Re: Doonesbury- August 31- Out of Bounds?


ronniecat wrote:
Recklessly refusing to invoke the Fifth Amendment, on Thu, 31 Aug 2006
10:17:44 -0400, "Ted Kerin" <tf.kerin@xxxxxxx> wrote:


"Blinky the Wonder Wombat" <wkharrisjr_info@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1157027059.086318.211100@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Is Jenna Bush really fair game for Trudeau to mock?

I thought the media has a tacit agreement to lay off the children of
the President as long as they stay out of the limelight.


You mean, like when Rush Limbaugh, in his short-lived TV show, referred to
Chelsea Clinton as "The White House dog"?
(I don't really think you mean that, I'm just providing a reality-check.)

Didn't Amy Carter get caricatured a fair amount? Not her actions, but
the awkward looks, freckles, big teeth?

Anyway, Chelsea was been in the tabloid press a fair amount since she
started college (every couple of months someone got some cellphone
camera shots of her at a frat party with liquor in her hand and it was
"Chelsea's Booze Fest!" in the supermarket tabs). But I don't know if
that was after Clinton was out of office, or whether that makes it
better or worse. But her and her boyfriend troubles were certainly
tabloid fodder.

Tabloids, unfortunately will go after whoever they can get (Do I really
care about Prince Harry's girlfriend troulbes?). I was thinking along
the lines of the mainstream press (which I consider includes
"Doonesbury" and the other syndicated comics).

From what I recall, the Carter administration had an unofficial
agreement with the press to keep Amy Carter out of the spotlight after
a story was printed about her reading a book during a state dinner.
Since then, the press has pretty much only run human interest-type
stories about subsequent White House children, which I think are vetted
through the First Lady's press office. I even remember the Clintons, at
the beginning of Bill's term in office, specifically asking the press
to leave Chelsea alone so she could have a somewhat normal childhood.

Two exceptions that I can readily think of: the press reporting of Amy
Carter attending a public elementary school (which I think was pushed
by the White House for political purposes), and the fines the Bush
twins got for drinking on campus (which, as I stated earlier, I think
was pretty much a non-story).

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