Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 20, 2011

It is amazing to watch Trudeau switch gears

Thanks Roland!

How many of us saw this story going the way it has when Jeff met Roland in the coffee shop on September 5? Now I am going to see the cool side of a pillow.

Leftwingpatriot> Just how did GT switch gears?? He’s been doing a perfectly grand bit of showing how ‘spin’ is put on stuff from a PR standpoint, not from a "Demo/Rep viewpoint…. just plain old EVERYDAY ‘spin’. Well done, GT!

RB is for marketing the image, pure and simple (i.e., utterly speciously). She doesn’t pretend that fiction is “fair and balanced.” As Lady Fortune, she panders to imbecilic readers—-not to self-deluding commentators.

Somebody is pissed, and she is letting everyone know it.

“You’re angry when you’re beautiful” – Hawkeye Pierce, to Hot Lips Houlihan

Fox management acted appropriately. It was the employee who betrayed management.

(That was satire, irony, and sarcasm, for those who don’t recognize them.)

Security!

Roger Ailes to Roland: there is a bus I want you to get under.

*sigh. The funny part is that the Chicago Tribune censored Doonesbury again yesterday. I don’t know if the prankster who called the Trib “the liberal media” was joking or not, but the Trib always been true blue Republicrat, no irony, all spin, all the time.

Well, it’s her own fault — she gave Jeff the WRONG GALLEYS. Roland didn’t “steal” anything.

She IS cute when she’s mad! (Angry…)

She is so adorable! Can we see her more?

The objective is to sell more books.

The sad thing is that this “boring hatchet job” full of gossip, innuendo, and rumor about a self promoting featherweight probably will be a best seller.

Fair and balanced: choose one or the other. You can rarely have both. It’s hardly “fair” (if fairness has anything with respecting reality) to give equal time and weight to people who believe the earth is flat. But it’s not “balanced” unless you do.

As someone who has been interviewed often the first time I said to myself, “Gee, if they get this wrong what about the big stuff?” Trudeau is on the mark. He’s not switching gears.

bummer. Becca’s bottom line is the money.

shhhhh,everybody be quiet…..jrmerm is sleeping!

ScullyUFO: exactly. If he makes the book so unrecognizable that Palin supporters actually buy it, he’s doing Miss Thang and everyone she represents a favor! Sun Tzu said it best – a dime of profit made off the enemy camp is worth 100 dollars of your own budget.

Again, stealing and releasing before pubdate is what McGinniss did…to Blind Allegiance to Sarah Palin, a competing book.

Since none of the players in this little drama actually did anything close to what is being presented, GT has lampooned only himself in this odd series.

Gary, you’ve been a good teacher on occasion, but the only thing that you’re teaching us this month is the meaning of the word “irrelevant”. Politically, you have now set a new standard.

@Nemesys – oh, nonsense. Everyone knows the actions of these players is fiction, however it’s a fiction surrounding real world events, real world people. Everyone (except the dumbest right wingers) can tell the difference. It’s fiction pointing out the foibles, ironies, and hypocrisies of real world figures. There are countless books and movies that use the same literary device, and nobody seems to mind.

I just object (mildly) to the continuation of the attention to the non-important. I know, I know, many people find it utterly fascinating (sorta like a gory traffic collision), and the strongly partisan won’t be dissuaded, but aside from the humorous aspects of Jeff, Becca, and Roland’s interactions, the ‘real-world’ (what a concept) progenitor of all this drama is so… MEH. Sarah Who?

I’m with pbarnbob. GBT may enjoy drinking his own lemonade, but I don’t enjoy watching him do so. Self satire is OK; self-flagellation is excessive. Does he really feel guilty for his contributions to celebrity politics?

Is Roland maried? I sense romance.

I can fully understand why the Chicago Tribune refused to run this strip. Some months back, obama made sure the lawn was being mowed where the Fox News reporter was speaking live, interrupting the reporter. Who’s in charge of the liberal news media?

just like fox news and roger ailes. one of their idiots gets into some serious trouble…and throws them under the bus.

Roland has millions of followers on Twitter?

The Murdoch empire (and especially Roland) might think twice before tangling with Bertelsmann…

Her fury only makes her more lovable, as long as it’s aimed in someone else’s direction.

We can all pretend she is irrelevant, but if she teams up with Perry, she will not be irrelevant at all.