Trojan Free Speech of the Day

Though the Salt Lake Tribune did run most of Garry Trudeau's controversial Doonesbury story arc concerning the ultrasound bills making the rounds in state legislatures across the country, it opted out of publishing today's strip, which features the purposely contentious line, "By the authority invested in me by the GOP base, I thee rape."

The Tribune's staff cartoonist Pat Bagley felt the decision was a blatant first amendment violation on the part of his paper, so he "snuck" the strip in by tacking it on to his own riff on Trudeau's feather-ruffling plotline.

For the sake of context, Bagley's strip is referencing disgraced former Utah House Majority Leader Kevin Garn, who was forced to resign after it was revealed that he had gone hot-tubbing in the nude with a minor.

[cagle.]