John McCain’s Doonesbury Reversal
October 21, 2006 at 3:00 pm
Sunday’s Washington Post Magazine profile of “Doonesbury” cartoonist Garry Trudeau provides this interesting nugget about John McCain:
“SUFFICE IT TO SAY THAT I HOLD HIM IN UTTER CONTEMPT.”
This is John McCain, the former prisoner of war, speaking about Trudeau on the floor of the U.S. Senate in 1995. He was angered by a “Doonesbury” strip suggesting that presidential candidate Bob Dole was exploiting his war injury for political gain. That was then. This past year, it was McCain who wrote the introduction to Trudeau’s The Long Road Home , a for-charity book compiling the strips about B.D.’s injury and recovery.
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