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I found something interesting today. I was looking at the comics online when something caught my eye. On Sunday (09/27/2009), The Arizona Republic edited Doonesbury. In the print edition the top two panels were deleted. (below is the online version) What is Trudeau trying to say about Obama, and why do you think The Republic deleted the first two panels? A little background on The Arizona Republic. It was bought in 2000 by Gannett (USA Today) and has been moving left of center since. Prior to the Gannet purchase, Doonesbury was on the editorial page, Gannett moved it back to the comic section
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He's saying that comparing Obama to Hitler is silly. Unless you think that Trudeau believes Obama is seriously considering using force.
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Originally Posted by SpaceMonkey 
He's saying that comparing Obama to Hitler is silly. Unless you think that Trudeau believes Obama is seriously considering using force.
What about the newspaper's decision to omit the first panels?
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I don't think a newspaper should have the ability to edit the comic, but I do have to say that the first two panels seem to have no real correlation with the strip. It reads better without them.
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That's a comic thing. Sunday comics have different surface areas depending on the paper, which means that the first box(es) of the comic may or may not be printed, depending on how much area is allocated to that comic in the newspaper.
I doubt the paper omitted the top two panels as a political statement; it was probably just to make the comic fit in its given space.
Generally, the first two panels (or equivalent area) of a comic are not necessary to understand the point of the comic. If you look at FoxTrot's Sunday comics, for instance, the first two panels are always just there for the lulz, because they are not guaranteed to be printed.
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Originally Posted by Chongo
What about the newspaper's decision to omit the first panels?
I don't know. I don't think it alters the meaning either way.
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Originally Posted by Chongo
What about the newspaper's decision to omit the first panels?
Because the liberal media is trying to make Obama look bad.
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moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the
neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'"
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