omgwtf!

“We thought it was in bad taste and probably unclear to a lot of people why we would be using the term,” said Steve Shirk, the Star’s managing editor/news.

You know what I think is bad taste? The fact that you, Mr Shirk, are actually the managing editor of something you refer to as a newspaper, you uptight prude. If your readers are uneducated, it’s because you run a suck ass publication. You should be ashamed of yourself…but you instead probably feel you deserve your job. Pathetic.

You know what’s in worse taste? That “Turd Blossom” is really what the president of this country calls his top advisor. You know, the one who’s guilty of treason?

Instead of refusing to run the strip, every editor who pulled Doonesbury over the “Turd Blossom” reference…any editor of any newspaper, in fact, whether it runs Doonesbury or not…should have pasted the strip across their front page and demanded blood sacrifice. Impeach the leader and convict the traitor, that’s what I think the headlines should have read. Instead, we leave the criminals alone and rebuke the cartoonist who gets it right…just like he has for literal decades.

Here’s the strip, in all its unedited glory. It’s also syndicated on LJ, if anyone over there is interested in acquiring the feed. My hat’s off to Mr Trudeau, as always. I wish like hell he weren’t a lone voice in the wilderness, but I’m sure glad that his voice has never wavered, like almost every other man and woman in this country has.

Bah.

26 July 2005 strip that caused the ruckus:

27 July 2005 strip for good measure, in which Gary Trudeau is unrepentant and uses the phrase again, displaying one of the reasons he and his strip are near and dear to my heart:

There. Both strips. And now I have conclusively proven that not only do I have a much larger brain than any idiot who thought it was a good idea to pull the strip, but that my readers are much cooler than theirs are.

Neener neener!

Time for work.

CNN.com – Some pull ‘Doonesbury’ over Rove moniker – Jul 27, 2005

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