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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-15-04 12:54 PM
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smirk's and fraternity mates hazed with branding irons

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4311936,00.html

'Doonesbury' Artist Trudeau Skewers Bush

Cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who has skewered politicians for decades in his comic strip ``Doonesbury,'' tells Rolling Stone magazine he remembers Yale classmate George W. Bush as ``just another sarcastic preppy who gave people nicknames and arranged for keg deliveries.''

Trudeau attended Yale University with Bush in the late 1960s and served with him on a dormitory social committee.

``Even then he had clearly awesome social skills,'' Trudeau said. ``He could also make you feel extremely uncomfortable ... He was extremely skilled at controlling people and outcomes in that way. Little bits of perfectly placed humiliation.''

Trudeau said he penned his very first cartoon to illustrate an article in the Yale Daily News on Bush and allegations that his fraternity, DKE, had hazed incoming pledges by branding them with an iron.
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smirk said it was just a coat hanger and only felt like a cig. burn.

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Zookeeper Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-15-04 01:32 PM
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1. That revelation doesn't surprise me.
Bushwah has always seemed like a nasty frat boy. 'Just one more reason why I don't understand his "folksy" appeal to some voters.

My twelve-year old just reminded me that Bushwah's mouthpiece, Rush Limburger, dismissed Abu Garib as a "fraternity prank." I have to wonder if Georgie was ever on the receiving end of a burning coat hanger?
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