# Donesbury Palin/TS3 - exceptionally nasty? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2010, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donesbury-palin-ts3-exceptionally-nasty/548315 "2010-07-28T15:31:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2010, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donesbury-palin-ts3-exceptionally-nasty/548315/41 "2010-07-29T05:39:45Z")
It’s not essentially about her, though. It’s about the delusional la la land of the tea partiers. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2010, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donesbury-palin-ts3-exceptionally-nasty/548315/42 "2010-07-31T20:05:12Z")
I’ll admit that it wasn’t all that funny until [yesterday’s strip](http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/dailydose/index.html?uc_full_date=20100730) (i.e., the one of July 30, 2010). (Summary for those who don’t want to follow the link: Boopsie’s daughter Sam overhears the Sarah Palin doll talking and saying things not in her voice chip and she goes to her mother. Boopsie tries to convince Sam that she was just dreaming, “Sam, everything she says is programmed in. Her brain is empty. Sarah’s a dummy, a shiny plaything, a cipher, a blank, a total nothing . . .”) But note that a lot of times G.B. Trudeau isn’t going for funny in Doonesbury. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donesbury-palin-ts3-exceptionally-nasty/548315/43 "2010-08-01T00:59:17Z")
Today’s was even better. Spoiler box just in case you want to read the whole strip. Kid “Cmon, what’s it take to get you to talk?” Palin doll thought bubble. $100,000. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donesbury-palin-ts3-exceptionally-nasty/548315/44 "2010-08-02T19:41:25Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Today’s was even better. Spoiler box just in case you want to read the whole strip. > > Kid “Cmon, what’s it take to get you to talk?” > Palin doll thought bubble. $100,000. Still not particularly funny, but at least this one bears some resemblance to the real world. “Sarah Palin is dumb.” Not out of line, in a political cartoon. “Sarah Palin is corrupt.” Not accurate in my opinion, but not out of line in a political cartoon. “Sarah Palin’s beliefs are dangerous.” Excessively alarmist, in my opinion, but not out of line in a political carton. “Sarah Palin is a bloodthirsty maniac who wants to kill little kids in their sleep.” Yeah, a tad out of line, even for a talentless, clueless, out to lunch, sleepwalking for 3 decades hack like Trudeau. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2010, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donesbury-palin-ts3-exceptionally-nasty/548315/45 "2010-08-02T19:49:34Z")
The kid represents Obama, though, and the tenor of her rhetoric (and the rest of the teabaggers in general) is that Obama is a tyrant and a despot who should be desperately feared. That kind of hysterical, irrational scare-mongering is an accurate representation of Palin and the baggers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donesbury-palin-ts3-exceptionally-nasty/548315.md?page=2)