Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 03, 2011

Fox believes real Americans are as dumb as their reporters.

Notice in this interview that Jeff — the supposed stupid, worthless Jeff — is actually booting the backside of the highly paid, supposedly master reporter Roland Hedley! Gerry B. Trudeau, you naughty boy you!

My father believes that Bush stole Ohio in 2004, just as he stole Florida in 2000.

To brainwash the uninformed, just stick an American flag behind the issue or faux news. This practice is also used by every Republican candidate in elections for local,state, and federal offices. A perfect example: the websites for Scott Brown – Republican versus Elizabeth Warren (the campaign Joanie Caucus is working on) – Democrat.

Anyone who kicks Hedley’s ass is my hero du jour.

the one person dumber than jeff

We’re not entirely sure how to explain Bush’s first term…

If only the Feds would actually enforce the “Do Not Call” list there would be NO national debt! ($11K/violation X 10/day X 100M subscribers)

We get a version of Faux News in the UK. Probably only because Murdoch wants it. But almost nobody watches it with viewing figures apparently at 0.1%.

Real Americans don’t know it’s not Taliban!

Suddenly I feel respect for Jeff. Must be the contrast with his surroundings.

Ohio was stolen in 2004 by a shortage of voting machines in Democrat districts. My 2-1/2 hour wait in line was considered short. A lot of people gave up because they simply couldn’t wait that long due to jobs, family, etc.

Always amazed how a strip can lead to such venomous output from both sides. My team is better than your team. My dad can whip your dad. Our God is better than your God. What childish behavior.

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@Kali39. Tennessee. Had they voted for Al Gore Sr.‘s son, Junior would’ve been a shoo in. But TN decided its vote on guns & abortion: Democrats believe it’s OK to kill little babies as long as you don’t use guns; with Republicans, it’s the other way around.

@J.ShortI don’t belong to any team, my father’s deceased, and there is no god.

The clueless who are uncomfortable in their mediocrity that cannot or will not understand, always resort to verbal slander and ridicule of a that which does not fit their righteous opinions. Outstanding work, Mr. Trudeau. Doonesbury is a daily favorite.

I seem to remember Roland running around Afghanistan in a burqa.

Ya gotta get rid of the evil GT, gladly. You only whine. Kwitcher whinin’. DO somethin’.

On the subject of the cartoon, I once heard that just about the toughest problem American operators have “blending in” with native populations is the teeth. American dentistry sticks out. You could certainly find an American citizen who looks more like an Afghani than Jeff, who can speak the language, and who looks right in the clothing, but unless you take a hammer to his teeth he’s not going to “pass.” So maybe a burqa isn’t a bad idea.

I agree with those who find it disorienting to see Jeff as the smartest guy in the room. On the other hand, while Roland has always been clueless I don’t recall him being clueless in that particular Republican way before he started working for Fox. So maybe it’s ROLAND who’s actually the master of covertitude, since he has blent in so well with his environment…

@pearl298If the Feds had a fraction of the money spent on the wars or in the black budget, they would be able to enforce a lot of things that should be enforced. Keeping regulatory agencies poor is de facto deregulation – and any kind of deregulation helps bullies only.

“Religion is the single biggest and deadliest fraud EVER perpetrated on mankind! Period!”Do you have any supporting evidence?

Me thinks you are giving Fox News way too much power in your life. Relax….people have brains.

Americans should know covert. Wall Street used the tactic to destroy our economy and jobs.

I don’t believe it. Faux News is actually making Jeff—heretofore a useless hunk of humanity—appear to be brilliant by comparison. I take back everything I said about that young genius.

Let’s not forget the New World: Conquistadors who, for the greater glory of God and the King of Spain, converted the American natives they found here at sword point. “Get baptised and be a slave, or refuse baptism and be slaughtered; your choice. Oh, by they way, can you tell us where your gold is? We need it to fund the war against the Protestants.”

But of course the Protestants don’t get off scot-free either. New England was founded by religious fundamentalists who claimed they were being persecuted back in England, but who persecuted doublefold the Quakers who followed by the next tide.

@ Dylan Thomas pi…I wanted to comment on your vision of tactics that keep our knee-jerk citizens in line .When I saw it last night near the end of yesterday’s comments I thought it should have been put over until today, and I will copy it here too.

FROM YESTERDAY’S COMMENTS (in case you missed it)

You’re watching Faux News. Faux plays a clip of a respected Harvard economist making a reasonable statement. Next it plays a clip of Ann Coulter saying the economist is a socialist commie pooh-head. Now Faux News and nearly all Faux News viewers consider Coulter to have defeated the Harvard economist in debate!

With brilliant facts and logic.

Yipee yay for Ann! Yipee yay for Faux! Boo to the Harvard socialist commie pooh-head! Faux wins!

YOU lose!

Jeff is completely incompetent as an operative, but he’s a pretty good interviewee, I kind of hope the book does well.

I think Hedley is still feeling the sting from the “Palin Tweet Fiasco”…

Listening to Faux is as “patriotic” as buying what “Hanoi Hanna” had to sell, but less accurate. Coulter IS “treason”, libel, AND “Slander” indeed. True “conservatism” is fine, but doesn’t exist in the minds of today’s “right”, who have sold out their country for profit over the last 30 years.

“And then there is MSNBC cable 24/7…some of them sound downright liberal to me.”If you get up early enough, watch ‘Morning Joe’ on MSNBC, a 3-hour program hosted by a former Republican congressman who thinks the current GOP field is a joke.As for Fox, no-one has mentioned today the study showing their viewers are less aware than people who watch or read NOTHING. And they vote.

In two of the frames the American flag is inverted indicating a declaration of distress or emergency.

First of all, I’ve never believed that any wars are religious; all wars are about power, money, resources or land. Nobody cares if you worship in a mosque, church ashram or synagogue. Religion is just a marker so you know who is on which side. However, when you use terms like “genocidally eliminating”, you forfeit all credibility. Did it bother you when Papa Assad had 30,000 of his OWN people slaughtered for their political beliefs? I suppose Saddam, Mubarak, Kaddafi, Arafat and many, many more were Arab Martin Luther Kings?

Covert operations are sometimes conducted by our military. There is NO ONE more “real American” than they are!

Both sides in politics exist only to call the other side names. The same seems to be pretty much true of the infotainment political television shows and internet rants as well.

I can’t believe so many people have been duped into believing the Democrat Ministry of Propaganda, er, I mean, major news companies, are supporters of traditional American, right-wing values.