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Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 09, 2012
Transcript:
Voice: Anyway, we think you'd be a perfect fit at the Huffington Post, Rick! Rick: And why is that? Voice: Well... Rick: Are you under the impression that I'm looking for unpaid work? Voice: Okay, so we don't compensate bloggers, but it'd be great exposure! Rick: Exposure? Can I eat exposure? Can I smoke it? Jeff: Yo, Dad, should I start a foundation?
BE THIS GUY almost 13 years ago
The Huffington Post: Where only people named Huffington make money.
Orion-13 almost 13 years ago
Who says Liberals canāt learn from Conservatives?
Crooks are crooks, no matter the party. Nixon, Clinton, etc. I think they have a parasitic relationship with each other. Must be why they all change parties whenever it suits them to do so. Surely canāt be based on any principleā¦
And we keep electing themā¦I think weāre all mad.
Orion
BE THIS GUY almost 13 years ago
RIck, you know Jeff is bothering you because Joannie told him to.
Buzza Wuzza almost 13 years ago
@Orion-13, How did you go from reading todayās strip to a rant on crooked party changing politicians?
Peabody-Martini almost 13 years ago
Water finds its own level, Jeff will broke and living in the basement again sooner or later.
cdhaley almost 13 years ago
Last week, Jeff had a brush with reality (Leo) and found himself ignored as simply not pertinent to anything. Now, in a strip about political reality, Jeff butts into the last panel offering to support his father with his imaginary āfoundation.ā
Itās unthinkable that Trudeau would make progressive ideas dependent on Jeffās fantasy. That would immediately turn everything Rick wroteā-or the Huffington Post itselfā-into fantasy as well, equivalent to Roland Hedley and Faux News.
MiepR almost 13 years ago
I want to see Jeff meet Dukeās son. They seem like the same person.
Lamashtar almost 13 years ago
Jeff was such a cute childā¦
57-Don almost 13 years ago
Iām surprised that Rick has never made it to the ātalking headā shows ā heās loosely based on Bob Woodward who has never had a problem getting on TV
King_Shark almost 13 years ago
Rick might as well write for Subversify magazine instead. At least the staff donāt make any money either. (Yes, thatās a blurb for Subversify magazine, and, yes, I do write for it.)
Sportymonk almost 13 years ago
Watch this ā Pay the Writer by Harlan Ellison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mj5IV23g-fE
I am building my photography business and you would be surprised how many times people offer āexposureā Exposure doesnāt pay the bills or replace equipment or buy necessary things. If I wanted exposure, I can do it myself (pun intended).
King_Shark almost 13 years ago
I donāt know about America, but hereabouts (and in most other countries I know of) the average person who doesnāt have a war chest of funds has no chance of success in electoral politics in any case.
jmatrixrenegade almost 13 years ago
Jeff should hang out with the Zits kid ā they are about as insufferable.
tigre1 almost 13 years ago
Itās a tough world when the people who know havenāt had the balls to keep the people who just buy and sell from taking overā¦newspapers, government, insurance, housingā¦bankingā¦militaryā¦and maybe you wonder what happened to honor and honesty? sorry, no place to stick the price tagā¦reep jerks who live on the ārun it like a businessā and the dumdims who always kill the Gooseā¦(āsocietyā) that lays the Golden Eggsā¦like Mitt, in his āarbitrageā business in the 80s and 90sā¦poor old Jeffā¦heās watching his Dad fight the narrow mercantile criminalsā¦
Greg Johnston almost 13 years ago
Criticism is fair game, and part of the job. The reason most of us donāt run for high political office ā the necessity to sell your soul to donors to build the kind of election war chest needed to get elected. As long as we allow weathy individuals and businesses, especially large corporations, to make large donations to political campaigns, we ensure that those same wealthy individuals and businesses disproportionately have the ear of elected officials, who use those generous donations to āmanageā the electorate through advertising.Iām a strong believer in democracy, and in exercising the right to vote. But when, as is the case federally in the US, both serious candidates have likely been bought by large donors, you can excuse voters for being cynical. A lot of that cynicism also comes from decades of negative campaigning, which is fundamentally a strategy of voter suppression ā attempting to make your opponentās supporters dissatisfied, or simply confused, so they donāt bother voting ā rather than attempting to rally voters to your cause.
ridexc almost 13 years ago
On behalf of affronted freelance journos everywhere, thanks for taking on HuffPo, GT.
BE THIS GUY almost 13 years ago
We used to use to old lever or switch system in NY until recently. I wouldnāt bother turning a lever if I felt none of the candidates deserved my vote. But I always vote, even if I donāt vote for anybody.
Coyoty Premium Member almost 13 years ago
Iāve had exposure for years, and have yet to have a paying offer. But at least itās better than a vanity press.
Uncle Joe almost 13 years ago
I think Huffington belongs to a third party: the Moneycraticans.