Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 04, 1998

Transcript:

Roland: And while the public says it's had enough of Monica...we in the media respectfully disagree. Reporter: And the scandal keeps escalating... Roland: Oh, come on - where's your sense of proportion, kid? You call Monicagate a scandal? LBJ lying about the Gulf of Tonkin to jump-start the Vietnam War - now that was a scandal! Or Watergate! Or the Iran-Contra affair! Those were real scandals - big, brawny arrogant abuses of power by larger-than-life players with a robust contempt for the law! Those days are gone, kid. We've so trivialized scandal, so emasculated our leaders, that never again are we likely to see crimes of that grandeur! Reporter: Oh... But that's a good thing, isn't it? Roland: Not for us, kid - from now on, it's nothin' but love dresses!