Gary Trudeau, creator of the 'Doonesbury' comic strip, says cartoonists should draw the line when it comes to offending people. In an interview published in the Santa Barbara Independent:
Q. What did you make of the Danish cartoon mess? I understand that you said you would never play with the image of Allah. But did you feel you should have done so out of a sense of professional solidarity, or to make a statement about freedom of speech?
A. What exactly would that statement be? That we can say whatever we want in the West? Everyone already knows that. So then the question becomes, should we say whatever we want? That, to me, is the crux. Do you hurt people just because you can? Because you feel they shouldn’t be deeply hurt, does that mean they aren’t? Should the New York Times run vicious caricatures of blacks and Jews just to show the First Amendment in action? At some point, common sense and sensitivity have to be brought to bear.
Monday, October 09, 2006
'Doonesbury' Creator Condemns Muhammad Cartoons
No freedom of speech or the press for Gary Trudeau. Especially if the reader will kill you. Everyone else, not so much. Hey Gary, you offend me.
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If Mr. Trudeau actually believed in drawing the line at offending people, he would be in a different line of work. Some of his work is the most offensive stuff ever printed on dead trees.
"Drawing the line," good play on words and I fully agree. But this is simply an excuse. Trudeau is simply saying that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. In this case, Bush is the enemy and Islamofascist head choppers - since they are Bush's enemy - are his friends.
Liberals can change sides with alacrity. Notice how the Left is now horrified by gays soliciting young males because it is done by a Republican. When it's Gary Studds or anyone on the Left, what you do in the bedroom is none of our business.
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