tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15405788.post113456856677453563..comments2024-01-04T07:33:10.137-05:00Comments on Seldom Wrong, Never in Doubt: Why Maybe Churches Should Be Open on ChristmasJon A. Alfred E. Michael J. Wile E. SWNIDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04595651777890086293noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15405788.post-1134834796211687562005-12-17T10:53:00.000-05:002005-12-17T10:53:00.000-05:00If McGruder is not taken seriously, and if his lef...If McGruder is not taken seriously, and if his leftist characters are seen as parodies of the left--which they are for this reader, whether MacGruder intends them to be or not--then the strip is consistently funny.<BR/><BR/>And if McGruder in public acts like a parody of the left, we are all the more amused.Jon A. Alfred E. Michael J. Wile E. SWNIDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04595651777890086293noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15405788.post-1134757453898316612005-12-16T13:24:00.000-05:002005-12-16T13:24:00.000-05:00The comments/thoughts of Mr. McGruder are of no su...The comments/thoughts of Mr. McGruder are of no surprise to this gentle reader. I will let the following article speak of itself.<BR/><BR/>Posted: January 27, 2004<BR/>5:00 p.m. Eastern<BR/><BR/>By Paul Sperry<BR/>© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com <BR/><BR/>WASHINGTON – He did it again, but this time on national TV. <BR/><BR/>Aaron McGruder, a black syndicated cartoonist who's getting his own prime-time TV series on Fox, called National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice "a murderer" for her role in the Iraq war. <BR/><BR/>He made the remark as a guest on the nationally syndicated TV show "America's Black Forum," hosted by syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Juan Williams. <BR/><BR/>The creator of the popular "Boondocks" comic strip reportedly caused some discomfort at an anniversary dinner for the Nation magazine here last month when he told the mostly anti-war audience, "I've met Condoleezza Rice and called her a murderer to her face." <BR/><BR/>In a Sunday broadcast of the "Black Forum" show, McGruder, speaking from Los Angeles, repeated the epithet, arguing that Rice, as one of the administration's "biggest hawks," advised the president on a war that led to the "slaughter of innocent people in Iraq." <BR/><BR/>Some of the black panelists assembled in the Washington studio winced at the remarks. <BR/><BR/>Conservative syndicated columnist Armstrong Williams rebuked the cartoonist, whose strip is syndicated in more than 250 newspapers. <BR/><BR/>"I can't get over the fact you labeled Miss Rice a murderer," he said. <BR/><BR/>The low-key McGruder, 29, asserted that he has a right to his opinion. <BR/><BR/>"She's a murderer because I believe she's a murderer," he said coolly. <BR/><BR/>NAACP chairman Julian Bond, another panelist, wrote it off to "satire," but added, smiling, "I agree with his politics." <BR/><BR/>Late last year, McGruder made Rice's love life the topic of his comic. <BR/><BR/>"Maybe if there was a man in the world who Condoleezza truly loved, she wouldn't be so hell-bent to destroy it," one of his "Boondocks" characters speculates in a strip. <BR/><BR/>The Washington Post pulled the series on Rice, which ran some five days. The Cincinnati Enquirer dropped the strip altogether. <BR/><BR/>McGruder, who voted for Ralph Nader in 2000, claims Rice, also black, asked him to write her into his strip. <BR/><BR/>"Boondocks," a hip-hop version of Doonesbury, is distributed by Universal Press Syndicate. <BR/><BR/>McGruder, who graduated from the University of Maryland with an African-American studies degree, has written a best-selling coffee-table collection of his strips called "A Right to be Hostile." <BR/><BR/>He's reportedly developing with Sony a prime-time animated series based on "Boondocks" for Fox. It's slated for the fall.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com