Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 09, 2011
January 08, 2011
January 10, 2011
Transcript:
Man: Havoc! Havoc: Let me in before I'm spotted. Man: Have you ever considered blending in? Havoc: Not even once. Don't worry, it's all there, partner. Man: Of course it is, Havoc. Unless it isn't. Havoc: You must be having cash flow problems. Man: Quite the reverse, actually. I've had a pretty good month. I recently went to visit Hamid at the presidential palace, while I was waiting, an American was ushered in... he handed me a briefcase filled with cash and then left through a window. The idiot thought I was my brother! Ha! Havoc: This idiot. He has red hair, didn't he? Man: What? How could you have known that? You're good. My friend!
@longtimecomicsfan - “If you don’t read the newspaper, you’re uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you’re mis-informed.” — Mark Twain.
Loughner was
Probably schizophrenic. Totally uninfluenced by Palin as far as any evidence suggests. Primarily a leftist, to the extent that he was political. Not that that matters much given #1, but it does put the lie to a lot of these dishonest attempts to blame Palin for the shooting.http://tim.2wgroup.com/blog/archives/002383.html
Not that anyone on the left was complaining about Obama’s “if they bring a knife, we bring a gun” comment. Hell, google “assassinate Bush” sometime. You get a mix of leftist advice on how to assasinate Bush and actual attempts to do so.
I’ll agree that everyone should tone down the violent rhetoric. But implying that Loughner even followed Palin is a matter of seeing what one expects to see and not what’s actually there.