Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 09, 2010
Transcript:
Earl: Pop - best gig ever! Can't believe you snagged the BP account! And doing our own unilateral presser every day? Genius! Suck on this, Admiral Allen! The Administration wants to define BP as the bad guys? Ha! Not when my pop's on the case! Take something to relax? Duke: I can't remember.
alviebird over 14 years ago
ksoskins over 14 years ago
So Duke is now identifying with a pelican. He’s more polluted than the Gulf Coast. There’s going to be billions of dollars in damages.
Lots of whales in the deep blue sea, we kill them for the companies. Drag ‘em alongside and chop ‘em in two, melt them down and sail it to you. There hardly is a sailor alive, who can keep a tear from his eye. Cause he remembers the good old days when there were no whales to save.
ocean17 over 14 years ago
“take something to relax” ROFL I love these guys.
The reality isn’t funny, but the comic sure is. I don’t know how GT stays on top of his game year after year.
mrsullenbeauty over 14 years ago
He’s hoping this ends with him getting scrubbed down by several ladies with dishwashing liquid.
pbarnrob over 14 years ago
The steel bristles on their scrub brushes just might bring him back to (what we laughingly call) “reality”…
SuperGriz over 14 years ago
Beware the blowback.
http://www.yourdictionary.com/blowback
Hugh B. Hayve over 14 years ago
A throwback to ‘73, when Duke was mostly comatose from drug use.
cdward over 14 years ago
^Duke’s been mostly comatose from drug use since 1973.
rmbdot over 14 years ago
you beat me to it, cdward.
IncognitoPenguin over 14 years ago
Think crude. Think Duke.
caesarjd over 14 years ago
Wait….you’ve been reading this stuff since ‘73?
lewisbower over 14 years ago
spoils of war. The entire Arab world tries to end a tiny nation, who defends itself and kicks their sorry butts. Gives back most of the land it won in war,but keeps a little for defence. At the outcry of the world, they try to trade land for peace, unsuccessfully again. Those poor citizens of Gaza have only launched 4000 unprovoked missile attacks against Israel. And the mean old Israelis have the nerve to blockage to search for weapons.Is not one of the fundamentals of Hamas to destroy Israel?Even our White House Press leader, Helen Thomas believes the Jews should go back where they came from. OK, fire back liberals.Let’s hear how the Jews are picking on the Arabs.Please keep in mind who David is standing with his puny sling.
Kosher71 over 14 years ago
Hunter would be proud , I think .
SuperGriz over 14 years ago
Duke, this is your conscience calling… collect.
bradwilliams over 14 years ago
bird55,
That may be the best post ever!
marchman3354 over 14 years ago
@bird55
I love the post, how appropriate
GJ_Jehosaphat over 14 years ago
☝I agree - good post bird55! That photo says so much more than just words alone.
cdhaley over 14 years ago
Apparently Duke is going to appeal to animal lovers and get us to focus on the campaigns by BP (and XOM and CVX) to protect the environment.
As we become more resigned to the oil spill as an “act of God” (the insurers’ term), Duke’s strategy may work. Here’s why.
We all agree that SOMEONE is to blame for this reckless gambling with the environment, yet we can’t blame the “act” of a God who may not exist–or, if s/he does exist, doesn’t care.
That leaves only ourselves to suck up the blame. Watch Duke play on our guilt by running ads in this vein:
“Just by being alive, we’re all at risk. But we’re also survivors, like these brave pelicans. BP understands your deep concern and is committed to making our (strike the word “unpredictable,” Earl) environment as safe as possible, consistent with preserving the standard of living and the gasoline prices that are the birthright of every American (strike “and every clean pelican”).
“So the management want you to know that, while there may be some tradeoffs (strike the word “setbacks,” Earl) as we march together into the future, nonetheless you can be assured that BP (strike “devoted as always to serving the administration while acting on behalf of God, who has other business”) intends to be part of the solution and not the problem.”
freeholder1 over 14 years ago
Again, shouldn’t Fox sue for Duke taking their gig?
MurphyHerself over 14 years ago
Lewreader, the animals can’t fight back.
SuperGriz over 14 years ago
palin drome.
Impec(k)cable satire.
Dtroutma over 14 years ago
A sustainable environment free of oil company control was lost in the bedroom, or maybe the backseat of a car. Overpopulation + over-consumption = profits and nobody divides by the cost of damages.
Perfect comment, Bird.
Nebulous Premium Member over 14 years ago
Watch out Duke, Sebastian the Ibis(UM Hurricanes Mascot) is going to sue you for trademark infringement.
RinaFarina over 14 years ago
Hey, wait a minute. I just thought of something. Jews should go back to where they came from? Poland, Germany, and the USA are all places they went to relatively recently. Guess where they originally came from?
Don’t hold your breath trying to figure it out. It’s Israel, of course.
I would find this hysterically funny except that it’s not funny at all. More ironic. This reasoning proves that Jews have a right to be in Israel.
RinaFarina over 14 years ago
@caesarjd: I’ve been reading Doonesbury since before 1973.
ChuckTrent64 over 14 years ago
I guess I have too.
lindz.coop Premium Member over 14 years ago
These are all atrocities that we are talking about – the BP spill, the Israeli raids, the Hamas missiles.
However I think HT has just as much right to criticize Israel as GT has to criticize BP.
Either we can speak our minds here in America or we can’t and with the shinola coming out of Flush every day and nobody doing anything to stop it, HT is a mere blip on the screen.
SuperGriz over 14 years ago
Helen Thomas is a mere blip of 50 years service reporting on the White House.
She said what she had to say. To a rabbi. Heavens! The sky is falling!!