Trudeau says "Doonesbury" showing Bush defending frat torture "fact-based"

Editor & Publisher: 'Doonesbury' Strip Showing Bush Defending Frat Torture at Yale is 'Fact-Based,' Says Garry Trudeau
By Dave Astor
Published: November 29, 2005 8:00 AM ET


NEW YORK Was this past Sunday's "Doonesbury" -- which had George W. Bush defending the burning of Yale University fraternity initiates with a brand in 1967 -- fact or fiction?

"Totally fact-based," replied Garry Trudeau, in response to an E&P e-mail query. "Bush's comment in panel seven is a direct quote, which is why I put it in quotation marks. In the original Yale Daily News expose, we ran a photo of a pledge's seared backside."...

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This week's Sunday strip(http://www.ucomics.com/doonesbury/2005/11/27/) shows the Mark Slackmeyer character mentioning that Bush's alleged support of torture has roots in 1967 Yale. The Universal Press Syndicate-distributed comic then switches back in time to show screams emanating from the true-life Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

"The student paper breaks the story: DKE has been branding their pledges on their backsides with red-hot coathangers," Slackmeyer narrates. "DKE President George W. Bush defends the branding ritual in statements to the press."

The collegiate Bush is then quoted in panel seven as saying: "Insignificant! There's no scarring mark physically or mentally!"

In the eighth and last panel, Slackmeyer is shown again in 2005 as he says: "The rest is history. This has been 'Defining Moments in Torture'!" And the present-day Bush, sitting in the White House, says: "Human pyramids? Hell, I did those as a cheerleader!"


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Seems to me it would leave a scar, however faint after all these years.

Little Boots feels no pain except his own, which he greatly eggs-aj-jur-rates.

Is that thing for real?
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I'm not talking about the branding iron, I'm talking about the thing holding it. ;)

I have no doubt that this is really the case if he participated in, or approved of, branding another human being. This is psychopathic behavior, plain and simple.

:kick: and Recommended.

was also a bad sign.

words, psychopathic behavior. How can anyone doubt his utter lack of compassion? This is one of the many reasons I completely disagree with Sy Herch's recent article. B*'s 'religion' is pure political hype, ala Rove/Machiavelli.

too terrified to speak about whatever the moron
did to their son. After all these decades.

Any guesses? Anal rape?

probably a good thing for her...she could have been anthraxed, suicided, or involved in an untimely small aircraft crash.

should be profoundly disturbing to every true Christian -- and every decent person -- on the planet.

Knock the torture shit off. Now.

a really well-researched and written book, makes a great accompaniment to Kitty Kelley's book.

He's a sociopath, and you will see that he's the son of a mother who's also a sociopath, as, most likely, her mother was.

A really malignant family history there.

Two riveting reads that I highly recommend.

George Bush Has Always Enjoyed Torturing Others >>>
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=5290799

who says they also regularly had to drag his drunk ass back to his room. His assesment of Bush lies strictly in the drunk/fratboy/idiot category. I can't say more as he hasn't made a public statement.

btw- This guy went to Vietnam after graduating Yale.

last year. He hould know he was at Yale at the same time as the asshat.

as a result of a drunken night in a frat house playing with a coat hanger, and being beaten and tortured in a 3rd world prison camp.

--turn out to be serial killers, but most serial killers have animal abuse in their background.

I read Doonesbury on Sunday, but I didn't realize that stuff was true. Bush is even worse than I thought, if that is possible.

Tammy