Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 09, 2012

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 13 years ago

    The Huffington Post: Where only people named Huffington make money.

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    Orion-13  almost 13 years ago

    Who says Liberals canā€™t 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 canā€™t be based on any principleā€¦

    And we keep electing themā€¦I think weā€™re all mad.

    Orion

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 13 years ago

    RIck, you know Jeff is bothering you because Joannie told him to.

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    Buzza Wuzza  almost 13 years ago

    @Orion-13, How did you go from reading todayā€™s strip to a rant on crooked party changing politicians?

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    Peabody-Martini  almost 13 years ago

    Water finds its own level, Jeff will broke and living in the basement again sooner or later.

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    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 ā€œfoundation.ā€

    Itā€™s unthinkable that Trudeau would make progressive ideas dependent on Jeffā€™s fantasy. That would immediately turn everything Rick wroteā€”-or the Huffington Post itselfā€”-into fantasy as well, equivalent to Roland Hedley and Faux News.

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    MiepR  almost 13 years ago

    I want to see Jeff meet Dukeā€™s son. They seem like the same person.

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    Lamashtar  almost 13 years ago

    Jeff was such a cute childā€¦

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    57-Don  almost 13 years ago

    Iā€™m surprised that Rick has never made it to the ā€œtalking headā€ shows ā€“ heā€™s loosely based on Bob Woodward who has never had a problem getting on TV

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    King_Shark  almost 13 years ago

    Rick might as well write for Subversify magazine instead. At least the staff donā€™t make any money either. (Yes, thatā€™s a blurb for Subversify magazine, and, yes, I do write for it.)

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    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 ā€œexposureā€ Exposure doesnā€™t pay the bills or replace equipment or buy necessary things. If I wanted exposure, I can do it myself (pun intended).

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    King_Shark  almost 13 years ago

    I donā€™t know about America, but hereabouts (and in most other countries I know of) the average person who doesnā€™t have a war chest of funds has no chance of success in electoral politics in any case.

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    jmatrixrenegade  almost 13 years ago

    Jeff should hang out with the Zits kid ā€” they are about as insufferable.

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    tigre1  almost 13 years ago

    Itā€™s a tough world when the people who know havenā€™t 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 ā€œrun it like a businessā€ and the dumdims who always kill the Gooseā€¦(ā€˜societyā€™) that lays the Golden Eggsā€¦like Mitt, in his ā€˜arbitrageā€™ business in the 80s and 90sā€¦poor old Jeffā€¦heā€™s watching his Dad fight the narrow mercantile criminalsā€¦

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    Greg Johnston  almost 13 years ago

    Criticism is fair game, and part of the job. The reason most of us donā€™t 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 ā€œmanageā€ the electorate through advertising.Iā€™m 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 opponentā€™s supporters dissatisfied, or simply confused, so they donā€™t bother voting ā€“ rather than attempting to rally voters to your cause.

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    ridexc  almost 13 years ago

    On behalf of affronted freelance journos everywhere, thanks for taking on HuffPo, GT.

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    BE THIS GUY  almost 13 years ago

    We used to use to old lever or switch system in NY until recently. I wouldnā€™t bother turning a lever if I felt none of the candidates deserved my vote. But I always vote, even if I donā€™t vote for anybody.

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    Coyoty Premium Member almost 13 years ago

    Iā€™ve had exposure for years, and have yet to have a paying offer. But at least itā€™s better than a vanity press.

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    Uncle Joe  almost 13 years ago

    I think Huffington belongs to a third party: the Moneycraticans.

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