Saturday, April 11, 2015

Doonesbury’s Gary Trudeau Uses Polk Award Acceptance Speech To Bash Charlie Hebdo Cartoonists Slaughtered By Jihadists

Gart Trudeau: "I've Been Completely Bought and Sold"
Today, Doonesbury’s Gary Trudeau became the first cartoonist to ever receieve a George Polk Award. During his acceptance speech, he remarked that the cartoonists at Charlie Hebdo — the satirical Parisian magazine that was recently the site of a terror attack — “wandered into the realm of hate speech.”  
He also added that “free speech… becomes its own kind of fanaticism.” 
So Charlie Hebdo’s nationally beloved cartoonists were massacred and yet, Trudeau thinks its helpful to contextualize their deaths by characterizing them as hate-spewing fanatics. 
This is the free speech equivalent of suggesting they had it coming because they were wearing a short skirts. 
And yet, Treaudeau’s journalistic peers don’t seem to see the problem here.  
Here’s what a New York Times bureau chief had to say: “Wise, nuanced words”? 
Perhaps there will be some general condemnation of Trudeau’s idiotic sentiment here, but my personal experience shows that the media are downright cowardly when it comes to exposing savagery for what it is. 
They let themselves be easily intimidated by the threat of violence and are content cultivating an atmosphere of self-censorship.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

We always knew he was a turd. Now we know he's a coward too.

Pastorius said...

It would probably be good for him to have a heart attack and die now.

Tim said...

I am SO glad I never read his comic strip...what an asswipe.

Anonymous said...

Ain't it just typical?

Here is a guy who will insult, chastise, and defame anyone who will not exact a price. Acts like he's some big friggin' hero who "speaks truth to power" when the power is benign. Now scared he shit in his pants were he to say something might get him hurt.

What a friggi'n useless POS wuss.