Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 21, 2010

The Palins should invite Roland over for moose burgers, just to annoy Joe.

Moose burgers and squirrel pie. Moose and squirrel is a popular Russian dish. Sarah got it from her neighbors. She could see them from her house. She didn’t like the Russian dressing, though. When Natasha didn’t close the curtains, she stopped watching them. Boris was bad enough.

Who’s going to move next door to Roland to report on his activities?

I guess I’m not following politics closely enough. Is this arc based on fact? Has some hack moved in next to Palin to do ‘research’?

@sandfan:

It’s based on fact. Try this link: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/blogs/palin-watch/5534-parnell-disgusted-by-palins-new-neighbor

What if Roland tries to peer into the Wasilla Sports Complex windows on Palin’s house, too?

Hmm, what if the ex-gov auctioned another dinner-date? Could Joe outbid all the t-baggers?

COYOTE First off, I agree with DUKEDOUG. GROAN!!!!! What really hurts is I don’t have one to throw back at you

Happy birthday, Mr. Trudeau

In the first two panels at least, for once Roland has a point. Do male ex-govs get writers moving in next door ever, I wonder?

Mooseburgers are actually pretty good.

Grimma, if you make yourself public, then you must expect attention. Sarah Palin loves to profit by presenting herself as a victim. I have no love for Joe McGinniss’s work, but this was no story until Palin turned it into one, then complained about the attention: “Joe McGinniss talks about why he moved in next to Sarah Palin”.

“I’m not going to write, oh, I saw Trig run across the lawn, and I saw someone else change his diaper. I haven’t been writing for 40 years to wind up on that level.” Methinks Joe doth protest too much.

He’s a journalistic Ken Starr, providing voyeurism for a shrewder Monica Lewinsky who knows how to price her product.

Is Doonesbury trying to get revenge on the Republicans for impeaching Bubba?

Thanks again to GT for HIS role in making Sarah Palin public every day in thousands of newspapers worldwide, but I hadn’t heard that Fox sent reporters to stalk the stalker. Methinks that would only accomplish McGinniss and his book more attention. Palin will probably get more miliage out of this book than McGinniss will.

Sandfan, this is an old story and not particularly relevant to current events, so it’s understandable that you missed it. I don’t understand the timing of the topic myself, except that it’s more fun for GT to write about Sarah than it is for him to comment on more “mainstream” topics that are on most peoples’ minds.

McGiniss is no hack – The Selling of the President 1968 is a classic of political analysis.

For the best funniest/saddest story ever about a moose and its hunter read Louise Erdrich’s novel “The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse.”

Moose pulls hunter (in his canoe) around nearly everywhere all the time losing weight until it falls dead and has no meat left worth eating. Further complications even funnier and sadder.

I can’t really blame Joe. Palin quits half way through her term as Governor and idiots still think she should run for President. Inquiring minds want to know, what gives.

Thanks, Florchi and Nemesys.

Moose: Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a candidate out of my hat!

Squirrel: Bullwinkle! That trick never works!

Moose:…Nothing up my sleeve, PRESTO!

Palin: GRRRR! How’s that refudiation thingy workin’ for ya?

Moose: Wrong hat, I wear a 7 1/2!

The Sarah that McGinniss is writing the book about, ae. Since GT is going to devote at least another week to her, he must know who she is, anyway.

Palin is mostly out of the news at the moment, except in New York City where she’s become a focal point/spokesmodel of opposition to the construction of a new mosque at Ground Zero. She and Mayor Bloomberg have been publicly sparring over the appropriateness of its placement. Now THAT would have been an interesting and relevant Palin story for GT to comment on.

Don’t fret, children, Mr. Trudeau knows exactly what he’s doing. You don’t create and maintain a national treasure like Doonesbury by not paying attention. The man has his game down tight.

GT knew what he was doing when he planned this arc, but he couldn’t know that by the time his strip appeared, SP would be making news far from Wasilla. Events move too quickly for a cartoonist, whose stereotypes are only effective in some kind of historical perspective.

Here’s SP’s recent tweet, taunting the Muslims at Ground Zero and demanding that they prove their patriotism:

“Ground Zero Mosque supporters, doesn’t it stab you in the heart as it does ours throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, please refudiate.”

This sagging, grandmotherly celebrity shows that she can flirt with reporters in Wasilla while keeping her keen mind on public policy. (She reminds me of Sheridan’s Mrs. Malaprop, who prides herself on her “parts of speech” and likes to vary her discourse “with a nice derangement of epitaphs.”)

If GT were composing his strips closer to the present, he might have picked up on “refudiate”—-as WaitingMan did yesterday when he remarked, “Fox News needs to be refudiated.”

Ps. @ jeanne (below)

How can one understand sarcasm without knowing whether it’s appropriate (politically correct)?

Those humor courses have sprung up since my time, but I’m sure that is one of the questions investigated in a course devoted to humor in context.

I agree with you that younger generations are more thoughtful than we were about sarcasm. They can’t take for granted, as we could, a homogeneous, parochial audience.

Thanks, Mike! We “oldtimers” are happily patient with GT’s agenda .. we grew up in a world where sarcasm was understood AND no worries about Politically Correctness. There is a private school in one of this countrys wealthier areas where the kids actually TAKE A CLASS in “understanding humor”.

It would be nice if Sarah would build her 15 foot high fence completely around herself, and not get any publicity. Joe is only renting the house, so I guess he can’t fence Roland out??

I guess multiple sources of information is good for perspective, but it kind of let us down on the Sherrod thing. That turned out to be an “okey doke” story for suckers.

Who needs to sort through all the different sources of bias in the media, when you can get that in one place at GOCOMICS.

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