Re: Doonesbury- August 31- Out of Bounds?


"J.D. Baldwin" <INVALID_SEE_SIG@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In the previous article, Ted Kerin <tf.kerin@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Um, no, I don't think I was making that comparison. I was
questioning the alleged "tacit media agreement" that was one basis
of Blinky's post, by citing evidence that it doesn't exist. Ronnie
recalled similar jibes about Amy Carter.

Were these jibes before or after Miss Carter embarked on her career of
"activism"? Because, as far as I'm concerned, once you start trading
on your famous name, all those agreements (tacit or otherwise) about
leaving you alone are null and void.


I'll leave this to Ronnie, who brough ti it up. I'm older than she is, but
she has a better memory.


And, for that matter, I just recently revisited some David Frye
records (remember him?) that were none too kind to Julie Nixon --
and her hubby, yet another presidential offspring.

During the Watergate scandal, Julie Nixon Eisenhower became a very
public political defender of her father, which clearly put her
squarely in "fair game" territory. I don't know whether Frye's
lampooning was prior to or after that.


The 2 David Frye CDs I recently heard included mild, generic mockery of
David and Julie as Howdy Doody-type goofballs, so I don't know whether Julie
drew fire for her activism, but if so, Frye missed that target completely.
These were CDs of Frye's pre-"Watergate" albums (I remember another Frye
album, not available on CD, that cast Nixon as one of the burglars, and was
especially brutal).

I guess I just tend toward the satirist's assumption that almost everyone is
fair game, subject to certain, admittedly flexible standards of taste (not
fairness: satire, and especially cartooning, is always unfair)..... more
than I tend toward the "victim's" perspective, even though I realize that
nobody asks to be born into a family of criminals. Those are the breaks,
kid....you'll find you get lots of unfair advantages from your station of
birth, and somtimes there are unfair disadvantages too.

I'd probably sympathize with cries of "No fair!" coming directly from the
offspring, but most often their "defense" is taken up by the parent's
political allies, seeking rhetorical advantage over opponents, when in truth
those "defenders" would just as soon oven-roast and devour the kid, if that
action was more politically useful to them. (Which, fortunately, is never
the case -- I'm just talking motive.)


_+_ From the catapult of |If anyone disagrees with any statement I make,
I
_|70|___:)=}- J.D. Baldwin |am quite prepared not only to retract it, but
also
\ / baldwin@xxxxxxxxx|to deny under oath that I ever made it. -T.
Lehrer

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