For all Doonesbury fans, a brief history and interview with Gary Trudeau

[corksean]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/story/0,16391,1573401,00.html

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Doonesbury must seem to many Americans the only place in the country where dissent is still possible, and where its presidents are routinely exposed and satirised in a way that its supine press has failed to emulate. I asked him if he felt that his comic strip was doing a better job than the newspapers they are printed in, in sustaining a climate of political dissent in contemporary America?

"Well, that's not really for me to judge," he replied. "I will say there's no shortage of dissent in America - it's just that it's largely impotent. Challenges to the White House narrative continue to be reframed as unpatriotic. And fear-mongering has disabled civil public discourse. Before the last election, our friends abroad could say the problem was Bush, not the American people. No longer."

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