Well, I can’t call it up because it requires a subscription to find a comic loder than a fortnight, but I do recall that a couple of months ago, McGruder was running strips that pretended to be archives from the distant past (i.e., before the advent of the strip). I vaguely recall Rush being lampooned in at least one of them. That said, I cannot definitively attribute the quote in the OP to Aaron McGruder.
It does seem likely, though.
I think the drug addict tagline is a little too pat, and it’s a non-sequitur to boot. The whole thing sounds made up.
I figured the good folks at the Snopes message board would know something about this. I was right.
Thanks for the legwork, Loopy.
:smack:
I mean Loopus.
According to the Snopes board it was from a faux “Classic Boondocks” strip which was rendered as though it were a strip from 1988 but was actually written in 2004. It’s a gag.
I knew it was too good to be true. It would be like finding a lusty love letter from Ann Coulter to Janet Reno.
Hottest. Idea. EVER.
Thank you for that mental image. Now I’m going to have to wash my brain with Clorox.
Too much information! Thanks to you, I must now start drinking heavily, to purge that horrible image from my mind. I hope you’re satisfied. 
And the fact that so many people were convinced it was a real quote demonstrates just how far out on the fringe Rush is.
Ya. That is what some peoples’ willingness to gobble up this ‘quote’ shows.
Sure, because it wasn’t even remotely believable.
Right, and anyone who believed it, and used it as a cite, must be a deluded moron.
Regards,
Shodan
I think we’ve just witnesses as close as rjung can come to an admission of error.
“Yes, I was fooled. But since I was fooled we can tell for sure that the accusation was plausable!”
Don’t forget the reply, in which Janet Reno writes of her desire to break down the gates of Coulter’s reinforced compound and fire round after round of tear gas inside.
Wow, didn’t mean to open up such a can of worms. I checked Snopes on this when I first read it, but they didn’t have anything up. It’s there now though.
“Googling for veracity” seems to be on par with “Fucking for Virginity”
Consider me contrite.
But. How do we know we can trust Snopes?
Has Cecil publicly declared *his *inherent trust in Snopes?
How do we know Snopes isn’t simply a self-serving fabricator and debunker of rumors…run by Them for Their own nefarious purposes? :eek: What if Snopes hooked into this very thread and quickly issued a “debunk” of an accurate quote?
Anyone ever thought of that?
They know enough to defer to Cecil so they’re okay.