“Doonesbury” creator Gary Trudeau, 33rd recipient of the George Polk Career Award, received his award at a luncheon Friday afternoon at the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan, where he observed that the cartoonists at French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo had “wandered into the realm of hate speech” before an attack by Islamic extremists in January that killed 12.
Surprised to hear Gary Trudeau accepting his Polk Award by denouncing Charlie Hebdo for the Mohamed cartoons.
— Blake News (@blakehounshell) April 10, 2015
https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/586628217588600834
Lydia Polgreen, Johannesburg bureau chief for the New York Times, tweeted that she was particularly struck by Trudeau’s “wise, nuanced words” on Charlie Hebdo.
https://twitter.com/lpolgreen/status/586594695175897088
New York Times employee joins with Gary Trudeau in defending censorship: http://t.co/ocbhrudvaF
— Charles C. W. Cooke (@charlescwcooke) April 10, 2015
— Christian Vanderbrouk (@UrbanAchievr) April 10, 2015
@UrbanAchievr Gary Trudeau should shred his pens and art supplies. Never knew he was a fascist.
— KayBDay (@IndieArtSouth) April 10, 2015
Shorter Gary Trudeau: "You're supposed to make fun of WASPs, you guys. That's what free speech is for."
— RBe (@RBPundit) April 10, 2015
https://twitter.com/andylevy/status/586623615648403456
@HuffPostMedia @NGhoussoub @GaryTrudeau @PeterBale @lpolgreen this is disgusting!
— Stefan Popenici (@Popenici) April 10, 2015
https://twitter.com/LHVPundit/status/586624306513367040
@lpolgreen You misspelled "stupid bullshit."
— Three Oranges ??? (@ThreeOranges) April 10, 2015
Don’t they have a mistaken editorial they could be correcting?
@lpolgreen Right, because the free exchange of ideas is just CRAZY!…uhhg.
— Eat my art (@danjdob) April 10, 2015
https://twitter.com/portdauphin/status/586626026312171520
@lpolgreen You're a totalitarian lunatic.
— Will Collier (@willcollier) April 10, 2015
https://twitter.com/Plate0fShrimp/status/586626080091549696
https://twitter.com/TANSTAAFL23/status/586626156578770944
https://twitter.com/HodenAngst/status/586626272975056896
@lpolgreen @Popehat the only correct approach to free speech is fanaticism and fundamentalism.
— J ? (@jmetalblast) April 10, 2015
@andylevy @HeyTammyBruce @lpolgreen More like a dull thud
— тαтנαηα ♀️? (@AuseklisTK) April 10, 2015
@lpolgreen Wait…did I stumble into 1938?
— Brian Knotts (@brianknotts) April 10, 2015
Stupid 1st Amendment MT @lpolgreen "Free speech…becomes its own kind of fanaticism" Wise, nuanced words on Charlie Hebdo from Gary Trudeau
— Anthony Bialy (@AnthonyBialy) April 10, 2015
https://twitter.com/MtDave1/status/586627633263161344
@lpolgreen @Popehat That's an incredibly dumb analysis.
— Taylor Nezbit (@TayNez81) April 10, 2015
Your urge to censor is the real thoughtcrime @lpolgreen. You now find yourself making common cause w/ the mass-murdering kind of fanaticism.
— Craig S. Bell (@craig_s_bell) April 10, 2015
https://twitter.com/the_answer_guy/status/586627888323002369
@HuffPostMedia @GaryTrudeau @PeterBale @lpolgreen Gary Trudeau lost some respect from me today. Not that he cares.
— Mark, From The Dark (@MarkFromTheDark) April 10, 2015