Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 13, 2013
Transcript:
Sid: Al? Sid! Need to pick your brain! And your client list! Reince Priebus called me about pulling together a GOP Celebrity Task Force... Al: A GOP Celebrity Task Force? Sid: Right. Any ideas? Al: Clint Eastwood and three chairs? Sid: Love that joke. Only heard it twice today.
Kali39 over 11 years ago
Sorry, Sid. I think Ted Nugent beat you to it. But most of his task force members appear to be invisible too…
Newshound41 over 11 years ago
Sid can use the following list:-http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-celebrities-who-are-republicans?s=mobile-Sarah Michelle Gellar is on the list but I know she endorsed Obama in 2008 and 2012.
locuravamp over 11 years ago
Ok, seriously, considering HOW our celebrities act, WHY would we want to follow them politically?
Varnes over 11 years ago
Radish, nice tribute to Jonathan winters…..We lost a great one….There would be no Robbin Williams or Jim Carey without him….And they both would probably be glad to admit it…
roctor over 11 years ago
Freddie T?
Coyoty Premium Member over 11 years ago
RIP, Big W.
Hugh B. Hayve over 11 years ago
Just have The Nuge make his entrance swinging on a rope and wearing a loincloth just like how he opened his concerts back in the day……or maybe not.
vwdualnomand over 11 years ago
but, the gop hates hollywood.
WaitingMan over 11 years ago
Campaign rally performers: President Obama; Bruce Springsteen, Stevie Wonder Mitt Romney; Meatloaf, Kid Rock A-List versus D-List.
Beleck3 over 11 years ago
yep amazing how the GOP hates Hollywood, yet Hollywood adores the GOP. talk about crazy. if it weren’t for Ronald Reagan. lol. PR BS, selling America is Hollywood and the GOP’s favorite activity.
Hollywood is so Republican, won’t ever cross the “Right” any way shape or form. we have feudalism and puritanical American values due this sucking the GOP’s money.
Rainfoot over 11 years ago
BRING BACK THE BULL MOOSE PARTY!!! Sorry I think the coffees kicking in, Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
wdgnas over 11 years ago
bullwinkle and rocky?
Nighthawks Premium Member over 11 years ago
poor angry and bitter old white guy , disappointed with the way his world is changing…..
Nighthawks Premium Member over 11 years ago
it might make you feel better if you got out your gun and cleaned it , loaded it and make sure it is nice and warm.after all, happiness is a warm gun …..of course, the guy who wrote and sang that was gunned down himself
Nighthawks Premium Member over 11 years ago
by the way, how’s your impeachment proceedings against the president going?
Q4horse over 11 years ago
This is still a conservative country. According to a recent poll If the republicans could have run Ronald Reagan against Obama, Regan would have one by about twenty points.
unca jim over 11 years ago
Now GuardSarge, don’t go pickin’ on my boy Omnius.. He’s still learning new slogans to copy/paste into comments that have nothing to do with the ‘toon at hand. The poor lad is still wondering why he’s still rattling on about Tea Partiers, having never actually SEEN one.
susan.e.a.c over 11 years ago
Who needs celebrities? Are Americans that stupid? Oh, 68% insolvent, 76% obese, 13% illiterate…I guess they are that stupid. I suppose a lot of citizens are hanging on Lil Wayne and Kim Kardashians every word on the economy and the criminal code.
Uncle Joe over 11 years ago
Ready to give up your Social Security & Medicare? Socialism is often used to refer to economic policies like those of Germany, that promote general welfare, especially of working class people, while protecting private ownership.The GOP has become the lap dog of Big Business. It’s pretty obvious you have no understanding of how Big Business often pursues that are anti-free market.
Uncle Joe over 11 years ago
" For us Socialism is being reduced to an expanded Capitalism as we see the outcome."IMO, we are moving away from Capitalism toward Oligarchy. The Government isn’t crushing entrepreneurship, Big companies have managed to create a climate that allows them to drive out smaller competitors.
Warren Wubker over 11 years ago
Gonna be hard to find an ‘A’ lister who isn’t stoned or zoned.
Justice22 over 11 years ago
Yes, I heard that Justin Bieber votes Republican.
Q4horse over 11 years ago
This is Doonesbury, a comic with a left leaning political slant. You have to expect a little mud to fly. I kind of like the lively debate.
Rickapolis over 11 years ago
I was waiting for this one.
caligula over 11 years ago
Hey, I’m a conservative celebrity! It’s just that nobody knows my name :-) And loving it . . . .
“Celebrity” is a physical manifestation, in most cases, of the liberal philosophy of style over substance. In those few cases where the person became famous for actually DOING something of substance (walking on the moon, making ace in a day, etc) that celebrity is almost totally unlike the ilk produced, literally, in Hollywood or New York. They have neither full time agents or public relations managers, and aren’t frequently seen in the headlines for substance abuse, anti-Semitism, assault, or walking around with no clothes on.
A GOP Celebrity Panel would hold the likes of John Glenn, Audie Murphy (and his wife), Chuck Yeager, and Charles Askins, and others that people on the left have never heard of. You see, Conservatives distinguish between celebrity based on who you are versus celebrity based on what you did. Oh, some of those are dead now, but were the kind of people who I wanted to emulate when I was younger. Look at who the youth of today look up to . . . felons, thugs, and conmen.
An example, an overwhelmingly large ratio of conservatives versus liberals exists on the question “just what the heck makes the Kardashians so interesting, and who the heck are they anyway?” Most conservatives who KNOW the answers to those questions STILL question what makes three round heeled bimbo’s so interesting.
Kali39 over 11 years ago
Compared to the modern Rethuglicans, Ronald Reagan IS a liberal – but don’t tell the Bushitters who worship St. Ronnie…
kaffekup over 11 years ago
caligula, John Glenn being on the GOP celebrity panel would be a surprise to him, since he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democrat in the Senate.
Kali39 over 11 years ago
Um, Clinton managed to balance the budget, which no Rethuglican has managed to do. Then, the unelected idiot and his master the Lord Emperor followed, and gee, what happened to the money?And the Dems are corrupt?
Newshound41 over 11 years ago
An unbalanced poster has made a completely false charge against a true American hero, John Glenn. The charge is that Glenn somehow impeded a Senate Committee investigation of President Clinton and in return was allowed to go on a Space Shuttle mission. There are certain errors in this claim 1-John Glenn went on the Space Shuttle mission in 1998 when the Republicans had the majority in the US Senate. Even if the Committee voted along party lines, the Republicans could have pursued any investigation they wanted.2-1998 was the year of the Lewinsky scandal. The House impeached Clinton in the lame duck session between the November 1998 election and the new Congress taking office in January 1999. By the time the new Senate tried Clinton in 1999, Glenn had already retired from the Senate.3-The accuser of Glenn on this site neither specifies the nature of the investigation or the committee that Glenn was on.