Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 17, 2011

But in the end, isn’t it the pictures that we remember?

With this final (I hope) strip of his SP arc, Trudeau seems to have touched a career low.Basing his satire on undocumented reports about an anile bimbo who, three years ago, enjoyed a national career lasting all of two months, GT represents Faux news (Hedley) unenthusiastically trying to spin The Rogue.For all his pains, GT has merely turned his own Doonesbury into a month-long bore. I wish he’d draw a panel showing a tombstone with the words, “SP, 2008-2011. RIP.”

great series. hope it continues.

Palin Drome: this series of strips hasn’t really been about Sarah Palin. This is about how Roland, a right-wing journalist, will twist a more critical journalist’s words in order to make Palin look good. It makes one wonder which journalists are really in the tank for which politicians…

GT, Palin, Obama, Boehner, Pelosi, Perry, Lieberman, Romney, Hillary, Bachmann — they all love apartheid and will sell the USA down the river in order to maintain apartheid.

she makes joan crawford a saint. maybe in the future, she will quit her family. they are the hillbillies from wasilla.

I find it very entertaining that the two main players in this slop through the mud are Doonesbury and the National Enquirer.

I’m not a Palin fan but frankly, I have no problem with the fact that her husband raised the children. It’s their marriage, their agreement. Frankly, I had thought we were past the time when it was assumed that the mother would be the stay at home, raise the children parent.

The longer Trudeau keeps referencing a book from a schlock writer, the dumber he looks. He is obviously suffering from PDS.

I’ve never been a real fan of Trudeau, but he does a great toon and he’s much better than Numbnutz Jon Stewart.

Baslim figured it right. This arc isn’t about Palin; It’s about right-wing spin.

When do we get the repercussions of Jeff getting this book accidentally and then passing it on to Roland?

This book composed of gossip and inuendo has the lefties in a daze. They want to believe the garbage written by Levi Pervert, but know most of it is untrue. They are in a dither as evidenced by many of their posts. The opinion of a CONSERVATIVE Democrat.

While I would admit that Palin was a poor choice for veep given her inexperience, I felt the same way about Obama as President. I’ll never forgeta friend urging me to give Obama “a try”. He received his “try” and totally screwed up. At least Palin has learned her weaknesses and tried to strengthen those areas.

@Tigger — Her policies are absolutely crazy, and I think she may be a touch…well, off…herself. But don’t make silly, puerile statements.

Sarah Palin is an ignorant, narcissistic, opportunistic hypocrite. One does not need this book to come to that conclusion. I enjoyed “Palin week”. JosephBidenJr99 must have been mesmerized by the winks and “…pageant walkin’…”.

Sammysock: So you’re saying Joe McGinnis is the “Liberal Limbaugh”.

trudeau has done himself a disservice and bored us for too long. Let’s go on to something worthwhile. Now I remember why I stopped reading this strip for such a long time.

Although it’s clearly understood that Roland Headley is a caricature, the humor is appreciated and point is well taken that conservatives are pathetic at spin.

Conservatives who want to spin would be well advised to learn from the masters, the left-wing spinners who proclaim that the stimulus helped the economy. I particularly admire the way they do it with a straight face. If it were me I’d have to at least have a little quiet room to run to afterward to laugh out loud after saying that.

I don’t understand what type of people would want to read that upcoming book about Palin.

Her fans won’t want to enrich the guy doing an apparent hatchet job on her, and her enemies would rather her name fall into obscurity even IF the book were the absolute truth.

So, whatever your political stripe, Ignore The Book!!

I`ve enjoyed this arc. Not for any political insight. Not for any Palin bashing. Or any kind of slurs or slings of arrows. I have enjoyed this arc for the way the spin has been given for each descriptive verse from an imaginary book.

@NebulousRikulau – GT “reads” the book for us, through his character Roland Hedley, so the rest of us don’t have to. I’m only mildly interested in the nuggets anway. The book may or may not be gospel truth, but what GT has excerpted from it fits my impressions of SP, as well as the experience of many who lived under her in Alaska. SP’s 15 minutes of fame are pretty much over anyway, regardless of how much press she’s now getting, favorable or unfavorable.

This is pretty cool, a work of fiction on a work of fiction.

@gladlythecrosseyedbear: “apartheid”? no comprendo. no idea what people mean when they use this word, except, of course, a negative connotation

I’m just reminded of the wall Sarah put up, a clear violation of the building code, and consistent with her stint in Wasilla politics, as well as Alaska politics. At least she didn’t get to a place to INVADE Russia!!

So ends the controversial Sarah Palin week.

I find it odd that the predominitely Republican Chicago Tribune won’t publish the lastest Doonesbury series as it “does not meet our standards of fairness.” Fairness of reporting is a moniker attributed to the “liberal press” for censoring and slanting most news.

Given the effort to discredit her, I’d say that her message is frightening somebody. She’s not my choice, but she sure scares some on the left.