Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for March 01, 2014
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.
chasches almost 11 years ago
Back in the day, Jimmy Thudpucker would have been used in this storyline.
Kali39 almost 11 years ago
Only twice by midday? Phone must have needed recharging…
alcors3 almost 11 years ago
Most celebs are fakes so they make better liberals.
wmbrainiac almost 11 years ago
“fakes” in the sense of being more successful than others? not a surprising outcome for liberals given their greater intelligence, emotional and otherwise.
wdgnas almost 11 years ago
lets not forget hollywood types like tom cruise—rumored to have a big place near telluride colorado. i pay more taxes on my considerably smaller proper than he does for his ‘hobby farm’.
avtar123 almost 11 years ago
Are you guys talking about this cartoon?
cardag almost 11 years ago
Despite the cocktail party intellectualism, doonesbury is funny, relevant, and to the point, bursting several of the previous bubbles in this comment section.
puddleglum1066 almost 11 years ago
To bring things back to the subject of the cartoon… didja ever notice that if you remove the vowels from the name “Reince Priebus,” you end up with “RNC PR BS”? (Can’t take credit for this; Colbert was the first to notice)
mistercatworks almost 11 years ago
It wasn’t funny when Clint Eastwood did it, either.
roctor almost 11 years ago
Maybe grooming a reality show on Fox.That way when its cancelled after one season The manufactured actors are in place to become stars of the political stage.
Melekalikimaka almost 11 years ago
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. – Albert Einstein
I hear them actors are folks called artists (ie: writers, composers, architects, painters, sculptors, biomechanical engineers…), those creative folks with LOTS of imagination.
DoctorDan almost 11 years ago
I think you’re referring to the admirable practice of always keeping an open mind, even after having arrived at a tentative conclusion. One of my favorite quotes (which I’ve seen variously attributed to Mark Twain, Confucius and Bertrand Russell) is “Fools are cocksure, while the wise are full of doubt.”
DoctorDan almost 11 years ago
I think the term “limousine liberal” was first used in the 60’s to describe the wealthy supporters of liberal causes in NYC, not Hollywood.
susan.e.a.c almost 11 years ago
Well, most of Hollywood lives in a fantasy world, not connected to reality, so I always ignore them. Don’t need any Pedophile Pride Days, after all.
susan.e.a.c almost 11 years ago
Well, most of Hollywood lives in a fantasy world, not connected to reality, so I always ignore them. Don’t need any Pedophile Pride Days, after all.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace almost 11 years ago
Every once in a great while I get the faintest hint of condescending sarcasm from you.(Probably my imagination)
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace almost 11 years ago
I suspected as much
Diane Lee Premium Member almost 11 years ago
The Republicans’ problem isn’t a lack of celebrities that the public is interested in actually seeing. It’s that they have a lack of politicians that the public is even remotely interested in actually voting for.
jbj777 almost 11 years ago
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William Ellwin Premium Member almost 11 years ago
Guess Sid forgot all about Jon Voight.. Eastwood, Voight and Norris could make up a GOP Nut Job task force.
David Huie Green LoveJoyAndPeace almost 11 years ago
Another good reason to not vote for McCain, pretty much offset by Biden being the alternative.