nice guffaw from Doonesbury Re: Kushner

[dixiegrrrrl]

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Doonesbury fans know Roland B Henley as based on Sam Donaldson ( to LastLiberal in PalmSprings, below, for setting the record straight..tho we both agree there is some Wolf Blizter in there too)
So, Henley is now covering the WH, providing some much needed chuckles.

Link to tweet

[Achilleaze]

1. No. He may be a fav of the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

but beyond that he's just another treasonous, lying, conniving republican FAIL flunky born with a silver spoon in his mouth.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

2. Roland B. Hedley was based on Sam Donaldson

Wikipedia:

Roland Burton Hedley, III is a fictional character in the comic strip Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau, inspired by the on-air style of the veteran US reporter Sam Donaldson.

Hedley is a journalist who covers sports at the Saigon bureau for Time and, once called back, is commissioned to write an article about Walden Commune, where most of the strip's characters live during the 1970s. They fill his head with a lot of nonsense, convincing him that the hippie movement is coming back and that they represent a national trend. He is even convinced that Zonker's lilacs are marijuana plants.

Later he resurfaces in the strip as a television reporter for ABC. By this point he has developed an extraordinarily large ego, which remains his defining trait to this day. He is a total sensationalist, willing to stretch the truth and say anything that would further his career. Often he is sent on very dangerous assignments, and it is implied that his superiors send him on these intentionally, hoping get rid of him. He plays along, knowing that the danger of his job will earn him higher ratings.

As such, he has covered pretty much all of the dangerous political developments of the last 30 years, although he often greatly exaggerates the danger he personally faces in order to boost his ego. Any news story, no matter how direly important, can quickly get sidetracked when he begins to talk about his three Emmys, his high ratings, his date with Christiane Amanpour, and so forth.

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"Conflating his ego" does sound like Wolf Blitzer...

[dixiegrrrrl]

3. Thank you for that. I will change OP.

I knew long ago.......back to the archives for me.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. Back when CNN was preparing for "shock and Awe" of attacking Iraq,

I had a tv then, and watched Wolf Blitzer showing off the studio they were gonna use to cover teh war.
To cover the FUTURE attack of Iraq.
Blitzer was practically drooling, it was so obscene.

Last time I watched CNN.

[dmr]

6. That is obscene. Blitzer really made a name for himself back then, didn't he?

I can't stand him, and won't watch him.

Now, Sam Donaldson ... for some reason I always got a kick out of him. Don't know why, either. The only time I really ever watched him is maybe on Meet The Press, or similar.

Shoot, back in the 80s I bought and read his book "Now Hold On Mr. President" -- I think it was called.

I bought it, not because of Donaldson, but because I had a feeling Reagan wasn't quite right in the head. I was glad I bought it because it confirmed that my intuition was on the right track.

Back when GW was in office, I bought a used copy of that book off Amazon. I wanted to compare. (The minimal delivery cost more than the book!) The way Cheney seemed to lead GW by the nose kinda-sorta reminded me of the Reagan years --- and Cheney was there for both! I never did get around to reading it again.

Anyway, seeing this toon on Twitter cracks me up because I can imagine Donaldson's voice speaking (Tweeting) those words.

[Gothmog]

5. LOL

[RobinA]

7. I Am No Peace Deal Brokerer

but I think I would rather attempt a deal between Mideast leaders than take on a deal between the likes of Trump and, well, anybody. But that's just me.