Gary Trudeau channels Jimmy Carter

posted at 8:34 pm on June 1, 2009 by
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Gary Trudeau has always been a despicable loon, but this time he’s really gone off the deep end. Yesterday’s cartoon (no link, intentionally) pillories “the moneylenders”.

Here’s the dialogue in the eight-panel strip:

Reverend: “The wrath of God is being revealed in heaven!”

Girl: (thinking) “Again?”

Girl: Reverend Sloan, I’ve been noticing something about the readings in church…
Reverend: What’s that, Sam?

Girl: Whenever you read from the Old Testament, God is always crabby and snarky to everyone…

Girl: But the New Testament isn’t about anger at all — it’s about love.

Girl: God’s only son is this total pacifist — he wouldn’t harm a flea. He’s jus this humble dude who’s mellow to everyone — even the Romans.

Girl: He only really snaps once, right?
Mom: With who, honey?

Girl: The money-lenders, Mom!
Mom: Oh, right. What is it about moneylenders?
Reverend: They do seem to set people off, don’t they?

And we know who they are, don’t we?

This seems to be a consistent thread — from the Obama administration to Doonesbury.

Cross-posted at: Doug Ross @ Journal.

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What an a-hole!

Blake on June 1, 2009 at 10:06 PM

Gary Trudeau has always been a despicable loon

Any text that would follow a thought that begins with a sentence like that is ok by me. I had to grow up averting my eyes from seeing that bilk in the funnies when I was a kid. It was another example of indoctrination of the young I suppose – but I skirted it.

ericdijon on June 2, 2009 at 1:28 AM

In this general sense, wouldn’t Obama’s Car Czar qualify as an ex- “money lender”?

Carin on June 2, 2009 at 7:41 AM

It wasn’t the money lenders at the temple that set Jesus off. It was the hypocrisy of the zealots charging the worshipers to worship.

But Trudeau and Obama don’t understand that… because that’s exactly what they do.

Skywise on June 2, 2009 at 10:28 AM

The people Jesus drove out of the temple were “money changers” and not lenders. Worshippers were required to use only the temple currency, which created an opportunity for money changers. Kick backs to the priests completed the corruption.

Sounds like TARP funds and the UAW payoff today.

Right_of_Attila on June 2, 2009 at 1:59 PM

Obama needs some cartoonist to lean on, now that Ted Rall has gone off the reservation.

jon1979 on June 2, 2009 at 3:15 PM