Sunday's Doonesbury- Bushwhacking

[n2doc]

[Wounded Bear]

1. K & R...

For the Sunday morning coffee crowd.

[KG]

2. epic

[malthaussen]

3. Since 1967?

That's funny, Trudeau wasn't even drawing for Yale then. It's strange, because Doonesbury has had a down on Bushco since Poppy rose to prominence, but that was 15 years after 1967. Why the exaggeration, since it adds nothing to the gag?

-- Mal

[maddiemom]

4. Touchy? NEARLY half a century...Poetic, or...cartoonist's license.

[malthaussen]

5. Says 1967 right in the last panel

Not touchy, just curious. I've been reading Doonesbury since Trudeau was knee-high to a grasshopper. Mind you, his gags are often pointed in several directions at once. I wouldn't be surprised if the 1967 was intended as a joke on commercial exaggeration.

-- Mal

[TexasProgresive]

7. About 1967

That would be the year when I met Poppy. I was a senor in high school and even though a news hound was pretty much apolitical. My friend's mother was one of the few republicans in Houston, Texas and she held a republican tea. My friend and I walked into his house and their was Poppy surrounded but these matrons. He immediately "glad handed" us. I don't know what it was but I couldn't wait to wash my hands. For some reason it was just icky. And I have never forgot the feeling.

[malthaussen]

9. My brother once had a smoke with Reagan

He was part of a detail checking security on Marine One, and Reagan was quitting the vile weed at the time, but decided to cheat and asked him for a cigarette. Ol' Ron was perfectly charming, as always. Which has nothing to do with your story, but it's always intersting when the peasants get to interact with the aristocrats. I'm surprised you didn't contract an infectuous disease. I hope you counted your fingers after he shook your hand.

-- Mal

[PCIntern]

12. My Mom knew him from his early early acting days...

her first husband who died tragically was best friends with Burgess Meredith in the 1930's. My mother went to Meredith's Broadway debut and Reagan was there with Jane Wyman.

[world wide wally]

18. I got to flip off Nixon once

I was a cab driver in Chicago and his helicopter landed at Miegs Field by the lakefront. I had taken a couple of his "groupies" there to greet him. I stayed there to wait for a fare back to downtown and Nixons motorcade drove by. He was waving to all of his adoring fans from the back seat of his limo and as he looked right at me. My moment in the. sun came and my middle finger went up. (Almost like a reflex action). Then I got the a patented scowl. I just wish I had a camera at that moment. That was a moment I will always cherish.

[LiberalElite]

24. I locked eyes with Tricia Cox once-

She, Pat, the two kids and a Secret Service guy were walking on Third Ave. in Upper East Side of Manhattan. The kids were VERY well-dressed, even for that neighborhood. That's what caught my eye before I looked up and saw her. Then they entered a bakery and I continued on my way.

[n2doc]

32. Awesome

Me and about 2 million others flipped off W, but I doubt he was looking at us from his helicopter. 2009 Inaugural.

[world wide wally]

33. It's the thought that counts

[FailureToCommunicate]

34. The freezing temperature was only bearable because of the jubulant millions! Memory for a

lifetime...

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[LittleGirl]

38. I remember singing along at home

Oh, how I really was happy to see that guy go!

[FailureToCommunicate]

41. We managed to get to the rear of the Capital as the Bush's helicopter took off. We **saluted** his

departure slightly differently than these folks...

[LittleGirl]

43. snicker - me too ha ha ha eom

[dflprincess]

36. I used to work at a company not far from the Minneapolis/St Paul airport

and pretty much under one of the flight paths.

One day a few of us were out smoking (I have since quit) and wondering why there were no planes flying over. Then it dawned on me that Bush was in town so all commercial traffic had stopped. Just about that time we saw Air Force One fly over -- and we all "saluted" though I also doubt anyone on the plane saw us. But we can hope - the plane was still pretty low at that point.

[chervilant]

16. Your post sent me on a Google Quest.

1967 was a halcyon year for the BFEE. "Congressman-elect" Pappy Bush was apparently considered odds-on favorite for the Republican candidate for president (wonder what happened there?) in the coming year, and Dubyah was newly engaged to a young Jewish co-ed who was attending Rice while Dubyah was at Yale. Other than an old engagement announcement, nothing can be found that explicates this non-event, and the families aren't talking.

[maddiemom]

20. Yeah. On second thought, you might have a point.

[progressoid]

35. He started as a cartoonist in 1967 for the Yale Daily News.

Before Doonesbury, it was called 'Bull Tales'.

[paleotn]

6. Forget it, he's rolling....

[maddiemom]

21. YES!

[alphafemale]

8. yup....a ploy to get people to dig deeper.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/PrintArticle/-Doonesbury-Strip-Showing-Bush-Defending-Torture-at-Yale-is-Fact-Based-Says-Trudeau

[malthaussen]

10. Ah hah!

See, I knew there was more to it! So Trudeau's first-ever editorial cartoon was about Bush. That is good to know.

-- Mal

[herding cats]

23. Aha! Trudeau drew his first editorial toon about Bush in the Yale Daily News in 1967!

Little did he realize at the time he was taking a first step in a long relationship of Bushwacking.

[Hissyspit]

27. Ding, ding!

[Electric Monk]

25. Nice find, thanks for posting :)

another classic, from 1992...



http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7898953

[jtuck004]

15. 1967 was the year fuzzy b was branding people at Yale. Emphasis on them, b.ut they are writing

within the limits of a cartoon

[Hissyspit]

22. Mostly, it's a joke.

But Doonesbury debuted in 1970. Bush was in public service before then. Maybe Trudeau was drawing cartons for his friends around then.

But mostly, it's a joke.

[Electric Monk]

26. See post #8. nt

[Hissyspit]

28. Ah, good point. I did go digging deeper but did not find that.

[erronis]

29. Garry was already cartooning well before Yale

Don't remember what was on his walls but his boyhood home was covered with his artwork in the early 60's.
...rt

[Enthusiast]

11. K&R an entire shit load!

[Scarsdale]

13. Marvin Bush

The forgotten brother. He was in charge of security at the WTC when 9/11 happened. Quietly left after that. Google him, plus Jennifer Fitzgerald and Vincent Ashe. Ashe was W's roomate at one of the ivy league schools, a fellow cheerleader. Fitzgerald was GHW's "companion" for over 10 years, almost caused a divorce.

[GeorgeGist]

37. Victor Ashe

[lark]

14. Bushwhacking is one of my favorite sports as well!

I will definitely stayed tuned in to Doonesbury.

[mountain grammy]

17. K & R for the best bushwhacking

outside of Molly Ivins and Jim Hightower.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

19. Thanks Doc!

[Gothmog]

30. Great Doonesbury on bush whacking

[Hekate]

31. I LOL'd heartily over my Sunday morning coffee. I absolutely love Trudeau.

Edited to add: Trudeau has said elsewhere that he and Dubya were both on campus at the same time. Didn't hit it off. What I remember from the interview was that Trudeau said of Dubya was "I knew the type."

[underpants]

39. Trudeau and W were on the Yale campus at the same time

Check out ESPN's 30 for 30 documentary "Harvard beats Yale 29-29". An amazing cast of people connected to that game.

Al Gore
Tommy Lee Jones
W
Meryl Streep
The cast of Doonesbury
etc.

[Buns_of_Fire]

40. By now, I imagine he's had to set aside an entire file cabinet exclusively for them.

And when "P" becomes a little more active nationally, he may need to expand to two.

[billh58]

42. This may shed some

light on the "1967" reference:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doonesbury

Doonesbury began as a continuation of Bull Tales, which appeared in the Yale University student newspaper, the Yale Daily News, beginning in September 1968. It focused on local campus events at Yale. The executive editor of the paper in the late 1960s, Reed Hundt, who later served as chairman of the FCC, noted that the Daily News had a flexible policy about publishing cartoons, stating that the paper published "pretty much anything."

[Octafish]

44. Bashing the BFEE -- Believe It. Not!

Cover art from Lies Of Our Times - A Magazine to Correct the Record, published between 1990-1994.