King George, MIA -- UPDATE
The Doonesbury comic yesterday and today has continued a story line that depicts a presidential news conference with Bush advancing the notion that he might have a hereditary right to be king and that daughter Jenna would succeed him. (And perhaps resolve international issues by drinking games.)
Pretty mild stuff. Nobody said fart. So maybe it's just a production screwup that the Democrat-Gazette carried old strips yesterday (none at all yesterday in some S. Ark. papers, we're told by a subscriber) and today rather than the ones that were supposed to appear. We'll check.
UPDATE: We're informed that this was indeed a production problem. The classified department, where the strip runs, picked up an outdated cartoon two days running. And did it for Mallard Fillmore, too. (Not that we'd notice that.) The missed strips will be picked up tomorrow, we're told.
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That was a much better paper before the "Democrat-" was added.
Posted by: mm![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/nav-commenters.gif)
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August 31, 2006 08:45 AM
Doonesbury ala Internet
http://www.bartcop.com/db060828.gif
Posted by: Rasputin![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/nav-commenters.gif)
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August 31, 2006 08:53 AM
Why I'd be shocked to learn that the Demzette let its owner's politics dictate content...shocked.
God Bless Doonesbury...though I thought Jeb was the relative-in-waiting.
Posted by: zelda![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/nav-commenters.gif)
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August 31, 2006 08:56 AM
Yet, they find nothing objectionable in their horrific strip, "Lio," in which a kid buys a puppy to feed to his pet snake and experiments with avian flu, tuberculosis, SARS and other horrifying diseases.
You gotta hand it to the cartoonist, though, he's at least humane enough not to have included AIDS in the little satan's spawn's "experiments."
Posted by: Claude Bahls![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/nav-commenters.gif)
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August 31, 2006 09:17 AM
I keep wondering if it is just a coincidence that the strip didn't appear the day King George graced our fair city. What continues to amaze me is that they publish that vile, repugnant, despicable, nauseating, reprehensible, offensive Mallard Fillmore. It truly is a waste of paper and ink.
Posted by: Yonwood![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/nav-commenters.gif)
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August 31, 2006 09:43 AM
They couldn't do enough to protect the failed presidents delicate sensibilities, yet they go out of their way to turn over rocks looking for anti Clinton letters when he happens to be in town.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a daily run by decent folk again.
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August 31, 2006 10:39 AM
"That was a much better paper before the "Democrat-" was added." Posted by: mm
It's the same newspaper it was before the "-Gazette" was added.
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August 31, 2006 11:32 AM
Alas, the old gray lady, the Arkansas Gazette, is dead and has been buried by Hussman, etc. That was his goal in life.
Millard and Doonsbury both belong on the editorial page.
May the Arkansas Gazette and John Robert Star RIP!
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August 31, 2006 11:49 AM
Maybe it was a production problem. However, when a newspaper that is well-known for its biased news coverage (or lack thereof) "accidently" deletes strips critical of Dubya on the very day he shows up in the state, it makes on suspicious.
If their coverage was actually balanced, you'd tend to give the benefit of the doubt.
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August 31, 2006 12:35 PM
I was shocked this last sunday at the dem/gaz Business section. There was not one wal-mart cheer leading article. For the last couple of years I didn't know if I was reading the dem/gaz Business section or the weekly wal-mart cheer leading report.
Posted by: Riverdog![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/nav-commenters.gif)
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August 31, 2006 02:04 PM
and the Bushbots still blame everything on Clinton.
http://www.academycomputerservice.com/economics/charts.htm
Posted by: Riverdog![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/nav-commenters.gif)
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August 31, 2006 02:09 PM
Good link, riverdog. Those charts tell the tale of this "booming economy" the bushbots keep claiming is going on.
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September 2, 2006 01:43 AM