…
I never suspected there might be other designs! Here's mine: http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://28.med…
This is the first time I've heard Palin "newz" in weeks…is it too soon to start with "Who?" jokes?
No. No it's not.
Remember, when she was Governor of Alaska, or was it Mayor of Wasalla, she had certain books taken off of the library shelves. When she is President (in some bizarro world, not the real one) , we will all have to turn in our Kindles to her Administrators, so they can check them for material that offends Her Highness.
No you won't. She'll just call up Amazon and order them to remove them remotely, like they did Orwell's 1984 due to a…"licensing dispute."
Has anyone else noticed that Amazon.com totally sucks, and is trying to fuck around in CA politics to avoid paying the sales tax they owe? When did they become the Walmart of on-line merchants?
To be fair, she didn't actually ban anything at the Wasilla Library. She merely asked the librarian if it would be possible to do so, since she'd heard that the library had horrible evil ant-Christian literature in it. But she either was convinced it was a bad idea or, more likely, got distracted or lost interest in pursuing it.
The suspicious part was her asking again and again. So, back to that previous item, if one were to ban a book, how would one go about it?
There's a whole bunch about free speech that Palin doesn't appear to have the slightest clue about. Believe me, when I say "she didn't actually ban books…she only thought it might be a nifty idea," I mean it as the very faint praise it is.
She quit halfway through pursuing that censorship.
Media organizations still have standards????????
The Chicago Trib killed Roger Rabbit.
josh?
Like Snowbilly reads Gary Trudeau. I peg her as a Ziggy or Family Circus fan–big pictures & little words.
And aren't those little dotted line ones with Billy just so darned cute!
Trig or Piper probably have to explain Ziggy to her.
Besides, it's a well-known fact that that all the words get backwarded from the silly putty, so who cares?
That cunt.
Which comics does she read? All of them, Cathy.
Today's events could only lead one to conclude that Chicago Tribune editor Jim Romenesko is guilty of being a ginormous asshole.
That's guilty! Guilty, guilty, guilty!
Oh, Slackmeyer, that's *so* 60s….
Well played. *slow clap*
Bravo, Sir or Madam.
Har! I had a friend in grad school who sent out baby shower invites with "It's a woman! It's a baby WOMAN!"
Of course, Doonesbury will just include references to this incident in future strips and get the last laugh. It's never wise to match wits with those who are more clever.
I think the real issue in the comics world is that Beetle Bailey has yet to realize he's in a veteran's hospital somewhere, hallucinating about an imaginary war where no one ever fights and insubordination isn't a capital offense.
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b344/2wm/beetle…
Beetle Bailey: The Soldier in White
Shit I figured he was a Blackwater contractor by now. or x whatever they are.
B.C. libel!
to be fair, their editorial section reads like a cartoon.
And the sports page like a tragedy.
Too bad the Trib doesn't hold itself to these same high standards. Voice of the People letters to the editor are rarely fact-based. (Many writers still claim Obama is Kenyan.) They also make heavy use of syndicated columnists like Krankhammer, Noah, the whale, and a local moran known as Dennis "the menace" Byrne, who has never gotten a single fact correct.
I'm confident people in Chicago already know she's a retard.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cartoon/2008/jun/…
Steve Bell rocks – and, er, I don't think he gives a flying f**k about "fact checking"….which is a relief.
Sarah who?
I can hardly believe Sarah Mama Grizzly Bear Lipstick on a Pitbull Palin would rather be shopping at Nordstroms than governating…Oh that's right, she quit half way thru her term…
Good grief!
So we have to verify as fact statements made in political cartoons? So you're saying Nast and Harper's LIED and Boss Tweed WASN'T really a vulture with a man's head????
Of course not! He was a man with a money bag for a head.
Palin would be intellectually taxed reading the instructions for microwave popcorn let alone anything in a newspaper without pictures to help her understand the context. Her supporters aren't going to be the ones reading the strip anyway. Oh well, there's plenty of other places to read the strip if you need chuckles at $arahs' expense.
As soon as Sarah gets Brisket or somebody to read the comic strip to her and explain the big words, she is going to be awfully upset and probably quit something.
Wait… this is a comic strip… right?
Yes, but since Doonesbury is more likely to contain truth than anything else you'll read in the Trib, they wanted to be careful.
They replaced a toon referencing Palin with "Thatababy"?
Given the Palin's reproductive tendencies, makes total sense.
Oh, so now we know why they don't fact check politicians' statements. Too busy making sure Garfield really likes lasagna.
Odie libel…?
Griftertron Shitstorm Attack, Activate!
Sarah Who?
(I know, I know, but that day will come, my darlings, I see it on the horizon…)
Good God in a popsicle….have the dipshits in this nations pressrooms become so concerned about criticism that they can't even run cartoons anymore?! Fuck, they better pull Pearls Before Swine for making fun of fucking crocodiles!
Don't give them ideas! You could easily read the crocodiles (illiterate, inarticulate, rapacious) as a stand-in for the Repugs, and then the whole damn thing gets stuck on page three of the shopping insert.
Pearls for the win.
Nah, they just have the normal fears that everyone else has…like maybe some Michelle Malkin fan will come and cut the lines on their propane tank.
It's nothing new; a whole bunch of papers yanked Doonesbury for the "In Search of Reagan's Brain" series
Ugh. You just know we are going to be subjected to screechy sound bites from her grifter-y talking head when she does a guest spot on Hannity to talk about how Trudeau is "picking on me because he is just JEALOUS!"
Shoot me now.
" The strips include excerpts from a book that is not yet on the market"
BOO HOO HOO!
A comic artist has more "pull" than the Trib?
Is this part of those "Chicago Politics" I keep hearing about.
The Day Comedy Died? Whoa, what's with the Thatababy hate? It can't possibly be less funny than Doonesbury, can it?
-goes and reads some Thatababy-
Oh, I see. Never mind. Proceed.
God. That's one insipid comic.
There is little new here. The Trib is still the same Retug rag that gave us Dewey Defeats Truman and is loath to toss a Rethug under the bus even after they've been indicted.
Slightly more accurate than The Onion.
Slightly.
As I recall, Ziggy really made the country take Watergate seriously with his skewering of Nixon vis-à-vis his pet shop sketches.
I thought that was Calvin and Hobbs?
Nordstrom's? We don't have that here. Is that something I should want to go to everyday to shop? (housewives need to know) Sarah's outfits are as ugly as her soul, is that 'cause of the Nordstrom's?
Sarah got 86ed from Nordies when she asked why there were no Carhartt gowns in the women's formal section of teh store.
Nordstrom's is like every other department store, but everything is at least 4 times as expensive.
This must mean that dogs and cats can talk like they accurately must do in comics.
Just not mine, i guess.
Also, little black cats have a shpeesh impediment like the one in "Mutts".
Yes, yes, but can I still conduct my daily examination of whether or not I am a "Plugger"?
When you test being a Plugger, you can go right to the edge, but just don't go over.
"Pluggers" still get their news from the newspapers, because they know this AOL machine thing is just a passing fad for the grandkids.
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Get to the part where Palin's underage daughter is undressing in front of an open window already.
What would Uncle Duke say?
"If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism." –HST
Cartoon libel? Drawing libel? Laugh libel?
Can't they just put the cartoon on the editorial page next to Dick Cheney's column?
Stupid fucking paper! It is a comic for Christs sake! They should take such care with their stories. Calvin and Hobbs were the best cartoon that ever was or ever will be. I was that kid! Ren and Stimpy is a worthy follower of Rocky and Bullwinmkle and Pearls before Swine is simply the best comic in the paper today.
Let me guess. "Thatababy" chronicles the wacky antics of Rep. Joe Walsh (R) (Knucklehead) and his ex-wife's lawyers.
I thought that "Thatababy" chronicled the wacky antics of David "Diaper" Vitter?
Just wait til The Trib figures out Dennis Mitchell doesn't really live next door to Mr. Wilson.
And Kathy is really an anorexic neat freak…
" Illinois Woman Who Injected Beef Fat Into Her Face Died of Natural Causes"
Why can't the Chicago Tribune just inject beef fat into their faces like Real Americans?
You know who ELSE preferred "Thatababy?"
Anyone who thinks "Marvin" is too edgy?
Cathy fans?
McGinniss' book is about a year too late…and after he went to all the trouble to sabotage the other Palin book by her former chief of staff. Boo hoo, Joe. You and Sarah deseve each other.
Thank you Terry. I had to read through this entire fucking thread a day late to see if any one else would mention that fact. And the Trib can go fuck itself also.
"the strips include excerpts from a book that is not yet on the market and therefore unavailable for review or verification by the Tribune"
So, if Doonesbury were to include some derogatory comments about Silly Sarah that were verifiable — say, by a staff member — or if they were to re-run this very same strip a week from now, or a month from now, when the book was on the market and therefore available for review or verification… the Tribune would have no problem with that, because it's all about verifiable journalism in a comic strip, and has absolutely nothing to do with censoring derogatory comments about Sarah.
Right?
Anyone?
*sound of crickets chirping*
*muffled cough from back of auditorium*
I had all the Doonesbury books in the 70s and 80s, but since then, it's been too mild and well-mannered and upper-class media elite insidery for my taste. And I never liked Trudeau's gimmick of not actually drawing the Bushes and Quayle.
As for the Tribune, they have been establishment-conservative since Colonel McCormick was beating servants with his cane in the early 1900s; for as long as I can remember, they have embodied the "fiscal conservative in the back (editorial and business pages) party in the front (intelligent arts and social coverage)" dynamic that is so well-suited to the front stoops of Chicago's (north and west) suburbs. Of course, that is all from a vanished time when more people than just the Kincaid household got daily delivery of the Tribune and Sun-Times.
The Tribune sounds like the Detroit News here in Michigan, which doesn't even bother pretending to care about culture. I'm surprised that the News has been able to stick around in this region, so long, though, it's definitely the smaller of the two major Detroit dailies. It's always funny watching them squirm when doing something on the auto bailouts given how that was pretty much eviscerated in Tea Party America.
There was a period of about 3 years in the mid-80s when Murdoch owned the tabloid working class/black-preferred newspaper, the Sun-Times. That was fucking weird, man, with the typical Murdoch hard right propaganda abruptly shoved down everybody's throat. The Tribune was always too upper middle class polite for such crass displays.
It made the paper schizo, because they also couldn't just shit on their black readership. Murdoch had to sell it though, so he could buy the local TV station that would become the FOX affiliate, and the Sun-Times returned to liberal-normal.
I have never seen this "Thatababy" of which they speak, but I'm guessing it's a lot like Garfield or The Family Circus.
Funny how fast the conservatives demand "political correctness" when their widdle stunted feelings get hurt.
Is this that "liberal media" I keep hearing the teabaggers screaming about all the time? Also.
WTF is a "Newspaper"?
Who snuck mind-altering, hallucinogenic, insanity-inducing drugs into The Chicago Tribune's drinking water and cafeteria food? Really, this is one of the most stupid, insanely dumb moves by the Tribune in ages. They should be ashamed of themselves. And everyone who reads Wonkette should be praising Garry Trudeau for his politics and attention to journalism. The comic strip itself may not have been funny for literally the last 20 years, but do give him credit for intelligence, journalism, reporting, current events and news judgement. As for Palin–she is a stupid, ignorant poseur who has zero call to run for any political office. She is a moron.
Wow Tribune, is this your attempt to clean up the state that is so sorry today of journalism?
holy crap, 'Cat Fud' AND "Midvale School' right in a row…I swear to gawd these two are absolutely my ALL-TIME FS favs…very time I try to pull/ push on a freakin' door that says the opposite I laugh and think how truly 'gifted' I am! (also remember Midvale as a greeting card and used to send them to all my denieces/ denephews upon graduation from anything!) This must be my lucky day, now where can a buy a lottery ticket at midnight?
ok had to find this one, possibly my 3rd favorite Far Side… http://mudpuppy.wordpress.com/2007/09/26/nervous-…
Those two just might be a tie… Damn that Gary Larson.
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