'Doonesbury' Pimps Worst Palin Rumors: NBA-Sexing, Racist, Airheaded Shopper
NBC may have lowered itself to an "exclusive" interview with author Joe McGinniss today -- something they did NOT do in 1993 when McGinniss drew universal condemnation for a sleazy Ted Kennedy biography titled The Last Brother. But Garry Trudeau has devoted almost a week now to spreading McGinniss gossip in his Doonesbury comic strips, with all the worst charges: she slept with NBA star Glen Rice, she fired all her "dark-skinned" employees, she wore push-up bras to get what she wanted, and she was an airhead who wanted to shop all day.
This tabloid sleaze is not new for Trudeau: twenty years ago, he devoted his strip to recounting allegations made by a prisoner named Brett Kimberlin (also known as "The Speedway Bomber") who claimed he sold Vice President Dan Quayle marijuana in the 1970s. Trudeau didn't care that Kimberlin was convicted of perjury in 1974 for lying about -- drugs. Notice how Trudeau's strips again have a misogynist anti-Palin flavor:
Thursday:
Roland Hedley: Hey, Matt, did you know Palin once had a romantic encounter with Glen Rice?
Matt: Glen Rice, the basketball star? No way. Who’s going to believe that?
Hedley: Glen Rice, apparently.
Hedley, a long-time Doonesbury character is currently working for Fox News in Trudeau's world, so he's interested in trying to discount and disparage McGinniss's "reporting."
Wednesday:
“She didn’t really give a s— about her job,” says someone who knew her well. She’d say “I have to go to a f----- meeting tonight.” And she’d be like, “I got on my biggest push-up bra. I’m gonna get what I want.”
Hedley's lame spin for Fox: “As mayor, Palin used every tool in kit.”
Tuesday:
“About 20 minority (state) employees...worked as campaign volunteers for Sarah...almost as soon as she was elected, she ordered them all fired.”
“Her chief of staff, Mike Tibbles, came in one day and said “They’re all fired. That’s what she wants.”...”Sarah just isn’t comfortable in the presence of dark-skinned people.”
Hedley's lame spin: “Palin shaped staff to look more like Alaska.”
Monday:
“Gary Wheeler...served as head of Governor Palin’s personal security detail. ‘What it came down to is she didn’t want us around...’
“She didn’t want anyone to follow her to Nordstrom’s when she went shopping every day...She didn’t want anybody to know she wasn’t coming in until 10 am and then leaving by three...”
“You know what she was? A housewife who happened to be governor. I’d fly cross-country with her many times and she’d spend the whole trip reading People magazine...”
Hedley's lame spin: "New book explodes myth of Sarah not reading."
Saturday:
“She freaked out afterward. Hysterical, crying, totally flipped out. The thing that people remember is her freak-out.”
“She was just horrified. She can’t believe she’d done it.”
Hedley's lame spin: “Book boring. Going for coffee.”
Notice that Trudeau enjoys painting Palin as an air-headed push-up-bra-manipulating sex kitten who's hyper-emotional. If Palin were a liberal, the feminists would all see sexism in this series. It's also odd that Trudeau would mock Palin "flip-outs" if they occurred, since his own wife, former NBC star, Jane Pauley, has been well-known for talking about her diagnosis with bipolar disorder. Does that mean she could never function at the highest levels of NBC News?
Unsurprisingly, Trudeau wants to persuade Palin to avoid another national campaign:
Trudeau says he has no interest in seeing Palin stick around the national scene as a potential candidate.
“I’d say her strategy flows from an unusually deep need to get the most attention for the longest period of time,” the comic political commentator says. “For 2011, that means stringing out her decision whether to run. For 2012, it’ll mean stringing out her endorsement of [Texas Governor Rick] Perry. . . .”
“Professional interests aside, I would not like to see her enter the race.”
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Garry Trudeau still does
Submitted by Beukeboom on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 2:38pm.
Garry Trudeau still does Doonesbury? I stopped even glancing at that nonsense years ago. It ceased being funny and just became increasingly offensive.
Doonesbury is so 70's
Submitted by Scout Finch on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 12:45am.
Doonesbury is so 70's
That a comment on the I.Q.?
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:50am.
That a comment on the I.Q.?
Garry
Submitted by HockeyKid on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 2:43pm.
Garry Trudeau should be relieved that right-leaning pundits and cartoonists would never stoop so low as to point out that he's never stopped molesting children.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me
Lets see
Submitted by bobbys on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:29pm.
Lets see they list the very worst things they can dream up about SP and list having sex with a black man is one of them,
Is that not racist?.
I would think that would be a resume enhancer..
What does this mean to Glen Rice, does he get kudos for this, was it spite sex, Is having Sex with a white woman endear him to his friends, Why should he be named and slandered, What if he was married or had a girlfriend, Did he have sex with every conservative woman, was his reward sex with jane pauly or Garry Trudeau,Was his a plot from Mr, Rice to get on Dancing with the stars. Did SP fire her staff to cover this up, Was this sex against her will , will the libs lynch him as they are lynching SP, Was SP pandering for the black vote, When will the lesbian affair between Condi Rice and SP finally be reveled, Will the reps out this to get the gay vote, When will it come out SP has had romance with thousands of illegals to get the Hispanic vote. Im a middle age white guy SOB im the only guy not to have had a chance with her
The Hypocrisy of libs never ends..
Course i admit to reading PEOPLE magazine in the Doctors office, Whats wrong with that?
Who was that hideous
Submitted by Diesel on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 3:34am.
Who was that hideous comedian, that claims to be female, who said she "Hoped that SP be raped by an all black football team" or some such thing?
Yes, liberal-progressives are true, dyed-in the wool RACISTs, and they hate blacks more than any other race on the planet!
Wanda Sykes?
Submitted by Beukeboom on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:23pm.
Wanda Sykes?
Nah, it was Sandra Bernhardt---
Submitted by matthewdean on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 9:40pm.
who made the "hope she is raped by my big black brothers" in reference to Sarah Palin.
Strangely enough, as ugly as Bernhardt is, when she screws up her face to pronounce the words 'Sarah Palin', she becomes a real gorgon.
Wouldn't have believed she could be any uglier than what Mother Nature dropped on her; but she proved me wrong.
MD
Gary Trudeau wears woman's underwear.
Submitted by mrwiffle on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:37pm.
Oh and Jane Pauly his wife has slept with more Buddhist Monks than Sara Palin has push up bras.
You know Tim, if you hadn't
Submitted by inquiringmind on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 3:38pm.
You know Tim, if you hadn't mentioned it no one would have known Trudeau was still around.
Jus' say'n
Goonesbury is still around?
Submitted by Tomorama on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 4:39pm.
I would like to see Palin's husband beat the livin' sh** out of him and pull down his pants to expose his little pink Garanimals collection.
Nah, nothing to make fun of Obambi with, no material right Gary?
Your wife is the biggest sl** this side of Mrs WaWa and you are a panty wasted little troll who really has a poster above his litttle single bed of Palin.
Troll.
I can't stand Doonesbury and hate it when my eyes...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 5:23pm.
glance past it in my newspaper. Two other lousy comic strips by two other equally no talent artists: La Cucaracha and Candorville.
Yes, my newspaper is the LA Times, the same newspaper that dropped or doesn't carry excellent strips like B.C., Crock, Wizard of Id, Andy Capp, Mallard Fillmore and Rex Morgan, M.D.
My guess is, the people who select the comics either have no taste in comics or they carry the ones that cost the least to run.
i'm an old school
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 12:55pm.
beetle bailey kind of guy myself. i'm a big fan of those comics you mentioned. and hagar the horrible too.
Doonsbury
Submitted by wall street john on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 5:50pm.
I'll never understand why people attack a woman who's only objective is to make sure that the country get back to it's great reputation of being the greatest country in the world. Why do people who have no integrity and no class try to bring good intention people to their level. I was always told by my parents if a person who envies your every move, who envies your success, your lifestyle etc. they have nothing to live for and will only try to bring misery to your life. Jealousy and enviness will make people hurt others to make themselves fell enriched.
Sarah and family and conservatives; stay the course and don't let anyone tear away your character and integrity.
GOD BLESS AMERICA AND ONE NATION UNDER GOD AND PROUD OF IT.
That crusty hoe is still around?
Submitted by lgeubank on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 6:02pm.
He must be the oldest hoe on the block by now. And he hasn't changed his tune one bit, apparently.
Doonesbury - ego stroking for libs by libs.
Submitted by Phryj1 on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 6:24pm.
So glad my local paper got a clue and dropped Doonesbury from the comic section.
What IS funny is how Trudeau is pathetically scraping the bottom of the barrel of tired Palin jokes and rumors. Well, more laughable than funny, but amusing to watch at any rate.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
My newspaper is such a
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 6:48pm.
My newspaper is such a hopeless lib rag. They still carry Doucheberry as a tribute, I think. Don't know anyone who reads it.
I can't wait for Trudeau to die, so I can rudely disrespect his memory on his funeral day - like he has done to so many late conservatives.
Trudeau thinks he is a warrior in the liberal camp...
Submitted by KyWriter on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 7:00pm.
...but he is merely a vile misogynist who sublimates his hatred of women into his poorly-drawn caricatures of Sarah Palin. (Not to mention the less-than-stellar humanity of his characters.) But to give the guy a break, if he weren't married to an NBC and liberal icon, Jane Pauley, who just happens to be as wacky as they come, he might be less vicious to women. I can just imagine the contretemps that would occur in their household as Pauley slipped off the deep end and Trudeau had to endure it to keep up appearances. I would almost feel sympathetic if I didn't despise him for living.
How is it misogynistic to
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 7:03pm.
How is it misogynistic to quote the book?
I know I am going to be bored to death.........................
Submitted by Tomorama on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 7:24pm.
How cowardly is it to use "unamed sources" as somehow being believable?
My bad, it's Balknowanothing.
Doesn't answer the question.
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:21pm.
Doesn't answer the question.
The strip is tacitly endorsing the book by referencing it's...
Submitted by Phryj1 on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 10:17pm.
...allegations against Sarah Palin in a cheap shot against Fox News. The strip is also implying agreement with the book's content by using it as an example of something Fox News would try to spin. In other words, the strip is suggesting the book is true. Not to mention, but it's giving the book free publicity as well.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
No, the strip's reporter that
Submitted by balboa on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 11:06pm.
No, the strip's reporter that works at Fox News is trying to find a way to spin the book positively for FN. I see no tacit approval.
Given that the strip's target audience believes..
Submitted by Phryj1 on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 11:32pm.
...everything Fox News airs is lies and spin, the strip is implying everything in the book is true by depicting a FN reporter trying to spin and do damage control.
Yeah, it's more making fun of FN than Palin, but it does seem to agree with what the book is saying about her.
Progressives seem to be completely averse to facts and logic. Apparently, reality has a conservative bias.
Spin is agreement...
Submitted by loxmyth on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 9:45am.
...that there is something there. If there is nothing to what is being said, it is either ignored or refuted, or at least denied. By putting spin on something you are tacitly agreeing that what is being said is factually true, just not being put into the context YOU wish it put into.
like frozen mammoths
Submitted by MidAmerica on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 8:05pm.
Trudeau and other leftovers from the sixties counterculture such as Rolling Stone magazine are just relics sustained by the nostalgia of other boomers who sting cling to their youth. (you know, the ones with long grey poney tails but are bald on top) It's one thing to be a smart mouth trash talking young person and quite another for someone like Trudeau who's in his sixties to not mature and get a little class.
Deadhead sticker on a Lexus
Submitted by Kenny Bunkport on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:10am.
Deadhead sticker on a Lexus (?!!!)
Piss off the Left. Send
Submitted by Van Halen on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 8:43pm.
Piss off the Left. Send Palin's PAC a $5 donation.
http://www.sarahpac.com/
Joe McGinniss
Submitted by Robersire on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 8:53pm.
He's not worth a comment
Joe McGinniss
Submitted by Robersire on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 8:54pm.
He's not worth a comment
Stop feeding the trolls!
Submitted by derbal on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:12pm.
I've been a member for 5 1/2 years. The only thing that bugs me about Newsbusters is how you perpetuate things by doing this. Why did you post the cartoon? Isn't it enough this sorry excuse for a human being moved in next door to watch this poor family? Isn't it bad enough he's making money off it, and you're helping him?
Nonsense
Submitted by Boudin on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 9:31pm.
How will this glowing endorsement for a libtard fantasy make him money. Quite the contrary.
Funny how were all racist for questioning Obama's policies, yet Tru-doh uses a black man to ridicule Palin. Talk about hypocrisy?
For exposing what a tool
Submitted by Dan The Man 2 on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 10:03pm.
For exposing what a tool Trudeau is?
For somebody who signed up at NB 5.5+ years ago...
Submitted by Dave. on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 10:07pm.
...you ain't had much to say.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
Dave...Will you, like me, always remember where you were
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 10:27pm.
"The Day When derbal Spoke."
Jer
Jer
Submitted by well99 on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 12:16am.
Snarky today eh?No cookies and milk for you.
And here, above, is that one seemingly required comment...
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 11:14pm.
And I will never understand why under so many posts of liberal media bias on a site that is devoted to exposing it, there seems to be a requirement of at least one comment scolding the poster for posting the item because, no one (the commenter knows) would ever see it otherwise.
Geez, if you don't like the items chosen for posting here, start your own damn web site devoted to what you think truly matters.
well, this article
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 12:59pm.
was informative if nothing else. i did not know doonesbury and trudeau were still around. seriously.
We don't fault Trudeau for smoking dope.
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 10:04pm.
We fault him for being a dope.
So Palin is racist for
Submitted by eaglewingz08 on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 10:38pm.
So Palin is racist for allegedly firing 20 blacks, but she is a fetishizer of black men for sexual relationships. Seems to me not too many white racists are going around seeking to have sex with african americans. But liberals should at least have some integrity with when they try to smear a republican politician. And if democraps think its ok to go back thirty years to slime a politician they don't like, then how could they object if republicans decide to do the same to Obama in 2012?
To employ the well-known and over-used joke...
Submitted by Chris Norman on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 11:36pm.
1977 called - they want their humorless and clunkily drawn liberal comic strip back.
My daughters think Trudeau is related to the ex-PM of Canada.
Submitted by drsamherman on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 11:41pm.
They have read Trudeau's cartoons through the years, but he is now so obscure to this generation that they believe he is related to Pierre Trudeau. Once I told both of my daughters who he was, they looked at me in shock and said, "Wow...what an a**hole!".
I could not have offered a better opinion. Heaven love the opinions of an unjaded 20-something.
Trudeau is a distant relative of the late Prime Minister...
Submitted by Jer on Thu, 09/15/2011 - 11:57pm.
Garretson Beekman Trudeau was born in 1948 in New York City. He grew up in Saranac Lake, NY in a family of professionals. His father, grandfather and great grandfather were doctors. The Trudeau family is related to the late Pierre Elliot Trudeau, past Prime Minister of Canada.
source
Jer
They thought brother or first cousin.
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 10:25am.
Not the more distant kind.
Considering the genealogists are coming up with relationships between the presidential election opponents every four years, I believe they found some familial relationships between Palin, Obama, Biden and McCain.
seriously, is this
Submitted by misterbee241 on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 12:48pm.
relic from the 70s still around? i really thought it had been consigned to the dustbin of history about 20 years ago. not funny or relative then, not funny or relative now.
Doonesbury
Submitted by PaleHorse on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 1:28pm.
Doonesbury still exists? I haven't even seen this comic in a decade. Of course that my have something to do with the fact that I gave up on archaic print media long ago.